fatnoah

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by fatnoah 5y ago
>I figured, when my kids were a certain age, that if I took that route, they'd ALWAYS get around whatever control I put in front of them My son is 14, and when my wife proposed blocks and access control, I made this very point. Eve
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I've never had to deal with a production-breaking issue resulting from this, but I have had to debug a collation-related issue in SQL Server that caused table scans to occur. Fortunately, the SQL profiler made it really obvious that a
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I had a healthy and stable home life, but also parents who pretty much left me to my own devices when it came to school work. In elementary school, I mostly did my homework and never, ever studied for a test. In high school, I did about 50
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>I can bike or walk everywhere, and the only reason I have a car is that it makes grocery shopping much, much easier I've lived in the center of an older US city, and one thing I loved was how easy grocery shopping was. I went to th
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by fatnoah 5y ago
My son had zero interest in command lines or programming until he got into Minecraft and Roblox. For the former, best mods are available for Java edition. Through that desire, he at least learned command prompt, basic directory navigation
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> But it works great for us. We have explicitly discussed it before and that’s how we want it, at least for now. This is the real key, IMHO. As a manager, I push the team to figure out what works best for them. I've seen daily sta
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I grew up in a northern latitude on the east coast and played golf as a fall sport. Without DST, the season would have to end much earlier since it would get dark too early to actually play a round after school.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>There's an explicit opt-in request presented to the user to allow App Store collect data for targeted ads. AFAIK, targeted advertising is different than tracking ad to install information, and since it's all Apple there's
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Let's not forget that it also gives Apple's own App Store advertising a significant advantage, since they still have the ability to correlate ads with app installs. For Apple it's a win-win. Public gets more privacy and Apple
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> "I'm going to ask stupid questions now." and "Just so I'm understanding the problem, <here's my interpretation of what you just said>." were two phrases she used all the time. This is my approac
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I only share this information anonymously via Blind or similar sites so that others can benefit from salary/job/location information as I have, but I never talk about it with people I know. As others have noted, the potential dow
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by fatnoah 5y ago
This is a very complicated thing to try to unwind, but the expectation of an increase in scores seems to rely on faith in the exam itself, and that changes in how school is taught would necessarily lead to improvement in scores. Obviously t
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>They'll just go to Google and type in their search followed by terms such as Wikipedia, imdb, Stackoverflow, YouTube, Bandcamp, Amazon, eBay, Yelp... all sites that spent a lot of time on their search and have done quite a decent j
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Going on 22 years or so, but the best move was going to a small, bootstrapped startup. I was Engineer #2, and after a couple years, also was the lead for the "org" which included a few other Engineers and a couple offshore people.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
By showing 1/365 more ads every day for the next year?
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I've returned to the office for the two days per week that have the fewest meetings, and it feels like the right balance. There's still an opportunity for whiteboard time, getting up early 2 days in a week feels more like adventu
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Interstate 76 was such a great game. One of the discs was an honest-to-goodness funk CD that I'd listen to all the time. I still have it somewhere.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
When I ran Engineering for a startup, this is roughly how we did things as well. If a disagreement around pointing a story happened, we resolved it within seconds and usually just went with the larger size. It didn't really matter so
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Types of driving that also don't involve dealing with other peoples' children.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Yes, I sell everything on vest and save/invest the money instead.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I spent the better part of 17 years at startups, with grants ranging from 0.2% all the way to 1% (VP Eng in a Series C+). The latter exited, but options were worth $0 due to liquidation preferences. I did get a cash bonus equal to about 2
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I fully expect that as we tax investment income more and more, we'll see this trend in real estate worsening as it becomes an even more attractive investment vehicle.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure what "risk" this person is taking. They can afford to move around the country while not working, plus they already have an offer from Facebook (which would likely be > $100k) for employment.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I had the Epyx one, but I never realized there were others.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
There are still expectations on the amount or level of work to be done. If you're meeting those and not blocking others, there's no reason one couldn't take more time off. It's certainly a tricky thing to sort out, thou
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Having gone from limited PTO to unlimited really helped me realize that I'm a hoarder. When PTO is limited, I rarely take it, but when I had unlimited I was much more liberal about actually using it. I went from average 1-2 weeks per
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> but you get a chance to really break down the domain of a company and work with someone on how to solve bigger picture problems. I did a very brief stint doing work that was similar to consulting, and I think this is the biggest net ga
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by fatnoah 5y ago
The entire story lost credibility when it noted that nearly every leader drooled and had crumbs on their shirt.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>It's easier to force younger coders into a slave-like work environment, complete with beer on tap, foosball tables, and other amenities to get them to live at the office to constantly work on the product(s) For me as a young coder,
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Family members that just blast through dialogs and warnings when I'm trying to help them with issues is a never ending source of frustration, since those dialogs usually clearly indicate the cause of the problem.

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