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by troebr 3y ago
I can confirm, we use Temporal and used Tray.io for a bit. They're not operating at the same level at all, Tray/Zapier kind of drag and drop wire things together can be great to solve some quick pain points, but I would not build
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by troebr 3y ago
I bought one of these LED screens (you get 64*32px, so not a lot!), and I wrote an app to view my local surf conditions on it (so I know what I'm missing out on while working). But because it doesn't support a way to run local app
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by troebr 4y ago
Jeanne Calment was a famous French supercentenarian (died in 1997 at 122), and there were suspicions around her age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Scepticism_rega...
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by troebr 4y ago
I love this, I played with grib2 files a while back to build a surf forecasting widget (and a surf forecast API!). It used now-deprecated libraries and it was a major pain to wrap my head around how everything worked.
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by troebr 4y ago
IIRC L1 is not transferrable, so your best bet would be to try to snag an H1B at a different employer. It's much easier to do while in the US, so I'd ride out the L1 and apply for jobs between Nov and February to get in the H1B pa
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by troebr 4y ago
"I mean, it's one banana Michael. How much could it cost? 10 dollars?"
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by troebr 4y ago
AFAIK you need a visa first, most people I know that did this (myself included) first had a visa first: H1, L1, O1, etc. Then their employer sponsored a green card. H1-B is the most common for tech workers, unfortunately due to quotas it ca
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by troebr 4y ago
I don't play poker, but it's interesting there that the right play (because sound statistically) can make you lose the game. Over time a player that makes better decisions will come out on top. It makes me think sometimes about ho
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by troebr 4y ago
Unrelated - did you go from management back to IC? Or a quieter management role.
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by troebr 4y ago
I read this as "Learn to <code faster>", instead of "<Learn to code> faster". Heck yeah I want to code faster!
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by troebr 4y ago
I asked this a lot, and honestly loved these interviews and the conversations that stemmed from it. It turns out many candidates may work on either side of HTTP and be reasonably ok candidates who just happened to not be familiar with this
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by troebr 4y ago
At my current company engineers aren't very good at technical writing, they were better at my previous org. I think one big difference was that we shared technical documentation much more widely before every initiative, engineers were
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by troebr 4y ago
I think about this sometimes. What about being a somewhat transparent shit umbrella? Like you don't let the team get hit by the shit, but they know that it's raining shit out there. I think it helps put some trade-offs in context.
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by troebr 4y ago
I was wondering about this, I had a bunch of these screwed in together as a cheap kitchen cabinet when I was younger. They can be get pretty wobbly even with the braces.
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by troebr 4y ago
I don't know how much things have changed, but in 2008 I bought my first pair of glasses in France, and had to leave the store to get some cash because they had a 10 euro minimum. I lost my prescription sunglasses a few months ago and
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by troebr 5y ago
Maybe it should say "build" or "don't build" instead of yes/no.
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by troebr 5y ago
I had a not so great solution that took about 30 minutes to run, but since I was busy with Christmas things I'd run it, go about my things, stop by the computer later, fix a tiny mistake, and run it again. I kept thinking about cleaner
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by troebr 5y ago
It's what product is doing anyway, numbers are so often just made up to support a narrative.
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by troebr 5y ago
I have an Amana washer that was doing a terrible job, I cleaned every removable part, etc. Same thing it was splattering food everywhere. Then we remodeled the kitchen, and put the exact same dishwasher back in 2 months later (it's hoo
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by troebr 5y ago
It's usually easier to get promoted to manager internally, then move to a new org. You can do it, but you may have to justify some form of management experience (tech lead duties, etc.). Alternatively some companies are fine with hirin
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by troebr 5y ago
I'm currently in the middle of that - at my last job I was tech lead, took over some management duties after my manager left but I was still officially an IC. I had the same concerns as you. It was trivially easy to run a high performi
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by troebr 5y ago
Even when DDG does well, very often I'll still add in a second search with !g in case Google has an even better result. Some searches have one answer (what's the population of Paris), whereas some searches have multiple answers an
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by troebr 5y ago
I received a 1500€ quote for urinals and "bio boxes" (?) in Belgium just yesterday. Two weeks ago I received a boarding pass for the next day for a Spanish island. I think the worst is that since I share the same name, I imagine I
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by troebr 6y ago
"But I don't want to pay taxes because they don't benefit me directly. And why would I pay for schools with my property taxes, I don't have kids". I've been surprised at how much prevalent this line of thinking
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by troebr 6y ago
It wasn't that bad. Some influencer videos, music, prank videos, sports, a couple niche youtubers, some video games. I saw a couple educational videos in there too. Sure the influencer stuff is pretty stupid, but whatever, it's no
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by troebr 6y ago
I was surprised there was no mention of it in the article. Maybe it's not used commonly in the trading space?
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by troebr 6y ago
> Solutions. I have a number of ideas. I think we should move away from ideas such as ballot initiatives and direct democracy and embrace the fact we are a Republic. We need professionals to determine policy not the twitter mob. Congress
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by troebr 6y ago
Many engineers I used to work with now work for Facebook. I wonder how they feel about it. Do they think Facebook does no harm? Do they think that their job itself isn't doing harm? ("I'm just writing spark jobs"). Do th
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by troebr 6y ago
Do you work in a field that warrants this kind of stringent requirements or is the security team overzealous? Do these kind of rules extend to using third party libraries etc?
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by troebr 6y ago
I agree with not making assumptions. However I don't think you'd take an ambulance for an elective surgery since it's not an emergency.

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