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by dbish 6y ago
That sounds great. I will be very happy when Seattle can get to that level. For now, I just order food from some restaurants I like and hang out on my roof when it's nice enough out
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by dbish 6y ago
That's fair. I can see that being the issue. Speed and ease of use don't go hand in hand with having a well defined ontology and processes for updating it
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by dbish 6y ago
De-facto, but actually counter to productivity, just like open-office. Companies that choose to not do this, will have a per employee efficiency advantage. Big companies may not care just like in open office because the per employee advanta
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by dbish 6y ago
My opinion is the disinterest from bigger players is because of the lack of traction/interest from the broader community. Maybe there's a chicken and egg problem that comes with bootstrapping any new standard
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by dbish 6y ago
Spent time with schema.org years ago. It's just not needed/useful for most scenarios and the amount of work and convincing most groups to use it isn't worthwhile so continuing to extend it isn't worth the effort.
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by dbish 6y ago
No. I like walking to things still and fully expect cities to be back to normal in a few years. What’s a few years in the grand scheme of things? I also highly doubt fully remote work is actually the new normal and company HQs are still whe
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by dbish 6y ago
yes
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by dbish 6y ago
We took a small stab at this at Alexa a few years ago with Follow-up Mode (default off, you have to enable it in the settings since that continued listening should be up to the customer) that allows you to keep interacting with Alexa for &q
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by dbish 6y ago
Amazon Web Services (AWS - Game Technologies group)| Various roles | Seattle (though currently WFH) | Full-time, Onsite | https://aws.amazon.com/gametech/ I am the senior manager (skip-level manager) for these roles so
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by dbish 6y ago
7 direct reports is very normal for a manager. One thing to dig into is whether they think 7 direct reports is too many for you (as opposed to anyone) and they just don't want to say it directly. This could be because they think you ar
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by dbish 6y ago
Working on my two current side projects and playing video games or reading in between. One project is a simple twitter helper that launched recently (tweetlights.com) and a new social network project that is coming along.
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by dbish 6y ago
Yep. This is the issue. They may be kept with small tasks and eventually noted as a performance issue when it’s too late for then to show what they can do
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by dbish 6y ago
My personal advice as an engineering manager at Amazon FWIW, is that sometimes teams do have issues with productivity for various reasons. If it is the team (and not specifically you), I would work to find a new team. I'd also caution
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by dbish 6y ago
I purposely pick side projects that I'm excited to use myself. That helps a lot. It helps even more when it's a project that me + at least friend wants to use then I get energy from bouncing ideas off them and using the project my
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by dbish 6y ago
This is so sad. I love this place and it was a great place for kids to learn too. I hope it comes back one day, or something like it.
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by dbish 6y ago
Chaos Monkeys talks a bit about this where they had acquisition interest but not all the founders/employees passed the interviews
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by dbish 6y ago
It sounds great, and I've used a few, but you can't realistically walk around wearing them in the current form without people looking at you odd. It's not worth what they offer to be that much of a negative focus (see glassho
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by dbish 6y ago
If you're working at a startup you have (usually) taken on risk + a lower salary in exchange for ownership, so it is expected and disappointing when a sale gets nothing for employees. If they are paid market rates with stock/optio
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by dbish 6y ago
http://www.tweetlights.com <- I made this site as a side project when discussing how hard it is to help new followers quickly get up to speed on what you've tweeted about over the years since you can only have 1 pinned t
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by dbish 6y ago
I made this site over a weekend as a side project when discussing how hard it is to help new followers quickly get up to speed on what you've tweeted about over the years since you can only have 1 pinned tweet. Quick and dirty code her
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Show HN: Website/Twitter App that helps you curate your best tweets(tweetlights.com)
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by dbish 6y ago
This is not true (current 5+ year amazonian)
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by dbish 6y ago
Total compensation is stock + cash. This is just the cash cap
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by dbish 6y ago
For the record, having worked at both, this is definitely not true. Amazon and Microsoft have similar pay in many cases looking at levels, and in fact I received more to go to Amazon (and have seen many others do the same), though it clearl
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by dbish 6y ago
Great series, really liked the exploration of their flywheel and I wish there was more writing like this about other companies and how they are poised. Unreal's moves into the movie industry and their detail-focused engine upgrades rec
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by dbish 6y ago
Here's one datapoint from gitlab. Fullstack engineer using their comp calculator can drop 40% (moving from 1.0 to .6 location pay multiplier) moving from SF to a cheap area: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-
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by dbish 6y ago
That can certainly work out then (depending on your expense to income ratio), all I'm saying is you need to do the math on what you can save based on the new income to compare saving rates rather then cost of living to pay ratio. I hav
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by dbish 6y ago
That's fair. I've been to FB HQ and agree, not city-like at all. I currently live in Seattle and work at Amazon HQ, which I walk to (normally, pre-covid :) )
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by dbish 6y ago
It's all personal preference. I love cities due to the density, walkability, and different types of people and events you can find, and have lived in rural areas and cities alike. I get depressed in suburbs generally as there isn'
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by dbish 6y ago
Personally, I would not move somewhere with half the cost of living if I'm getting half the pay. At higher incomes (ex: senior level FAANG engineers and up) you don't spend a lot of your income (stock + salary), you save a good ch

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