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by throwarayes 5y ago
Lack of vision. Inability to make hard decisions due to lack of interest and engagement in company’s domain, market, and customers from the corp team. Hiring people that didn’t fit into the companies values. Just hiring anyone you could… No
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Ask HN: Dealing with an Incompetent Boss
9 points by throwarayes 5y ago|8 comments
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by throwarayes 5y ago
Keep in mind the cultural context. In the last 10 years, the US has had: - Donald Trump and related shenanigans - Black Lives Matters protests w/ more direct exposure to police violence - A thoughtful black president that was treated w
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by throwarayes 5y ago
Reply all had a great podcast on the wild boar problem in the US south, jumping off the “30-50 wild hogs” tweet https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8hw3d
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by throwarayes 5y ago
1. Don't keep social media, work email, or slack on your phone. Just have a browser, texting and phone. Resist apps. 2. Turn off all nearly all notifications 3. Treat it like a wired phone. Keep it in one room with the ringer on. Go to
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by throwarayes 5y ago
I make $220k plus benefits as a specialized staff dev at a major tech company. Plus $100-$200k.year in stock. I’m 100% remote. Likely if all you care about is salary, you find a FAANG job and move up the IC ranks. On http://level
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by throwarayes 5y ago
People want greenfield projects, but maintaining and improving legacy code is where the real, fundamental learnings occur ;). Probably the cruftiest code was a ship autopilots UI code that was 20k lines of C in one file with no automated te
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by throwarayes 5y ago
> How do you insure you are working on the most important items for the TEAM? Getting away from work is the best tool in my experience Managers are self-selected from a group of hard workers committed to the organization. They can want t
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by throwarayes 5y ago
A feature of US work culture is that you invest your “whole self” into work. As in work isn’t just a thing you do for money, but a calling... Additionally, there’s a lack of basic social services. Those that do well can carry guilt, this le
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by throwarayes 5y ago
I’m going to be the contrarian here :) I would just pay $29/month for Shopify basic plan. Is the $20 difference worth self hosting and tweaking a custom thing? You’ll quickly lose that $20 in time better spent running your business. I’
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by throwarayes 5y ago
Agree. If only for: > Hansson’s response to this employee [that apologized for participating in the list] took aback many of the workers I spoke with. He dug through old chat logs to find a time when the employee in question participated
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by throwarayes 5y ago
Intimate access to top leadership seems commendable in small in person companies. But the types of skills you have paling around the office like you’re “one of the team” are different than those when you’re faced with essentially a PR crisi
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by throwarayes 5y ago
They were very competent... and they held together really well with clients. We were a small consulting firm. But I think the 'mask cracked' with us internally, where they had their dysfunctional behavior.
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by throwarayes 5y ago
Having an unstable teammate on a project I led. Long story short, they: (a) saw things in terms of them being persecuted, and took critique of their work or approach deeply personally (b) tended to see things as us vs them, and not a two-wa
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by throwarayes 6y ago
I want to challenge your assumptions. I work at a place where last year 2/3s of all candidates had to be a disadvantaged group. But I, a white dude, never felt held back in my career possibilities. It might take a bit more effort, but
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by throwarayes 6y ago
Having seen Federal Govt contracting it’s easy to see how this works. And it’s a 2 way street of dysfunction: - Many fed agencies have little tech savvy or ability to evaluate solutions - Feds can have complex, mandated processes for softwa
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by throwarayes 6y ago
Good for them. Though I worry about the wasted potential of recent BLM protests. As soon as there began to be consensus about police violence and a need for reform, activists pivoted to a “defund the police” message. Whatever policy merits
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by throwarayes 6y ago
Not an exact answer but the Railroad Tycoon games often have a stock or commodities market aspect to them.
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by throwarayes 6y ago
I worry at the long term implications of remote work: - I hear of Bay Area tech companies throwing stupid high salaries at senior devs in smaller local firms -> more consolidation in tech - how non people centric will work become? I feel
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by throwarayes 6y ago
When you realize Twitter, etc are media companies their actions make sense. They are places that frankly cater to a certain audience or way of interacting with content. It was always perhaps naive to think such places could stay neutral f
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by throwarayes 6y ago
I think nothing makes this point better that their current business model (cloud hosting) is based on an acquisition. They had to acquire a business model... I have a lot of empathy for Elastic here, it really sucks to see something you bui
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by throwarayes 6y ago
I mean I was an embedded C dev, I "integrated" a compiler, an x86 chip, and a bunch of proprietary hardware. All software can be described as a kind of glue (luckily glue can be interesting lol)...
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by throwarayes 6y ago
AWS has known all along what they are doing with this OSS strategy. They are the only provider that doesn't lose by having heavily commoditized, open source backend software - they can support profitable operations at a much lower cost
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by throwarayes 6y ago
Isn’t this an open and shut case of Trademark violation? Elasticsearch is a trademark of Elastic, right?
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by throwarayes 6y ago
I’m trying to piece together how any of this makes sense. The implication is that Covid was a biological weapon accidentally released? Wouldn’t this be a pretty idiotic biological weapon? An especially bad one for a heavily urbanized countr
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by throwarayes 6y ago
Rot sets in when: - teams no longer have a real customer, such as “big rewrites” that will ship in 3 years - teams accept low quality and slack off. One PR isn’t called out and that gives a permission structure for lower quality - a bad egg
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by throwarayes 6y ago
Patterns on the most effective teams I’ve worked on: - high degree of trust and emotional safety between team members. The team can safely share feedback and risk sharing our crazy ideas - high degree of care for the craft. We hold each oth
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by throwarayes 6y ago
Firing an abusive client reinforces how much you care for your employees. Put their needs first and you’ll be repaid with their loyalty and trust. I would rather have no business than one that needs abusive clients. Luckily we’re blessed in
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by throwarayes 6y ago
This is why the Apache Software Foundation exists. The threat IMO isn’t SSPL but what happens the next license change. There’s nothing stopping future changes to make Elasticsearch proprietary. It’s not out of the question that Elastic coul
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Is Elasticsearch No Longer Open Source?(opensourceconnections.com)
2 points by throwarayes 6y ago|0 comments

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