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by fatnoah 4y ago
Sorry, it's $145/day
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Coming off my own job search, my take is that the era of remote work has fundamentally changed the entire process. I'm going on 24 years of professional experience and applied to more jobs in that search than in the rest of my career
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Looking at the internet, it looks like Sweden supports 300 days of unemployment benefits that max out at 1200 SEK/day (about $115 US). In the US, one can receive up to 210 days of unemployment with a max benefit of $145/week. So
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'm in the 20+ years of experience bucket. It took me about 3 months to find a new job, and luckily my start date coincided with the end of my WARN act garden leave. Compensation at the new role is about 50% of my previous comp, but
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I've never thought anything related to chemistry was simple I was an EE/CS major and getting A's in the two chemistry courses I took in college is one of my proudest achievements because I had to work so hard for them.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Wow, this brings me back. My son is now in 9th grade, but I remember having to go to the principal's office of his private school in 4th grade because he'd "hacked the school tablets to install games on them" and, in do
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>We're nowhere near that level of despair yet. Agree. Early 2000's was a nonstop litany of entire companies going under because they didn't make any money. IMHO, a fair comparison would be to look at the same companies n
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> IMO they really messed up by tracking and using time spent on page per day (or something like this) as a metric FWIW, in my time at FB from 2019-2021, we were explicitly disallowed from using time on app as a success metric for the pro
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Before bed, I consciously think about the time I want to wake, and then will usually do so just before the desired time. Once in a while I'll wake a few minutes later. As someone who's been able to do this for almost 30 years at
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by fatnoah 4y ago
It was over 20 years ago in college when I learned I had this ability. I was overloading classes in support of a double major and had far more work than I could handle. I eventually realized I could wake myself on demand within 10 minutes
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I was born in the mid-70's, and my social media is fairly limited. I don't appreciate "short form" things, so Twitter and TikTok are more annoyances that I ignore. Facebook is for mostly passive consumption of my real
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I lived car-free in Boston for many years in the days before Uber and Lyft were a thing. I loved it. People always expected lack of a car to be constraining, but I actually found it liberating. Yes, I had to figure out transit, but not h
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> In London cab drivers have to spend up to four years learning the street network before they can get around without a map. Chicago or New York taxi drivers can achieve much the same thing in a day. This is such a patently false asserti
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Then get to work. One rule: you will ship at that deadline. I think the happiest moment of the past 12 months for me was starting a job as a VP Eng and asking the CEO what they wanted most from the Engineering process. It was basicall
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I don't know why people even consider going to a private university. Public universities are subsidized by the public. I think this is generally true, but for me it was actually cheaper to go to a private university due to scholar
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by fatnoah 4y ago
When I ran Engineering for a startup with 6 different software teams, I resorted to index cards + sticky notes on the exterior wall of my office. It was a great visual display of status that everyone, including those not in the tech org, c
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Yeah, I definitely meant the former. We (hopefully?) wouldn't even think of doing it.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
You had the Dreamcast, but did you have the fishing controller? I also had a Zune, though not the brown one. Yeah, my track record also isn't great, though I'll die on the hill that the Zune was an amazing product.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> If you want to see what you should never do as a software engineer if you like not being in jail, this is it. Not quite the same level, but in my early days working on a payment system, a request from the product team was to create a s
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Way back in the Napster days before streaming services were a thing, I'd ripped all of my CDs to MP3 and had a bunch of live stuff from P2P networks. I wanted to listen to this stuff at work, but technology of the time was either CD b
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I've been managing for a long time, and where I always seem to land are to ask stakeholders and the engineering team what a successful engineering org looks like to them, and I start from there. The almost universal answer from stakeh
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> “As a trader, the most fun thing is to make money,” she said on a podcast. There it is, right there. What was fun for her? Making money. All of the rules, regulations, societal norms, etc. are all just obstacles to overcome by igno
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Mine was a full-on Commodore 64 kit that I got for Christmas when I was in 3rd grade. Everything was used and purchased from someone unloading their gear. To this day, I have no idea how my parents were able to afford it since disposable
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by fatnoah 4y ago
The press release implies that the chosen price points are "approachable" for app store customers.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
It's been a "few" years since I played Dune I & II, but I can still remember the Dune soundtrack and much of its imagery with amazing clarity. They were amazing achievements for the time.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'll add that incentives can really help as well. Observable software is much more easily operated in production environments, and lets tech ops teams diagnose and fix things with much less involvement from Engineers, which will very
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Even the old "go to the venue box office" option of avoiding fees is no longer an option in many places. Here's what the website for my local big venue says: "Please note the TD Garden Box Office does not sell tickets at
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by fatnoah 4y ago
That's roughly how my previous company did things. A layoff in June, followed by an announcement in early August that a much larger layoff would happen in late September that would hit Engineering particularly hard (something like 40%
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Based on the article, it seems like the real issues is that, like many industries, railroads have ruthlessly sought efficiency, and it came at the expense of resiliency. The networks, schedules, and systems are so brittle, and staffing lev
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>This is identical to how employers share salary information. For me, the difference is that using the same software to set the price based on the non-public information effectively makes it a form of collusion on setting rents, which se

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