mharroun

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by mharroun 7y ago
So what do you label someone who does most of the work while other contribute little to nothing? How to they profess that and not be labeled an asshole?
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by mharroun 7y ago
To be clear there are under performing assholes just they usual get the ax quickly if management is competent. How would those 7 top performers act if placed alone in a situation of failure? Where its obvious the company is failing and is c
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by mharroun 7y ago
So why wasn't he terminated if he had sub par performance and was also someone who causes friction? Did no one speak up about the issue... or is that "rude" behavior? To me is sound that 1 of 3 things are happening: - Managem
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by mharroun 7y ago
From my experience rude + under-performing = termination, if those people who you work with are not performing why does your companies management keep the around? I didn't put it in my original post but incompetent managers who use &
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by mharroun 7y ago
How do you define being rude? From what I read and experienced in my career the real reason "rude" people get away with what they are doing is simple. They tend to be top or above average performers who don't like when co-wor
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by mharroun 7y ago
I just wish docker wasnt slow as shit on mac's (then again I guess relative to vagrant it's not that bad)
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by mharroun 7y ago
I lead product and engineering orgs in startups, so yes I make sure our -core- tools remain static as possible. I never claimed learning is not important, if anything I supported that in my comment in hiring eager jr's. My point being
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by mharroun 7y ago
To defend some of this: 1) Why pay someone to learn? In both terms of money and other devs time being sunk into helping you learn. 2) If you do know "tool X" and its a primary tool then its a lot easier to quickly evaluate whether
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by mharroun 7y ago
sorry typo, i meant the touchbar
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by mharroun 7y ago
I have a mid 2015 MBP... still will take an exploding battery over the new keyboard and stupid touchpad.
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by mharroun 7y ago
Reactrouter is a 3rd party npm package... the core react framework has been very stable and backwards compatible.
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by mharroun 7y ago
Why don't they just call it a new framework if its undergoing such a major overhaul. This only makes me feel better about picking react at my current company as now I view this framework as dangerous for building anything long lasting
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by mharroun 7y ago
It seems disingenuous to call it the first. AWS has it's own time series db. In terms of open source Apache druid had a managed cloud variant that imply.io runs.
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by mharroun 7y ago
Yes Yes without filter code theirs no way to remove some piece of data from a website.... such as: delete from reviews where id = ?
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by mharroun 7y ago
I guess I'm old school but I have had huge success with OOP and the long lived design patterns. Patterns like adapter, bridge, and strategy are emensly useful in archetecting software that will last more then the next iteration or 6 mo
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by mharroun 7y ago
I'm surprised that at that scale you are still not building some core functions internally. Though it makes sense, buy over build is almost always the best choice early stage. It's hard to slow down product velocity to fix things
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by mharroun 7y ago
My company has a rule of no deploys after 5pm (4pm on Friday) minus hot fixes and other special cases. We have unit tests, integration tests, CI/CD, launch new systems/features via flagged code already in production, and we deploy
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by mharroun 7y ago
Our product/dev team is ~18 but how I like to do these things: - "Projects" are set as epics / clusters of tickets - Ordering of the backlog/board follows as such: -- Critical bugs -- Critical "One off" Ta
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by mharroun 8y ago
- Ceartian people own certain systems/projects. - Ownership is only the point person of knowlage/direction/insights - Anyone can work on the code "owned" by someone else - Idealy the writer fixes their own bugs and
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by mharroun 8y ago
Great... how long till google gets bored of this and cuts all theses services leaving their customer's screwed? After seeing how google handles products and their sun-setting I would never trust my production environment with google. T
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by mharroun 8y ago
Deadlines are a must IMHO to scale anything, they should be negotiated and adjustable (either by moving the deadline, taking on debt, or cutting scope), but are necessary. Why? because theres more to a buisness then enginnering (and product
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by mharroun 8y ago
I feel the need to defend the startup life... so here goes: I have spent 12 years in the startup space, with an origin in software engineering... so far I have learned: - how to be an amazing engineer - how to be a above average IT/Ops
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by mharroun 8y ago
Speaking from startup perspective. While there are a hand full of exceptions. IMHO the dedicated role of a product manager is exceptionally counter productive. Unless they are a founder they tend to lack technical expertise of capable engin
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Fairygodboss: The largest community of professional women raises Series A(forbes.com)
1 points by mharroun 8y ago|0 comments
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by mharroun 8y ago
This will be a very unpopular opinion here but as someone who has managed a few different engineering departments and now a CTO I agree with the premise of the post. A single business/mentor oriented senior+ engineer is an unbelievabl
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by mharroun 8y ago
Equity is monopoly money. So many ways for it to fall thought so few for it to actually pay out. As someone whos spent ~12 years in the startup space... when you take a job expect only the money guarnteed to you. If your not happy with that
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5 Things I’ve learned working with a women-dominated engineering team(fastcompany.com)
3 points by mharroun 8y ago|2 comments
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by mharroun 8y ago
This depends on the culture & hiring philosophies of the company. I've seen many places that "only hire the best" or "only hire seniors" then end up with a bunch of engineers who dont mentor or force multiply bu
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by mharroun 8y ago
Been using the new Context API which has been super easy and simple to use. Though our product is not a giant SPA.
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by mharroun 8y ago
How about saying to the designer... "Hey if we remove this or make an adjustment like X I can get this done 5x faster. If you cant agree bring it up to the person in charge of the project. Either time is saved or it is explicitly state

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