shoefly

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by shoefly 9y ago
Every day is a new horror.
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by shoefly 9y ago
Take a close look at the teams. A friend of mine had several offers from teams at Google. The first team she choose sucked and she was ready to leave a month after she joined. After a chat with HR, she was transferred to her second choice a
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by shoefly 9y ago
I doubt this will be good for the little guys. Personal experience in the games industry here. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe.
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by shoefly 9y ago
The small midwestern town from which I hail is rotting. The residents could never afford the luxuries flowing here in the valley. They are angry. They are huge Trump supporters. They don't want handouts. They want jobs. They want to co
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by shoefly 9y ago
Sums up my interpretation of his writing, which I was forced to digest at uni.
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by shoefly 9y ago
I don't plan on leaving but there are a few fears that make me think about it. These are: Not being taken as seriously as my male colleagues (by men and women). Worrying about being hired for the wrong reasons. Getting boring grunt wor
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by shoefly 9y ago
I feel the same. I will stop coding when they nail shut my coffin.
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by shoefly 9y ago
This happened to me once. I ended up coding my own personal projects at the "host" company to pass the time. Otherwise, I would have gone nuts.
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by shoefly 9y ago
Some interesting blurbs from the manifesto: "This document is mostly written from the perspective of Google’s Mountain View campus, I can’t speak about other offices or countries." "Change is good (unstable)" vs "Ch
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by shoefly 9y ago
I hope they go easy on him. He's done some bad, but recently some good.
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by shoefly 9y ago
Whatever we do, it's important that we learn how to control the "ingredients" of our atmosphere. There are so many things that could go wrong with our atmosphere and result in mass extinction. Global warming, ice ages, massiv
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by shoefly 9y ago
I'm 99.9% certain these vehicles would be forced to fly over existing roads. And it's likely the final product would be autonomous to ensure no one could do a random fly over of your house.
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by shoefly 9y ago
Evolution is a beautiful thing. I once worked for a monolith who decided to invent a new way of programming. They built something massive and ready to scale even larger. And then they discovered no one wanted the product.
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by shoefly 10y ago
I've worked on distributed teams where kids pop into conference calls to say hi. It actually does some good when everyone is getting pissed about some shitstorm or another. If a kid (or kitten) pops on the screen, everyone calms down a
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by shoefly 10y ago
I don't know how they do it unless their partner is doing all of the parenting. I used to work crazy hours until our kid arrived. Now, I work 10 hours or less per day. My kid doesn't sleep, so this compounds the problem. He never
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by shoefly 10y ago
In our case, we sold TWO houses that we owned outright in another state, and this was our down payment for our house in silicon valley.
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by shoefly 10y ago
Love this idea. I needed the company machine years ago.
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by shoefly 10y ago
Work smart not hard. Automate everything you can automate. I do this and I routinely finish projects 30% faster than my peers. Another plus is that automation results in less human error.
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by shoefly 10y ago
Most of them went into the workforce when the Great recession hit. The ability to write off a student loan as a bankruptcy was removed in 2005. While part of this law has been thrown out, many people are still stuck as indentured servants t
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by shoefly 10y ago
A great article. There is one thing the author got wrong. Pot IS addictive. My brother can't go more than 3 hours w/o smoking it. If he does, he starts to sweat like crazy. He once went an entire weekend without it and he had a ve
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by shoefly 10y ago
I read the entire article and this is my take: this writer worked with an extreme bulley. The bulley was a ringleader. And potentially psycho. This isn't about sexism, racism, etc. This is about a ringleader selecting a victim to prey
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by shoefly 10y ago
IQ means little if you do not have the ambition, drive, and courage to be more. I have known many people with superior IQs working in brainless jobs. They would not leave or consider another way of life. Actually, one did. I was her best fr
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by shoefly 10y ago
This made me think of IOI in Ready Player One.
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by shoefly 10y ago
Looks like any other brittle FSM. It's missing an important layer of logic. And yeah, I'm bias because I'm finishing up an FSM that crushes that brittleness.
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by shoefly 10y ago
We should rephrase the question as "why don't computer scientists learn traditional math symbols?" Try writing traditional equations with your keyboard. Try posting your answer online. Modern computer science breaks down thes
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by shoefly 10y ago
If you've ever done a job search in tech, there are always 10x more software engineering jobs than PM jobs. There is that. A thought... I have worked at monoliths, a mid-sized corp, a hatchery, and my own. At a monolith, your job is ve
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by shoefly 10y ago
The best software engineers at my company are self-taught.
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by shoefly 10y ago
Places like school make it easy to connect with people you like. Same if you work in a large social environment. Leave this space and everything changes. As soon as I left college and got a job in tech, I was surrounded by few people of my
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by shoefly 10y ago
Defeat ignorance with cleverness. Create a solution that is far superior to what coal and oil have to offer. Make it so affordable that you cut the coal industry off at the knees without relying on politicians to get the job done. This site
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by shoefly 10y ago
I use this process and it works great. We give potential hires a 1-4 hour project to do at home, they bring it into our office to defend. We don't pay them to create the project. We don't look at education. Some of our top coders

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