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Some teams may be more prone to that problem than others, but it always takes more effort to include the remote folks in the conversations. It's usually true that the really momentous decisions are handled in meetings that include the
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The problem with that approach is that it inevitably favors the input of people who are physically present even if they are not the ones with the best answer to the question. As a remote development lead in a company without a remote-first
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Your point about a remote-first culture is 110% true. It has to be in the DNA of the company or else remote workers end up as second-class citizens. While it does not have to be the case, it does seem to be true that if a large portion (~50
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This is absolutely not true of equipment with moving parts. It must either be maintained or treated as disposable. One of the hallmarks of commercial-grade equipment is its ease of maintenance and repair. You might not find it fun, but prof
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In this post, Haas explicitly credits Masahiko Sawada for most of the work on this feature. Haas definitely does lots of work, but there are other significant contributors as well.
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There's a pretty big discrepancy between the popular technologies on StackOverflow and the TIOBE index ( http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index ), so I think there's a significant possibility of bias. I think there are a
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No More Full Table Vacuums in PostgreSQL(rhaas.blogspot.com)
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More StackOverflow survey respondents use OSX than Linux. It's unlikely that StackOverflow survey respondents constitute a representative sampling of all developers.
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You're screening more for knowledge of the particular php framework that you use than general programming ability. Which is fine if that's your intention.
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I can see the value from a hiring perspective in asking candidates to code, but it's no panacea. The bias in the interviewing process that so many acknowledge still bleeds through into many of the coding projects in the form of prescri
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I'm very interested to hear some of the details about how the storage engine was ported to Linux. One of the advantages of SQL Server was how well it exploited the Windows overlapped I/O model for disk access. When running large s
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Unfortunately, there are far too many people who confuse self worth with market worth/salary/net worth, etc. I have in the past worked many more hours in higher-stress jobs in order to make more money. I choose now to work fewer h
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10+ years of experience with large, high-volume back-end development in fintech and healthcare. Looking for a similar position working on large or distributed back-end systems in any industry. Location: San Antonio, Texas Remote: Yes
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You can't extrapolate from the two facts of "2,653 firearms discovered by TSA" and "undercover TSA agents managed to smuggle concealed guns and bombs past security 96% of the time" to an expectation that some ~63,50
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I was once in a similar position at a startup in the early 00's that was trying to "pivot" to a service model that was more profitable. Like you, it was hard for me to keep my boredom and lack of work productivity from spilli
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Late reply, but yes, it's hospital software.
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I think the point of the article is just the three points Dan explicitly makes -- he's questioning the common wisdom that startups (for a top developer) offer better compensation, more interesting work, and better work experience than
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I think it's important to remember that HN seems to focus on the experience of the 95th percentile developer (which is not to say that you are not one of those). The numbers in this blog post are well beyond the reach of even a 75th pe
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I don't know why the release was so late, but I'd speculate that it took a while to find enough compelling reasons to go from 32 to 64 bits on Windows. Having run Waterfox, the third-party 64-bit build for Windows, for some time a
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I finished up a 24-month project earlier this year on a codebase of ~1M lines in which I dropped a net of almost 100k lines of code and reduced the main Visual Studio solution from 325 projects down to 105 projects. Compile times dropped fr
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BMW's been developing hydrogen-powered cars for over a decade. One of their advantages is that the same engine could use either gasoline or hydrogen making it a much more practical car for a world in which there is not yet the same dis
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It's pretty widely held among both Jewish and Christian Biblical commentators that work existed before the curse per Gen 1:28. The curse just made work more difficult and unpleasant.
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Most of the higher end cotton mills don't sell to the general public but a few such as Acorn and Thomas Mason have been known to do so. Expect to pay $50-100 per yard for their fabrics. They're generally worth it, though. Also, if
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I've heard of people negotiating 4 or 4.5-day work weeks for 80% or 90% of the position's full-time salary. In the few cases where I've seen that happen, someone in the company had prior work experience with the candidate and
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There's a huge difference between the Alaska Permanent Fund that was established primarily with oil revenue windfalls and augmented with surpluses in boom years and a basic income program that would be funded by increased taxes.
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It sounds like you're comparing some kind of dress shoe to sneakers. For it to be an accurate comparison, you'd need to compare the custom dress shoes to cheap dress shoes. Also, it's pretty hard to beat the cost of sneakers