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by fatnoah 5y ago
I've been a part of two large companies that have made a conscious move away from hiring in the Bay Area. For both of these companies, the major drivers were that the market is so saturated there that it's harder to find people t
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by fatnoah 5y ago
In the past, I used the SQL project feature of Visual Studio to great success to manage the DB. Everything except data up/down migrations was well supported, and it enabled us to keep our SQL in source control. I never even knew there
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by fatnoah 5y ago
That makes sense. Having an "in" definitely helps at all stages, but I can see how it be even more essential when you're more junior.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I think mileage may vary depending on location, role, and YOE. I didn't go to a top/famous school, but I do have 20+ years of experience, including Principal level IC and several years of management experience as tech lead manage
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I had a similar schedule when I was 25-26 and finishing my masters part time. I'd done the first half as a full time student, but needed to get a job and make money. - Out of bed at 7:30am, at work at 9am. - Leave work at 4:30pm or so
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>How can grandparents or relatives visit for a weekend? Speaking as someone who moved the family to the city and had a fair number of (free) on and (paid) off street parking options nearby, for about 50% of the people we knew, it was lik
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Obviously my experience is my own, but in many cases it was the ticket system that changed vs. the version control system, which is why history wasn't always there. A lot of my early experience was at startups and I think I saw a versi
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> But just in terms of "what would I rather have", a link to the ticket every time In practice over the past 20+ years, I've had to rely on commit messages far more than tickets, but a well-written ticket is defnitely awes
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by fatnoah 5y ago
All good points. In my mind, a market lets me make informed choices and choose from multiple options for something that meets my needs. As you noted, the only real choice is whatever your employer offers, or something more fantastically ex
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>If I have built an auto-forward between two endpoints that I control (or at least have permission or authority over) I am not a bad actor in any capacity. I agree, though there are a few reasons why Twilio is sensitive to this. I have a
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by fatnoah 5y ago
"If so, that sounds like you're SENDING the spam messages in addition to receiving them." I should have clarified that this is from Twilio's perspective. They don't know that the recipients actually want to receive
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> Temporarily, I will re-program the system so that it does not forward text message content to my employees phone numbers. I might be reading this wrong, but it sounds like you take inbound text messages to one number and then send outb
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I was having trouble visualizing what OP meant, and this is a great explanation!
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by fatnoah 5y ago
In a past life, I spent a lot of time aligning and instrumenting log levels across a SaaS product. We used similar levels. DEBUG - Only useful for developers and QA looking to understand exactly what happened and why on a per-request basis
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by fatnoah 5y ago
The author's premise seems to boil down to 1) don't have errors and 2) "simply" make sure that your APM system has sufficient context to identify what went wrong. Of course, both of those are pretty impossible and they
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by fatnoah 5y ago
This is exactly how I felt as well. The most surprising part of that article was that many people think it was originally envisioned as a trilogy. To me, it feels exactly like one movie that was extraordinarily successful, so they grafted
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> The only way I have ever seen scrum manifest is as a daily meeting where everyone on the team reports their incremental daily progress to the manager. This is why, as a manager, I don't attend daily stand-ups. The meetings aren&#
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I agree that this is a pretty well-written post. A couple key points that could be further emphasized are that: 1) Recruiters often have quotas too - In many cases, their own performance is measured by hitting hiring targets, so they'r
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by fatnoah 5y ago
As others have noted, one has to get either ME, NH, or VT on board to get power to southern New England. https://www.nhpr.org/northern-pass
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by fatnoah 5y ago
In 1997 or so, I was an intern in the remote connectivity group at Sun. My job was primarily to help maintain connectivity for the people at home rocking their 128k dual-channel ISDN lines. I helped maintain local modem banks and remotely
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by fatnoah 5y ago
As I discovered many years ago when our infra was only in US-EAST1, failures were also easier to explain since many, many other companies would be offline as well. It made it more of an "Internet problem" than our own company&#x2
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I'll second this. LinkedIn relies on search, and your profile has very little information. I'm hitting 23 years in the industry, with the first 17 of those in small startups, and 2010 was the last time I made the first reach out
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by fatnoah 5y ago
My last startup migrated from Verizon Terremark after the healthcare.gov fiasco several years ago. We also suffered from that massive outage and that was the final straw in migrating to AWS. At AWS, we built a few layers of redundant infra
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Definitely still the case. There are so many teams looking for people, anyone with a pulse gets spammed.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I've been a "Principal Engineer" at a large software company and I feel like I embodied each of those archetypes at various points. At various points I was neck deep in critical code, doing the dog and pony show at the execut
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I also used Geos as a kid. I played with geoPaint a lot, used geoPublish to make newspapers with my friend, and used geoWrite to do reports and papers for school. It was amazing what could be done in that environment.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
It's not a strict two weeks, and the process is much more about being pursued than finding a team. For example, a typical bootcamper in NYC will hear from 40+ teams.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Everything is automated at this point. I'm a one of the big tech companies and a recently received a message from a recruiter that my [completely unrelate to product] experience at [current company] made me a great candidate to build
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by fatnoah 5y ago
It also allows a convenient way to publicly disclose inventions so that others can't then patent them and block you.
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I'm confident he already has those skills. When he was in fourth grade, my wife and I were called into a meeting with the (private) school Principal because my son had "hacked all of the tablets used for class so kids could play

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