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by ike2792 2y ago
In any large organization, there are basically two classes of rules: 1) stupid red tape rules that slow everyone down and 2) really important rules that you can never break ever. Effective people learn which rules fall into which group so
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by ike2792 2y ago
> There are a significant number of citizens who don't use credit, don't have bank accounts, don't have cars, work at off the record jobs that pay in cash or check (to cash a check all you need is someone you trust enough
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by ike2792 2y ago
You can't just say "perchance."
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by ike2792 2y ago
I am from the US and my understanding is that we are one of the only (if not the only) Western democracy that doesn't require photo ID for voting. We do, however, need photo ID or at least a Social Security number for pretty much ever
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by ike2792 2y ago
Another very common thing in the US is having to validate your dependents for employer-provided health insurance. Since most married couples use just one of the spouses' insurance for cost reasons (even if both of them have jobs that
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by ike2792 2y ago
My wife and I both got Real IDs this past summer. Our teenage kids have passports. They were all fairly simple to get. I don't understand what the issue is.
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by ike2792 2y ago
Is that just for actively blocking compatibility? I would assume that carmakers have wide latitude in telling their dealers what they can install. A third-party shop should still be able to install the CarPlay kits.
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by ike2792 2y ago
I find that the true "10x" engineers are staff-level engineers that a) have strong technical ability and b) are really good at communicating and mentoring. They are 10x because they are able to make all of the "normal"
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by ike2792 2y ago
I used Stanford as an example, but plenty of companies focus on CS grads from big state schools like Purdue, Michigan, Ohio State, etc that have similar resumes. In my experience, graduates from 4-year CS programs with some internship expe
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by ike2792 2y ago
I think job hopping happens for the same reasons layoffs do: short-term thinking on management's part. I've been an engineering manager for 8 years now and have observed that a) giving an external candidate a $10-15K bump during
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by ike2792 2y ago
The problem with bootcamps right now is that they provide no predictive value. If I hire someone with a CS degree from, say, Stanford that has 2-3 internships and a few semester-long projects under their belt, that gives me reasonable conf
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by ike2792 2y ago
This is the crux of the issue. Executive power has been gradually expanded since at least the end of WWII, but things have accelerated since the early 00's. Think GWB's "signing statements" or Obama's "phone
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by ike2792 2y ago
There was the Arian heresy in the 4th century that caused a de facto schism and divided the Church off and on for a couple of centuries.
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by ike2792 2y ago
You probably leave it up to individual teams at the lowest reasonable level. Maybe there's a UI team that does a lot of whiteboard-based designing that chooses to be in the office certain days a week as a team. A different UI team pr
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by ike2792 2y ago
In my experience it isn't individuals not caring as much as there is no one individual accountable for making these kind of decisions. Whomever designed the bike ramp probably followed a set of curb-and-ramp regulations set by some co
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by ike2792 2y ago
The general problem is that the value of the office tends to be directly proportional to how many people are present. I led hybrid and cross-site teams before COVID, and if even one person wasn't in the office everything had to be han
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by ike2792 2y ago
I don't think most civilians realize just how strict (and absurd) the screening process is. When I went to enlist at 17 I had a cut on my knee that started bleeding during one of the medical tests (they make you walk across a tile flo
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by ike2792 2y ago
Agreed. Regardless of reason, you need to be prepared to walk away if you are serious about negotiating.
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by ike2792 2y ago
Hiring manager here. The best way to negotiate is to have multiple offers. Hiring is not fun on our side either. Hundreds of candidates with mostly-identical resumes apply for every open posting. Evaluating resumes and interviewing is a
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by ike2792 2y ago
I used to think JIRA sucked until my company migrated to ClickUp. In general most of the tools can be made to be usable if a tech lead or engineering manager can tweak them to what a team actually needs. Usually they are left in the hands
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by ike2792 2y ago
This post resonated with me. I'm also naturally introverted but I've realized over the years (I'm in my 40s) that forcing myself to go out and be social regularly is ultimately good for me. I've noticed that my social
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by ike2792 2y ago
Just search LinkedIn for "E = mc^2 + AI" posts and it's clear the hype has outran current capabilities by a long shot.
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by ike2792 2y ago
I might be a curmudgeon, but I think that even teaching CS in Python is too new-fangled and high-level for CS students. Learning the hard way with C/C++ (or for a more modern flair Go or Rust) and understanding how to handle pointers
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by ike2792 3y ago
This article appears to be a lot of hype without really sharing anything new.
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by ike2792 3y ago
As companies get bigger they tend to get more bloated and disorganized. A lot of initiatives end up not being worth continuing on, so they lay off the people working on those initiatives. Better companies will reallocate talent to new, be
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by ike2792 3y ago
The process is pretty bad from a hiring manager's perspective also. The company I work for requires uploading a resume and filling out some basic questions, along with applying via LinkedIn. It's fairly easy and not much of a bu
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by ike2792 3y ago
I remember DayQuil being a lifesaver when I was in college in the early 00's and I needed to power through a day of classes with a bad cold. Then I remember at some point in the later 00's it just didn't work anymore (turns
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by ike2792 3y ago
As a former programmer and now EM, I agree with this. Open offices definitely felt a lot more productive since everyone was always frantically working and communicating. I think people actually have gotten more done since WFH started, tho
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by ike2792 3y ago
This matches my experience. As a staff engineer I also did a lot of PO work and the fact that I was also an engineer on the team helped me ask customers the right questions. As an EM, I coordinate our Product processes but engineers on th
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by ike2792 3y ago
I'm sure this varies by state, but where I live in MN home schooling parents have to register with the state and meet certain curriculum standards. Homeschooled students also have to take standardized tests and show certain standards

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