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by speby 8y ago
It is not just about paying more (although that is one tactic). There are so many other factors though that affect hiring and attracting developers to the work you have at your company: * Company size * Is it green-field or mostly leg
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by speby 8y ago
"still workin' on those bugs" is really pretty useless. I'm not suggesting you're not a disciplined person but at some point, debugging something for days on end is a sign you may need some help, a fresh set of eyes
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by speby 8y ago
Right, the old "Let's sell $1 bills for $0.99!" Make up the loss with volume! =)
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by speby 8y ago
Of course a worthwhile question. Really, the same question can be asked of any party in any transaction in a company: employees, investors, customers, vendors, and so forth. Virtually anyone exchange or transacting with the business could a
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by speby 8y ago
Well if he met me, he could add one more person to his list of people he has met over the years that meet his expectations of "full stack developer." To be honest, I'm getting sick of the front-end/back-end bifurcation t
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by speby 8y ago
#2 is perhaps one of the most confounding recent areas of research that really starts complicating the study of DNA and how changes to it map to an organism's outcome in the real world over time and in different environments. As new st
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by speby 8y ago
Not surprising is it. Nevermind their political or philosophical viewpoint, when was the last time a Koch brother or family member took or relied on public transportation?
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by speby 8y ago
Of course they get to keep their gains. Why wouldn't they? None of them broke the law.
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by speby 8y ago
In almost every field and industry, companies get requests like this go something along the same lines as mentioned in this post: "Hey, I have access to XYZ audience and we will be doing event ABC next month. It would be great to showc
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by speby 8y ago
And I think most of us are in the same camp there. Usually, when I am calling a business, it's because of some kind of unusual or complicated inquiry or special situation because I generally don't want to call if I can do or get w
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by speby 8y ago
Funny, that is exactly my experience at Home Depot. I'd say 8 or 9 times out of 10, if I asked someone where something was, they knew or were able to quickly cross-check from their hand-held. And yet in other cases, employees could rec
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by speby 8y ago
Every choice in life is a set of trade-offs. Each cloud provider (AWS, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Google) is likely to embrace some form of Kubernetes or Kubernetes-ish container orchestration. And each of them is likely to end up in a situati
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by speby 8y ago
I have heard the compensation is a big drag for tech jobs in CA. But I don't really understand why that is. If tech hiring is so brutal, why wouldn't the wages be more in line with what their neighbors just south in the USA are p
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by speby 8y ago
That may be true but the shorter-term interests (less than a year or two, commonly) of some of these institutional investors is simply not in-line with the longer-term nature of what Tesla is doing. It would not be in Musk's best inter
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by speby 8y ago
The biggest problem for corporate meetings and perhaps why there are so many of them, why they're so frequent, and why they're so long: * Meeting initiator fails to really consider if everyone on the invite list needs to be there.
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by speby 8y ago
Me too. Then of course you get into the nitty-gritty ( https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/25/15356118/s... ): "More than 80 percent of the hospital beds in Singapore are in public hos
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by speby 8y ago
This is awesome. And very well done. It is clear that a lot of effort and time went into building and polishing this, especially for a single person. Impressive! I signed up for the list too. Looking fwd to trying it out.
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by speby 8y ago
Great satire site. I also remember this video which I thought was really well-done about social media versus real life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVZYiJKl1Y
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by speby 8y ago
You are 100% right. In design work roles, people like to look at and review people's portfolios. They do it all the time. I suppose that maybe at least in that case, it's easier to verify that their work is their own? I don't
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by speby 8y ago
Licensing probably could work in this industry but it would be a tough nut to implement. For starters, as others have mentioned, with so much change happening, re-licensing would probably be needed, and of course that's a huge cost, a
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by speby 8y ago
Well, perhaps. I don't want to suggest "licensing" because that's kind of a naughty word around here but man, it sure would be nice if something like that could take the extreme repetition and time wasting of "techn
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by speby 8y ago
True, yes. Although in this case, I am referring to perhaps a software engineer (who you already know to be good since he is there and in the company and on the team) who would personally vouch for someone else's skills. At least in a
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by speby 8y ago
Of course I don't disagree. So true. I meant in the context of the interview / hiring process, short of hiring them on and thinking about it through the lens of a probationary period.
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by speby 8y ago
Others have definitely mentioned this experience. For me, I have encountered this very rarely. More common, IME, has been people who seem like they have a TON of deep experience in something but then, when pressed or inquired, only have sha
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by speby 8y ago
I agree w/ you here. And I think a lot of people have some personal experiences encountering this kind of situation. It seems baffling, right? And yet, you have to really wonder ... what did that person do writing firmware for the spac
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by speby 8y ago
Our industry's hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious. In an ideal world, you could trust someone's resume. e.g. "I've written large production programs in C." Ok, great, so then clearly this person knows C so th
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by speby 9y ago
Well said because the inverse is true as well. So many of the startups YC has funded either died a relatively short death, stagnated towards a long-death or eventually were acqui-hired in some shape or form. Just because you got into YC sim
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by speby 9y ago
Agree. There were also numerous opinion questions that involved "Mr. Zuckerberg .... blah blah ... what are you views on XYZ?" I mean that's not exactly piercing Q&A.
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by speby 9y ago
I dunno... a quick Cmd-Shift-G is pretty easy & will let you edit the path however you like. And as someone else mentioned, a Cmd-Click on the title/path area of the window will let you move up the path arbitrarily.
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by speby 9y ago
10 changes/day is a lot, even for a newborn. This number quickly drops to perhaps 4-6 per day, and continues to drop towards 1 year of life. As others have mentioned, it would not be uncommon to get to around 3 per day for a 1-3 year o

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