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by fatnoah 3y ago
> One of my biggest culture shocks in moving from Ireland to the Netherlands I've only been to Ireland once, but I absolutely loved how the local pub felt like the shared living room for the town. It was so different from my experi
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> It is bewildering to me that there are companies where you don't interview with the team you will join. What if you don't click with them? These are the people you'll spend every day working with. There's a very imp
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by fatnoah 3y ago
This was my frustration with the Pixel 4 as well. So many random things done on my phone, including Amazon 1 Click purchases or random emails about to be sent, etc. All because the stupid thing somehow decides that the screen should be en
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Good point. I find that view to be far more useful than any other, though I'm never sure if that's my video game bias showing or not.
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Reading the way questions are worded in that exam makes me want to take back most of the negative things I've said about requires handed to me by Product Managers over the past 25 years.
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> Maybe in theory, but I've never had a WSDL that was actually complete. In the end, it generated stubs of types and clients for me and I still had to do a lot of nonsense. The concept of a WSDL would be nice but in practice I'
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Reverse cameras are one of the best things to happen to automobile safety in a long time. I agree, but I feel like cameras have made everyone feel the need to back into parking spaces, resulting in an epidemic of slightly askew cars th
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I'm not surprised this is happening. Many org structures were pretty sparse as a result of changes, reorgs, attrition, and planning for future growth. When the growth slowed, stopped, or reversed, that meant those sparse trees weren&
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by fatnoah 3y ago
>How many story points did the team complete this week? How can we get them to deliver more points while still meeting the acceptance criteria? Articles like this frustrate me. Is the goal of scrum to deliver more points? (Maybe it is?)
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I feel like this is the opposite of my own experience. I was at my happiest when I was renting, had no car, and made enough money to not have to worry about paying the bills. I was free from responsibilities and obligations that distracted
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by fatnoah 3y ago
FWIW, I interviewed for a role at Microsoft a few year ago, and the building for my interview had individual offices for everyone. What really struck me was how many appeared to have some active whiteboard collaboration going on. It seemed
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I last traveled to SF a couple years (I love SF and have been there many times over the past 25 yeara) ago and definitely noticed the dramatically increased prominence of the homeless population, but it was the "early 80's urban d
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Ah yes, all I need to do is to relax my body and clear my mind.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Imagine a big corporation - lots and lots of various teams all doing their own thing - business processes, auth, customer admin etc. In the past, I worked at a large retailer that started with the large shared database. It was as mess
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> Believe it or not, Comcast is probably right about this. I read this more as being about either "we can't right now" than it is about "we can't ever do it." They're obviously able to generate bills f
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by fatnoah 3y ago
We ended up going with the approach of bringing in dedicated Product Operations people who act as Product Owners for the Scrum Team and also interface w/other stakeholders. That's also worked pretty well once they got up to speed
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by fatnoah 3y ago
My current company has a lot of domain experts from a specific industry that became product managers. It's been a mixed bag of results. They're obviously very knowledgable about the market we serve, but completely naive to the p
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Don't forget the infuriating situation where infra designers/whomever decide "we can't put a sidewalk here", or governments allow construction to close a sidewalk for years on end. My favorite instance of this
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> what’s the upside of giving a FAANG your all vs resting and vesting?' Granted, the economy is very different than it was 5 years ago, but my very senior role at a startup paid about $185k w/no bonus, and 0.1% equity. 50+ hour
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by fatnoah 3y ago
This was my experience a couple years ago as well. I absolutely love San Francisco and it's my favorite US city outside of my own. I'm used to the general dirt and grime of cities (my child knows to be suspicious of wet ground,
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> The best when skilled people have enough time (!!) to think stuff through, mostly alone or small 2-3 ppl team I like to say that small meetings of 2-4 people are great for figuring out what to do, and larger meetings are great to have
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> ...but there's still not the required infrastructure to make this a viable option for everyday life outside of a few select metro areas... There's really no getting around this. Outside of many cities, the push for everythi
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> The new Apple Vision Pro arguably has a better set of cameras, sensors and signal processing than a Tesla I'm sure it does, but that's also because you need much greater degrees of precision and accuracy to anchor virtual con
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I literally can't pay attention to anything when subtitles are on. It's like I can only read or watch, but not both. My wife has a chronic perforated eardrum, so she almost exclusively uses subtitles since the volume she needs i
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by fatnoah 3y ago
AR is the ultimate end game, IMHO. While these intermediate devices are products, they are steps in building competency in solving the challenges of display, power, control, and heat so that a true, glasses-based AR solution can be deliver
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by fatnoah 3y ago
It definitely is. The capabilities of the headset, control via hands, and form factor are all big advances. The need for a battery in your pocket is a step backwards as standalone headsets don't require that, but it's the price
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I'm pretty sure these ads actually convinced people to vote FOR the bill. The almost comical fear-mongering simply proved that manufacturers really had no actual counter-argument.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> This is an important lesson - if someone is using your tool in unexpected ways don’t just shut them down; there’s likely a business case that could be identified and specialized in. One of the craziest cases of this I've seen was
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Great, now stalkers are going to be following me home to attack me. (That's basically the scenario that opposition ads were depicting)
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Golly gee, someone that realizes software engineering isn't entirely just sitting down and pumping out code? Why aren't you in management? (don't tell me... it's because you're honest with yourself) My ironic s

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