jamiepenney

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by jamiepenney 5y ago
I've done this in previous jobs - nothing to do with the company itself, I just don't like tying both my investment and wage income to the same company.
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by jamiepenney 5y ago
> I had a few terrible bosses as an example of what not to do For this reason, I think the best leaders come from below.
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by jamiepenney 5y ago
Our vaccination program is ramping up nicely, even with the lockdown they're posting record numbers. Should be done by the end of the year, and if we can get this outbreak under control we'll easily get there before the next one.
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by jamiepenney 5y ago
That's fine for the military, how does that protect joe random citizens?
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by jamiepenney 6y ago
I stopped music and tv piracy once netflix and spotify took off. Spotify is still a good service but we now have netflix, disney plus, and amazon prime to contend with and still can't find some of the content we want due to the stupid
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by jamiepenney 6y ago
I did it and it's worked out pretty well. If you've ditched your major debts then you'd be in an even better position to manage the ups-and-downs of contracting, so I say go for it!
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by jamiepenney 6y ago
This is how cooperative supermarkets work - they're consumer co-ops.
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by jamiepenney 6y ago
My procrastination loop! Cmd+T re [Enter] Cmd+W ... Cmd+T new [Enter] Cmd+W ... Cmd+T re [Enter]
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by jamiepenney 7y ago
What's the easiest way to get started with SF dev? I'm part of a contracting team and having another arrow in our quiver would be pretty useful.
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by jamiepenney 7y ago
Is that Karat? We've got a few interviewers working out of WeWork offices.
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by jamiepenney 7y ago
Is there a manufacturer that is better in this regard? I assume Samsung would be the worst.
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by jamiepenney 7y ago
I've done the same thing for the last 18 months in my small New Zealand town (~10,000 residents). My company is big enough to need two closed-door offices now; we're still happy to stay here, it's got a nice vibe and sharing
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by jamiepenney 7y ago
Yeah, definitely a choice! I chose to quit a nice, salaried job in the city and move back to my small hometown and start a contracting business. Stressful, but it's working out great so far! I worked in startups prior to that so it was
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by jamiepenney 7y ago
Not to pitch in with low-value "me too thanks" style replies, but by god does this sum up the last 18 months of my life. Every time I feel comfortable, bam! Something new to keep me awake at night. It's one part exhausting an
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by jamiepenney 7y ago
I've performed close to 400 screening interviews now for a range of companies. There's a good chunk of people that struggle to write a solution that correctly compiled to an "aggregate this data" style problem. People wi
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
Me too. We've considered holidays that would take us close to the states (Canada and the Caribbean) but there are very few flights direct from New Zealand and they're crazy expensive.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
There's a lot of grads and intermediate developers dragging the average down. Also, Wellington has a lot of services companies that pay as close to the bottom of the range as they can get.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I'm looking at tattoo artists and judging them on their Instagram photos. There's a few things like this I would check social media for, but mostly I'm looking at reputation (reviews and writeups) rather than photos and other
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I haven't used My Documents for documents for years now. The directory is useless because of all the cruft, I store useful things elsewhere now.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
Same here. Clicked to check if it was posted by a new user account and it is. Colour me suspicious.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
Harder to hide board decision making process when the employees have a seat at the table though. Might make it easier for employees to organise against problems before they become entrenched decisions.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
This handily solves an issue with one of my clients - they wanted to make sure they could deploy their SaaS app on-prem if a customer asked for it, so had been avoiding going all in on AWS-specific services. Bet the pricing is "if you
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I've got a set of power tools and a lawn mower from Ryobi that all use the same 36V battery pack. Works well for our small section in town.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
Better cooling, definitely. My machine gets quite hot on my lap unless I have it turn on the fans earlier using Macs Fan Control. I'm using it as a pro machine, so it's running a bunch of docker containers, Slack, VS Code, a milli
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I get paid to a bank in New Zealand via TransferWise for work I do for a company in the US. Works well, not sure of the fees on their end as they handle all of that for me. As the recipient of funds it's a nice service anyway.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
They are for the purposes of the GDPR.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
MKULTRA is my go to, because it sounds just like a crazy conspiracy theory (down to the wacky name), but it actually happened.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I love that last one. In my head you've run right through the checklist, popping out a new reason not to offer up a number first, before hitting the last one and just coming right out with it.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I get a lot of "oh yep, you look the type". Ouch.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I started using fastmail for my business domain, it's going pretty good so far.

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