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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
After the construction industry is done answering that question, I have the same question for the software industry. ;)
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> a big tech company is surprisingly similar to governments in terms of internal bureaucracy Underrated point. It didn't really sink in for me until I saw the numbers with my own eyes. From a quick DDG search of publicly available
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
The entire ride-sharing/delivery/logistics space was moving ridiculously fast during that time. Remember those photos of thousands of multicolored bicycles abandoned in fields? Or the scooters being yeeted into the ocean, global r
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Whoa — that's simple and brilliant. (Obvious in hindsight, I suppose, like many good ideas.) I do something similar intuitively, but I'm going to start looking at the shoulder much more explicitly now. "Driving school" w
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Another good way is to take notes live in the meeting — and have the doc shared on screen (for remote) or projected on the wall (for in-person). That way, it's unavoidably in front of everyone's face, and you get the perk of iro
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> How does this work in the world of business where 99% fail I used to know this grumpy old guy who had a simple explanation for that statistic: It doesn't mean that, if you start a business, you have a 99% chance of failure. It mea
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Genuinely not sure what you mean — it seems like the standard definition of ambition. How would you define it?
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Sounds like you've had some rough interviews. I think you're also right, though; it is generally rough out there these days. At the same time, the "candidate asking questions" portion is 10 minutes if you're luck
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> How does an inherently anxious and energetic person "just relax" and "take things slowly"? I've been thinking about this too. My plan is to just sit down and really put the hours in — work hard, and really grin
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> People say that but it makes no sense. [...] Are you going to cut his/her salary if he leaves a big, successful team to help fix a flailing team because it has less output? I think it works fine if we add on the concept that a goo
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> a platform engineer who makes internal tools You wouldn't run an A/B test to quantify your impact, but you could pretty easily do before/after metrics (or just collect them on the way during a graduated rollout) for any
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> he could get a percentage of the $ saved I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I think I (and most other decent engineers) can probably point to tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars in savings generated over the course of a sing
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
I think this analysis misses the point. The point is not about whether a task ends up being less than an hour. That happens all the time, as you say. The point is that, when beginning the task, it is entirely unknowable whether it'
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> 8 straight hours on a zoom call I know this is my entitled Big Tech worker bias, but... surely there should be a lunch break?
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Yeah, as the old saying goes: There's nothing wrong with a simple life of peace and prosperity. I frittered away large swaths of my 20s, and now, as I try to make up the lost time in my 30s, I often think of an entirely different quote
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
No one's getting promoted every 2 years from L3 to L8. Even going from L3 to L5 in 4 years is rare. Plus, most people who try to walk this path will plateau at L5 anyway. That's still not bad, though. Graduate at 22, having banked
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Toss in a fourth: maintenance price. Maybe even a fifth: storage price. Funny enough, I actually have noticed this with my books. More books require more bookshelves. More bookshelves require more real estate. It's a straight-line arro
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Wow, this is fascinating to hear. Other than the standard baseline of not touching the arrow keys, I use vim pretty differently: - 'j' and 'k' to move up and down, with '{' or '}' or even something li
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Man, I learned so much about good architecture from just hanging out on Freenode in a few programming channels. At some point, the business world called, and I stopped spending time on IRC. And I haven't kept up, but I think somethin
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Good question! And few people get to work at this scale, so it's not an unreasonable guess. I'll join you in speculating wildly about this, since, hey, it's kind of fun. IMHO sharding traffic by subreddit doesn't pass th
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Generalizing wildly from anecdata, I'd say the only thing correlated with graduating from those schools is arrogance.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> My instructions when I joined were something like "Yeah so just talk to a bunch of people and look for opportunities to contribute". Do you mind sharing the job title for something like this? Sounds like a dream job.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> they’re legitimately seeing the dire condition Google has been finding itself in with the lack of product success and increasing existential threats of LLM’s, the declining health of the open web from which they derive their profits, e
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
<vent> Ah, the classic "California Corporate" style of speaking: Q: Yes or no question about a specific case? A: Four sentences of condescending and convoluted explanation about how the rules work for the enti
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Yes, exactly. You want people to be able to say things like, "Hey, here's a crazy idea..." or "What if we..." without having to worry that they'll be torn apart instantly. According to Jony Ive, Steve Jobs was
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> It's often OK to not solve the problem as long as you give an interviewer insight into how you think It's not, though. Many people have no clue how to interview well, and way too many tech interviewers are obsessed with whe
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
How are you thinking about pricing it out? I was just thinking earlier today about the absolute meaninglessness of my Big Tech job — and whether it's even feasible or worthwhile to try and find something better. I have meetings, and ma
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
The entire hooks "thing" felt like a case of the library authors being too clever. Having components with lifecycle methods called at known times by the framework is a perfectly straightforward mental model. It's worked just
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Cool startup! I did some work for a client in the trucking space a while back, and I came away with a new appreciation for what a fascinating vertical it is. If you don't mind me asking, how'd you end up in the space? It feels lik
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
If this is how they're attempting to measure it, then the only thing they've actually verified is that their maps are 98% as good as the competition.

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