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by fatnoah 5y ago
>maybe a pop-up on the password change screen That requires people to actually read and process that information. My time doing customer support made me realize that a significant percentage of the population will click buttons to make
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I think a big difference between Zune and Apple's CSAM issue is that there were people (literally dozens of us!) who LOVED the Zune.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
My life as a web developer at that time revolved around navigating the differences between Netscape and IE, which were the two browsers my company's product supported at the time. It was a painful life.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
To be honest, I read the article and was expecting this to be about ditching Outlook or Gmail in favor of Elm.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> I want to work on interesting things, which may or may not be hard This was my first thought as well. I want to be able to do something that I find interesting or rewarding. Those things exist across the entire easy to hard spectrum.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
It really is. A past company made an application that was in the app store for a couple years. Three different customers paid us to white-label the app for them, so we ended up with three additional versions that were new app packages and
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I felt exactly the same thing. It was like a harkening back to a simpler time.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>leadership scales effort, management extracts value I love this take and have been saying something similar for a long time. A successful org needs both of these qualities to function well.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I went on a business trip to Japan in the early 2000's. On our second night, we had Shabu-Shabu, and didn't realize just how much it was doing to cost. It ended up being about $600 for four of us. In order to stay remotely in b
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> The TPM or Engineering Manager (the terms are mostly interchangeable) I'm not sure I agree with this assumption.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I lived in a city and had a roofdeck with full sun all day. Tomatos grew amazingly well up there, and the flavor of those ripe tomatoes was so amazing that we had them with nearly every meal. It also made buying tomatos from the grocery s
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by fatnoah 5y ago
My one and only truly TDD project went brilliantly, but there were specific circumstances. In this project, I created the back-end and API while an outsourced team built the UI. What made it work well was that I wrote the tests AND the sp
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I've been a back-end dev at one of those places. When the front-end is comprised of Android, iOS, Web, and even Windows Phone, a senior and productive back-end team can easily serve multiple front-end teams. In my case, a back-end tea
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>This is a Product led decision. I've never worked at Microsoft, but have worked at other large software companies. This is 100% a design decision. Engineers like buttons, shortcuts, neat tricks, test tools, secret options, lots o
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I had a couple teachers that allowed the cheat sheet, and it worked so well that I made them for every test, whether I could actually use them on the test or not. As you noted, it's such a great forcing function to identify and unders
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by fatnoah 5y ago
This was in Boston and for a full-time professional day care.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
It's telling that my first reaction to "~2k a month" in daycare expenses was that it seemed like a pretty good deal. My son's daycare 13 years ago was $2400/month. It's even more telling that there's such
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I saw this at a couple previous companies. Top executives didn't have private offices. They had desks in an open area, BUT they also had dedicated conference rooms.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
FWIW, based on https://www.fda.gov/patients/fast-track-breakthrough-therapy... , the "Accelerated Approval Program" appears to be designed for cases where the clinical benefit hasn't been proven, but the
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> I’m honestly perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH. WARNING: ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE I manage a team of 12 people at a FAANG. One team member just quit working entirely until offices o
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by fatnoah 5y ago
It wasn't just the '80s. Things persisted into the mid '90s as well. - Pirate FTP sites were in plain sight with folders named with unprintable ASCII characters - My college-provided Telnet client for Windows included
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Totally agree, but my anecdotal experience is that I've felt those things at all three startups and none of the six big companies I've been at. It exists in BigCo land, but I think it's a little harder to find.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>OP was wrong about Facebook having a hard time beating 1M per year. I know plenty of people at FAANG above that. It's competitive but not impossible. You are correct. In my 22+ year career, 17 of them were spent at startups, inclu
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Thanks!
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by fatnoah 5y ago
The site mentions "additional functionality" vs. Mapbox Native. Is that additional functionality listed somewhere? (Apologies if it is and I missed it)
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>Don't get caught up looking at players who walk around with 30 disc sets in their bag The only caveat here is that it's beneficial to have a few extra discs to replace those that you might lose along the way. I've "
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>Wind River has a lot of documentation around VxWorks, which is actually quite modern supporting Rust etc. Wow. I remember spending 3 weeks in Alameda CA to get trained and certified on VxWorks for a project...in 1999!
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> I can only imagine if a driver did that here in Seattle with 30+ people all trying to get somewhere. I live on the East Coast and had a transit reverse commute for many years. I frequently rode an express bus in the evening on its las
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> ...and players optimizing for homeruns I feel like basketball has a similar issue with optimization for shooting 3 pointers vs. 2 pointers. It makes for a far less exciting game, IMHO.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
The Bumble issues feels so much worse, IMHO. All of the "hacks" clearly demonstrate that little of the security, limits, etc. are enforced by the server.

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