pommers

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by pommers 8y ago
Fully aware that it is unsustainable. Being a small team, we chose to maximize the time between on call stints. We will revisit the decision early next year. We're hiring people with on call being something that is part of the position
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by pommers 8y ago
My current teams on call is pretty taxing. Two weeks on, two weeks off (only myself and my tech lead in the team at the moment), but our alerting is pretty good. The places it falls down are where we interface with other teams who aren&#x27
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by pommers 8y ago
This reads to me as "I'm never woken up by phone calls from customers (or managers angry that customers are complaining about it being broken), because our alerts will wake me up first". If the phone rings, you answer it. If,
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by pommers 8y ago
My favorite manager taught me how to navigate the workplace. He managed 20 very different people and always found time for one of us if wee needed it. He would fight other people to say that we (graduates) were valuable to the company and w
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by pommers 8y ago
I've taking minimizing my decisions to an extreme in some areas. My meals normally consist of food from a small group and when I'm travelling, the local food I go out to try or when I'm meeting people is normally burgers.
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by pommers 8y ago
I have a couple of button up shirts with my suits. And three shirts with prints on them for casual friday, but they are mainly black too.
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by pommers 8y ago
I've gone down the path of minimising my choices to a small good set for a lot of things. I do this for everything from clothes and shoes to managing my money. Clothes are simple. 10 shirts that are either black or grey. Three shirts t
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by pommers 9y ago
If there are schools/libraries near you that run coding clubs you could go and help teach. If there aren't any around, you could help to start one up. I have spent several years helping to organise and run a CoderDojo, and it has
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by pommers 9y ago
I check google flights, book them when they are cheapish and look for somewhere I could see myself staying for a night or two in my destination area. Couchsurfing, last minute hotel booking and AirBNB for accommodation. I don't really
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by pommers 9y ago
Ordered a tub of ice cream using UberEats. ETA 45 minutes. after an hour and 15 minutes I start trying to contact someone because my driver was "3 minutes away" dropping off someone elses order first. Call my driver and am unable