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by scruple 4y ago
Starting in 2018, I was a tech lead (at the time, my title was Senior) for 2 teams spanning ~4 years. I have a Staff title today. Here's my problem with these roles. Going by the definitions from Will Larsen in your link, I am currentl
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by scruple 4y ago
I don't think it's one size fits all. I moderate a niche hobby subreddit and we have been fighting astroturfing for years now. We're over 5,000 subscribers but this has been a problem for the mod team since we were around 1,5
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by scruple 4y ago
I worked in healthcare robotics for a spell. The management fell 50/50 into these buckets. More than once I had to remind some self-important person that we, in fact, did not "save lives" and that that was firmly the busine
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by scruple 4y ago
It's always seemed to me that the most likely scenario for these types is that the mercs they hire for security decide to take it over a month in.
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by scruple 4y ago
My brother retired in his mid-40s. He has the same problem. He was a chef and had spent 2 decades working himself to the bone, genuinely being too busy to get things done. In retirement, he became "the busiest unemployed person I know&
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by scruple 4y ago
I also operate on a sliding scale. I once charged a ludicrous hourly rate for a client who came to me asking for VB6 work (in 2015) that was very last minute. I genuinely didn't want the work, it landed on my lap through word-of-mout
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by scruple 4y ago
> but the schools are the best out of the lot if that's a concern for you. That is how I became aware of western Mass, actually. FWIW education is a major driver for us since we have 3 young kids. My thinking waffles a bit because t
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by scruple 4y ago
I've spent quite a bit of time looking at Vermont, specifically Burlington and Montpelier. I have a very good friend from who was born in Burlington and who moved back there to raise his kids. Those two cities are at the top of our lis
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My wife and I are seriously considering our options in smaller towns in New England. Many of them predate the automobile and have the sorts of qualities that are being talked about in this thread.
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I started using vim in 2007. It's baked into my DNA at this point.
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I struggled to make the change. I think I tried half a dozen times to go from (neo)vim to Emacs and it never stuck. My problem was that I kept reaching for spacemacs and Doom Emacs, etc., right out of the gate, and I would be mystified by E
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by scruple 4y ago
I agree with you, and I'm a long-time vimmer who moved to Emacs full-time last December, but... It's not that simple. If an entire development team is using VSCode, or you're doing development inside of docker containers, it
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by scruple 4y ago
> Anyone have their own cure for a hangover the following day after drinking heavily? A run. 45-60 minutes usually does the trick for me. I bring an electrolyte drink with me. It sucks, it's painful, by the nideay point I'm usu
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by scruple 4y ago
> I would still prefer to go back to the non-tech non-startup industry. As someone who has spent > 15 years in the tech-only industry, both in massive corporations and startups, I'm curious to know how someone finds these roles.
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As a fan of PKD, and a variety of others in the same vein, I'd probably be curious to read some of these books by these other authors .
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Seriously, what a ride this thread has been.
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I sometimes have to go back to GitHub issues I created, that I bookmarked for this specific reason. I think that the Internet has modified how our brains retain information. I don't think this is an original idea, but I've observe
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by scruple 4y ago
Total aside, but that's a very nice piece of family history. And a neat short story, too! Thanks for sharing it.
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I'm going through something similar. I recently scheduled a call with my engineering VP and highlighted the ratio of branches prepended with "hotfix" vs. "feature." It was a simple way to get their attention. With t
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> Do you also have scrum-of-scrums? I remember my previous employer trying that out in one or two departments. Ultimately that company landed on SAFe Agile and it was a complete and utter shit show. Where I'm at now is "doing&q
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by scruple 4y ago
I keep a copy on my desk and thumb through it occasionally when I need help with my writing. Next to that book is also a copy of Williams and Colomb's Style: Toward Clarity and Grace . I've also read the USAF Tongue and Quill .
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by scruple 4y ago
> Magpie developers That was a new one for me. I sort of understood the reference but the Jeff Atwood post [0] where it's introduced is as relevant today as it was when this was published in 2008. [0]: https://blog.coding
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by scruple 4y ago
My only problem with relative line numbers (and I use them despite this) is working with ranges of line numbers. For instance, I'll maybe be doing some refactoring and want to see what it looks like to move lines 127,137 to my current
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by scruple 4y ago
When I hear that sort of mockery, especially from so-called "thought leaders" and other loud voices, in conference talks, in long-winded YouTube videos (rants), etc., it's such a big red flag to me. Even though I might agree
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Wealthy Foreign Buyers Are Slowly Returning to the U.S. Housing Market(forbes.com)
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by scruple 4y ago
Directed Acyclic Graph. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
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I guess you'll have to forgive my ignorance. Without some sort of rational explanation, I'm baffled that a single match would require 300MB of data transfer, as well as the fact that the game apparently moves 1GB around "very
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by scruple 4y ago
> Why does this step always come last? Sometimes comes first but the outcome is the same regardless. I was once brought in to sit on early discussions with a consulting group. I pointed out very real problems with their ideas about how
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But I did study the fundamentals. It just happened to be almost 2 decades ago and I haven't used 95% of it since entering the industry. How could it possibly be relevant? I've gone the route of avoiding typical interviews altoge
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by scruple 4y ago
I unshackled some golden handcuffs recently. It wasn't easy. It still isn't easy to deal with, even 2 months later! But it was the right decision (financially and otherwise)...

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