hiAndrewQuinn

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   by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

   I misread "before his suicide" as "after" and thought I just casually came across one of the most quietly horrifying sentences put to paper
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   by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

   I've briefly met a couple of the guys who work at Vanta and they seemed smart and variable. Ymmv, of course.
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   by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

   I have a wild guess that the entire Anglosphere experiences these kinds of housing inflation issues due to a kind of slow moving collective action problem w/r/t which languages to learn to get the big wages. Housing prices in non-
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   by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

   This strategy is rare ex ante because it's irrational for most young people to follow. Explore/exploit advises us to start out with a vast swath of interests, and then to home in ever deeper on whatever seems to provide the most
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   by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

   Python was the first language I learned, way back in 2010. Between 2010 and now, among "backend" languages I've picked up and played around with there's been Java, C, C++, Haskell, Scheme, Racket, Prolog, Forth, Go, C#,
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   by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

   Unicorns aren't who benefit from such a structure. The marginal quality hire is - the person who would be good enough if they were offered the job, but who, for one reason or another, are deemed too risky to hire at current market pric
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   by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

   It's less about savings and more about incentivizing the hiring of juniors in the first place. Many early career engineers find it much more difficult to get that first job than the second one, because they are seen as a risk. If howev
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   by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

   >The primary cost of hitting is the long onboarding process regardless of level. Sure, but you would imagine the Nth week of onboarding to be more important to improving an engineer's productivity on average than the N+1th week. It
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    This isn't paying poorly for the long term. Firms would be willing to try out riskier hires on the margin, because there's less downside if someone turns out to be a bad fit and gets let go after a couple of weeks. Percieved risk
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    I've always wondered why companies don't take a kind of staircase approach to compensation with younger engineers. E.g., if the salary is $1000/week with a 4 week staircase, then week 1 would be $250, week 2 would be $500, we
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Yeah. I love the default starship and install it on every shell I use, currently PowerShell + fish + bash. It shows me all kinds of useful info like which k8s cluster I'm logged into, which AWS/Azure/GCP account, whether the
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    So glad I know this language
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Yeah, alright. As the former "PowerShell guy" for an office of 200+ people when I still preferred WSL and bash, I can definitely accept this answer.
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Is there a reason websites put that $ in front of commands you are fully expected to mindlessly copy and paste? I've seen it happen more and more and it simply baffles me.
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    A tiny town in Pirkanmaa; previous to that, an even tinier town in Pohjois-Pohjanmaa. God bless tiny towns and remote work.
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Hey, I live there! Emigrated from the good old US of A two years ago. I want to point out one upstream reason why this is possible which isn't really talked about enough: On the margin, Finland has been better at providing actual numbe
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Datasette is fantastic. While working my last job I jury-rigged a way to publish Datasette internally to our Azure cloud so I could quickly share the results of other complicated SQL queries we were running. Glad to see Simon has got the do
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    Thoughts on [Turning] 29(andrew-quinn.me)

    13 points by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago|12 comments
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Man, the FOMO. I had a friend who worked at Mercury and if I had met her just a few years later I'd probably be working as a Haskell dev there now. I had to chomp my way through _HPFFP_ first, though.
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    I do, and that's actually incorrect in a strict sense, but it's correct-enough for the average person to follow to Vanguard et al and have a generous nest egg without a lot of risk attached. Your intuition however is correct in th
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    I have a morbid fondness for the fella, because he reminds me of how I sounded a few years back when I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out where all this stuff was going to go, while also being too drunk and too lonely to get any s
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    fzf! I even wrote a whole tutorial on it :) https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/ Excitement for me is measured on a scale of how fast I go from "wtf is this" to "omg think of the possibilities " and given
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Yeah that also tracks
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Oh, I see your point now. Yes, the direct parallel of "MAC is to Ethernet as IP is to Internet" is an imprecise one, intentionally so: I remembered being really confused about Ethernet vs. Internet when I learned all this stuff, a
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    I'm not really concerned about this. I think the people like myself who really want to have babies are going to have babies one way or another. And it's not a question of "is it right" that they have more, or less, or qu
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Professionally: Bryan Caplan's "Job Search and the Laws of Wing Walking". There are a lot of posts which echo this basic point, but he essentially hammers home the idea that the first job is usually the worst job, and if you&
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    Oh heck yeah now this is what I'm talking about! Data link layer shenanigans!! For that of you who have no idea what the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is, to a first approximation it is the missing link between your MAC address (wh
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    oh hell yeah you're my kind of guy.
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    by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

    I recently put a little modal on my phone that just says "Compete against yourself" every 30 minutes, and I'm finding it remarkably helpful at focusing my efforts back to what I want to see in the world. I like the mindset