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When your CI is taking forever on AWS EC2, it might be EBS(pythonspeed.com)
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Both of these are covered in the article. 1) That's why you should check multiple people's profiles. 2) That's why you should differentiate private from public repos, and again why you should check multiple people's prof
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Doing 12 hours days will lead to exhaustion. Exhaustion leads to lack of focus. 1. Don't work 12-hour days. Work 8-hour days. Seriously, overwork is BAD (for you, and for your employer). 2. Focus comes from understanding your goals. If
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Companies don't inherently restrict you. They will however, make you sign a non-compete and intellectual property ownership thing. What matters is the legal documents you sign. In Amazon's case, they do SO MANY THINGS that even wh
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1. Find a company that doesn't do irrelevant whiteboard/puzzle interviews. Here's a list: https://airtable.com/shr5TdnpVYVTpeRrN/tbluCbToxQ2knSLhh 2. Negotiate the terms of the interview: "hey inste
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Biggest threat is "I'm going to leave", but you need to credibly be willing to do so. And you don't need to say so _explicitly_. 1. Biggest hammer, but the most work: you get a job offer elsewhere for job you are willing
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A 4-day workweek for programmers, the easy way(codewithoutrules.com)
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Stuck with slow tests? Speed up your feedback loop(pythonspeed.com)
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Negotiate your salary like a 6-year old(codewithoutrules.com)
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Competing with a “Stanford grad just dying to work all nighters on Red Bull”(codewithoutrules.com)
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It's definitely harder in some fields, yes—mostly I'm talking about programmers, who have an easier time. That being said, I'm told negotiation can still help even for hardware people (but I don't have personal experienc
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You can get jobs in tech stacks you don't know. It's harder, but totally possible. Easiest way: switch teams at current job. If not: find jobs where otherwise you're a great fit (e.g. domain knowledge). Find companies that ar
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If you can't cut your expenses, getting better at negotiation will help you with both parts. Given how much Google and the like pay at the top tier, and the availability of remote work across geographic zones, it's highly unlikely
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Typical response is never "awesome, let's do that" because... why should they? They'd prefer you to work 5 days a week. So they'll push back. But, as an existing employee you're valuable: you know a lot of thin
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Vacation days are fine for short-term, but why not negotiate a permanent 4-day workweek? Lots of programmers have done it, e.g. https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer... (also linked els
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From personal experience working 4 days a week, and talking to others who have done so, the change to shorter hours is definitely a forcing function: you end up prioritizing better and planning better because you have to. I talk about the c
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Work fewer hours (not possible for a nurse, but definitely for a programmer). It'll make you _more_ productive: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/08/10/always-more-work-to-...
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It's harder earlier in career, but the guy I interviewed (mentioned in separate comment) successfully did it as his first job ( https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer... ). He was: 1.
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If you're thinking "but my employer will never do this", there's another alternative: you can negotiate. As an existing employee you are hugely valuable, you know how things work, the tech stack, the business, who to tal
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Tests won’t make your software correct(codewithoutrules.com)
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Get another job offer (with much higher salary) that you are willing to accept. Try to present it to current company enough in advance _before_ your review, since review happens after decision has already been made.
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Ideally you do it on the job. Go to coworkers' team that does frontend, say "hey, can I join you?" and they know you already, so decent chance you can work something out. If not, it's possible to apply to new jobs with t
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‘Must be willing to work under pressure’ is a warning sign(codewithoutrules.com)
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There's a lot of product management work where being a doctor is very helpful. E.g. I know at least one Electronic Medical Record vendor hires doctors for non-medical positions.
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I'm told by friend that drinking nettle tea helped him a lot with these sort of allergies. Basically he drinks it every day. So trying it myself, will see how it goes in the spring.
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4. If you're an underrepresented minority you might be suffering from some form of (potentially unconscious) bias. Even if not, none of this is a judgement on you as a person or you as a programmer, it's just that the way many com
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3. Is there another team at work you can transfer to?
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Beyond other advice (e.g. therapist). 1. It's worth keeping in mind that different companies have different kinds of interviews. You might do worse at some but better at others. So one thing you can do is try different kinds. 2. There
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Enthusiasts vs. Pragmatists: two types programmers and how they fail(codewithoutrules.com)
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There are other implementations of the same idea: Fidelity and Vanguard each have one. In general they all allow donations to any 501(c)3.

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