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by lgleason 4y ago
In countries like the US that is generally not something many software engineers can afford. In South Africa, as an engineer that is more affordable and more seem to have them from what I've seen.
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by lgleason 4y ago
Number of PR's means very little with overall productivity. It's a vanity metric.
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by lgleason 4y ago
Why not change jobs to find one that is remote?
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by lgleason 4y ago
Most companies do not invest in their employees and are more than happy to fire them at will. It's a two way street and employees have just responded in kind to how most companies treat employees. Obviously there are exceptions to that
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by lgleason 4y ago
For every 1 in 10 engineers that you promote to being a manager, less than 1 in 10 of them will be any good at it because the skills needed to be good at the former are different from the ones needed for the latter. This is a mistake that I
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by lgleason 4y ago
This is what ends up killing companies. Too many levels of management which causes massive inefficiency.
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by lgleason 4y ago
Staying somewhere too long is just as bad as job hopping. I've also seen a lot of developers who stayed in their job for a long period of time and were not very good at it, while the "job hoppers" were at the top of their gam
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by lgleason 4y ago
That is what I was thinking as well.
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by lgleason 4y ago
Has the market become this tough/bad?
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by lgleason 4y ago
I've dealt with PayPal's legal department as a potential employee trying to negotiate an employment agreement. I almost walked away from the job because of an unconscionable clause in their legal agreement pertaining to writing te
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by lgleason 4y ago
This is what likely is happening. Zuck and co, just like the Google leaders, need to keep Wall Street happy to try to bolster the stock as much as possible. While I don't know all of the internals of the FB organization, if it is anyth
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by lgleason 4y ago
A healthy company will adjust one of the three axis. Lots of companies will act like their project is a make or break moment, but in reality it is management setting un-realistic deadlines. When the companies fall into the later category, i
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by lgleason 4y ago
I would be fine with this argument if section 230 protections were not applied to companies that censor.
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by lgleason 4y ago
Costa Rica is staring to do this as well.
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by lgleason 4y ago
I'm not sure you are correct about the countries the digital nomads are flocking to being pissed about them. Maybe a few locals, but, the government of Costa Rica is encouraging digital nomads because it brings money into the country b
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by lgleason 4y ago
I have no love lost for that company, so while I feel bad for the workers, I would love to see the company as a whole go under and a better alternative emerge.
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by lgleason 4y ago
I'm an Uncle Bob supporter, but also support pragmatic testing techniques depending on the platform. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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by lgleason 4y ago
I would agree with this, but perhaps the commenter has a different definition of "high profile" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by lgleason 4y ago
agreed
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by lgleason 4y ago
I'm not sure what tech stacks you work on, but I've worked with lots of tech stacks and high profile projects that use it and also saw the quality that resulted from the practice.
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by lgleason 4y ago
Do you practice TDD? That is usually where the long methods start to become an issue.
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by lgleason 4y ago
Uncle Bob has great advice that a large swath of the industry can benefit from. Keep in mind that a large portion of the industry, especially in corporate America, writes really bad code and his advice helps these people to put guardrails a
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by lgleason 4y ago
I'm seen some pretty crappy code come out of Google and at times they don't really slow down to do things right.
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by lgleason 4y ago
One I alway like to ask is if they press charges ;). (For those who never saw it, this is from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy)
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by lgleason 4y ago
I've had to work on a11y efforts. One challenge I see is that some websites/apps are not overly usable for people that don't have disabilities. Also, many of the calls on what needs to happen or not are subjective when gettin
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by lgleason 5y ago
This is not surprising. What is more worrying are all of the people in the US(and a large part of the west) who seem to think that communism and the Russian revolution are great things while actively supporting the eroding of our rights. Fo
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by lgleason 5y ago
I have yet to see engineers that are even close to being accurate with estimates because they are in essence inventing something new with a bunch of unknowns. Put another way, there are two types of engineers. Those who are bad at estimatin
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by lgleason 5y ago
More lines of code = more liability. Also more commits, frequency of commits etc. does not equate to more productivity. In fact in some instances you actually are introducing more liability into a codebase doing that. The flaw with most of
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by lgleason 5y ago
It is stuff like this, where they take perfectly usable hardware and turn it into a paperweight that exposes the hypocrisy of any of their pro environment/green talk. The right thing to do would be to give us the option of uploading fi
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by lgleason 5y ago
I have been a Kinesis user for 8 years, starting with an Advantage USB, added a classic PS2(with a usb adapter) as a backup and then was a tester for the Advantage 2 which I ended up buying. A company I worked for gave me a choice for keybo

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