cjhowarddev

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by cjhowarddev 3y ago
This isn't true if they are restricted stock units (RSUs) which are taxed as income yearly even if you do not sell
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by cjhowarddev 3y ago
I think what's impactful about this approach is how it allows a team to share progress and get early feedback from key stakeholders. If you demo to the team that built the software you might get marginal value, but when your leaders ar
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by cjhowarddev 3y ago
Programming is work for most of us, so that makes sense.
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by cjhowarddev 3y ago
I'm at Amazon now and my team is often the target of away team work as our system is seen as "critical" to other business unit growth. it's a farce. Interesting idea in theory, terrible in practice. The away team incenti
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by cjhowarddev 3y ago
i feel that this assumes the large investors on wall.street are playing the same game as retail investors. Given the size and scale of their accounts, I'd imagine it's an entirely different playbook. My (limited, retail only) expe
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by cjhowarddev 3y ago
The adage of "It's who you know" applies in all industries, even tech. you are right, it's opinion based. Depending on the values of your team or organization the criteria for success will change. My principal engineer v
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by cjhowarddev 3y ago
Something about VB6 felt so pure when I wrote it. it's not fancy and is missing a lot of stuff we take for granted today (pretty sure there is no built in map structure lol) but solving problems in VB6 due to language quirks was always
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by cjhowarddev 4y ago
I used Angular at my last company. After having used react for many years and then experimenting with svelte, Angular (even the most modern versions) felt like it was always in my way. Bi-directional data binding and the isolation between s
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by cjhowarddev 5y ago
I agree with you as I've never seen this side of HR and I've worked at various companies in the US (including Amazon, which was by far my best employer). The tide in the US seems to be normal people vs business with this idea that
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by cjhowarddev 5y ago
For us it was mainly the fact that every month some part of Heroku is down or degraded. That and the huge price increase when jumping from the standard dynos to the large dynos. For reference, we migrated to new t4g instances on AWS and rec
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by cjhowarddev 5y ago
It's definitely fair to mention and I really appreciate your comparison since it shows the major price disparity. I'm just complaining to complain lol.
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by cjhowarddev 5y ago
Well Heroku is overpriced garbage so that's not surprising. They rely on lock in to keep you stuck paying egregious fees for services that are relatively unreliable. After migrating an entire startup infrastructure from Heroku to AWS I