throwaway9191a

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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
I worked with a CEO who shared this sentiment about history. After two months with no paychecks, half truths about our funding, and the dev team quitting, he wanted me to start building up a crew of contractors. After asking what he would c
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
I've got 3 in the bag that match your #2 experience. I would love to know how common this outcome is. My overwhelming experience is that companies rarely "fail". A good idea just chugs along with an owner making well into the
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
I had a similar experience early in my career working in a call center. We received a lot of calls about 1 problem with customer modems. I wrote a script that detected snmptraps and automatically issued bounce commands to the remote modems.
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
Virginia(US) has a law regarding this as well. "B. ... if the driver or rider (i) comes to a full and complete stop at the intersection for two complete cycles of the traffic light or for two minutes, whichever is shorter, ..." h
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
I totally understand the frustration here, however this is what the (admittedly ridiculous) "survey" is talking about. Cars cut me off very often so they don't have to wait... what, 5 extra seconds through a turn? Many times
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
While yours is a better title, your comment also helps me rationalize my behavior on a bike. Many people have irrational hate towards bikes, and those people operate much heavier equipment. They do so while staring at their cell phones. Thi
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
> People who want a car-alternative for necessity either buy a wal-mart bike, a cheap electric/gas moped, maybe a motorcycle, or walk. This isn't true across the board. There are absolutely folks who have a $12k INEOS Pinarello
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
In our local group rides there is a guy who rides in the fast group on a mountain bike. That is always my reminder that money is best spent on something like trainer road rather than upgrading your components to save grams.
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
That is really good to hear. Hopefully I'm wrong about beer being a large portion of sales for my local shops. For me, the whole cycling thing is about community. I just hope they are still around next summer.
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
> their competitiveness isn't just about their cycling stats, but buying from the cheapest source. Well, yea. Competitive cyclists want to buy that $1000 power meter, or those $2500 ENVE wheels as cheap as possible. How many add-on
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
> You're going to have to learn that, as a laborer at a firm, the quality of work you do is, at best, loosely correlated to your monetary compensation. Sometimes you can do good work, sometimes you can do bad work, but how much you&
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
This is a huge problem at AWS. IMHO the largest contributor to over engineering in this company is people suggesting flaws in other's designs simply to have something to contribute during a meeting. I can't remember anyone, ever,
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
Probably too late to respond, but just in case. We were measuring the number of similar support requests that came to the team. Our library would allow customers to resolve these problems on their own. We had a good estimate of reduced requ
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
I'd like to echo this, along with the "relax" sentiment from other comments. I worked incredibly hard to open source a project at a faang. I was even given a customer obsession award for it. No promo.. and no promo level pr
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
High school was a total disaster. I talked my way into the co-op program, and got an internship at a security company. I was only taking 4 classes my senior year. I did go to college for almost 12 weeks, but it wasn't working out. I am
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by throwaway9191a 6y ago
> You don't need to go to university. We will always need garbage collectors and street sweepers, and remember, anyone can write bad software. Vendors continue to try to make it easier to do so. This is why so many Americans view un