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by kevan 7y ago
$ sudo softwareupdate --reset-ignored That will clear all ignored updates. From the CLI docs it doesn't look like there's a way to do it individually but there's probably a plist somewhere you could modify.
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by kevan 7y ago
I can only speak to my own experience but I usually work 40hrs/week and I got promoted last quarter. The office is usually completely empty by 6pm in Minneapolis. SDE at Amazon, opinions are my own, yada yada yada
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by kevan 7y ago
It's not really relevant to the overall point and I know it's fuzzy estimates anyways but there's a mixup in stocks and flows. linked Quora source says: >L6 is staff engineer. Only about 15% of Google engineers are at this
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by kevan 7y ago
Loss aversion[1] describes the phenomenon pretty well: > Humans may be hardwired to be loss averse due to asymmetric evolutionary pressure on losses and gains: for an organism operating close to the edge of survival, the loss of a day&#x
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by kevan 7y ago
>I will say that ideas are generally far less valuable than a first customer. My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. DemandRush[1] had this model. You'd post id
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by kevan 7y ago
For anyone else who, like me, is prone to the excitement of new company ideas and has a tendency to gloss over questions like "is it even possible to monetize this?" I'd recommend reading Disciplined Entrepreneurship. It&#x27
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by kevan 7y ago
I guess it depends on what your definition of success is. I still average around 40 hours/week in the office as an SDE 3 at Amazon. I could probably advance a bit faster by putting in more hours but I'm happy with the pace so far.
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by kevan 7y ago
Start with the basics. Read a business writing book, articles, or take a course on it. Even a one-hour course will teach you something new. Beyond that, some things that help me address my weak spots: 1. Make sure your first paragraph or ex
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by kevan 7y ago
Amazon has a very strong written culture (search for 1 pagers and 6 pagers). To be effective at higher levels in any role you need to be good at it.
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by kevan 7y ago
I'm really glad this is public now, really good experience-driven (often straight from major post-mortems) recommendations here.
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by kevan 7y ago
As an individual you don't care as long as you aren't in that 1%, but as a customer-obsessed service owner I absolutely care if a bad experience is happening 100k times per day. If you're operating at internet scale you need
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by kevan 7y ago
The timeouts this post is talking about are related to credential expiration and when to refresh, not request/connection timeouts like you'd see in microservices. In this case, not expiring credentials isn't a great option be
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by kevan 7y ago
I'm not quite following the ensuring secure execution of split operations section. There's an incomplete sentence: >The split process is coupled with network isolation, which can lead to very complicated. Maybe the second idea
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by kevan 7y ago
>>>> ...vs. trying to expand your impact without taking on formal leadership responsibility on an IC track. This might come down to cultural differences between companies. At Amazon leadership responsibility is formally baked in
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by kevan 7y ago
>An engineer is dealing with a significantly unique problem space that has only been addressed by theory, if that. This is a very high standard for defining engineer and I'd guess most practicing engineers don't meet it. Sure,
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by kevan 7y ago
Plenty of teams within Amazon
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by kevan 7y ago
I'm also on a 2015 model, but it was manufactured in early 2017 so it's not that old. I and several people I know are holding out on the 2015s for as long as they can because of ports, no touch bar, and a better keyboard compared
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by kevan 7y ago
I can't quantify compared to other languages but anecdotally there's definitely parts of the company that use it heavily. There's currently 146 job postings specifically mentioning ruby on rails[1] and 3154 mentioning ruby. [
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by kevan 7y ago
Precision Agriculture[1] is the term for anyone looking to learn more. Even small farms now track all inputs/outputs on every acre they farm. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_agriculture
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by kevan 7y ago
We do a variant of this for most of our data, except we use the version attribute (also used for optimistic concurrency) instead of a timestamp to identify changes in the history table. Our change velocity on most data is really low so the
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by kevan 7y ago
Serendipity is a lot harder when you're distributed. The close proximity of being in the same room and overhearing conversations helps you stay a lot more connected.
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by kevan 7y ago
One of the benefits mentioned is "a transparent "build"-free environment for the developer", so they don't have a build pipeline at all. Plus, with heavy caching thanks to Apache this would probably only get hit on
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by kevan 7y ago
I understand that it's a one-time bonus and TC drops off after that. I'm still curious what the circumstances were for that specific candidate and whether they had unusual circumstances that gave them more leverage than the usual
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by kevan 7y ago
Any more context on the $275,000 offer? Did the returning intern have a PhD in a specialized field, did their name rhyme with Midas?
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by kevan 7y ago
If you don't want to think about things like redundancy then use higher-abstraction services. Lambda for example takes care of multi-AZ redundancy so you don't have to think about it. The lower level building blocks like EC2 don&#
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by kevan 7y ago
I was using a physical RGB LED so there wasn't much extra bandwidth for conveying information. I live in a cold climate so green really meant "Leave now and you'll only have to wait in the cold at the stop for 2-3 minutes&quo
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by kevan 7y ago
Pretty cool. When I took the train to work I made a simple stop-light with transit data. Trains ran every 10 minutes and it took me a few minutes to walk to the station. Green meant I could definitely catch the next train. Yellow meant I&#x
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by kevan 7y ago
If you're doing a monorepo I think it's strongly implied that you'll also use a build system (Blaze/Brazil/BuildXL etc) that has granular compilation units and output caching so build time doesn't scale linear
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by kevan 7y ago
You could reasonably argue that the highest impact investments a manager can make in a team are hiring better people and firing worse ones.
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by kevan 7y ago
They're not killing themselves with production numbers to make analysts happy, it's literally in the mission statement... Mission statement: Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy.

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