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by strgcmc 4y ago
Yeah, that kind of pause + coming in with the answer, is also nice because it can serve a dual purpose. It allows you to be both bad cop and good cop, all in one: you created some leverage over your boss by publicly showing the execs that b
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Billions of people are on the internet now, vs 20 years ago. I dare say millions of lives have been saved (due to various things) in the past 20 years, due to the things built and deployed on the web. We may have failed at some abstract not
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by strgcmc 4y ago
When you add lanes to a highway, it generally does not improve congestion or travel times. Drivers adjust and fill up the new lanes, until travel times are roughly the same as before (but with slightly more throughput now). So it is with ha
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by strgcmc 4y ago
There is a difference between (A) a skilled expert who takes pride in their craft, and understandably goes with whichever employer appreciates their skills and compensates accordingly, vs (B) a middle-of-the-pack journeyman who just DGAF ab
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Fanatics Betting and Gaming | Senior to Sr. Staff level SWE IC roles, and Senior Manager, w/in Data Platform and Integration | REMOTE (US/Canada) | https://jobs.lever.co/fanatics/15a574a3-4829-43b9-bfc2-ee84c.
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by strgcmc 4y ago
I agree about decentralization as anti-feature, but this is a poor analogy. It's equivalent to saying, people do not want all their money to disappear because they chose to carry all their life savings in a briefcase on the subway and
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by strgcmc 4y ago
100% agreed. For an example of water management tech, "rooted in reality", but still clearly influenced/poisoned by political forces: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/susie-lee-congr
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Speaking as an EM, from product partners, there is basically this switch that sometimes flips (depending on the PM, depending on their experience/career maturity, depending on the team/business context): - Either the eng team is a
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by strgcmc 4y ago
> "We're going with the times/job market, but at the same time if I got everyone involved in Problem X in a room together it would get solved in days not weeks". I know you probably know this, but I hope your company
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by strgcmc 4y ago
I believe you would be mistaken about this, as per Recital 18 of GDPR: https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/recital-18-GDPR.htm > (18) This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural p
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by strgcmc 4y ago
IMHO, the "don't worry, nobody knows what they're doing" advice, has a sort of "Laffer curve"-esque quality to describe its relative danger (or inverse curve, for utility). On the lower end of experience/e
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Outside of classroom-style dedicated instruction, this really does seem to be the best form of learning, i.e. a semi-active/not-fully-passive approach. There is generally no "hack" that the student can use to avoid having to
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Fanatics Betting and Gaming | Senior, Staff, and Sr. Staff roles w/in Data and Analytics | REMOTE (US/CA) | https://jobs.lever.co/fanatics/a0944ca4-1b92-4686-a024-3f677... (just an example listing for Staff r
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Some infants, probably. On a widespread general basis, probably not (yet?). Switching between different formulas for normal/healthy babies can be done (if a preferred brand is out of stock but something else is available), but it'
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Except, well, cancelling transactions obviously does happen, sometimes: https://www.reuters.com/business/lme-suspends-nickel-trading... Knight was probably too messy to rollback cleanly, but that just means it's a
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by strgcmc 4y ago
This makes sense, to a degree. But at the extreme, the speaker should absolutely take care to avoid being overbearing, condescending, patronizing, etc. Many delusional people think, "I am saying/doing this for YOUR own good",
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by strgcmc 5y ago
I think it's not really that ironic, if you consider that the mass exodus was anyways likely to happen, if Amazon had done nothing. So really the only thing that changed, is Amazon trying to make an attempt to stave off the default exo
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by strgcmc 5y ago
I think your comment will likely be underappreciated, but this is really the most comprehensive take on understanding the ecosystem. Conversely, the default state of things where ACX is effectively targeting the "leftovers" that n
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by strgcmc 5y ago
I am coming to this post kind of late, so not sure if others will see this, but actually this is something that Amazon policy has JUST changed on, effective as of Dec 31, 2021. A few RSU related quality of life improvements: - Before, the v
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by strgcmc 5y ago
Whether or not Bitcoin is going to become the "currency of the future" is certainly highly debatable (debatable in the sense that, is it likely to happen, or is it even a good idea for society), but the argument against it, is not
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by strgcmc 5y ago
It can be better, but it also can be just as chaotic sometimes. On balance overall, FAANGs are probably better at managing this "IC utilization" rate if you wanna call it that, vs just randomly expecting you to pick up and wear al
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by strgcmc 5y ago
TBH, reading this as a manager, I have to admit I feel like asking my engineers to take on SOME of these beyond-just-the-code duties... is a good thing? Obviously there are a bunch of caveats, and nuances to whether you want an IC engineer
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by strgcmc 5y ago
I disagree with your writing off the whole thing with the single diagnosis of "organizational dysfunction." I'll explain why, but I'm not really trying to convince you, because I sense we are starting from perspectives t
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by strgcmc 5y ago
Well, it's definitely a distinction with a difference for the OP. If I were a hiring manager and came across his resume and the name rang a bell, and I dug up this blog post, I would have no qualms about re-hiring him at Amazon despite
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by strgcmc 5y ago
The good practices I was referring to, were things like: his praise of the documentation culture, the obsession with data security (which I read as a good thing, on behalf of customers). Of course you are right that it was definitely a mixe
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by strgcmc 5y ago
I see a lot of these comments have taken to a kind of Amazon-bashing and venting their own experiences, where the author actually... didn't? I thought the author was incredibly fair/objective, and at least the way I read it, it wa
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by strgcmc 5y ago
I understand there are companies which treat Leetcode as a "representative field test", but IMHO (based on my 8+ yrs experience working across FANGM, w/ ~200 interviews conducted) any company that uses Leetcode this way, is d
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by strgcmc 5y ago
Capital-intensive industrial-scale miners might go bankrupt, but the origin of Bitcoin (starting from the whitepaper) imagined an ecosystem powered by effectively spare CPU cycles, where the marginal cost of electricity wasn't a big fa
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by strgcmc 5y ago
Not the person you replied to, but let's talk about "global supply chain improvements" for example... When Amazon launched 2-day shipping with Prime, it was truly a landmark milestone, in terms of technology and operational p
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by strgcmc 5y ago
You are burnt out and stressed, so I completely understand the general despair/malaise that drips through from your posts. However, you are getting in the way of your own success. What's the alternative? Being 39 with no degree? D

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