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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I fall in a weird bucket: very advanced understanding of some other languages and good work experience, education, etc., but even though I love Haskell and practice it all the time, I think I am just somewhere on the boundary between beginn
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Actually, I think the bookable conference room or slightly private cubby/carrel "solution" is terrible and is a form of explicitly codifying disrespect for developer needs, which is itself a form of codifying the fact that
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I don't doubt your experience. I'm just saying that my experience has been violently the opposite -- for both large and small teams in large and small companies, all of which had done extensive training about Agile and had used Ag
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
In several jobs all using Agile, with experienced Scrum masters and lots of training, I've never heard of or witnessed a stand-up actually lasting the allotted 5 minutes (they always run way over and never contain info that I actuall
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I was trying to express that I am envious of people who are able to have a significant other and a comfortable home with space. Having even just one of the two sounds like a dream world to me.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I think many organizations only pay lip service to the idea of valuing productivity. The management and executive layers have all kinds of opportunities for weird forms of rent seeking based on status, often boiling down to viewing their su
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I've been unemployed for a long time, despite working hard on a job search.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
The number of people here who have both a private home office and a significant other depresses me.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
The problem is you still have to show up and be an unproductive body in a chair during normal hours ( especially if you work for a "progressive" company that talks a lot about how you don't need to keep regular hours) in o
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I've never heard of or been part of any organization (academic, non-profit, corporate, open source, etc.) that respects the basic need of developers for uninterruptible concentration. Note also that it is a particular word choice by Kn
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
As long as developers continuing agreeing to work for them without transferring the negative externality (degraded productivity, degraded mental health) back on them (by boycotting companies with open-plan seating for example), then we are
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Just chiming in to add another vote that this is the explanation. In most business settings, business types don't like mathematical maturity or really even care unless it is fundamental to the bottom line -- and even then, it's us
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It was analyzed considerably in the book Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams which even has a chapter entitled "Bring Back the Door." Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Exchange and Fog Creek, is also deeply committed to pr
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Have you even read any of the rest of the thread? You sound ridiculous. I had no choice but to move here due to a significant set of family medical and legal circumstances that I am supporting (both financially and by doing full-time care,
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I love the Sweet Valley High series. Glad to see it's enjoying a renaissance of sorts.
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I'm not talking about mere drudgery. Look, I've got a decent amount of work experience. I know the 40-hour grind. I know how to navigate tricky relationships with colleagues. I know how to deal with and succeed in average-case cor
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I appreciate your reply, but I also feel you are too nonchalantly dismissing something like e.g. Moral Mazes, which is a significant longitudinal study of bureaucracy and management hierarchy, using tools from academic sociology. It's
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I did A) and gave the for-loop algorithm that examines each integer in the range on one axis, computes the value of the line at that point, and checks if it's also an integer. The interviewer said this works, asked me the time complexi
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I've dealt with several recruiters each from Huxley, NJF, Selby Jennings, Open System Technologies, Crystal Equation, Workbridge Associates, Jobspring Partners, Cybercoders, and Grady Levkov. And also one from Gina's Tech Jobs,
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I also feel there's a serious argument to be made, Moral Mazes / Peopleware style, that most companies are bad/wrong/awful/burnout machines. The fact that open-plan
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Regardless, the amount of compensation required to eek out a minimal living for myself in the high cost-of-living areas where the jobs are plus send money home to cover the extra labor we'll have to pay for to handle the family situati
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I think I already feel that way to a strong degree. As I mentioned in my post, I dislike laurel-resting and want to be judged based on talent and work ethic, aspects that have earned me far more praise through my efforts than anything from
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I agree with you, but in this case, the standards are necessary. Taking a job that just lands me right back in an unsustainable situation would be worse than going longer and longer with no job. Eventually, I agree it must hit a point where
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I have an undergrad degree in math, a master's in applied math (focusing on MCMC statistical stuff), and a master's degree in electrical engineering (focusing on computer vision), and I did not know this, and it would have taken m
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
The current free time is mostly dedicated to attending to the immediate needs of the family situation (which is a complicated mix of medical and legal issues). If I move, I have to have enough money to adequately cover costs for making arra
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I'm definitely willing to relocate, but cannot do so unless the company provides relocation. If I can move for a definite job, that's one thing, and I can make arrangement here in the family situation to handle that. But I can&#x2
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
There are a few reasons why I didn't agree regarding places that I've turned down. First, if the family situation continues to require on-going financial resources from me (likely), then it's literally not sustainable for me
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I was asked a slight variant of this question: < http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/918362/what-is-the-n... >, as the third tech question in a 1-hour interview. The interviewer also did not give me any
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
This is not how it works. Recruiters generally spam everyone based on an inventory of jobs they have, and half the time, the recruiter is more interested in pumping you for information about where you currently work or where else you'v
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I've been unemployed for about 14 months since resigning from my most recent role -- a role which my close family and friends characterized as "destroying me." After becoming unemployed, with enough savings to sustain myself

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