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by greatpostman 5y ago
I just threatened to walk out at my current FAANG job. Crippling tech debt and unreasonable deadlines. Three levels of management apologized. Any other job market? They would probably be looking for a way to push me out. Very strong signal
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by greatpostman 5y ago
I wasn’t aware non citizens have a right to move here and start demanding changes in laws
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Say what you want about this, the end result will always be a political tipping towards whichever party favors immigration. A voting law like this done nationally can permanently change American politics
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Herman Miller chair 32 inch 1000$ monitor (not all 4K is made equal), cheaper 24 inch older dell side monitor Large desk Mac m1 HHKB keyboard, Logitech coardless basic mouse
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Other side of this, the last few years I made an absurd amount of money. It put huge strain on friends who weren’t so career focused, such that some of those long time friendships ended. I’m not sure whose fault it was, maybe my own for fla
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Yeah their entity resolution algorithms are really annoying. Half my searches come up with some random movie on IMDb
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by greatpostman 5y ago
I made this comment recently. Common complsints/existential concerns/societal level criticisms are showing up in forums all over the internet. It’s definitely not just HN
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Nothing wrong with making a mockery of an already flawed medical system. These “mental illnesses” fit wide ranging bands, and damage people by treating them with medication when waiting a year would see a cessation of the issue without the
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Oh please
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by greatpostman 5y ago
A lot of senior AWS employees have left. What the root causes of these outages are is a well guarded secret. I work at Amazon and no one I know knows anything in detail about what went down and why
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Right but I used to feel the same way. After years of programming, raw api spec and documentation started making sense. And I found that the answers I needed were more often than not in there
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Yup! For some reason I can more easily understand raw documentation and API spec. When I first started it felt more like gibberish
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Some of this is a senior engineer justifying his own job. One time I copied code almost verbatim from another highly regarded team. Senior engineer ripped it, claiming it wasn’t at standard for the company. Then I told him it was from team
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by greatpostman 5y ago
Wow this captures a lot of my current dilemma.