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by fatnoah 3y ago
I'm trying to figure out the 24/7 on-call requirement for goat herding. Are there really that many SEV0 goat deployments?
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by fatnoah 3y ago
The catch there was that it was our stated goal, but the person leaving that review wouldn't have known about the imminent acquisition, which is what made it all the more ironic.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I treat Glassdoor reviews like Amazon reviews. This is my approach as well. Probably my favorite moment was reading a review for my own company. It was very recent and mentioned that "management had stupid delusions of being acq
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by fatnoah 3y ago
The specific role I had was on the Patent Prosecution side vs. the Patent Litigation side. The litigators were more "normal" attorneys, and while we did some small level of advisement, for any real litigation they'd always h
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Patent Agent is related, but is a subset of the role. Only one of the patent technology specialists at my firm was a patent agent when they joined. While, it was expected that we'd eventually sit for the patent bar, but it wasn'
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by fatnoah 3y ago
For this particular role, it was "Patent Technology Specialist" or "Technology Specialist". For example: https://foleyhoag.com/careers/technology-specialists/ (note, this is the firm where I di
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Academia places unrealistic goals on brilliant people and pays them so meagerly that they have to often find other sources of income Early in my career, I considered (with an MS in Electrical Engineering, but with 4 years of profession
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Wtf kind of company is Xfinity running? What made it even worse was that when internet was down, I thought I'd just watch TV, which I also had through Xfinity. Nope, even though I could see and hear the channel, the STB requires
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Is this really a reliable indicator of a problem? Apparently it was a problem (according to a tech I spoke with over chat) because having a single connection meant that any interruption in that single channel meant the entire connectio
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> People talk about willpower but they ignore social influences like children learning habits from their parents or simply being forced by their parents to become obese As a very young child, my family was probably on the upper end of po
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> And a related PSA: never use "login with Google" or the like. You're exposing yourself to a severe cascade risk for the sake of saving a a little time. > And your email should be on your own domain. Underrated comment
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Last summer I had consistent "micro drops" in my upstream cable connection with a frequency of a couple times per hour up to dozens of times. The peaks were generally weekday afternoons. The symptom was the same each time, which
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I lived on the 36th floor of a residential in a mixed-use area. Traffic noise was a low background sound, but the HVAC and mechanical systems of nearby office buildings were astonishingly loud.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I'm in exec role at a 100-200 person east coast startup with significant YOE (both as IC and as an exec). My own comp, including bonus, is close to $300k. Most of our SWE roles are in the range of $165-200k salary & bonus, plus e
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Are poor people that desperate that they consider getting shot for groceries? The liability and reputational cost of a store security guard injuring a shoplifter, or even getting injured themselves is so high that they might not even
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Do people who loves JIRA exist for real? I wouldn't say that I love JIRA, but every time I work at a company that doesn't use it, the alternative in place always feels much worse.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> There is almost no chance for spontaneous interactions with strangers." My family lived in a suburb of an east coast US town. The "town" was about 30k residents in just under 5 square miles. It had a well-developed dow
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by fatnoah 3y ago
My humble opinion is that it's about the AR endgame, and building out the technical capability to get there (via VR mixed reality, wearable devices, etc) AND owning the platform.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Everyone has their own path and experience, so YMMV here. 1. Agree. I'm biased because I've gone from startups -> big techs -> startup. A massive number of friends at big tech have been laid off, but at my startup we'
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I am immediately questioning this depiction that public defenders and prosecutors are on even footing. I've always assumed, rightly or wrongly, that "the state" has an overwhelming advantage in terms of resources and man
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Having been in a position to take fast food orders from people, there are a whole lot of interactions beyond just ordering food. People ask a surprising number of questions about the menu, food content, and other things.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Same here. It's not a word I'd generally use when posting something here. I assume it's in a reply or something.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I had the same reaction. It seemed really weird to get upset about such an old thing.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I was in a job search from late August through early November last year. I've been around a while as a manager, including inside a FAANG, so I have lots of recruiting contacts inside those companies. I estimate that at least 75% of my
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Hah, there's more than one of us! Copying from magazines and Goretek and the Microchips are how I started.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Worth noting from the article: > The verdict required American Seafoods and its subsidiaries to find a new way to ship seafood into the United States, bringing the Bayside Canadian Railway's usefulness to an end. It looks like the &
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I posted in one of those threads, but I'm a parent that had to meet the school principal because my 4th grader "broke the school tablets to install games on them" when the actual "issue" was that he'd figured o
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> It's important to understand that App Review is not consistently nitpicky but rather randomly nitpicky. This has been my experience as well. A long time ago, my company had an iOS communications app that we'd occasionally wh
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Wow, this brings me back to the crazy days of college in the fall of 1994. My roommates and I ran a mish-mosh of OSs, including Windows (3.11), OS/2, and Linux (Slackware distro). The last was certainly the biggest challenge, but onc
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Fully agree. After getting to second and third level management at startups and larger companies, I chased the $$$ to a first-level management role at a FAANG. The pay was multiple of what I ever dreamed of making, but expectations were s

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