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by ctvo 5y ago
Are you saying this number is significantly different now for engineers? As in average tenure has increased? The original point was tenure is short, and no manager can guarantee that their “core” team will remain together, for any number of
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by ctvo 5y ago
Never been a manager in my life. I think the biggest problem most engineers have is not understanding how the systems around them interact re: company and management. Know the rules of the game you're playing deeply or you'll keep
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by ctvo 5y ago
This is a secondary source: https://buffer.com/resources/employee-tenure/#employeetenure... The original source from Paysa seems to be down (the entire site looks down). Edit: It's all employees, not just eng
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by ctvo 5y ago
> So if someone is too good for your team, you put them on pip. They are going to leave anyway, so putting them on pip does the least damage to your team. This sounds like a lie people tell themselves after being PIP’d. Engineers have an
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by ctvo 5y ago
Senior managers at AMZN have shared privately that there was a time after the NYT story where this was removed or not as strictly enforced. That time is now gone, and goals are tied to your percentage. A team failing to meet its yearly goal
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by ctvo 5y ago
Don’t let it get to that state? If you can’t, find a new team?
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by ctvo 5y ago
Hey Chris. Great demo. It got me interested enough in Elixir to order a book. Does LiveView work well bi-directionally? For example, is there a demo of implementing Google Docs in it? Curious about the whole class of issues there vs. broadc
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Would be cool to know what approaches they take An increasingly complex set of if / else statements. Is it a left turn? Is it a stationary emergency vehicle? Is it a small child? Don't worry, it's all software and we&#x2
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by ctvo 5y ago
Any form of exit for employees, including secondary sales. Please provide data for your claim. Reiterating things don't make them anymore true.
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by ctvo 5y ago
> I don't know who you are or what your motivations are. I'm a rubbernecker passing by a car crash. I have no other motivations. I don't know you personally or anyone who works at Dgraph. I'm piecing together a guess
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by ctvo 5y ago
I've followed Dgraph off and on. I enjoy looking through their open sourced work. A lot of it is interesting. Manish seems to be THAT person. The technically competent, unwavering to the technical vision, doesn't work well with ot
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by ctvo 5y ago
> There are many conflicting views, and to me it is an objective fact that barely anyone really understands the technology and what its ramifications will be. This isn't a new paper on quantum computing. Many of us understand the te
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by ctvo 5y ago
Author goes on to talk about how difficult it was to raise capital, and the company being constantly undervalued. Doubtful they're only referring to this singular event.
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by ctvo 5y ago
In the context of engineering: > Odd take. I guess if you're shitty at picking startups. I know so many people who have made multiple 7 figures across secondary sales in various Series A-B companies. Sounds like those people are the
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by ctvo 5y ago
I disagree with the people who say you're not missing anything working at large companies. Of course it depends on which, but there's great learning opportunities supporting a product used by millions (hundreds of millions). It&#x
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by ctvo 5y ago
It's a spicy read. Really could have happened to anyone. All very reasonable assumptions and steps taken. You could argue they could have more thoroughly load tested Consul, but doubtful any of us would have done more due diligence tha
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by ctvo 5y ago
> I might get to add a new feature, but there's not true creation happening. None of those features are challenging or novel. I feel like I'm filling in a coloring book rather than painting on a canvas. > … how I could pivot
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by ctvo 5y ago
> At what point will what we've been building be considered useful? Can you share some of the numbers you're citing? Who is using what to run their businesses daily? What's the number of transactions relative to current fi
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Any application where you need an immutable ledger is a good application for blockchain. What's your definition of good? An immutable ledger is a good idea and useful. An immutable ledger where every write costs 50-200 USD isn&#x2
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by ctvo 5y ago
> This is supposed to be a technical community so can we stop with this lazy abuse of terminology. Since this is a technical community, and you're a technical person who presumably knows how iMessage / Apple's infrastructu
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by ctvo 5y ago
> 90% of jobs in the high density business district in the city nearest you. Have you examined the possibility you may be ignorant to what 90% of those jobs entail? Not being able to understand their output and complexity doesn't ma
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by ctvo 5y ago
Learn the politics of the organizations you work for. Learn how to gain visibility for your work. This is primarily how to communicate its impact to stakeholders of all kinds, not just tech people. Learn it's hard to hire engineers, an
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by ctvo 5y ago
Ninjas, high on delivery, bad tripping when issues are in pending, etc.. No thank you. Speak like an adult to other adults.
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by ctvo 5y ago
I love using JavaScript for white boarding. It's very forgiving, it's not strongly typed, interviewers are all familiar with it, and large companies almost always allow it. Python is second. I avoid Go, Rust, Java, Scala, etc.. To
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by ctvo 5y ago
No, I couldn't pass. Anytime I swap jobs and want to work for medium or big tech cos. in the US, I need 1-2 months of prep to refresh my knowledge of implementing certain algorithms by hand. That knowledge disappears immediately after
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by ctvo 5y ago
This isn't yet available to consumers. Minimum is 10 items per address to even start a conversation to get pricing. It looks nice, but how much does it cost? How do I install it? Rather pointless unless you're a property developer
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by ctvo 5y ago
> It is as if the software industry has collectively forgotten how to run basic data center operations. Something that used to be a blue collar skill is now treated like arcane magic. It's not arcane magic. It's undifferentiate
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by ctvo 5y ago
Across different regions, availability zones, and services. What's the impact to customers? Today it was a very specific EC2 outage in an AZ in us-east-1. So again, we're talking about cloud providers because of their scope and si
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Not at this rate. And what rate is this? It gets attention because it impacts more people, but AWS / GCP / Azure uptime is still better than what I've seen for small / mid size businesses trying to manage their own
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by ctvo 5y ago
> It feels like you're jumping on trends when they have existed for years already without bringing anything new to the table. That'll never get you anywhere. With all due respect, who the fuck are you? And who the fuck do you t

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