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by topkai22 5y ago
I find pair programming a useful tool. It's great as patterns and practices are getting stood up on a team, for ramping new members, disseminating knowledge or for wrestling through novel code. As the article gets it, at can also be ve
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Not SF, but at my big tech employer it’s 3 weeks of vacation, 2 floating holidays (which are really just vacation), 10 company holidays, and 2 weeks sick leave. After 6 and 12 years you get another week of vacation. So total is 27 to start
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by topkai22 5y ago
The US government data for software engineers says that the median wage across the us is $110k/year. Importantly though that doesn’t include bonuses or stock, which appear to be reasonably common even outside the tech hubs. I suspect t
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by topkai22 5y ago
For me (big tech senior), you'd have to get close to the money. I might take a 10% paycut, but probably not more than 20%. Equity can close the gap, but I can do risk based calculations, so it'll need to be very strong. I also hav
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by topkai22 5y ago
I interned in the software process group for a defense company building sattelites. It had the other extreme of the process spectrum- true waterfall/CMMI processes in place, but they were so painful that people just did work and then f
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by topkai22 5y ago
As an Army vet, she may qualify for Microsoft’s Software and Systems academy, a free boot camp for transition veterans. No idea if they’d take someone who has been separated for so long, but no harm in asking https://military.mic
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by topkai22 5y ago
>> Read the requirements of the job posting and spend some time trying to understand this problem space and company You can do this for some positions, but pair this with rapidly applying as fast as you can. There were 160 application
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by topkai22 5y ago
You shouldn’t be afraid to leave a bad job, but if you are in your 3rd job in as many years and are thinking of leaving the problem starts looking like you rather than your employers. I can buy I’d you move once or twice quickly, if are cle
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Definitely, although the legislative slog that would present makes me believe it'll be tough to get there. Part of the Uber/Lyft "ickiness" factor is that you have a giant company that has defined a "contracting&quo
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I was working remote before the pandemic. No intention to find an in person job, but partly that’s a function of not living in a tech hub- my remote opportunities are better than in person ones. Getting to work with a geographically divers
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I suspect many bullies are indifferent to right or wrong.
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None of the existing routes are built for high speed trains and the infrastructure investment proposed ($80B) is far too small to even begin any sort of meaningful high speed rail service.
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It is no guarentee, but temping/contractor work is how I got into Big Tech. I did a good enough job and impressed enough people the team was willing to pick me up full time. However, I would warn the OP that the most important thing is
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On #5- Make sure to actually drive to completion. It doesn't have to be perfect or what you originally envisioned, but it does need to run without too much error in a way someone else can use/understand. A lot of abandoned useless
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Getting a degree is only partially about learning. A degree signals that you were able to complete a curriculum that, frankly, will almost always have parts you don't like. So some perspective for you to consider. The first is that as
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I feel like under ground boring must have had a bit of a moment back in the 70s as that was when the Kola super deep bore hole project kicked off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
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This struck a cord with me. I started working remotely way before the pandemic and the first year or two were rough, as I'd lost the ability to spend time with work friends. However, I eventually (especially as my kids reached school a
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The Best Friends Can Do Nothing for You(theatlantic.com)
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Back a bit (like a decade ago) when I still had PMs ours spent a lot of time on vendor and contract management, filtering/prioritizing cross team requests (of which we had many), and generally making sure that features got compelted i
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This is a really good arguement to get more teens working again in low end jobs. I got laid off from a job at 16. My buddies regularly got laid off or had hours cut to 0 at various jobs. It kind of stunk, but the consequences were near zero
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You can do something similar in a much easier manner with the committee for a responsible federal budget’s debt fixer site: https://www.crfb.org/debtfixer/ It’s not quite up to date with the latest budget numbers, but
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Within the context of the Microsoft-verse, Fluid Framework ( https://fluidframework.com ) is supposed to be solving similar problems in web apps, although I haven't personally played with it.
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Nah, that's missing the point. While FLOSS products have a survivability advantage it's not like we see a high level of usage of diverse FLOSS productivity apps across the user universe. The authors are more talking about why we d
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As someone who grew up in a medical family, my opinion is that most medical practitioners have a horribly warped view of aging. They spend their working life tending to the worst outcomes of age and end of life care. They think this makes t
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by topkai22 6y ago
My conception of fundamental human rights is based upon “what would I agree justifies a forceful intervention/war.” Without spilling far more ink then I have time for here, I’ll just say that is a very short list and guaranteed health
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There is a large on going literature regarding the distinction of “positive and negative rights” ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights ) Personally I’m with you- generally speaking “positive righ
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This is exactly right. The only other things I’ll add is that story points can be used to encompass estimated risk better than hours can, and they encourage focusing on team accomplishments rather than individual optimization. If my team wa
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I know just enough about material science to say probably not. A munition needs to break or penetrate a surface to be effective. To do that it needs to apply a great deal of force in a short period of time- spreading the force out over spac
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I do a lot of mentoring and coaching. Very roughly, 60% of people respond well, 30% struggle but have some improvement, and 10% don't respond at all. I really do think 90% of people benefit and change at least somewhat from coaching. H
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Pretty much. Some additional insight I've heard is that COVID has restricted peoples ability to consume things other than housing, so people have the ability to consume more housing. If a family normally spent $7k on housing every year

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