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by enjo 7y ago
"there are far more bugs than clever inventions." That's 100% true, but being a good software engineer isn't about clever inventions. It's about reliably doing the right thing, and that in and of itself is praise-wo
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by enjo 7y ago
"Deserve" means to show qualities that are worthy of either reward or punishment. This poster is someone who took the initiative to get better and therefore showed qualities worthy of reward. They absolutely deserve better than
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by enjo 7y ago
You can be proud of yourself, but you should also be mad as hell! You may have come a long ways, but you'd be so much further with good mentorship and coaching. It's not that your team was moving "a million miles an hour&quot
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by enjo 7y ago
You should really demand both.
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by enjo 7y ago
"Work relationships might only need a ratio of 1:1, but especially as an engineer, where the default's to critique and only pick out the bad parts in code reviews, these really help!" I'm on mobile so I can't pull a
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by enjo 7y ago
I’m moving out of LA and this post highlights why. Yep those places are great. In a typical Angelenos year they’ll see maybe one of them. None of those things are near each other. The ones that are sort of close are in reality an hour+ apar
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by enjo 8y ago
Yes startups will give you more responsibility, but that comes at the cost of far less mentorship. I often wonder if people only feel like they're growing faster at startups because the results are a bit more visible. It is true that
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by enjo 8y ago
"A friend grew from junior developer to director of IT at that startup, so there's that aspect as well, though I have also seen a number of startups hire leadership outside." This was the main benefit I got from a startup, bu
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by enjo 8y ago
I wonder how many people leaving in the USA are fed up with the endless political fights? It’s why I left.
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by enjo 8y ago
You can see it in the data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST We're in a market in which housing prices have been soaring for a very long time, but for most of this we've been building less housing tha
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by enjo 8y ago
Driving in that case is only slower if the train schedule matches more or less perfectly with your trip AND your destination is very close to a train station. That's not the reality of train travel. You often wait for pretty long lengt
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by enjo 8y ago
The real stuff, for my palate, is the single best food there is. It’s that good. Some prosciutto di Parma and Parmasean-reggiano is my last meal.
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by enjo 8y ago
No. It’s indicative of what one group of HR staff thinks about Google employees. It’s a brainstorming deck, not company policy. I should note that I do not now nor have I ever worked for Google.
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by enjo 8y ago
RE: Your edit I think that's close as well. One of the interesting things I've noticed is that people who are participating in the gig economy seem to be participating in almost ALL of the gig economy at once. I've met many p
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by enjo 8y ago
My moral system is very different. I see no problem (at all) with paying for DRMed content. "Supporting DRM means supporting a world where you have to pay rent and seek permission from corporate overlords to use your own devices in t
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by enjo 8y ago
If we're talking about "a company that only deploys rarely and requires many manual steps with many people involved to do it", then I've worked with a few. Typically they're shops that got very big very fast. They d
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by enjo 8y ago
Just jumping in to agree here. I've always thought of this way: In the 90's the code I wrote was more difficult. Today coding is much easier (better languages, tooling, etc..). However the systems I build are many times more com
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by enjo 8y ago
Very common in 2019? I haven't run across an OAuth provider in some time that isn't properly checking redirect_uri against at least a whitelist of domains (if not the full URL). Is there another redirect attack I'm not aware
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by enjo 8y ago
The 16th street mall in Denver and the Pearl Street Promenade in Boulder for two more examples.
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by enjo 8y ago
Genuinely curious on your view: what is an appropriate response?
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by enjo 8y ago
There are definitely some set of users that have dropped the app for technical reasons, but are still active Facebook users. I've uninstalled the app, but that's because it was a huge battery drain.
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by enjo 8y ago
It's not tho. It's really not. Most of the software you use every day was developed by very average software developers. The vast majority of the work software developers do isn't terribly novel or particularly difficult. And
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by enjo 8y ago
I've been doing quite a bit of this recently. That Javascript interface with easy access to.. everything.. is indeed really powerful. For instance we've instrumented our project management in Google sheets (pulling data from JIRA)
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by enjo 8y ago
>who everyone agrees was a poor leader of human Everyone agrees? Because I'm not sure I do. Jobs was probably an "asshole" for whatever your definition of that is. To suggest that he wasn't a capable leader of people
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by enjo 8y ago
Which is funny because I don't think I have a ton of anxiety but this was exactly what I was thinking. I was once stuck for a bit on a NYC Subway and I found it deeply deeply unsettling.
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by enjo 9y ago
The good news is there's going to be at least some echo effect here. I work for a US based company, although the vast majority of our users are in Asia. We're implementing GDPR for everyone. It won't affect the companies that
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by enjo 9y ago
Sure, but you don't bring your own table to work. And you don't get to leave in the middle of your shift and go to the other job just because you feel like it.
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by enjo 9y ago
Utilities across the country are changing how they handle net metering (buying back at the wholesale instead of retail rate). It greatly changes the payback on these solar installations... I’m guessing that has more to do with any slowdown
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by enjo 9y ago
Two decades into my career and I absolutely shudder every time I get a request to "integrate with <xxx>'s API, it'll be easy!" It almost never is. Everything about the experience sucks. The documentation is usually
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by enjo 9y ago
While I don't agree with OP... you could make a case that switching to Git is a way for Microsoft to make itself more fashionable to the engineering community at large. The marketing here is: it's cool to work at Microsoft again!

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