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by ebiester 6y ago
What is the hourly rate that you would expect for a professor? Consider that a tenure track professor (ignoring adjuncts) making $60,000 is expected to teach 3-4 classes, write original peer-reviewed research, and perform "service&quot
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by ebiester 6y ago
So, how do search every public channel, regardless of whether you were even a part of the company at the time, with as convenient of a workflow as Slack has? There's nothing wrong with IRC if you are trying to solve the problems of IRC
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by ebiester 6y ago
The manager rarely needs to detect when the developer is that unproductive - it's glaringly obvious. In practice, even if you as the manager don't notice, the team will tell you that another developer isn't pulling their weig
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by ebiester 6y ago
I wrote one of these in 2002, back in college, after being inspired by Icon and SNOBOL. From Wikipedia: s := "this is a string" s ? { # Establish string scanning environment while not pos(
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by ebiester 6y ago
I learned this as a consultant in the room with people looking at three vendors for a solution for a specialized tool management software. I gravitated to the tool that looked like it was the easiest to use, but the users gravitated to the
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by ebiester 6y ago
Because there are many ways to be a developer, and it depends on your role and your product to say what is the most effective. Sometimes "10x" is a matter of fit. Consider an engineer who is dedicated to performance. In the wrong
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by ebiester 6y ago
That doesn't solve the problem completely, though, as truly fixing it requires review time with the existing team. It's still unpaid labor, but now it involves code review and collaboration. I think we still need people paying ope
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by ebiester 6y ago
It's a shame. I really like Nebula as a service and I pay for it, but it's missing some small features that I'm hoping they get to soon. (They're a small team.) The content is great, though.
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by ebiester 6y ago
You're right - I misspoke, and that likely makes more sense at their scale. At some point, I am sure they will again run the numbers.
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by ebiester 6y ago
There are no shortcuts here. You really have to understand your use cases.
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by ebiester 6y ago
Just as a reminder: You are not Dropbox. You personally need to run the numbers with both scenarios. Depending on your use case, it may be cheaper to be in AWS, and it may be cheaper to be co-located. If you are as big as Dropbox, it may be
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by ebiester 6y ago
The author was working with a codebase they didn’t write to start with, as stated in the article.
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by ebiester 6y ago
Consider that you can quickly get 30,000 people to sign up for a trial (which is what I saw as the AstroZeneca trial size) but you really have to work to get a sufficient sample size for the right kind of cancer. Oncology trials can take ye
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by ebiester 6y ago
Super soldiers? Were that the issue, we could take LeBron James, Brian Shaw, or any number of intelligent athletes with various advantages and ask for sperm samples. You could have a couple thousand kids to mold from birth. It turns out, as
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by ebiester 6y ago
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-banned-this-shopper-then-he... talks about it - the primary reason is for excessive returns. Alternatively, there are sellers as well that are more in danger.
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by ebiester 6y ago
The right price is the developer's consultant rate * number of hours it takes. If you are the only person in the world that needs it, you should pay the full rate. If others have the same need, you call can share the price.
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by ebiester 6y ago
Depending on if you are more interested in the speedrunning or the characters, Summoning Salt has put together a compelling set of videos about the history of various speedrunning records on YouTube.
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by ebiester 6y ago
That gets to the difference between a generalist and a specialist. Sometimes, I need to hire a specialist because we need someone who can provide high level expertise to a group of generalists. (E.g. a specialist on visual design and intera
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by ebiester 6y ago
Coding tests came about because some developers can talk a good game but are very poor at software development, and it can take months to realize in more complex code bases. Algorithm tests came about because when interviewing CS majors, yo
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by ebiester 6y ago
There are 20 more that you could have named. What is their temperament? What kind of initiative do they have? Are they collaborative or more independent? How do they collaborate between teams and is that something you need? Do you need some
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by ebiester 6y ago
The fence is there because the risk of doing something new is hard, especially because testing hypotheses in hiring is expensive. I am a hiring manager. I've also put significant thought into how we can change the hiring process, if on
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by ebiester 6y ago
Two groups tried that. Unity tried that, and GNOME is trying that. Many of us really hate GNOME's decisions. I'm not sure I really like the BDFL here.
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by ebiester 6y ago
Tesla and Peloton are similiar-ish. But Moderna is very different from them all as well.
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by ebiester 6y ago
You could run it like NSF grants. https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=nsf&ord=rcnt Put 10 million a year for 5 years as an experiment. It takes an extra administrator and some part time experts in the fiel
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by ebiester 6y ago
While it doesn't offer what Alexa does, I'd like to point out that Mycroft would be easy to add to this project. I haven't really worked with it, but I did want to point it out for people who are coming into the comments look
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by ebiester 6y ago
Please consider a customer-pays model with a promise not to sell data. I can't trust you with my data if I don't know how you use it.
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by ebiester 6y ago
With your vouchers, is any school required to take a voucher required to take a student? What if the student has a learning disability? In a smaller school, that will certainly take down the test scores - will three LD students ruin the sch
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by ebiester 6y ago
More importantly, this is all released on Google's internal infrastructure. Any such work would require moving to the external infrastructure, and the cost of it likely wouldn't make sense. The real issue is this: Why am I paying
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by ebiester 6y ago
Tiling people would create a group up on the top. When you want to bring it down, it's just a keyboard command away. After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling.
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by ebiester 6y ago
Let's say you have a query that takes 3 seconds, and about half second to manipulate that into something that makes sense and start sending the data over. With the single page solution, you can have a spinner that is allowing the user

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