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by joshyeager 13y ago
That would be a large reversal from the current situation. College degrees are not officially required for things like immigration or proving candidate qualifications in discrimination lawsuits, but they are generally accepted as a reliable
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by joshyeager 13y ago
Glad to help. :-) I agree that a lot of sales and management types are sloppy and overly terse. That's just as bad. A good balance makes communication much easier and more effective. Best of all is if you can do all that and still show
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by joshyeager 13y ago
First, let me say that I don't mean this to be offensive, and I'm trying to be helpful to you. As someone who occasionally hires consultants to solve urgent problems for me, I would be nervous about hiring a company whose point of
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The problem is that the difference between a routine decision and a critical one is not always obvious at the time, especially if the person who would know that this particular decision is critical is unavailable. One solution is to build a
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by joshyeager 13y ago
Here is an alternate way to interpret the scenario in your second paragraph: Putting on your headphones at the office and trying to get work done is seen as a signal that you need to concentrate. You find yourself shut out of critical decis
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In this framework, you don't take the blame for others' mistakes. You take the blame for your team's mistakes, and take responsibility for fixing them . You explicitly do not place blame on the person who actually made the m
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by joshyeager 13y ago
I read this article completely differently. It's not saying that you should try to fix a dysfunctional organization. It's telling you how to succeed in whatever organization you decide to stay in. And it is telling you how to main
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Keeping Your Cool - ServerFault DevOps on Outages and Incidents(blog.serverfault.com)
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Keeping Your Cool - Dealing with Outages and Incidents(blog.serverfault.com)
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Your last sentence is exactly right. There are significant benefits to building a profession that is predictable and well-defined. Ensuring a reasonable lower bound reduces the risk of failure significantly. The open questions are 1) whethe
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by joshyeager 13y ago
If you're looking for practical info about implementing better interviewing practices, check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/Hiring-Geeks-That-Fit-ebook/dp/B00AUYN... Highly recommended. Covers some subs
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Our games usually devolve once we hit the unit limit, since we're too lazy to find that 5000-unit patch from the old days. From that point, we go for nukes, berthas and targeting facilities, or just massive air waves. We really should
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by joshyeager 13y ago
A couple of us played Supreme Commander and liked it, but we all went back to TA for some reason. Read the bad reviews of SC2 and never tried it.
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Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineers Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking talented developers to join our product team in Fre
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by joshyeager 13y ago
I have hired both types of candidate. In my opinion, a four-year college degree is worth roughly the same amount as two years of real-world experience. There are exceptions on both sides, but on average four years of college seems to be rou
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by joshyeager 13y ago
Since SQL is a declarative language, you have to use it very differently than procedural or functional languages. I've met many people who don't understand the difference and just write procedural code in their SQL queries (cursors, etc). T
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by joshyeager 14y ago
Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineers Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking talented developers to join our product team in Fre
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by joshyeager 14y ago
Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineers for Product Development and Professional Services Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking t
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by joshyeager 14y ago
Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineers for Product Development and Professional Services Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking t
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by joshyeager 14y ago
Most of my experience has been in product-focused teams, so there is a good mixture of R&D and polish work. The company as a whole has to spend time convincing customers that our product is useful, but the development team is able to fo
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by joshyeager 14y ago
There is another option: find a really good manager who is able and willing to give you what you need, make sure they understand your value, and stay with them. I don't really know how to do that, I just got lucky. I moved into management
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Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineers for Product Development and Professional Services Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking t
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by joshyeager 15y ago
Frederick, MD Swift Software is seeking a talented frontend developer to join the team creating JobTraQ, our flagship product. You’ll work with the rest of the team to create new features and refine our existing user interfaces, to help mak