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by devonkim 8y ago
> The industry is immature and is bottom heavy. Depending upon your sub-sector of IT it can be completely inverted from that where there's far, far too many layers of management around maybe a handful of individual contributors. Thi
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by devonkim 8y ago
We’ve already seen a fairly consistent trend - high performing / good companies allow failure but do not tolerate incompetence. The bar for competency in software as an industry and profession is all over the place. Most white collar p
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by devonkim 8y ago
Times change though for cost economics as an industry matures. I live in Atlanta and there are now more movies and TV shows filmed in the state of Georgia than in Los Angeles now. I keep seeing reports of people constantly moving to Georgia
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by devonkim 8y ago
You don't have to disclose capabilities in a press release honestly unless you really, really need to convince people that you're not falsifying the information or trying to mislead people - there is almost no incentive I can thin
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by devonkim 8y ago
I was a user of all three of the gaming-centric chat / voice services and the issue always has been about centralizing different communities together rather than quality of service / technology itself. One group plays on a random
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by devonkim 8y ago
When taken to an extreme, self-preserving behaviors may be considered enablement - something actually harmful to the growth and ultimate potential of an individual in certain contexts. The ultra-wealthy dynasties to an extent practice both
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by devonkim 8y ago
Worse, you can have such needs but wind up overprovisioning because your software is tough to autoscale automatically up or down. In that case you should probably pay for dedicated, mostly static servers in traditional setups until you can’
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by devonkim 8y ago
RescueTime tells me I’m spending at least 7 hours / day productive in my terminal, IDEs, or web browsers. I’m obviously worth at least 3 times market rate then!
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by devonkim 8y ago
I read of a clock tower several hundred years old that was in need of repair / replacement and construction workers realized to match the wood the trees they’d need were thousands of miles away and extremely rare. When they started ask
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by devonkim 8y ago
While I can agree with your sentiment, the problem thus remains - what do we do in the face on uncertainty? If we aren’t really responsible terribly much we would be potentially wasting a lot of effort on the wrong problems (we’ll need to d
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by devonkim 8y ago
You did the work of a product manager, business analyst, and engineer all in one. This is what consulting is supposed to be but most companies are merely hiring contractors and are uninterested in any challenges to their requirements (that
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by devonkim 8y ago
A recruiter I respect said that the interview process is the most egotistical, selfish thing we do as professionals and it does the process a disservice if you do not follow it as such. Selling yourself to your peers and to those that want
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by devonkim 8y ago
Milton Friedman was also a staunch supporter of social safety nets as well as free markets. Anyone that supports free markets and Friedman’s ideas should try to understand why he supported them together ardently. I consider myself both a su
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by devonkim 8y ago
I’ve heard of an interesting argument against term limits and that it would strengthen political parties as they try to keep the pipeline of successors full. I do not know if there is any research to back it but the intuition makes sense at
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by devonkim 8y ago
That worked for Sears' Craftsman line-up but they wound up selling that business and I dunno how it's worked out for the acquiring company since.
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by devonkim 8y ago
University of Washington CSE added a practical course to get students familiar with Linux and C partly because students are expected mostly to come through other departments / disciplines where the only programming may have come from J
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by devonkim 8y ago
I think serious topics need to be discussed a lot more because the things that cost Americans the most day-to-day are housing, healthcare, and arguably insurance (when it doesn't work for them) - all of these things are "complicat
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by devonkim 8y ago
I begrudgingly get insurance for certain things because I hear enough times how insurance will find a way to avoid paying for even those supposed protections. I hear that plenty times from homeowners where insurance refuses to cover anythin
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by devonkim 8y ago
Amazon was pretty clearly trying to drastically expand its markets early on and should have been a warning bell to incumbents in other industries. For example, they bought local Seattle area Egghead Software and used that as a beachhead int
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by devonkim 8y ago
Visual programming systems I’ve used seem to have problems that are still present in traditional text based languages. Most of the value seems to be entirely built around helping non-programmers provide value to programming related output -
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by devonkim 8y ago
We can’t all be James Mickens when it comes to prose in professional discussions unfortunately. If people get it, that’s still a side comment that can carry more depth but the words should still be of substance to the point being made becau
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by devonkim 8y ago
To me, this is what bugs me about the “diversity” brigade - most of the time the conversation is based around ethnicity, physical abilities, or gender but for being long-term thinking we seem to have forgotten that diversity means _everyone
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by devonkim 8y ago
For a lot of engineers this seems completely wrong but to many others in enterprise software this has become more true than false. Most of the old guard tech companies of decades past have moved the majority of their development opportuniti
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by devonkim 8y ago
There’s also people traveling for work because of the Super Bowl. The city of Atlanta is granting some exceptions to strip clubs due to the sheer influx of potential patrons and there is almost certainly knowledge among the performing commu
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by devonkim 8y ago
Dull, tedious, repetitive work is also typically work that is subject to high error rates due to priming effects, normalization of non-errors / errors, and other psychological factors. A good example is TSA’s effectiveness at finding g
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by devonkim 8y ago
Costco is on a supply chain shakedown it seems because they’re also making an eyewear factory for similar business reasons as with chicken. Being in Georgia I see some of these chicken trucks full of live and dead chickens and while they’re
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by devonkim 8y ago
...that was reported. Question is whether whose interest it would be in to not publicly report on the number of bombs found by an agency. I can understand NSA and CIA not revealing much but am confused about TSA’s motives since they are muc
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by devonkim 8y ago
It’s not too dissimilar from how AVX instructions are so poorly implemented on AMD CPUs - they may support it but it may not be core to their strategy (no pun intended).
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by devonkim 8y ago
I'm not exactly a gifted programmer or anything but a BFS seems pretty reasonable in an interview depending upon the amount of rigor / efficiency being demanded. I remember doing it for one of my very first interviews where I was
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by devonkim 8y ago
I do value good mattresses and IKEA mattresses don’t work for me. My family historically bought mattresses from Costco but not all warehouses carry them.

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