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by fatnoah 4y ago
I agree with this 100%. When I lived in the city with my family, I'd a) run into random friends frequently and b) getting together was trivial since a large number of people lived within walking distance.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'll add the specific case of the Commodore 1541 disk drive. The sound clacking and banging of that thing loading data is seared into my memory. Brrrrr-brrrrrr-dat-dat-dat-dat-dat.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I know a huge part of it is the numbers gain. Since those were all remote roles, they probably had > 200 applicants each. I did develop an appreciation for the companies that at least replied at some point to say they weren't inte
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by fatnoah 4y ago
It was pretty much 99% LinkedIn, but with the huge caveat that the job I accepted was one I found on Indeed. That said, I gave up on Indeed pretty quickly because it mostly showed irrelevant jobs (not software engineering, far too junior,
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by fatnoah 4y ago
It's not programming per se, but what really made things "click" for me as a software engineer was to really be diligent about making sure I was very clear on the problem I was trying to solve, and making sure that I focused
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Billing really is complicated, but the people who set the policies don't understand that. The very first startup I joined in the late '90s tackled this problem. The company tackled billing and all of its complexities by buil
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I was laid off as part of a layoff large enough to trigger the WARN act, so I was put on garden leave for 60 days.. I was fortunate to find a new job and start it exactly as the garden leave expired. It was my first job search in the post-
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I worked at Facebook when covid first hit Same here. I've been doing this since before the year 2000, and can't imagine any other company I've worked for treating employees this well. In this current cycle, I was laid
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I used to play basketball, and I remember having similar "zone" experiences. It was like a combination of time slowing down, and me knowing with absolute certainty what move I was going to make and that whatever shot I would take
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Unions aren't just about money. They're also about rules governing what work can be done and when. Sometimes this leads to absurd situations, but it also prevents someone hired and paid for one job from being forced to work unfa
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by fatnoah 4y ago
It is a totally different world. Once you have a certain amount of money, it almost becomes impossible not to make more. One situation I'm thinking of is that I'm in the multi-year process to do a renovation on a house. An acqu
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Oh, and you forgot to mention a trolling move that I saw a lot (and fell victim to once), which is to leave a trapped chest just off a busy road. When a player opens the chest, boom they're dead!
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Building your first house was a big achievement in the early days, as money took real time and effort to accumulate; much later, the challenge was finding an empty plot rather than affording a house. I was a day 1 player and got to wit
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by fatnoah 4y ago
This year has been a rough one for layoffs. In my now former company, one thing that helped keep survivors feeling better about the company was that it treated laid-off employees reasonably well, including accelerated vesting. It'll
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> This is not a dig on volleyball I see what you did there!
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by fatnoah 4y ago
In a past life, I led the migration from datacenter-hosted infra to AWS, and the net result was that we were able to actually increase the size of our infra to support full geo-redundancy, but pay ~40% less to do so. Our app usage had a mas
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by fatnoah 4y ago
There's some fingerprinting and a background check as well. I'm not sure why that negates the need for some of the checks, but that's how it is.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
It's an interesting premise. I built something similar at a company over 10 years ago. It was a side feature of our messaging platform and focused on existing contacts, though. It never really took off, so we eventually removed the
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Does that really prevent the memory leaks or just minimize the symptoms?
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I headed Engineering for a company that built a messaging application. A company acquired us and wanted to integrate our back end with their front end. This was a HUGE deal prior to acquisition and become Priority #1 after. We needed to h
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I've since moved on from that company (in fact, I moved shortly after that event) but it has been gratifying to see that my former boss has not been promoted in the 6 years since, but that most of her peers have been promoted multiple
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Short answer: no, I didn't. I essentially tripled down by having a followup meeting w/just, the CTO, and chief engineer of the company FOLLOWED BY a later 1:1 with the company's President of Engineering when I'd travele
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Admitting you don't know is one path around this but, in practice, too many make you look unknowledgable and may mean that future important questions will be aimed at your seniors or superiors. I think it's also a different
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by fatnoah 4y ago
In my career, I've had the pleasure of being an employee that is presenting to executives of large and small tech companies. The advice given feels good to me, especially the "mistakes to avoid" section. Off the top of my he
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My wife has an iPhone and no other Apple devices. When that phone got bricked and she couldn't remember her iCloud password, she was completely out of luck. Available recovery mechanisms were SMS or having another Apple device. Calls
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>Successful architects in agile organisations no longer see their role as exclusively making architectural decisions. They see their role as ensuring good architectural decisions get made. Mostly by team members, sometimes with support f
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> ISO-8601 for thew win. Accept no substitutes. Preach on!
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> as someone who is becoming an elder, I can't help but feel a touch of Schadenfreude when I see youngsters run face-first into stuff that I've predicted will happen I've learned some tact in my old age and no longer laugh
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by fatnoah 4y ago
That's fascinating. I spent a few days in Singapore on business in early 2002, and while my impression wasn't quite so bleaks as described in the article, my main impression was that parts of it were very much like something out
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My ideal "day off" is basically aimlessly wandering around my city. During the walk, my brain just goes on its own adventure. After a full day of that, I'm always amazingly relaxed.

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