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by ericalexander0 3y ago
As somebody who's much older than 36, who also recently landed a job. My advice is don't worry about your age. The most important thing is to get out there and try. I think you'll be surprised at how much opportunity there is
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Recently left a company where equity was a substantial portion of my income. Interviewed with 6 companies who all offered equity. 2 already public and 3 with plans to IPO soon. I think all listed equity/rsu/options/etc in the
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
>a feature similar to DNS Why not DNS? Seems to check all the boxes you're looking for.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
New? There's plenty of ski areas that went defunct long ago due to a lack of snow making capability. Some due to a lack of access to water. Many prominent Colorado ski resorts may face the same fate in the near future: https:/&#x
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Mass layoffs? Probably not. The last mass layoffs were the result of interest rate hikes and the end of easy money. Inflation is slowing. So should interest rate hikes. Macro conditions don't guarantee one way or another for single com
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2023.09.14-115523/https://www.nytimes.com...
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
>What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento There's plenty of real world scenarios that could have taken out that data center and the Twitter engineering team would have been scrambling to fix, jus
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2023.09.12-190858/https://www.nytimes.com...
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Ah the old buts in seats is the only metric you need style of management. “Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don’t complain about illogical behavior.” – Eli G
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Managers measuring the wrong thing is not exclusive to software engineering. Measuring obviously wrong things goes back decades (ie IBM paying Microsoft by the KLOC). This phenomenon was likely first identified by Deming. His Red Bead Exper
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
These questions can be distilled down to: Will fill_in_the_blank jobs go away? Less demand equals less pay and less interesting problems. AI is the second wave of software eating the world. The first wave improved knowledge sharing and mech
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
I highly recommend Beyond The Phoenix Project. It's less of a book and more of a podcast with John Willis and Gene Kim exploring Deming, Goldratt, and related theory.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Severance packages with claw back clauses that enforce the NDA. Break the NDA and risk paying back the severance plus legal costs. Isn't worth the risk.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Technical founders help, but it's not required. Structured goal setting, call it OKRs if you want, is the secret sauce. Can't just cargo cult it. Has to be an entire company working together towards goals. That's where the dr
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Most DevOps is classic Sys Admin with Ansible or Terraform, from what I've seen these days. SRE is the new hotness.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
You're better off doing a private bug bounty through bug crowd or hackerone. Pentests are point in time assessments. Usually with one to two testers, with limited scopes of expertise. Bug bounties can bring in hundreds of testers with
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Meditation and/or exercise. It's very human to ruminate over a negative experience. Both meditation and exercise can help refocus your mind on more important things.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
https://archive.is/2023.08.05-141015/https://www.nytimes.com...
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
There is no one size fits all answer. It depends on the tolerance for failure in the system. If testing in production stays within the tolerance, then it's likely more efficient to test there. If not, then it's more efficient to t
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
The current system is built on low effort content farms with articles written by ghost writers who stitched together what they googled on the subject. If anything changes in the seo world, it's less ghost writer jobs. Already happening
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2023.06.07-105513/https://www.theatlantic...
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Have to route your traffic through an egress point elsewhere. Really only to ways to do that: encapsulation/vpn or proxy (ie squid).
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
I divide the day into a list of negotiable and non-negotiable items. My schedule is then optimized for the non-negotiables.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
What gets measured gets done. DORA and similar cycle time measurements are proxy metrics. They'll distort reality into managers becoming the customer, if used the wrong way. They're no substitute for structured goal setting.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
What's the why behind the proposed change? Is it to meet a compliance requirement? Is it based on learning from a recent incident? Something else?
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
I've built security programs from the ground up at two companies and have worked in compliance/security/cyber/etc for over 16 years. I'm also a maker and an engineer. I understand how security/compliance side s
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
I used to shit on js. Especially node. My opinion changed working in a 65+ team engineering org with freedom to choose languages. There was a clear pattern of js/ts/node teams shipping faster. Means js is better than _insert_other
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Toyota has been betting on hydrogen fuel cell. Their argument is more or less that there's not enough lithium for 100% EV and most of the world doesn't have access to cheap/dependable electricity.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Taking a guess that it's a sales tactic. Everyone has to walk past first class, where they're already being served food and beverages in their luxury sized seats. Then past business class. Then to your peasant seat.
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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Maybe back to pre-war levels, but are they profitable?

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