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by monster_group 4y ago
>> "Jugaad" is a cultural attitude that is hard to explain outside the Indian context. There's nothing special about "Jugaad". It's same as white trash repair. All societies where resources are limited ha
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by monster_group 4y ago
That's why I always carry my own - especially for whiteboard interviews.
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by monster_group 4y ago
Before making any decision look at the risk/reward ratio and then make the decision based on how much risk and bad consequences you can handle.
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by monster_group 4y ago
You absolutely can. We do it all the time by paying others to do simple jobs for us. When I pay someone else to mow my lawn I am buying time. If I didn't mind spending time mowing the lawn I would just do it myself.
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by monster_group 4y ago
While I understand the significance, I find these nuances exhausting. As a senior experienced engineer I am also supposed to provide guidance and show some authority, especially in design meetings and code reviews. Being too humble comes of
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by monster_group 4y ago
It depends on why you want to switch. If you want to switch because you love the new line of work then go for it but understand that you will start as junior and most likely make less money than you do currently for several years. But if yo
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by monster_group 4y ago
Static methods are a pain for unit testing though. I have started avoiding them for that reason alone. For stateless objects, you can always have a singleton and invoke all the methods on that object giving effectively static behavior witho
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by monster_group 4y ago
Syncing passwords is a bad idea and is really a legacy case for applications that don't support SSO. The correct way to do provisioning + auth is to use SCIM just for provisioning users and groups (with password based auth disabled in
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by monster_group 4y ago
Of course the one I wrote few months ago! When I re-read it today I realize how good I was at foreseeing all the problems that would eventually arise. The code has descriptive comments that explain not just what the code is doing but what i
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by monster_group 4y ago
Companies give tiny raises to loyal employees. If hiring is so expensive why don't companies make effort to retain employees by giving them raises that make their compensation at least at par with that of the new hires.
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by monster_group 4y ago
Off-topic - I highly recommend watching the show "The Man in the Highcastle" on Amazon. It depicts a future in which Germany and Japan won World War II.
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by monster_group 4y ago
On Linux you can just use "SimpleScreenRecorder". It allows recording video of a single window (with audio from mic). I use it at work to create demos. My video demos are better than most others' because the video does not co
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by monster_group 4y ago
It's not about being territorial, it's about ownership. I assume you work for a small company. At Big Co. there are thousands of services and APIs. You can't give default permissions to everybody to call every API. That would
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by monster_group 4y ago
>> Any blockers that do occur are dealt with at the time, leaving nothing unaddressed by the time the next day rolls around. You must not be working with micro-services then. It can take a week just to get permission to call another t
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by monster_group 4y ago
Your question hints at desperation and depression. I recommend seeking professional mental help before things get out of control.
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by monster_group 4y ago
>> ...no calls... You must not have kids / spouse then. You can get a call from school / daycare any time that your kid is sick or hurt and needs to be picked up immediately. Or your spouse can call you that their car broke
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by monster_group 4y ago
Daily rotation seems too frequent to me. Sometimes you need 2-3 days to really deep dive and fix the core issue after the alarm has gone silent. Also, with daily rotation it is tempting to wait it out and punt the problem to the next person
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by monster_group 4y ago
Job provides Windows or Mac but I prefer to use Linux. So I installed Linux in VM and do all the work in it. VMWare Workstation is rock solid with great performance. I boot Windows, then Linux in VMWare Workstation, go full screen and never
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by monster_group 4y ago
Seriously. You would think smart people who write such software would understand the importance of naming things properly and uniquely. Imagine trying to google to troubleshoot any "Text Editor" issues. You will get a bunch of unr
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by monster_group 4y ago
There is no shortage of opportunities to go into management. Good managers are hard to come by. So any time you can demonstrate that you have the skills and willingness to be a manager, most employers would welcome that. You can try to find
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by monster_group 5y ago
I agree and initially I refused but the problem space was interesting and I wanted to get in it so I did it.
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by monster_group 5y ago
The problem with this approach is that any real task requires a lot of internal knowledge (functional and technical) of the system which an outside candidate will not have. The pairing employee will have lots of it though and it is likely t
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by monster_group 5y ago
Most tech companies now do around 4-5 interviews. It has been like that for at least 7-8 years (probably more) but I just found out that not all companies are like that. After being subjected to these demeaning Leetcoding interviews I went
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by monster_group 5y ago
No job will be perfect. There will be some of what you described in most jobs. It is important to figure out what matters to you the most and optimize for that while looking for job. For example - I am currently in the process of quitting m
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by monster_group 5y ago
You haven't described what is it that you hate about your jobs so much. Bureaucracy? Office politics? Type of work you get assigned? Meetings? Tech debt? Obsolete tech stack? Hard to suggest something without knowing.
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by monster_group 5y ago
There is actually a good book with the exact same title. https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Smart-Why-Arent-Happy/dp/B01DYF...
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by monster_group 5y ago
Lack of reliable service from plumbers, HVAC, appliance repair people. There are many people available but the quality and consistency of service is highly variable and chances of getting ripped off are high if you don't do your due di
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by monster_group 5y ago
FTA - "I was assigned to had an engineer who had never done web development (didn’t know HTTP, HTML, CSS or Javascript)" But hey, you bet he knows topological sort and dynamic programming.
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by monster_group 5y ago
>> it is hard for us tech oriented people to build a great social life. This stereotype needs to die. For some reason, tech people have a superiority complex about their intelligence and inferiority complex about their social intelli
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by monster_group 5y ago
>> Also everything is measured in stone-weights and horse-lengths. And also (American) football fields, libraries of Congress and Olympic size swimming pools.

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