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by ebiester 5y ago
And I can get someone for a quarter of the price who can do that on Upwork. (That isn’t to degrade anyone on upwork, but to point out that the code itself is a fraction of the job.) It might be more work to develop a specification that requ
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by ebiester 5y ago
I don't think that tracks with my experience, not as a manager. Consider this: I hate hiring. Most managers I know do. Interviews are contrived; you are making decisions that will impact both your company and their lives; if you get it
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by ebiester 5y ago
And pray they don't get the nukes up in the air first?
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by ebiester 5y ago
That's explicitly what the author is asking for at the end - a reader that respects the ethics of the author.
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by ebiester 5y ago
And it seems to lump tech lead, staff-level individual contributor not leading a team, and architect-level positions that have no direct reports. When I speak about career options to people I lead, I say there is a senior level plateau. At
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by ebiester 5y ago
I don't think it's cheating at all. These editors not only copy edit, but also engage with your work. It's a fantastic service that reduces time and increases quality - what's not to like? However, when two Ph.D graduate
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by ebiester 5y ago
However, having an editor that will engage with your work and provide expert feedback will make your work better, as well as save overall time. It's not quality versus quantity - it's paying for expert assistance. This isn't
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by ebiester 5y ago
It will always be an uphill climb the further down on the hill you are. However, Academia doesn't need to keep making the hill taller. The hardest part is those at the top have the most advantages. For example, ivy league institutes no
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by ebiester 5y ago
How do you take on the burden of proof to prove that high ranking US officials were not involved in an organized child-sex ring involving various pizza restaurants? Or any of the various other QAnon work.
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by ebiester 5y ago
However, professors were historically from the gentry. It was always a position of status and privilege, especially before World War 2. It was only when the demand for higher education surged (largely by the GI bill but also by the computer
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by ebiester 5y ago
It all depends on how large the team is and the scope of responsibility. I see, in practice, three types of manager roles. The first is the team lead manager. This team has 3-5 people on it, and the tech lead codes small features and pairs
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by ebiester 5y ago
It doesn't. However, a 2 month boot camp as a finishing school on top of other self-study and auxillary skills does. For example, a great front end engineer I know had an art degree and a boot camp experience, combined with self study.
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by ebiester 5y ago
The more you differentiate yourself, the more likely I am to listen. My priority is: 1. Internal recruiters. They have real pull. 2. External recruiters that give me real information and give me quality information before I get on a call an
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by ebiester 5y ago
It happened with Polio.
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by ebiester 5y ago
Look at the statue in question: https://i2.wp.com/hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/... You can acknowledge that Roosevelt is a complicated figure but still a figure of history without defending
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by ebiester 5y ago
From my understanding, many uses of this are extra walks during the day while the human companion is at work, not as a substitute for morning and evening walks, but I might be wrong. I'm sure elderly people may have other exceptions, f
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by ebiester 5y ago
From my perspective, naming functions well is a key component of maintainable code. However, in this case, I use it is an extension of the question "is this the same concept?" if it looks like useFloorWaxOrDessertTopping, it'
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by ebiester 5y ago
Add to that number the people who are affected by long COVID, which can really impair quality of life and for which we don't have a good idea of numbers. Further, when it goes unchecked, the hospitals get overwhelmed, which has follow-
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by ebiester 5y ago
My first heuristic is: If I change the code in block A, is it assured that I will need to change the code in block B? My second heuristic is: Can I name the method I wish to de-duplicate in a way that is honest for all cases I wish to cover
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by ebiester 5y ago
To be fair, the rest of the world should be using Silicon Valley the same way. Were I a medium sized city, I would have a group of people looking at things like scooters and private busses that start in the bay area and start thinking about
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by ebiester 5y ago
This, of course, works incredibly well for tuberculosis and HIV, for but two example. This comes from a flawed assumption that the human body has evolved to solve for all sicknesses. It turns out that it's remarkably frail. Yes, there
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by ebiester 5y ago
Agree and disagree. I agree as a default scenario, you are correct. However, we always need evidence to show if a team member is struggling and needs extra assistance, or in the worst case is not contributing positively to the team. This is
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by ebiester 5y ago
If measuring as a team, then it evens out. Unless you have a specialist that would be better placed on other tasks, and a generalist taking that specialist's tasks, that junior engineer is going to take longer than the senior engineer
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by ebiester 5y ago
I would argue that pointless is a key modifier here. There are many meetings that are valuable, but they are valuable because people put effort into making that time valuable outside the meeting. Meetings should prove themselves.
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by ebiester 5y ago
It's a rough problem, though. Let's consider that writing a book, in terms of typing, doesn't take that long. However, the perception of value is proportional to the size of the book: are you going to pay for 10-20 pages of i
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by ebiester 5y ago
There are multiple interpretations here. For example, if those disabilities are due to long COVID, then that would indicate that the cure is indeed not worse than the problem itself, but rather that the problem is even worse than we thought
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by ebiester 5y ago
But that's the thing - the article author is talking about a context menu, which by default means that everything from the context menu can be done by keyboard means. As for me, I'm another greybeard that doesn't need a mouse
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by ebiester 5y ago
It's still productive. It's just not "cool" anymore. Further, some of the choices DHH and company have made have been the opposite of other communities: for example, rails omakase still doesn't default to a single p
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by ebiester 5y ago
I believe the expense, in this case, is talking about cost in time, not money.
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by ebiester 5y ago
However, may developers do want a high-impact product. That's orthogonal to making gazillions of dollars. "I want what I write to matter to someone" is the fundamental calling of many founders.

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