josephmosby

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by josephmosby 6y ago
Our working hours for East Coast folks average out at 10-6. Some folks take earlier (even on the West Coast, we have some folks working 6am - 2pm because of kids and such) and that's ok. That's also why we have lunch events so the
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by josephmosby 6y ago
Every Thursday at 5 EST we have company "pub trivia" over Kahoot. Folks take turns as the host and coming up with trivia questions, and as we've grown we have a healthy set of inter-team rivalries going. For ad hoc events we&
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by josephmosby 6y ago
I should have specified more thoroughly. I am not seeing Spark being chosen for new data eng roll-outs. It is still very prevalent in existing environments because it still works well. (used at $lastjob myself) However - I am still seeing
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by josephmosby 6y ago
(source for everything following: I recently hired entry-level data engineers) The experience required differs dramatically between [semi]structured transactional data moving into data warehouses versus highly unstructured data that the dat
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by josephmosby 6y ago
They are both easy to train if you have trainers who are thinking about it as craft. That being said, if you are working in the technology field, you are more likely to work with individuals who actively learned engineering but passively le
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by josephmosby 6y ago
Eng manager at a team that was remote pre-pandemic and I will 100% confirm this is critical to getting things done. I'll add on that it is tough to find someone who is a great writer and a great engineer early on in their careers. You
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by josephmosby 6y ago
I was a consultant for six years, and the single biggest thing I think is different between standard employed work and consulting is the number of people you have to talk to in order to get paid regularly. I think I likely had 25-35 convers
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by josephmosby 6y ago
#1 suggestion: Washington, DC. Museums (the Smithsonian museums), bars, restaurants (one of the Michelin cities), proximity to nature (there's a national park that cuts through the middle of the city, there's the National Arboretu
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by josephmosby 6y ago
ReCharge | https://rechargepayments.com/careers | Engineers, Engineering Managers, Product Managers | REMOTE We handle payments and customer management for some of the largest subscription brands in ecommerce. If you'v
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by josephmosby 6y ago
Fun hypothesis: a giant Florida Goodwill moved into an old Bealls in 2019. Bealls may have run a cost-benefit analysis and said "you know what, it's actually cheaper for us to sell all this old merch to Goodwill at a discount than
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by josephmosby 6y ago
My guess is that there was an Oracle MBA type who thought they were being very clever by not saying "Blue Ocean," but "Blue Kai." https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/what-is-blue-ocean-strateg...
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by josephmosby 6y ago
It depends on whether you are expected to participate in those sales cycle discussions or not. If your role is to hang out at your desk until someone sells your implementation services, then no, you will probably not get commission on sales
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by josephmosby 6y ago
It's working okay for one billion people already. Chinese economic restrictions generally tilt toward keeping the majority of capital flowing throughout China and strategic investments abroad. They are definitely not geared to someone
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by josephmosby 6y ago
Two things that helped for me: 1) Read a lot. Read different styles. Read the newspaper, read fiction, read blog posts, read history textbooks. Read lots of things. The diversity of styles will give you ideas on how different things can be
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by josephmosby 6y ago
Yes! The biggest community is in Yucatan with over 800K speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages#:~:text=Yucate... .
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by josephmosby 6y ago
NiFi is a fantastic tool for a certain set of organizational constraints. * It doesn't need much in the way of dependencies to run. If you can get Java onto a machine, you can probably get NiFi to run on that machine. - That is HUGE i
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by josephmosby 6y ago
Infrastructure software, by its nature, is designed to power hundreds or thousands or millions of different needs. That suits an open source model. We tend to inflate problems that touch us directly and deflate problems that we don't s
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by josephmosby 7y ago
The real reason Snowmobile exists: to knock out potential opposition to large-scale migration from on-prem data centers into AWS. Most of the intro decisions around moving to the cloud happen before Amazon is ever involved in the sales cy
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by josephmosby 7y ago
It's not the provision of Internet that's the problem, it's the customer service requests. e.g., AT&T could provide perfect service to the home endpoint, but the customer bought some aftermarket router from their cousin,
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by josephmosby 7y ago
I am excited to get into this. Anecdotal disclaimer: I have been both an OSINT analyst and a developer supporting OSINT work in the past. I understand completely why OSINT analysts like to do things by hand - they can understand where the d
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by josephmosby 7y ago
Google tried this with the original variant of Chronicle and failed. Threat analysis does not play well with common types of AI/ML applications because the problem space changes so frequently with the design of avoiding predictabilit
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by josephmosby 7y ago
This is not a book full of "scripts," but will hopefully help inform future actions: The "Please stop. I've got this." is an action-oriented message that is conveyed before the action. It says "I would like f
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by josephmosby 7y ago
That is unfortunately most Simon Sinek material for me. I think he is a super sharp thinker, but I always come away feeling like his books could have been a blog post and his blog posts could have probably been a tweet.
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by josephmosby 7y ago
I think Thompson is correct on what's likely to happen at the company level but fails to consider the elasticity of demand at the consumer level. As an anecdotal example, Uber Eats/Grubhub/Seamless fees are a material portion
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by josephmosby 8y ago
Something touched on with the piece, but not quite hammered nearly as much as it should have been: switching costs, which have dramatically changed in the past 10-15 years. The initial round of California VC money came from hardware startup
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by josephmosby 8y ago
Direct quote from the piece: "I’ve lived in the Midwest, on the Texas/Mexico border, and in New York, and when I moved to San Francisco..." Additionally, the argument in the entire piece is about California not being the epic
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by josephmosby 8y ago
Seconded. Julia's blog looks nice, has great explanations, and did a LOT for me as a junior developer about feeling confident in all the things that I didn't know at the time but was excited to learn.
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by josephmosby 8y ago
I say this as a customer: Modsy's product execution is top-notch. You submit a bunch of pictures of the room you want to re-design and they create a 3D model of it that you access in your browser. You're then assigned a designer w
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by josephmosby 8y ago
IANAPilot, but I got curious once upon a time and studied those. Short answer: yes, they will get confused, but they won't crash out of the skies. Those systems are designed to account for certain perturbations in magnetic fields. Howe
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by josephmosby 8y ago
Two books that really helped me were Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg) and Radical Acceptance (Tara Brach). The specific techniques outlined in the books were helpful, but I benefited more from the mentality that you can communi

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