sorval

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by sorval 5y ago
Part of the idea was that it would be more authentic and kinder. When people are completely anonymized they are free to be their worst selves. Your voice is personal. Its slower though because its more 'single threaded' for lac
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by sorval 6y ago
I've seen in leaderless orgs that getting new headcount for your part of the org is very hard, and everyone just does what they want. Theres multiple tools competing for each other. Getting promoted is hard. Ownership is difficult--
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by sorval 6y ago
I'd be curious to know how common this is. I absolutely do not miss any part of the commute, or being constantly distracted by coworkers noise and needs.
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by sorval 6y ago
Well, there goes the intercept.
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by sorval 6y ago
I've found Adobe to be pretty handsy with their consumers' pocketbooks in the past...
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by sorval 6y ago
I worked there. It was a greasy and miserable place run by people who should have retired long ago. Everything was waterfall development, and there was a yearly slave-rush to their miserable convention show, where only half the stuff reall
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by sorval 6y ago
moronic right wing analysis. The article had personally identifying info so it got blocked. the end.
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by sorval 6y ago
Most of the difference between a Sr engineer vs Staff/Sr staff/Mgr is all social skills. Its not just what you get done, but how you get it done and how you leverage other people that matters. Social skills are absolutely vital
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by sorval 6y ago
Maybe those were older people? Threads came about in 96 and became default in the linux kernel in 2.6 (released in 2003). Sharing memory between processes was a mess before that. Java green threads (emulating threads in user space, which
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by sorval 6y ago
Thats just utterly untrue and the reverse of whats actually true. "states that were coded as blue based upon results from the 2004 presidential election were significantly higher in education funding than were states coded as red. Stud
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by sorval 6y ago
Agreed. Its frustrating that the idea that "college is useless and a bad deal" is not challenged more. I see a real difference in terms of rigor, discipline, and professionalism from college grads vs those that didnt go.
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by sorval 6y ago
Google plus, google glass, google health, google reader, meebo, picasa, google express. The list is long. "dropped the ball on innovation," indeed.
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by sorval 7y ago
I'd be curious as to whether it loses ring some sales.
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by sorval 7y ago
Ah, Theres the old Steve Balmer Microsoft we all know and love.
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by sorval 8y ago
A manager sitting in meetings all day will be poor at responding to review requests. Its the same reason they make crappy oncalls.
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by sorval 8y ago
Theres a desolation that settles into your soul around your late 40s or early 50s. Not everyone, but its fairly common. You have to figure a way out of it. People think its about accepting the increasing context of limitations in your lif
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by sorval 11y ago
Nolan Bushnell made terrible pizza. soapbox denied.
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by sorval 13y ago
one of the images originally in the post was a 'borrowed from the internet' of an attractive actress, they claimed it was an "engineer" on their staff. This was pointed out in the comments and they quickly removed the i