tuckerpo

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by tuckerpo 4y ago
Eh, it's part of the handmade effort. Sometimes building your own tool is just fun. + You don't need to learn a bespoke language to customize 4coder (vim_script in vim's case)
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by tuckerpo 4y ago
A high performing engineer is someone who has above average technical capabilities and also above average social aptitude, IMO. If you can schmooze with stake-holders, explain esoteric subjects to non-technical people in a simple manner, an
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by tuckerpo 4y ago
Is it really fair to call any form of cardiovascular dysfunction "mild"?
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by tuckerpo 4y ago
> Is there any other options? Have a compelling product that generates revenue. Unless your workforce is 100% saturated and you don't really _need_ that many engineers, lay-offs are one step above cutting free snacks on the usefulne
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by tuckerpo 4y ago
Companies want crackshot senior engineers at junior pay. Been this way for a while.
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by tuckerpo 4y ago
Everyone thinks they're at the 70th percentile on a bell curve for any given activity. I'll take one for the team - I'm probably a .1x developer.
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by tuckerpo 4y ago
If you're as good as you say, you can easily swing to a team at a different company full of engineers better than you. It'd be a nice humbling experience.
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by tuckerpo 4y ago
PCIe training and enumeration just doesn't work most of the time on RK SoC. Painful stuff. Mediocre platform that's impressive on paper only.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
There's a lot of faux difficulty in the form of coming up to speed/new processes/new people/new location with any job. I promise they'll both be sufficiently hard until about the six month mark. The question is if y
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
If you really want to move into a leadership role but continue IC-tier code output, find a company with horrendous WLB and try that out. I'm only partially joking. Plenty of orgs will let you start out as an IC cranking on code all day
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
> Is it really necessary to cram like you're taking the SATs again to get a good job as a software engineer? Frankly, yes. Just as the SATs and ACTs are IQ tests with a shitty veil on top, FAANG interviews are meant to be the same.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
VTWAX and chill.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
I used to work a little bit on Pidgin. A lot of the core maintainers have moved on. I think it's just grim (Gary Kramlich) at this point. It's very clean C if you're interested in contributing to an open source project.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
I have to wonder if some of the comments here are satirical regarding security being better on the web. Nothing screams secure like allowing anyone with an internet connection globally to poke and prod at your duck-typed interpreted languag
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
Sort of assumes people are somehow making `inflation_rate` more money then, no?
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
Your POV might ring true for Apple, for instance, but at 99% of American engineering jobs you kinda wanna just keep your head down and get good and not step on people's toes. Most jobs, even if they ought to be meritocracy based, are r
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
dotfiles repository hosted on github with a hand written "deploy" script to get everything set up on a new box. would recommend.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
I do this via git add -p which breaks your changeset down into atomic patches that you can either add, skip or delete before making a commit. You can turn one file change into many commits this way, if need be.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
Consider Boulder, CO if you've got stupid amounts of money. The winters here are very mild (no, not sarcasm) and you'll find plenty of 50-70 F sunny days in the dead of January.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
This is just what you need: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
You want to become as self-sufficient as possible. You want your own success and survival in life to be a function of your own agency - not controlled by a bunch of opaque institutions whose success has nothing to do with you. Learn to grow
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
You've got to consider the fact that interviewing is kind of a nightmare process in tech that involves lots of ramp-up time off the clock and takes months to get through. Most people just want to do their 8 hours and then zone out - no
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
> Here, do this work for free during your own time for a _chance_ at Yet Another Interview Round Nah, I'm all set.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
I've had the inverse happen to me. Would just give vague "yeah, working on that, expected to be done in XYZ <units of time>" and got a 'talking to' about not going high resolution. I've found a happy medi
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
The whole point of a defined data standard is to remove ambiguities in sender/receiver implementations. It may be strict, but that makes it easier to write a parser for, and easier for multiple different projects to get right.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
hey it's the twitter homestead photography guy. nice house, nice software too.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
That's kind of what happens in Colorado now that listing salary range is compulsory. A company will say something like 110k-250k commensurate with experience, but you can bet they're not actually going to shell out anything close
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
There's too much information. Any jamoke with an internet connection can write a blog and consider themselves an epic hax0r for following <latest nifty development principle>. People get bogged down worrying about idioms - am I f
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
See Ken Thompson's monologue about creating Unix in 3 weeks: https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=1372 Programmers used to be pretty damn productive.
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by tuckerpo 5y ago
It's actually not all that difficult to parse ingredients lists while shopping. A good rule of thumb in American grocery stores is to stick to the perimeter while shopping (produce, dairy, meat) to avoid seed oils. :^)

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