fatnoah

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by fatnoah 8y ago
>Then I got moved to the SF office. My commute turned into a 20m bike or subway. I did the Boston version of this. My wife and I lived downtown and moved to a suburb when our son was 7 months old. My one-way commute went from a 15 minu
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by fatnoah 8y ago
I had it for C64 and it took me quite a while to finally get to the princess. I think I cried a little when she killed me.
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by fatnoah 8y ago
My parents got me a used C64 with almost literally everything (monitor, printer, light pen, speech synth, fast load, disk drive, tape drive) and close to 100 games and apps for my 8th birthday in 1983. Knowing what they made and how much t
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by fatnoah 8y ago
>As a manager, I've shut down far, far more innocuous things than described in the article. And now that I'm old and cranky, I'll call out those above me just as easily. Same here. Anything approaching the level of stuff
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by fatnoah 8y ago
I have a 10 year old who attended private school. I'm not sure if they used Common Core or not, but they definitely used an approach designed to instill an understanding of concepts vs. the rote arithmetic drilling I did as a kid. I w
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by fatnoah 8y ago
It's funny, when I saw the title I immediately thought "Hell yeah, whiteboard interviews are absolutely necessary". As I read the article, I realized it meant actually making people code on whiteboards, which is absurd. I&#x
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by fatnoah 8y ago
In a move that was later admitted to be a mistake, I was moved into an IC role from one where I managed several high performing teams. This came after a successful acquisition. I was bored, not challenged, and completely disheartened to wa
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by fatnoah 8y ago
>so I feel even -more- pressure to give my child everything she needs and wants because I don’t want her to feel as alone and unwanted as I did This is a tough one because I think how we parent is super-strongly influenced by our experie
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by fatnoah 8y ago
My wife calls her parents every day for a few minutes. I talk to my mom once every couple weeks or an hour or two. Two sides of the same coin.
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by fatnoah 8y ago
>Quite the contrary, a nanny will not just keep them nourished and on schedule, but also provide emotional comfort and educational activities. When my son was younger, we had a part-time nanny (about 15 hours/week) who was simply wo
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by fatnoah 8y ago
>Really kids just want someone to love them and teach them how to be a person. This is basically my philosophy. My wife and I have an acknowledged goal of releasing a fully functional human into the wild in about 8 more years. That mea
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by fatnoah 8y ago
>A child is learning from EVERYTHING. Is it truly reasonable to expect that teachers aren't "parenting"? This is precisely why, as a non-religious parent, I actually appreciated attending a Catholic school and sent my son
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by fatnoah 8y ago
As the parent of a smart 10 year old with ADHD, homework has actually been invaluable. We use the larger assignments to help him learn to manage his time and attention level. For example, we take a 5 minute scooter break after 20 minutes
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by fatnoah 8y ago
"This is a great point that kids don't want AstroTurf and climbing walls -- ultimately they just want to play." My son's school goes daily to an amazing playground with a 20ft high climbing structure, swings, rock wall,
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by fatnoah 8y ago
"Neighborhoods used to be packed with kids running around all the time." Exactly how my childhood was, too. "Be back by dinner, call if you'll be late" were my instructions as a kid. My wife and I are about to buy
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by fatnoah 9y ago
I'm moving into year twenty of my career. I've done fairly long tenures at startups, culminating in a VP of Engineering role and subsequent acquisition by a Fortune 500 company. I'm now in the "big company" phase w
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by fatnoah 9y ago
I think some of this is just compression over time. I'm at exactly 20 years experience, and I currently make 500% what I made in my first year. That's more of a statement about salaries in 1997 than salaries now, though. I thin