jroseattle

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by jroseattle 3y ago
That's right. It's all part of the back-and-forth of good faith.
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by jroseattle 3y ago
"Good faith" doesn't mean being dishonest. Instead, it's about showing a little empathy between two people. This situation sounds more like people trying to cover their ass so they aren't blamed for something later.
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by jroseattle 3y ago
> I've had managers give stupid orders I'd suggest that "good faith" means turning those stupid orders into sane orders. In a case like this, help your manager -- educate them. If your relationship is tenuous, I get t
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by jroseattle 3y ago
> Why can’t we tell management that a question they asked is non-sensical? You should absolutely do that (I tell my team to inform me if what I'm asking doesn't make sense.) If I'm coming to someone with a request, it&#x27
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Having been at different levels in engineering (from junior up through C) there are a few things I've learned along the way. (1) Everyone needs to operate in good faith. I've observed leaders ask their direct reports for something
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Trying to summarize what I'm reading here. "Enterprise-y" appears to be a catch-all term for an organizational culture built on a foundation of lack-of-trust where interactions among people need to be gamed in order to accomp
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by jroseattle 3y ago
I'd prefer to hear everyone's home-cooked list of aliases to encapsulate all the git command-line funkiness. I'll start: - last: `git log -1 HEAD --stat` - past: `git log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Cred%d\\ %Cre
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by jroseattle 3y ago
100%. Need to differentiate between finished FEATURES and finished software.
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by jroseattle 3y ago
How would I incorporate Nile into a disaster recovery or failover plan?
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Well, I'd say that these generic tips of advice aren't a strict playbook to go by. More so, I'd say they go to a mindset for a founder to help shape where you spend your time and resources. I think the intended thought proces
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Preach. > NEVER start with the software As a long-time (old) engineer, historically my mindset was to rush into problem-solving mode by thinking about software-based solutions to everything. After learning from a failure or two, I recogn
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Well intentioned list, and generally peppered with survivor (or failure) bias when trying to consume these bullet points without the context of the contributor. The best across-the-board advice that I've heard from others: - Own it
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Thank you for the responses, I'll dig further into the service.
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by jroseattle 3y ago
> In a Jira workflow, there's a lot of customization required and a lot of thought needed to go into how to set up your workflow. Leantime is intended to be "opinionated" in the way that it's already set up I'm n
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Most of these processes are garbage-in-garbage out. Since these are designed to help a team deliver the best bang-for-the-buck at a given point in time, I've found proper assessment of actual urgency and importance are the biggest su
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by jroseattle 3y ago
I see marketing-speak for how this is so much easier than other tools like JIRA (which we use.) However, I'm not finding details about how this is accomplished. What are the key differentiators in how this is easier specific to those t
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by jroseattle 3y ago
This makes sense to me if the problem I'm solving simply devolves to code and I want as short a path as possible to completing it. I really don't see that much anymore, other than basic bug fixes. Not every problem I'm solvin
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by jroseattle 3y ago
I both agree and disagree with her sentiments here. Not in a right/wrong sense, but just what I found works for me. I agree with having helpers to understand how tooling works. Any resources that increase understanding of how to use a
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by jroseattle 3y ago
> There are good starter homes on my street that sell for 5-10,000 dollars. While that's a ridiculously low number (something tells me our definitions for "good starter homes" don't align), it's not THAT far off
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by jroseattle 3y ago
That's a lot of JS and CSS to render the page to look like YAML.
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Entirely unrelated, but it's just so retro. The trunk branch, the Bugzilla list, the OS/2 support, the user forums, the multi-hour build process, the XHTML 1.0 compliant badge on the https://www.openoffice.org/ ho
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Goodness, we're still arguing about microservices? Microservices are simply another approach to solving a problem. Another tool in the toolbelt. Use it wisely, as you would any other tool in your toolbelt.
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by jroseattle 3y ago
You're going to get a lot of advice, but some general comments for your consideration. As always, your mileage may vary. > failed a number of technical interviews because I can't make architecture diagrams I would caution again
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by jroseattle 3y ago
The author's intent here is for young engineers to build signal and reputation. Open source contribution is one potential way to go about that. Another comment here referenced the importance of a CS degree. There are other ways to go a
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by jroseattle 3y ago
True, except for the every-kid part. The market was pretty fragmented back then. Nonetheless, I was referring to the sales pitch. And Jobs never let facts get in the way of a good story. :-)
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by jroseattle 3y ago
If this document is intended as a how-google-does-it for applicability outside of Google, then the leadership section (Ch9) should include a heavy dose of your-mileage-may-vary. It is very good advice, but requires great cultural and execut
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by jroseattle 3y ago
I was around for the mp3 "revolution", so I'll add to the author's discussion point about the ipod. The thousand-songs-in-your-pocket sales pitch was more than lifestyle/concept -- it was an actual feature. All of t
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by jroseattle 3y ago
This. Plus, going a step further... Development using those IDEs are not well suited to inputs from anything other than a keyboard (or keyboard-translator.) Too many functions tied to keys and such. I'm uncertain why anyone would think
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Lots of these types of sites from the past ten years, where the best ones capture the oddity of the photo with a hilarious caption. This one in particular seems really well done. I expect the next phase of these sites liberally employ the u
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Has the FTC outlined what Amazon is actually doing in "rewarding" or "penalizing" 3p merchants? I see a reference to Amazon's "algorithm". Hazarding a guess, it would have to be either category listings or

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