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811.
by rantwasp 6y ago
you’re welcome! the good thing about this technique is that the load is distributed and it’s knee+hip. also because of the lower contact area you can deliver more force in the right area (ie the handle)
812.
by rantwasp 6y ago
you are going to dislocate your shoulder if you bump the door. you should use your foot and you apply more pressure without breaking anything Here: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-break-down-a-...
813.
by rantwasp 6y ago
the CDC advice on not wearing masks early on was pure BS. pure BS and misinformation spread to cover lack of resources.
814.
by rantwasp 6y ago
https://amp.dev It's supposedly a component framework. supposedly you can build web stuff faster and easier using it. In reality it looks like Google is using it a Trojan horse
815.
by rantwasp 6y ago
now you know. and hopefully route53 will ring a bell every time you hear it.
816.
by rantwasp 6y ago
i have communities that are centered around things i enjoy w/ 2-3-8 subs per community. it's pretty rad
817.
by rantwasp 6y ago
and more importantly should diet mountain dew be called "lemon flavored carbonated beverage" or "lemon flavored sugar-free carbonated beverage"?
818.
by rantwasp 6y ago
Here is the redshift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Doppler_effect It's a tongue in cheek about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Expansion_of_space and how
819.
by rantwasp 6y ago
secret to reddit is to not go with the flow and only watch a small number of high quality subs
820.
by rantwasp 6y ago
also, get off facebook - it's just stealing your attention and rotting your brain. stopped watching the news 15 years ago. this one mostly gets this right. stop watching the news. if something so important happens that you should know
821.
by rantwasp 6y ago
go to: https://aws.amazon.com/products/ look up your service. each service has a 1 line description that captures what it does. eg Athena = query data in s3 using sql i don’t really get why people cannot be bothered to
822.
by rantwasp 6y ago
nowhere close to 100x. actually it’s worse than the aws names across the board. the names have a logic to them but I agree it’s intimidating to learn hundreds of things at the same time - so you don’t. you learn the bits and pieces you nee
823.
by rantwasp 6y ago
to be fair it is “up to” 30 days. mine went through in a day. YMMV
824.
by rantwasp 6y ago
counter point: it everyone opted out they would become mandatory
825.
by rantwasp 6y ago
yes. and earplugs. that being said the pressure differential sucks and you will also have issues if for example you’re a side sleeper
826.
by rantwasp 6y ago
yes. i’ve done the same thing. they either have a hard time attracting new customers or have a hard time keeping track of who benefited from the trial
827.
by rantwasp 6y ago
you need to generate some 3d graphs and after that write a paper about using gradient descent to improve the WLB of SW developers :) our team had 7 people and at some point we started sharing the oncall load with a sister team (ie you were
828.
by rantwasp 6y ago
make sure you apply the right paste between the fan and your head for proper thermal conductivity
829.
by rantwasp 6y ago
in my experience there are 2 types of people: ones that can focus with headphones on and ones that need silence. you are part of the lucky ones. also, as far as interruptions go, acoustic interruptions are only one type of interruption. You
830.
by rantwasp 6y ago
yeah. the fish tank would be overkill. but to have a private office is totally doable. factor in the productivity gains and it's not only doable but it's actually cheaper than the current clusterf open space situation. also, up un
831.
by rantwasp 6y ago
read "My Kingdom for a Door" in a Hacknot. It's a classic: https://beinghappyprogramming.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/ha... Peopleware also covers the subject of the working space quite well. People
832.
by rantwasp 6y ago
2 promotions. SDE2 -> SDE3 -> Principal First one was in 2 years. 2nd one took 3.5 years.
833.
by rantwasp 6y ago
it’s always a push and pull kind-of thing. if you answer your email after hours you will receive emails after hours. if you work on your free time more work is going to show up on your plate. as with everything in life having boundaries is
834.
by rantwasp 6y ago
hmm. no. you do have agency. you have agency during writing the code. you have agency during the code review. you have agency during wiring of alerts (if you do stupid shit you will receive a lot of pages. don’t so stupid shit). you have ag
835.
by rantwasp 6y ago
i thought the used a blink tag and set the interval to 2000 years
836.
by rantwasp 6y ago
i agree with you that the oncall is not ideal. it is also widespread in the industry. so what’s the point to complain about something that is an essential part of the job? (advertised or not, if you don’t want to do it you will have to look
837.
by rantwasp 6y ago
it’s usually split in 24 monthly payments. also, when it was a large chunk the contract said it would be pro-rate it. also, anecdotally, it you were fired they would not ask for the bonus back - it opened a whole can of worms in the wrongfu
838.
by rantwasp 6y ago
i don’t count it as in: i worked more than 3 weekends, but not because i had a choice )
839.
by rantwasp 6y ago
so, the bigger an org, the higher the likelihood of stories like this popping up. also, the incentives and their structure play a part in how this unfolds. It’s also very curious to me that only a certain type of person runs into situations
840.
by rantwasp 6y ago
yeah no. as someone who has worked at Amazon for 7 years I can tell you that it’s not true across the board and there are good “pockets” where there is respect for people’s boundaries. To add to this, in my time there I worked during the we

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