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by fatnoah 3y ago
> 4. There is probably a ton of R&D for things that haven't seen the light of day. For all of the lampooning of Meta, VR isn't their endgame. Other justifications for the effort are to build a platform that's not owne
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by fatnoah 3y ago
ATS systems are why I don't bother crafting a 1 page resume. I certainly make page 1 as compelling as possible, but I make sure that my past years of experience are also well cataloged, since I need to make it past the ATS to even get
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Digital audio killed the industry. Why buy an album when you can... As someone that jumped on the Napster and, to a lesser extent, Limewire and Kazaa bandwagon, their value for me wasn't so much that I could get something for free
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> The article here already talks about Conrail (the nationalized corpse of Penn Central) a little We're still spending a lot of time and money recovering from Conrail's stewardship of the rail network. Lines closed or single-
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> "I've lost my password" IMHO, this is the main reason L1 support "sucks" so much. Having been a support guy in a previous life, nothing feels worse than skipping the annoying trivial question (e.g did you inst
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I worked for a dial up ISP as a network engineer around the same time frame mentioned in the article. I was an intern at a large tech company (rhymes with bun) at the time, and one of my tasks was to reset idle ISDN connections that we
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> What I learned about being an IC is to have some empathy for management As a manager of managers, I frequently tell them that one sign their job is going well is when they're able to go away for vacation and it's almost like
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by fatnoah 3y ago
It seems to ignore that some of us are working at VC-backed companies working in a niche with actual customers and cash flow. It's not sexy generative AI, though.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I always enjoyed the irony of rigid adherence to agile processes. My philosophy has always been to ask "what are our goals" and then figure out how to make our process be in service of those goals. Scrum does provide some useful
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> This is not true. Every city in the US used to have a robust public transit system. No cars or parking lots needed. That WAS true, but that's not the reality that's shaping planning now. Further, many central business distri
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I'm in the middle of trying to organize work for a new software product where there were varying levels of things done, not done, performance optimized, UX refined or not, etc. This is literally the framework I've used when tryin
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I had similar issues, such as everyone seeing my video and voice pause several times in Zoom meetings. Looking at modem stats, I could see that only kne of four upstream channels bonded, resulting in a tenuous connection. Ironically, the T
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Speaking as someone who reads a lot of resumes, my advice is to use space wisely, focus on what exactly you did (too many resumes talk about the team or company) and why you're awesome, and (whenever possible) tailor your resume for ea
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Obviously my experience is my own, but the the net value of my stock was $0 from my three startups (2 acquired and 1 is a lifestyle business for the founder). I was VP Eng at the last one and did receive a 6 figure bonus (everyone got at le
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by fatnoah 3y ago
When I studied Calculus in high school, it was taught via mathematical proofs and concepts. I didn't really "get it" and struggled to keep a C average...until that one day I was working on a problem in the library about wate
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Right now, my inbox is completely overwhelmed with emails from outsourcing companies offering to do the work. I'm getting dozens of emails and phone calls plus a few LinkedIn connection requests daily. It's a far, far, far
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I'm literally dealing with that as we speak. Some architecture developed by the Staff Eng. on a team that's really not workable and was causing the team to run in circles. Ultimately, I had to jump in and ask a lot of questions
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I think this is an amazing idea. My high school was also home to a regional vocational trade center, meaning we had amazing facilities for any kind of trade, including a small restaurant. Students in the program actually built a complete
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> When you can't ask "Why?" anymore without it being silly, that's when it's time to run tests and propose solutions. In the past year, I started a new role as a head of engineering for an existing team. I liter
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I can only assume that they're using floating point arithmetic in their calculations.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Interesting. I spent time at another FAANG, and the product teams were very, very, very strong...among the best I've worked with. It was the Engineering leadership that was essentially invisible. I managed a team of 12. They knew t
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I can only offer my own perspective, but as a reasonably senior person, my job hunting experience prior to COVID and the "great transition" to remote work was typically: * Scour job listings for something that looked like a ve
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I’ve reviewed many resumes lately and think there’s cover letters for maybe 5% of the applications. I like them and think they are helpful to me to 1) show the applicant read the position and thought about it some, 2) call out specific
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I read this post, then read the instructions, and still forgot the second photo was the same location as the first.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I've actually done the city center to suburb commute where a shuttle bus was the final leg of the journey. I walked 10 minutes to the train station, rode the train for 20 minutes, and then the shuttle for about 15 minutes. The shutt
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> TLDR: Also, which timezone is used Good catch!
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Use ISO8601 date and time with offset info, always. I think that's just sufficient for all use cases everywhere. I've been a software engineer for almost 25 years and, of all the universal truths I've encountered, impli
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I don't understand what went wrong with Cars 2 Cars 1 was a cute fish out of water movie where a self-centered braggart is humbled and finds true friendship and how to be a better person. Cars 2 is a kids movie full of gunplay an
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by fatnoah 3y ago
There is a bar around the corner from Cheers that actually did feel like the neighborhood "living room" to me. When you see a bar where ages range from a few months to 80+ years, you're on the right track.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
That's pretty close to my definition as well, though I add FATAL as well, but mostly for extreme cases of "there's no way the system can function" type of errors, such as missing/invalid configuration or similar. My

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