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by fatnoah 2y ago
> To this day however, I still get very car sick trying to read my phone in a moving motor vehicle, so I don't know. I find this fascinating. Reading in cars, riding in boats in heavy waves, and anything like that does not give me
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> The point of the Jones Act—or at least that one particular section that a lot of folks tend to talk about—is to have US citizens and US ships available in case of war. But given US prices relative to the prices for other countries, it
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Wow, payoff after 15 years. Congratulations!
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I worked for a large company that committed to a >$400M spend with AWS. Even though I owned a very tiny piece of that pie, I could get my account manager and a technical resource on the phone at pretty much any time.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> I've always been dismayed at the misdirected fury around corn syrup as if it is somehow worse than any other sugar. My main issue with corn syrup is that it just feels different in my mouth. It has a "stickiness" to it
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Some time not far in the future, we are going to accept that this is not the same thing at all as computer science and give the computer scientists a curriculum that is a lot heavier on math and theory while adding elective or core cou
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by fatnoah 2y ago
You would be correct, though I guess it's now the M in FAANG.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Is grinding code at a FAANG really that different? It probably depends on where you're coming from. I was an Engineering manager at a FAANG, and roughly 80% of my 1:1's with my team revolved around their performance, or lack
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> That these two people see this as a work of art, instead of a practical thing that humans need to interface with As a Boston resident that has had to conduct business at City Hall many times, I couldn't agree with this more. The
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Speaking as a resident of Boston and the neighborhoods near city hall, that plaza is such a contrast from the rest of the area. Everywhere around it has shops, alleys, and interesting things to see, whereas that plaza was an endless sea of
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by fatnoah 2y ago
According to the West End Museum site, the project created more housing units, but also led to a population decrease, most likely due to the decrease in the number of people living in each unit. This document is a fascinating read: https:&
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Probably even more years ago at Uni, my senior project group built an automated analysis system for a large (literally large,club to stadium sized) speaker company. It was a very cool project that spanned multiple disciplines as we built a
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Where AI really really shine is to help an engineer get proficient in a language they don't know well. I used GitHub Copilot in a project I started mostly to learn Go. It was amazing. I spent not so much time fiddling around wit
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Healthy orgs must have slack in the system and allow teams and individuals to do a little chasing of fun or meaningful things that give them intrinsic pride and motivation. As an Engineering leader, I try my hardest to make sure this S
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Am I the only one that thought of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Query_Language
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I definitely have a "favorite" but that's because it was my first user-facing race condition error in a picture messaging app where part of the resolution was an official letter to someone's spouse to explain that they i
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Hated myQ even before it went subscription. My openers have myQ and it worked so terribly I gave up on using it. The opening/closing worked intermittently, and the monitoring of open status only worked once, and never again. It wa
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by fatnoah 2y ago
My previous job search in 2019 yielded 2 FAANG offers, 1 exec role at a $2B public company, and an "almost" from another Seattle-based big tech company. This September, I finished up a 10 month job search (had a job that was going
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Fellow man pushing 50 here. I'm caring for my mom who has COPD and is starting to show signs of dementia. She lives a couple hours away and I just started a job that's 3-4 hours in the opposite direction, so I'm balancing a
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by fatnoah 2y ago
A recent experience I had came while walking in a forest with friends about an hour from Seattle. While walking, we heard an animal sound of some kind that cause an immediate "hairs on the back of my neck standing" up reaction al
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Fortunately, I did learn early on that stressing about sleep, especially as I lie awake in bed, was making things worse.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Great, another source of anxiety to make it harder to maintain a consistent sleep schedule.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Personio | Engineering | Full-Time | NYC (hybrid 2-3 days) We're one of Europe's largest Unicorns that provides an all-in-one solution for HR, and we've recently expanded our tech presence to the US, with an office convenient
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> "Who will take care of you when you're old?" Well, myself, presumably. I'm sure nearly every person who ended up needed their kids to take care of them probably felt the same way right up until they needed help. Reg
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by fatnoah 2y ago
In 2007, I did a loop of Boston -> Chicago -> Sacramento -> LA -> San Antonio -> Chicago -> Boston, and the total cost for an all-sleeper trip was < $2000. It was a great experience and one that I'd totally do aga
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I love this. As a formerly car-free resident of Boston, I cobbled together something far cruder to handle the cases of there being many ways for me to get from point A to point B, but the "best" way depended on time and any stops
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> I and many friends have experienced Aetna routinely denying things that are explicitly covered by their plans and My dad passed away from cancer over 20 years ago, and this was Aetna's plan even then. Each claim followed the exac
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Cut your commute. Sacrifice space to relocate around work I've actually done this. It was a massive financial stretch, but probably the best thing I've ever done for my own and my family's wellbeing...and it's not
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Fully agree. Over 20 years ago, I did the same job as the Patent Engineer (I had a slightly different title, but same role) at a big law firm. Half of the patents I filed were BS software patents for a name brand tech company, and the othe
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> It's a game changer. I asked the one neighbor, who'd said previously "the only snowblower I'd buy is a Honda" [1] My brother in law's family business is small engine sales and maintenance. This is his pos

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