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koliber
2y ago
A revolution
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koliber
2y ago
Wondering if you'd be willing to share how much you were paying for this service? Can you email me at krystian@wasitsent.com?
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koliber
2y ago
I like how that rolls off the tongue, but don't quite understand it. Sounds like a good start for a poem, story, or book. Is this a quote from somewhere?
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2y ago
I once hire a guy who was great. Don't remember where we found him. He got two of his ex-colleagues to join. They were really good as well. He was my source :). Networking works. Ask you best people if they know anyone who they would l
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2y ago
Me to my Senior Engineer: Eddie, would you mind sifting through that pile of resumes and picking out the top 10? :)
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2y ago
It was discovered 8 hours ago! I have mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, I'm super excited that we can go from discovery to wide dissemination within a few hours. On the other hand, what's the chance of something like th
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koliber
2y ago
I don't know what the stats are and it seems that a lot of people are complaining about fake or stale job postings on job boards. I'm sure there are fakes out there. However, it's hard to imagine that this is a wide-scale pro
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2y ago
Some companies behave poorly, and we have every right to call them out. When individual behave poorly, we should also call them out. > In this environment, trust in companies is gone. There are also companies who do good and have very de
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koliber
2y ago
They don't interview 950 people to fill one position.
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2y ago
That's also a problem. Two wrongs don't make a right though. I sometimes do small-time recruitment for my clients. Each spam resume I receive takes five to ten minutes of my time. Occasionally, a good resume might get missed. The
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2y ago
On top of this, prefer individual accounts and passwords over shared accounts. Some services require shared passwords, keys, or tokens. Consider grouping them by sensitivity. Key to the kingdom shared accounts should be accessible only to a
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2y ago
It’s surprising that this is surprising. Every conversation loses information. Something is always lost in translation, even among excellent communicators. If you only rely on your direct reports to get information about your organization y
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2y ago
Gradients, spectrums and distributions describe the quantifiable diversity in humans. People have different heights, weights, eye colors, and other numerically measurable qualities. We’re exposed to this and it’s not surprising. What this t
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2y ago
I like to use the strangler fig pattern. This concept is used to build a new version of a system alongside an existing legacy system, but I think the idea also works for building a new documentation system alongside a heap of old unorganize
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2y ago
Concretely for onboarding, I create two documents. They’re both checklists. One is for the manager and the other for the new hire. It’s organized into sections. Before the first day. First day. First week. First month. The manager is expect
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Most companies don’t have a problem with too little documentation. Instead, the documentation is hard to find when needed. I’m a documentarian and this is one of my favorite topics. My go to is creating a wiki for the team. The wiki is orga
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2y ago
I spoke about this with some Indian colleagues I’ve worked with in the US. They said the same thing as you. Supposedly it’s super obvious when someone does not know something and is bluffing to save face. I haven’t learned to recognize this
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One of the things that I value highly in my team members is the ability to admit when they don’t know something. In India, I’ve found that people don’t like to admit that they don’t know something. Even in everyday situations like asking fo
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I'm scratching an itch. I'm a huge fan of system monitoring and alerting when they go down. It allows the engineers in charge of the production systems to sleep well knowing that things are working. There's a gap for email mo
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2y ago
You successfully wasted 950 people’s time. Did you attend all 50 interviews? If not, you wasted even more people’s time. People here are up in arms about spam. This is exactly what you are doing. Can you improve your process to apply to few
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2y ago
In addition to the things already mentioned, there are a few higher level things which I find helpful: - http req counts vs total non-200-response count vs. 404-and-30x count. - whatever asynchronous jobs your run, a graph of jobs started v
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2y ago
This works if you never need to liquidate early. For most people such a need to get their cash out occasionally happens. Regardless of how you stagger your bonds, if you need to sell before maturity, there is a chance they will be worth les
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The argument for coming back to the office is flimsy. It’s framed as fairness but in reality it is not about that. Different jobs have different downsides and different perks. She claims that because sanitation workers can’t work from home
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A charlatan that everyone believes in IS a visionary. There is no other definition of a visionary. Powerful visionaries are able influence behavior and create a future that would not otherwise have existed.
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This is the pet rock of our generation.
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First, get a senior person to lead the effort. They need to have experience hiring and managing developer teams. Ideally, it is NOT going to be someone with a lot of wizz-bang shiny tech on their CV. You need someone who wants to understand
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2y ago
Location: Poland Remote: Yes, 20 years, and managed software engineering teams of 50+ spread across N. America & Europe Willing to relocate: No Technologies: SaaS apps, Django, Python, AWS, Security, Observability, Management
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Advice is a solution to a problem. When you give advice, you need to understand where a person is on this awareness scale: 1. Problem unaware 2. Problem aware 3. Solution aware 4. Implementation aware 5. Very aware If you approach someone w
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We have no way of knowing whether sun h an implant already exists, wait inf to be turned on at the moment of maximum damage. Luckily I have no hair to turn gray.
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This made the news yesterday: https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7785/Artykul/3407219,ukraine... Apparently they did not catch all the arson teams.
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