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by dnoberon 4y ago
A few times I’ve found myself stuck as the subject-matter expert of an internal project, or stuck in a role that I was growing either bored or frustrated with. If you’ve found yourself stuck as “the frontend person” and wanting to move on f
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by dnoberon 5y ago
Glad you enjoyed it. It’s a tough role to play that’s for sure.
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Tips for Developing in a Vacuum(notyourlanguage.com)
2 points by dnoberon 5y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What software engineering skills are needed post recession/disaster?
2 points by dnoberon 7y ago|1 comments
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by dnoberon 7y ago
Do you have an example use case you could share?
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by dnoberon 7y ago
There's another comment that makes the same observation about the senior title on the resume. It's almost like the first thing you have to figure out when talking to a senior engineer is: title or talent? (I know talent might not
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by dnoberon 7y ago
"Unfortunately in 2019, the title of being 'senior' can be given to literally anyone (even with less than 2 years of experience) in their own organization but elsewhere, they are equivalent to a entry-level coder with a heavi
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by dnoberon 7y ago
I think that also highlights that they should care about the big picture enough to even worry about breaking existing things - that and be able to see the big picture at all.
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Ask HN: What do you expect from a senior software engineer?
24 points by dnoberon 7y ago|16 comments
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by dnoberon 8y ago
My office is an addon, taking the place of some cubicles. The offices are frigid and I've often wondered if the ventilation wasn't corrected for the new layout. I'm going to pick up a monitor and see what I run in to. Easy fi
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by dnoberon 9y ago
The post was pretty self-deprecating for sure. I didn't even think about the opinions of other people, or customers, in building a tool. A hiccup in a tool or library that I can live with or understand, might not be acceptable to anoth
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by dnoberon 9y ago
I loved that article. Thanks for your response - I did like the bit about customization a lot. It makes special sense in a work environment in which you might not want to introduce a third party dependency I guess
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by dnoberon 9y ago
Excellent point. I was talking about this to a friend of mine - he has a coworker who calls this type of thing "developer traps". Talked about using the tool and moving on, eventually finding something that someone hasn't don
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Why waste time?
2 points by dnoberon 9y ago|6 comments