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by vonholstein 4y ago
As the company grows a certain proportion of new engineers - by law of averages - will be self motivated to seek out and understand how things work, what makes the company tick and how people go about getting things done. You want to make i
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by vonholstein 4y ago
Wasn't joking. Perhaps my worldview is more limited than it should be.
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by vonholstein 4y ago
The example argument is very weak, the fictional organization has a goal of "increasing revenues and profitability", isn't that a tautology? I mean are there any firms where that would not be the goal. Any reasonably competen
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by vonholstein 7y ago
AWS Kafka team - Cambridge UK I'm part of a relatively new team located out of Cambridge. We are looking for engineers to identify, own and deliver improvements to Apache Kafka and how it integrates with AWS. Substantial open source in
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by vonholstein 7y ago
I presume that the parent is referring to https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Knob . Warning NSFW text.
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by vonholstein 7y ago
> I don't know of anyone who likes high pressure time crunch interrogations except maybe the ones getting to do the interrogating part. As someone who has been through this early career I agree with the sentiment. But being mid-care
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by vonholstein 7y ago
Logically, shouldn't the compensation for a worker be a function of both leverage and risk? CEOs have enormous leverage to affect change in their company, with proportionate increase in company returns. An average worker or even an exc
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by vonholstein 7y ago
No worries, sorry if I came across as overly critical. Thanks for the work, the content is awesome.
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by vonholstein 7y ago
We had a term where I used to work - Promotion Oriented Architecture. In most places progress in the engineering org chart is heavily influenced by delivering software for complex usecases. Unfortunately IME most developers correlate comple
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by vonholstein 7y ago
Why the purple? Dont know if its just me, but found the styling to be a distraction. The content is good enough to stand by itself without the font and color gimmickry.
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by vonholstein 7y ago
As someone in the same boat I've found this book to be very helpful. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1466230525 - Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists
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by vonholstein 7y ago
Suggest a correction, more than 250K making atleast $15/hour - https://www.aboutamazon.com/amazon-fulfillment/our-fulfillme...
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by vonholstein 7y ago
This may seem somewhat out there, very uninformed or misanthropic, but I've been thinking about basic human needs(emotion,ego,the desire for companionship - both spiritual and otherwise) as vestigial evolutionary artifacts. Evolution a
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by vonholstein 7y ago
+1 I agree with waiting. In fact I'm personally coming around to the point of view that 90% of verbal technical discussions miss a key point which becomes very evident on reflection and/or are an inefficient use of time(N develope
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by vonholstein 7y ago
Apart from the other excellent suggestions here: - check CO2 levels in your bedroom - allergens(dust,pollen, etc) in your sleeping environment can cause breathing problems. - Acid reflux can also cause sleep issues. I've had good r
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by vonholstein 8y ago
Its unreasonable to say that individual exceptionalism is all that matters for success. There needs to be a way for hard work yo matter as well. Perhaps have both union and non-union shops and let employees vote with their feet.
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by vonholstein 8y ago
Does someone here know offhand the fatality rate for the Max per flying hour at this time? http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm lumps max together with other 737 models, which of course turns out to b
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by vonholstein 8y ago
I'd agree on exercise being ineffective, or only marginally effective as a way to control weight long term. However there are surprisingly effective strategies to lose a lot a weight in a short time period(days-weeks) with low-intensit
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by vonholstein 8y ago
ETL job in AWS glue with DynamoDB as source and S3 as sink is one option. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-glue-...
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by vonholstein 8y ago
My team opted for postgres over a graph db in one of our projects to model a network of devices. Primarily due to the pgRouting extension, which implements many graph algorithms in postgres. https://pgrouting.org/
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by vonholstein 9y ago
With an infinite amount for investment I'd agree with you, no city would need or want to proffer incentives. But with only $x to go around for investment countrywide, how do I attract a percentage of that to my city? I'd like to s
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by vonholstein 9y ago
Amazon offers a similar service - https://merch.amazon.com
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