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by dpeck 6y ago
Completely agree, same thing has led to massive growth of product mangers, product owners, and various other titles that do similar things. The devs still tend to have to ask a lot of questions to get anywhere useful but in these situations
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by dpeck 6y ago
In my experience it is the opposite of that. Many ‘product’ groups exist because engineering teams kept complaining about meetings and just wanted to be told what the build. Collectively as a profession we have ceded away many of the thing
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by dpeck 6y ago
Schools, especially elite ones, often see their purpose as creating/fostering leaders out of the pool of potential that they’ve curated.
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by dpeck 6y ago
This is fantastic, I had tried to make terraform and lambda work together before and ended up abandoning that path and leaning on the serverless framework for that part of the project, but I was never happy about it being split out. I look
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by dpeck 6y ago
Sample size would pretty much guarantee more than 0
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by dpeck 6y ago
Because every time someone builds this it turns into a dating (charitably) app. If there is a way to find sexual partners in a medium, people will do so.
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by dpeck 6y ago
It would be nice if more hardware vendors got out of their own way and supported HomeKit. It’s not perfect, at all, but it is far ahead of the typical vendor provided software experience.
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by dpeck 6y ago
Mort, by Pratchett. It is a great introduction to the Discworld and one of my favorite books ever. It is a good read over the holidays and you’ll be thinking about some of the lines in it for years to come. “ History isn't like that. H
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by dpeck 6y ago
Buckfast, I really like it and so far I’ve found nothing quite the same in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine
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by dpeck 6y ago
That is inappropriate word choice here or anywhere. Remove your slur.
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by dpeck 6y ago
RSAs for early employees (everything before an investment) isnt uncommon.
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by dpeck 6y ago
Not to discount that product at all, I’ve got no experience judging those things. But Amazon is not a reputable retailer. there’s no way for the end user of this to validate its effectiveness so that’s why I’d prefer at least a retailer who
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by dpeck 6y ago
I just don’t see how this can be the reality that we’re living in. These things were $1/per at retail before the pandemic. People are ready to pay many multiples ($10/day? Sure. $20/day? Yeah) of that now, how are the economi
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by dpeck 6y ago
Where can it be bought from a reputable/reliable retailer? I’d love a link.
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by dpeck 6y ago
It is absurd that there aren’t n95, and similarly effective, masks easily available 9 months into this thing.
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by dpeck 6y ago
That’s largely the point of it. Graphql allows for a smaller, more focused team to work on the generic backend and lean into the pain of it while at the same time supporting larger and more divergent frontend/user facing teams.
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by dpeck 6y ago
There’s quite a bit of animosity directed at various tech companies from people all over the political spectrum. That is definitely bleeding over into the professional generally.
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Silently install powershell modules from MSI file(stackoverflow.com)
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by dpeck 6y ago
Remember those few years from around 2008 to 2013 or so when open APIs were cool, mashups of different services were everywhere, the web felt just a bit younger and more carefree, and people didn’t immediately sneer when they learned that y
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by dpeck 6y ago
I’m not sure if it still works with current iOS but I used this to do that a lot several years ago https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prowl-easy-push-notifications/...
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by dpeck 6y ago
Happiest Baby on the Block for guidance on learning how to sooth very helpful the first few months.
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by dpeck 6y ago
I think most bigger cities have this same set of people, though I would guess SF has it more. I’ve certainly experienced it in Atlanta, and from former coworkers in Chicago/NYC/Boston as well. There are a lot of people who will co
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by dpeck 6y ago
Yes. For me it was a near perfect “social media” experience, at least for that point in my life. It was high signal, low noise, and really it was a high water mark of internet experience for me.
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by dpeck 6y ago
They’re both top 10 (in US) in pretty much any ranking list you’d find for computer science, what do you consider top tier?
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by dpeck 6y ago
I use pandoc + markdown to create a Beamer pdf that we use to guide the agenda for team meeting every week. It works well enough. The layouts are a little minimalist and have an academic feel but it works very well for putting together cont
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by dpeck 6y ago
"product owner" tends to be either the lowest rung on the product ladder, or the next to the lowest just above "product analyst" anywhere that I've been. I've never heard of anyone with that title having P&amp
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by dpeck 6y ago
is it weird for other old-timers to see this happen? The number of PMs has exploded, and their scope has gotten much smaller. It seems like every form in an app has its own PM now and every one of them is fresh out of school. PMs used to b
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by dpeck 6y ago
I understand why, those of us without anyone to emulate professionally have a tough path with pitfalls and charlatans in every direction.
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by dpeck 6y ago
The difference in job security for a contractor vs a full time employee in the US isn’t meaningful unless the company is large enough to worry about wrongful termination lawsuits. The distinction mostly revolves around taxation and internal
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by dpeck 6y ago
Not all screen time is the same and it’s far beyond time for us to stop equivocating Facebook/Instagram and other social media nastiness with all the positive things that can be done on a screen. It confuses people, and as we stare dow

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