hehsjsbb

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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Some large unions have been corrupted, but that doesn't mean conceptually unions are bad. This is a great example, where UPS deliberately sought out a bad union for its employees to stifle more progressive organizing: https:/&#x2
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Ideally it would round-robin across the team or have a dedicated team with more than one person. Having only one person know a particular part of the codebase is bad for bus factor and reduces the ability of the team to review code.
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
I've been kind of deliberately vague, but after a couple months it isn't like I'm an expert on the area of the codebase now and other people come to me for advice. Other team members actively dodge working on this silo and ev
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Thanks! This whole discussion has definitely made me focus on #1 and helped with my imposter syndrome. I think #2 is probably too 3D chess for an org this small and flat. It really seems like this is just the culture and maybe it works for
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
I said this in another thread but I've been in the industry for 10 years. I don't expect to come in and rearchitect things on day 1, but I expect the tasks to be meaningful. The stuff I'm working on isn't an on-ramp to b
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
It's mostly code quality / style / archtectural objections. Some of which are understandable since I'm new to the codebase and it's a prototype to show the feature, but taken together all the feedback basically rewr
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Ironically I'm a "implementation is 9/10ths of the law" believer, the proposals were PRs and working demos. Despite being a small start-up the team is not really into iterative development so much as lots of up-front pl
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
For some more background, I've been working in the industry for 10 years. In the past imposter syndrome was a barrier but there was interesting work and I got regular feedback from my team that made me feel included. It's only rec
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Thanks for the kind advice :) My worry is that jumping immediately to a new job might just restart the cycle, especially during COVID when I can't interact with the team in person. I am working with a psychologist but I might try and f
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Ask HN: Overcoming Burnout / Imposter Syndrome
23 points by hehsjsbb 6y ago|31 comments
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
I think a more accurate analogy is "there's a wildfire and firefighters asked you to conserve water so they can fight it, but some people decided to run their taps 24/7 out of spite and now there's rationing"
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Why would you wear a mask solely because of politics? It's a good thing to do that has no downsides and it might help other people. It might even help you. Worst case it was a little inconvenience.
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
I don't want to be the economist who doesn't pick up the $20 bill but the entire real estate market is based on trying to identify dislocations in price. Plus even if you write a python script that finds underpriced houses on ave
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Politics isn't just about promotion. It's about what kind of work people get to do, whose opinion is respected, etc. I don't care about getting promoted in my current role (at a small start-up where the eng org is flat), but
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Beats One was supposed to be a differentiator for Beats before it was acquired (I worked on it). The point was that it would be unique content you couldn't get from a commodity streaming service, and the hosts would bring an existing f
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
Personally eating in restaurants seems like the worst possible scenario, I don't understand it.
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by hehsjsbb 6y ago
If I understand the timeline: - July 2019 - start first full time job - early 2020 - 6 months unpaid leave - June 2020 - quit job to start company - August 2020 - blog post about how to quit your job So someone with less than a year of full