lightbendover

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by lightbendover 3y ago
This is not surprising in the slightest. If you are filling out a bug report or other intake request for a team, do you generally follow a pre-defined template to ease their understanding and convey as holistic of information as desired&#x2
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Plenty of managers do lack vision and direction (often feels like the norm) so it's not surprising that they lack creativity when it comes to assigning work to be completed within a single sprint. If they were free of that self-impose
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Back when I was a software manager, I had to sequence work into sprints or everyone (up and down) would freak out. The part I relaxed the team on: I didn't care at all if work spilled over into the next sprint. This alone removed the
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Dynamo is almost never something you want to use as a "solution" to an open-ended I-don't-quite-know-my-requirements type of problem (which is almost all holistic problems). Sometimes I feel like it's the only tool anyo
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Years ago after joining a new team, I was shocked that I just had a GSI to solve a performance problem that was somehow eluding a dozen engineers making around 200k each.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
ChatGPT got convinced monoliths typically have advantages that outweigh the concerns?
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by lightbendover 4y ago
2 years isn’t long enough to really experience burnout. As soon as rewards slow down, it will seep in if nothing else changes.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Probably not, unless they did that in their first hour of employment.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
If your productivity is way negative, just hire one more very, very incompetent person then.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that, speaking directly/bluntly often gets you labeled as a jerk these days. I'm over it though, people are going to hear what they need to hear, whether that makes me a jerk or not.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
In my sole experience working at a company (startup) that embraced those who understood category theory, those types were not the ones producing any discernible value for the company. They instead attempted to browbeat certain thinking int
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by lightbendover 4y ago
great and best => excellent excellent and best => great
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Of course, having families is pesky to employers so policies like this are devised to encourage those to leave in a legally kosher way.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
I'm not looking, I plan to smile and do my own two things that I've been dreaming of doing for awhile (but it's somewhat hard to justify walking away from good steady pay) and now can due to financial independence as soon as
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by lightbendover 4y ago
All of big tech is throwing bodies at problems at this point since decades of data is all rotted and programmatic solutions simply don't work. IF you stay at Amazon after all of this attrition, your life will be hell.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
All will fail eventually.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
I don't see how you can throw away the modern definition of DRY and put critiques of it (the modern definition) to bed just by pointing out the historical origination. They're completely different topics and the discussions thus
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by lightbendover 4y ago
"Why did this happen?" "Our UI was bad." "Why?" "No, that's the root cause."
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Pretty much the only outcome when reprehensible greed meets company structures indistinguishable from scams and charlatans masquerading as leadership.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Because Zac Prince was the leader?
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by lightbendover 4y ago
At least use the glass shifter, have some self-respect.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Also big tech, we ask senior candidates both hypothetical systems and ones they have experience with.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
> No one is working with a huge amount of data in big loops using virtual methods to take every element out of a huge dataset like he is showing. Things way worse than that exist. Replace "virtual method" with "service ca
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Because they already did?
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by lightbendover 4y ago
You mean like it is now?
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Of course it’s discriminatory based on age, familial status, and disabilities. There’s data, just wait.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Your perspective is flawed, it’s about further headcount reduction without severance, making good on tax break criteria, and building up a blind core of missionaries.
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by lightbendover 4y ago
Amazon looked deep into the crystal ball, got a shit response from it, and made a colossal one-way door blunder that will ultimately sink the company as they will not remain competitive with younger hungrier actually-day-one companies and e
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by lightbendover 4y ago
There have been exactly 0 times I left a junior hanging for more than a couple hours after they message me on Slack, which happens numerous times a day (raise that to roughly a dozen times per day if including mid-levels). I would absolute
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by lightbendover 4y ago
No, you’re supposed to resign. They are too cowardly to perform another layoff, colluding with their competitors to exploit a labor market, and don’t want to pay severance.

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