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by drums8787 4y ago
Agree. It seems it would buy you points at another FAANG but if I were interviewing an ex FAANG I would be concerned about mismatching perspectives and experience around scale and appropriate solutions. Then there’s the issue of “if you can
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by drums8787 4y ago
See above CNBC link.
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by drums8787 4y ago
Been there, got out. I recommend to listen to some of Cal Newport's "lifestyle centric career planning" podcast episodes on this. I basically followed similar ideas a decade ago and have been very happy with the decision. You
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by drums8787 4y ago
Maybe they heard the question as “can you perform Under Pressure”. Under Pressure is a hit single by the British rock band Queen.
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by drums8787 4y ago
Great video, thanks for sharing.
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by drums8787 4y ago
Sure, a certain amount of good luck is always required. I've been involved in two rewrites during the past 5 years. While the rewrites were not by choice (one was forced by Flash EOL), in both cases there were multiple, very obvious (a
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by drums8787 4y ago
Add to that list "Where the Water Goes" by David Owen.
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by drums8787 4y ago
+1. Being able to keep my rate and adjust for inflation is important to me, so in cases of budget crunch I've negotiated less time. Which has turned out to work great for everybody, over years now.
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by drums8787 4y ago
I'd buy an updated Element in a minute. Meanwhile I'm holding on to the one I have. And I'd never hose it down.
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by drums8787 4y ago
When working at home (most days) my Macbook Pro is mostly a terminal to my desktop running VMs on ESXi. Silent, fast, solid. I love that the Mac can run the VMs I need in a pinch when I need to leave the house but it's always whining w
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by drums8787 5y ago
Indirectly, yes. Even if you just want to draw stick figures, you need to put marks on paper (or tablet, but the analog way has benefits IMO), and the book helps with that. You’ll need to practice abstraction and that’s nothing more than se
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by drums8787 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20160201220407/http://unbored.ne...
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by drums8787 5y ago
You may not be into comics but I still recommend Lynda Berry’s Making Comics for the aspiring draftsman. Depending on how you best learn, it may be a good fit. Playful, yet structured. So much in the early stages is about overcoming inhibit
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by drums8787 5y ago
I stopped riding two years ago after 30+ years. This was mostly based on my recent experience as a pedestrian- I just watched way too many people running stop signs while staring at their phone. Figured I'd have a good run of it and be
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by drums8787 5y ago
To paraphrase John Ousterhout: If a system has a few parts that are very shitty, but those parts almost never need to be touched, then they don't have much impact on the overall shittiness of the system.
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by drums8787 5y ago
Your comment is timely and encouraging for me. I last used C++ seriously in the late 90s and have thought about picking it up again to get out of my comfort zone (it's that or something like F#). I plan to play with some Wasm.
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by drums8787 5y ago
As an individual I'm on Mac, and Linux for my server needs. As a business I work with clients that run Windows for their own reasons I have no control over. I've found it easiest to develop on Windows for those clients and I welco
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by drums8787 5y ago
+1 on Bitwarden. UX is perhaps not perfect. I've had some IOS sync issues but that seems to have gotten much better. Use it in Firefox every day and have no complaints. I convinced my wife to pick it up and we now share a bunch of stuf
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by drums8787 5y ago
Thx!
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by drums8787 5y ago
How well does the Google SRE book apply to environments at smaller scale?
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by drums8787 5y ago
> However, if you like Moleskine notebooks and have filled many a year and your shelves are filled with many years' worth, then take a good look That’s exactly what I like about my paper notebooks. 20 years worth, visible on a shelf
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by drums8787 5y ago
Um... wow. ;-) Suggestion: start the demo by showing what the thing actually does. I bet most visitors won't actually ever download/install. But I certainly was very curios to see what the hell this was, and it was rewarding to sk
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by drums8787 5y ago
Nah, it's the best. A recent thread on this convinced me to try Doom Emacs. It's great and just doubled my nerd factor.
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by drums8787 5y ago
Also don’t know about the paradigm per se, but I suspect a lot of FOSS developers are CLI first type users. Secondly, they are mostly not working in environments where GUI UX designers are part of the process. Thirdly, good UX design doesn’
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by drums8787 6y ago
Thank you. Went down a small rabbit hole reading about Doom & Spacemacs and am pretty sure I'll pull the trigger, to get org mode and magit.
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by drums8787 6y ago
I went in the other direction about 5 years ago after 20 years of always installing Emacs on every computer I ever used. Vim has had a much bigger impact on my productivity. Partly because of excellent plugins (VSCode, Visual Studio), partl
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by drums8787 6y ago
Could it be that because of COVID you have time to pay more attention? I wonder that sometimes about things I've "noticed" during the past 6 months. Maybe it accounts for some of it at least.
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by drums8787 7y ago
100%. I'm essentially solo in a larger group of "stakeholders" and shoot & share videos on a semi-daily basis to verify progress. More frequent dependent on the complexity & uncertainty. But I try not to overestimate
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by drums8787 8y ago
> Bezos's salary is just $80,000 a year So he's not subject to max SSN and Medicare taxes?
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by drums8787 8y ago
Agree, learn to rebase well. Having a chain of atomic, well commented commits is bliss.

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