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by rickspencer3 7y ago
I have been exclusively in leadership positions since about 2005. I usually ask potential peers and ICs interviewing me: "if I were to get this job, what is the first thing you would ask me to do to help you." This question often
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by rickspencer3 7y ago
Seems very relevant to many existing SaaS services today: 1. They are not doing CD, but they do deploy frequently. 2. They are using K8s, or even immutable infrastructure, so far as I can tell. 3. They have a lot of people involved in
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by rickspencer3 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I actually got this idea watching what they are doing in China, it looks like a very widespread practice. In fact, it looks like there are cities that are also taking the temperature of patrons going into store, get
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by rickspencer3 7y ago
I ordered an infrared temperature sensor. My idea is to build a prototype of a low cost device that a merchant can use to show to customers that their staff is healthy, or at least does not have a fever. The idea is that when a staff member
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I Moved My Personal Projects to Gitlab(thenewstack.io)
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I have not experienced this as a big problem for teams. There are many ways to collaborate, iterate, capture, and communicate ideas other than whiteboards, and people naturally find and adapt such methods based on their remote culture. In f
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by rickspencer3 7y ago
Just my opinion, but based on running remote and semi-remote teams since 2008 ... fully or mostly remote engineering teams are a competitive advantage, so, by definition, organizations that choose not to adapt to this reality will have a ha
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I came here to see if anyone had insights about what happened to see if I could apply any lessons learned. But all the comments seem to be "get off my lawn" style comments annoyed about people posting jokes in the issue. Unfortuna
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In my experience, you will excel the most at what you enjoy the most. I would try iOS and see if it something that would excited to work on most days. I doubt good web developers or good mobile developers will be going hungry in the next co
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by rickspencer3 7y ago
I am not afraid of getting sued, but experience makes me afraid of getting dragged into an argument about my conclusions and judgement, the last thing I need when managing a hiring process. I do still provide feedback when it is politely re
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Yes we have a summer internship program, it is listed on our careers page. Also, we are open source so, like any open source project, you can get started simply by joining the community and contributing.
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InfluxData: Remote | San Francisco | London | Austin InfluxData makes InfluxDB, which created the category of time series databases. We are used heavily in infrastructure monitoring, IoT, finance, and other fields. We have are Open Source,