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by matt_s 11y ago
I think he means stuck financially, not career wise since they have chosen to stay as a developer. His answer to how to move ahead financially is to specialize. So maybe that is the general advice is to find something to specialize in or y
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by matt_s 11y ago
Just curious what use case this is? Is it that you want to see really important email/texts when you are involved in a setting where having your phone make noises is not preferred?
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by matt_s 11y ago
How many people wear watches regularly now? After getting an iPhone I tended to stop wearing a watch. It just seems like there may be very niche uses but most features are already on my phone so why bother? What would be the "killer&
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by matt_s 11y ago
That part with the dad not listening is a very small part of the movie. My guess is they included it in the trailer to show some funny part that appeals to moms. This exact scenario does happen in real life so I don't see that as sexi
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by matt_s 11y ago
An interesting aspect in the movie (spoiler a little) is that the premise of the move from Minnesota to SF is because the dad got a new job. They touch on it a little in the movie that it is startup related (from what I remember - not nece
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by matt_s 11y ago
Funny how people get riled up over stuff like this. The article is from 6 years ago and you still hear the same comments like "the _____ sucks but the ____ is fine" (ecosystem|language,types|jvm etc.) The only way to have a healt
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by matt_s 11y ago
Not sure why my comment got down voted. Here is a blog post from a highly awarded Principle in NY describing the exact teacher evaluation process using Common Core testing as a component and how "every high-school teacher will be incen
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by matt_s 11y ago
All of the grading teachers tests started with Common Core, here in NY state at least which was an early adopter. Each state is probably implementing it differently. These aren't tests to grade schools, these are testing the kids agai
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by matt_s 11y ago
It does since there are (in NY at least) state tests to measure progress of the students and those results are never released to students or parents but used in "grading" teachers. It seems very closely tied with the Common Core r
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by matt_s 11y ago
A major reason is the standardized testing (common core) where teachers are being measured on averages on these tests. When they have kids that are advanced and above average they aren't incented to spend any extra time with them beca
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by matt_s 11y ago
One good gauge of a question would be: "how long does it take to get a new VM?" "And how long before the team has software installed?" This will hint at the bureaucracy behind the scenes if they answer honestly. The onl
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by matt_s 11y ago
I don't know if this is solvable, it could just be human nature. Some folks like the analogy of software and building construction. I like the comparison to cooking... in this case the closest thing would be how a chef sets up their w
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by matt_s 11y ago
There is just a nice magical moment though when you grok what an application does and how it is organized, especially when you didn't write it, which is likely the most often case. I think a large issue is when an application has new p
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by matt_s 11y ago
I thought there are laws in the US about how long employers are allowed to keep candidate info in the system something like 12 months is what I remember hearing.
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by matt_s 11y ago
I found that interesting as well, I thought with the high price tag that high price components would be in there. I wonder if the design/acoustics of the ear pieces contribute to some of the "better sound". Or maybe it is ju
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by matt_s 11y ago
With internet based games I wonder if that loading screen/hitch is essentially finding you a server as you move from one zone to another if the server you were on was too crowded. I also wonder if they are doing the equivalent in moder
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by matt_s 11y ago
Another aspect is the accounting rules. When a company has direct employees working, they show up on a P+L statement in the labor section. When a company is "buying a service" from an outsourcer, staffed completely with H1B and o
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by matt_s 11y ago
Can you give more details on what the problems were with payments, inventory, etc.? I thought if you purchased/funded opening a franchise they would supply you with ways to manage those types of things since that is kind of the point o
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by matt_s 11y ago
Most of their products are connected to the internet in some way, right? You'd think they would have the SN of all devices at a retail location in the system, all the SN of devices sold that day or during that shift. Wouldn't it
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by matt_s 11y ago
I identify with the part about commenting to yourself in the code, at least to yourself 2 years from now. Obviously the comments should be for anyone but it is a good work practice to comment on why you did something or how a piece of code
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by matt_s 11y ago
The same could be said for developers, devops or any other role. At any company nothing is really done solo any more and all people have "agendas" or their own ideas of the path forward. If you think writing software or doing sys
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by matt_s 11y ago
This book should be added to your list. The examples in the book are from the 80's/90's so don't dismiss them - the software industry has the same problems it has always had, just swap out the programming language acron
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by matt_s 11y ago
This could be said of any company, even ones that let you choose your own workstation. You're fooling yourself if you think that the OS on the workstation indicates some sort of difference in your employer. If they mandated Macs with
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by matt_s 11y ago
There is likely a certain organization size where many sub organizations or groups exist and work gets to a mode of waiting on so-and-so to do that thing. Big companies like to organize around what they perceive as efficiency - putting comm
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by matt_s 11y ago
The pub should A/B test having the person there, and not there, and look at the bar sales. That would determine if it is bullshit or not. If the person creates a vibe that gets more people there, e.g. patrons texting friends to stop i
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by matt_s 11y ago
For software developers, being lazy is a good trait. Say you knock out all the work you needed to do in a day in 6 hours and then fill the other 2 hours with fixing bugs or other low level tasks to fight the "I don't want to be l
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by matt_s 11y ago
I'm assuming you are one of the 3 devs so you know the resources you should use will change over time. I would suggest when starting to learn to avoid any IDE. They will definitely want to use one later, but nail down the basics firs
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by matt_s 11y ago
Customer service is important especially for tech support. However with some enterprise software, like ERP systems, you achieve the Vendor Lock-In trophy pretty quickly after implementation so you may find this to be something a startup ca
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by matt_s 11y ago
Regarding emails, I get a large amount of inbound email for IT stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with my role. They all look the same. Our email system blocks downloads of content from external so all those fancy images people put i
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by matt_s 11y ago
The big changes are in the frameworks/libraries, collaboration tools, information availability and pure computational power. All the other stuff is the same really. Agile and waterfall are still being used, client, mobile and web are

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