philjr

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by philjr 11y ago
Have you communicated to the boss in a rational way that this is such a big deal to you it would cause you to leave? Or have you just told them the other guy isn't good. This is how I typically approach these types of problems.... Ask
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by philjr 11y ago
Feel free to reach out for any advice. Email is in profile
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by philjr 11y ago
Remember it's his communication style so first thing is try not to get stressed in the first place. If your child starts crying, you may get stressed the first couple of times, but with experience you understand it's just the natu
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by philjr 11y ago
Have a frank and honest conversation. Any good manager doesn't want his employees to be stressed. Mention the S word and you'll get his attention. Have you brought this up with him previously?
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by philjr 11y ago
Sounds like you're not working in a technology company, where technology is in the DNA of the company. PMP certified dev managers without any dev experience (I'll emphasise the last bit), in my experience, have been universally po
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by philjr 11y ago
Normally in a group setting you probably don't want to go much further than that so if that comment with the right intonation (assertive not aggressive) doesn't work then you've got a bigger issue. At this point I'd look
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by philjr 11y ago
Just another data point, but you've already gotten your answer i think. Some of the best guys I've seen have majors in fields similar to x's - physics, ee, maths. I've hired and worked with people from majors in law, soc
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by philjr 11y ago
There's no right answer to this problem as all the nuances are situational. It's difficult to assess the situation without understanding the context but the first question I'd have is are you one "hop" from the ceo
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by philjr 11y ago
To me this comes down to long term priorities. It's easy to lose focus on a side project if it's just a side project. The discipline required to maintain a side project for most people is really difficult. What's the priority
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by philjr 11y ago
Quite simply, The saas model is a much easier support model and for that reason and that reason alone I'd vote for it. All code lives on machines and infrastructure you control and there's tremendous power that comes from that par
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by philjr 12y ago
We've (Workday) started using this internally and love it. Thankyou!
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by philjr 12y ago
Yeh always wondered about that. There are a few 24 hour gas stations in Dublin, Ireland that give discounts to on duty officers so it attracts them to be there through their night shift to reduce robberies. But as you said, if they're
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by philjr 12y ago
Love this description!
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by philjr 12y ago
just run ssh on a non-standard port and you get the same benefits
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by philjr 13y ago
Typically, the reason that happens with external recruiters (i.e. those folks who are not employed directly for the company you're talking to), is because the initial engagement is often "anonymized" with the employer. As a r
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by philjr 13y ago
People who don't care about other people's opinions aren't that common and aren't called extroverts. They're generally called sociopaths :-)
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by philjr 13y ago
I agree that hijacking 127.0.0.1 is not a good idea, but don't see any issues with picking something else in 127.0.0.0/8? In fact it seems like a perfect use-case for that
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by philjr 13y ago
Why is that only a problem if you start a sentence with 'Yes' ? Cynics always have scapegoats. It's always everyone else's fault. Dumb colleagues, idiotic managers, stupid customers. Just remember you control your situat
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by philjr 13y ago
Looks like Mohit and team are finally out of stealth mode. Great bunch of guys, and the product is quite simply AWESOME.
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by philjr 13y ago
Some good commentary by Fred Wilson about 409a's... http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-the-option-s...
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by philjr 13y ago
Just be aware I completely oversimplified the tax calculations here :-) Happy to pass on details in Dublin for some folks I got advice from. I'll stick my email in my profile
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by philjr 13y ago
This is great information and I too would consider long and hard before laying out significant sums of cash early on. You're completely subject to market risk and you've just handed over some of your own money. Everyone's app
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by philjr 13y ago
Currently evaluating mixpanel... curious what you are you struggling with?
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by philjr 13y ago
I got an ASUS RT-N66U earlier this year and it really is an awesome piece of kit. +1 for Asus routers
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by philjr 13y ago
For companies who are considering going remote have you considered the "global" problems you may have (e.g. payroll, local compliance laws - holidays etc.) ? Do you have solutions for them? There's a cost for most businesses
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by philjr 13y ago
Just to echo this, I've hired folks in who were team leads / senior engineers in other companies who wanted to get in to management but their companies were too small and not growing. So we hired them as individual contributors an
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by philjr 13y ago
This is a bit late, but my 2c - make sure you want this kind of role. Line management in companies with good engineers is more facilitation and people management than anything else. Have a frank conversation with your boss and tell him you
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by philjr 13y ago
Never seen workflowy before ... love it!
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by philjr 13y ago
Agreed - it's really frustrating that iotop / vmstat are basically still the top tools for debugging. strace can help, but the impact on performance really hurts. We should be taking a lead from dtrace in this space
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by philjr 13y ago
Completely off-topic - but why does a consultancy company in Munich have a .ie domain? :-)

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