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by eel 6y ago
Do people in leadership positions actually say this in the real world? I personally have not seen it in the workplace in 10 years, but maybe I have been lucky. I am curious to hear if others have heard this saying in the workplace before an
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by eel 6y ago
In my personal life, I use Google Sheets to help me shop for larger purchases. For example, choosing tires for my car. I made a spreadsheet of all the available tires that fit my car, with columns for specs, prices of different retailers, u
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by eel 6y ago
I have been making things with masa flour. Tamales, bocoles, tortillas, and pupusas. So far the pupusas are my favorite, and very easy to make. From scratch, I can prep, cook, and eat in less than a hour, so it's ideal for a lunch brea
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by eel 6y ago
I agree with you that a lot of skill is transferable between technologies, but I suspect that some recruiters or hiring managers either don't realize that or they typecast you into a specific role. Resumes are a form of writing where b
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by eel 6y ago
If I may offer a suggestion, what works for me is that at the start of a job search, I first make a very large resume, with several excess bullet points and detailed lists of technologies. I am the only one that sees this version of my resu
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by eel 6y ago
While I agree with your advice in the general case, I also find the author's data point interesting and compelling. Receiving 2 offers from 7 interviews with only 16 applications is a good rate in software engineering as far as I am aw
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by eel 6y ago
The raw data can be gathered from congress.gov, but here's a summary graphic for 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/... It depends on your definitions of entitlements and milita
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by eel 6y ago
I'm keeping an eye on initial jobless claims and BLS unemployment statistics. I'm concerned that it's a cascading effort as fewer workers means less spending means less earnings means fewer workers and the cycle continues. Ob
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by eel 6y ago
I think you have to find what interests you. Think back to the times you were most excited—what was different then? Personally, when it comes to putting code on the screen I am motivated mostly by two things: 1. I am excited to put a puzzle
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by eel 7y ago
Good stuff. I think this is a good general template once you've established a relationship with your manager. If the manager is new, I don't expect direct answers to #2 and #3, so I would ask more meta questions-- how they approac
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by eel 7y ago
If I am joining a new team or company and therefore getting a new manager, my 1:1 meetings generally support my onboarding. I would ask about the team's current processes, how they got there, who to ask about learning the system archit
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by eel 8y ago
How did you make SDE-3?
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by eel 8y ago
This is the big surprise to me: > Finding 2: People want fine-grained controls over the data they share with apps. While I personally 100% agree, I would have guessed that the vast majority of Google users (i.e., non-HN crowd) wouldn&#x2
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by eel 8y ago
The advertising is ridiculous. It used to be that the ads were one or two listings at the top or the bottom of the search results. Now they are top, bottom, side, and mixed in some of my search results and look more similar to non-sponsored
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by eel 8y ago
Tekton doesn't make any tools, but source them from other manufacturers. So they have some Taiwanese, some Chinese, and some US made. Most of the pliers and all of the punches come from Wilde, a US manufacturer.
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by eel 9y ago
Amazon is the first place I've seen where the core values are useful, clear, and integrated into the culture. For the values to be effective, everyone up to the top has to follow them, and you can see that at Amazon in the annual share
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by eel 9y ago
At a previous gig, without getting into specifics, we built a huge internal client-server system. The client was written in Node.js and ran as services on both Windows and Linux on a few thousand machines. The server was written in Node.js
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by eel 10y ago
In my experience, most recruiters push harder to get a number than the hypothetical conversations in the article. Maybe I'm not as much of a charismatic speaker as some. Fortunately, for the most part, they don't care if the numbe
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by eel 10y ago
Is the process state-dependent? Can you only reclaim mines in public lands (and does it matter if it's NF vs BLM?), or can you claim an abandoned mine on private property?
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by eel 10y ago
I've wondered if I could shortcut the school requirement on the basis of already having an ABET-accredited computer engineering undergrad. My state does not seem to distinguish the type of engineering education required to be a PE. I w
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by eel 10y ago
I would love to get into structural engineering. I just can't justify the cost of school, and the end salaries are not even going to be better than a software developer's. Or maybe be an auto mechanic. Or a woodworker/metal w
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by eel 10y ago
I quit my job in the spring, took the summer off, and started a new job in the fall. At my last job, I felt like I was at my growth limit with little left to learn. At my new job, I am currently overwhelmed with a new stack, new tools, and
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by eel 10y ago
I thought I recognized this article. Here is Joel's original answer (2011) on a Stack Exchange site with some comments: https://web.archive.org/web/20130329010105/http://answers.on... Here is a prev
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by eel 10y ago
I use a ThinkPad T410 (2010) with i5, 8 GB RAM, and 7200 RPM HDD and a headless Debian server running on an Intel Atom (also circa 2010) with 2 GB RAM and 7200 RPM HDD. Most of my development is done on the headless server using ssh + tmux
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by eel 10y ago
This is what I set in my .vimrc today, and it seems to be working pretty well: if executable('rg') set grepprg=rg\ --no-heading\ --vimgrep set grepformat=%f:%l:%c:%m endif Then you can just :grep yourquery (or :gr
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by eel 10y ago
I was a developer at a big corp (financial services industry) until leaving earlier this year. It steadily grew over four years from around one hour a week to five hours a week (~13%) of meetings. My first few weeks had a lot more meetings
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by eel 10y ago
For what it's worth, most tech employers in the Denver area offer the "Ecopass" as an employer-paid employee benefit, which makes the buses, light rail, and call-n-ride free for the employee. Without any discounts, the cost f
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by eel 10y ago
To me, the impressive thing the China has done is making the technology ubiquitous and commercially successful within China. As a software developer, I don't see a lot of magic in writing applications. I feel confident that I could wri
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by eel 10y ago
Reliable: vim, Microsoft Word/Excel, SQLite, tmux, GNU coreutils, svn I think most would agree with most of the items, although svn warrants an explanation. I prefer the paradigm of git, but svn always impresses me with its ability to
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by eel 10y ago
I do not understand how the US can charge someone with copyright infringement if that person is not a US citizen and has never been to the US. Is there an international agreement on how to handle infringement? Can Americans be extradited fo

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