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by fatnoah 3y ago
My only anecdata as a parent is my son's recent decision to join the cross-country running team at his high school. I've been amazed by the level of positivity and support of the team as a whole. The coach doesn't take any
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by fatnoah 3y ago
This annoys me to no end as well. Whenever I see that message, I just close the window and do something else.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Somewhat ironically, I was chastised by my manager at a FAANG for delegating architectural responsibility to my tech lead.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Last year I joined a company as a VP of Engineering and the first thing I did was to look at all of the meticulously crafted Jira workflows for tickets moving from New to Done, and
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by fatnoah 3y ago
IMHO, ability to do this varies based on role, market, experience, etc. In my past 3 job searches, I went the multiple opportunity route. I let each company know that I was in-process elsewhere, what my rough timeline was, and that if th
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by fatnoah 3y ago
For me in the early 2000's, it meant having entirely separate codebases to support IE and Netacape. It also meant that building a web application with async data loading (XML from a REST service) was all done by hand. My favorite tec
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I thought that as well, and it's something I worry about.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I live in a state (MA) that recently passed such a law. Based solely on the advertising from both sides, it was obvious that voting for it was the correct thing to do. The best the opposition could do was to create two commercials. One fe
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> don't forget to add bypass caps. Just get a sack of ceramic 100nF capacitors and sprinkle them between plus and ground on the power rails next to wherever tou put active components (chips, etc) 100 years ago when I did my EE under
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by fatnoah 3y ago
My Windows 11 PC boots in about 20 seconds. Over half of that time is the POST. Once that's done, I see the Windows login in about 5-10 seconds. It's fast enough that I don't really notice.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
While I prefer to shop local for as much as possible, if I'm given the choice between fighting this town's terrible parking regulations and implementation or buying online, the latter is going to win.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Two for me. IIRC, I've never flagged anything.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Article was a good, quick read with opinions from two viewpoints in the media industry. One saying that the media companies benefit from the reach and exposure and the other speaking about how media companies should be fairly compensated.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Today, I literally spent 10 minutes downloading, installing, creating an account, and adding payment methods to an app so I could pay $0.40 to park for 30 minutes because the meter didn't have a coin slot and the credit card reader w
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by fatnoah 3y ago
At some point in ny life, I realized that the meaning of every term on food packaging conforms to a specific statutory or regulatory definition, and not a linguistic or intuitive meaning. The net result is that I end up opting for things
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Then again, I'm not working in a huge corp, so I don't know if this scales. As a grizzled veteran, I LOVE System Design interviews. I love giving them and I love taking them. At large companies, System Design is definitely
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Definitely a better deal than I got in my own layoff last fall.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Quite literally they ingest and aggregate MLS data... FWIW, I spent time at a large national "disruptor" broker and this is a non-trivial process. There are hundreds of MLS systems in the US, each with its own data, quirks,
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> The focus is on delivering features and quality In my first month as VP at a growth stage startup, I asked everyone in Engineering why we used Jira. The responses all boiled down to what was basically a shrug. I followed up with what
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> We use confluence and jira, an d for some reason it seems perfectly usable compared to others stories here. I've been using Jira Cloud off and on at various startups and it always had its slow moments. At my most recent startup,
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I will say that my experience at FAANG companies is the engineers there do to get dream big and come up with ingenious engineering solutions that make engineering work at non-FAANG look like college senior undergrad projects My own ex
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by fatnoah 3y ago
The article implies that the VP was fired for disagreeing with the company, and Parker didn't really give off a "my way or the highway" kind of vibe. You never know, though.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I was an exec at a smaller company acquired by Salesforce and met a few of the C-level and President level people a few times (not Marc). All impressed me with their intelligence and humility. Parker just felt like a smart regular guy. He s
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Is this new? I distinctly remember this as my own experience starting out in the late '90's, and it basically feels like the experience of every new hire I've seen. Actually, with better tooling, Google, and the like, I fee
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I'm not sure that we can remove "elitist" without also removing the concept of "top universities" too. Of course, that requires employers to not use university acceptance as a measure of the worth of an applicant r
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Wayyyy back in the day, after the dotcom crash, I got moved from a SWE role in my company to the consulting (customer implementation) side to try to bring more rigor to their process. One of the first things I did was replace a several tho
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I made the move to full-time management after about 16 years as a hands-on Engineer & tech lead. As a high-level Engineer, I was very much into mentorship, influence, architecture, and process, so it felt natural to go into management
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Ah, yes, the old "look how easy building your simple CRUD app in [new tech] is" article. These always seem to work great (and do work great for some use cases) until things evolve beyond, and then one spends their day fighting t
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Sorry, more specifically, platform meaning reliance on Play Store or App Store. Work was also being done to build their own OS. That's been canceled for now, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it come back.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I've been wondering: how do we teach kids about addiction (substances, gambling, phone/internet) and its consequences? I can't speak to device addiction, but I from ages 4-12, we raised our child in a major US city. In

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