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by wnolens 4y ago
Are you a manager at Amazon employing these or seeing your peers employ these metrics? I've never heard of such a thing. It's leadership principles only AFAIK.
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by wnolens 4y ago
Living there, it definitely feels as if there's a low key lawlessness about town. I haven't developed a hatred for the cops here yet, but there's an outspoken critique to the point of being a meme that they enforce very littl
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by wnolens 4y ago
As a database engine developer (before single service, now cloud service), it seems that we keep making more specific purpose DB engines that are highly tuned to specific workloads, and take care of scaling, backup, etc. automatically on ou
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by wnolens 4y ago
Ok interesting thanks.
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by wnolens 4y ago
> A breakloop is a full-featured repl, complete with all of the tools of the main repl, but it exists inside the dynamic environment of the broken function Sweeeet. Well damn.. here I am in my python repl for hours per day, feeling smug
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by wnolens 4y ago
Yup I gauge everything in drink prices, of which buy about one from the list daily. $1-5 = coffee, $5-10 = beer, $10-15 = cocktail. $20 is a bottle of wine. I almost never think about spending those amounts on those things, so for anything
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by wnolens 4y ago
Yup I came in through hookshot. I was a paid user there and my license was honored when it was released as rectangle pro. What a stand up guy.
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by wnolens 4y ago
I use https://rectangleapp.com/pro and really enjoy this app (I paid for it, it gets a lot of updates/fixes). It mostly takes care of snapping and resizing windows with hot keys, but has a less obvious feature in prefe
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by wnolens 4y ago
Definitely. I tried 20h weeks for a while at 4h/day and it was.. ok. 3 day week+4 day weekend is so much better. It's like having an additional life.
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by wnolens 4y ago
I've started and quit web dev projects about 4 times in the past 5 years. I'm a distributed systems dev. The complexity of the recommended tool chain is mind boggling (and I consider my day job incredibly complex, of which I have
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by wnolens 4y ago
> You can't just pay someone a salary then say "oh yeah you need to wear this pager at the weekend". It seems to be the case in every job I've had. Maybe they ARE adhering to some laws but at the end of the day I get
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by wnolens 5y ago
It all makes sense and I don't have much in the way of an argument against it fundamentally. But it does make this career path rather miserable to me.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I really wish. But it is the standard. 90% of jobs I see involve building some online service. On call is as part of the job as writing code is.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Any advice on the sitter? I don't have the perfect friend available, not sure there's an option here except to do it alone or not at all
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by wnolens 5y ago
This is true for me. But it wasn't always the case. It used to be a release from the grip of boredom and permit my brain to dance about joyfully. Now it flips my anxiety switch and I get stuck in a self conscious loop. Almost the oppos
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by wnolens 5y ago
Interesting to see a paramedic on HN. I thought we were all desk jockeys here :) Thanks for your service to others.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I've sat at the bedside of my mother and grandmother, both seemingly unconscious (for different reasons) and mostly unresponsive until they passed. My grandmother would cry (tears would flow) when some family members came by and spoke
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by wnolens 5y ago
Interesting reading replies here. Way more formalities than I've ever engaged in. Requirements are codified into test cases. After signoff of the spec/design/test plan is complete, there's no going back and checking.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Very cool.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I don't see it as virtue signaling. The opposite almost: doing what you suggest would help one person out (and unfair - how is that person selected?). As far as helping the bigger problem, it's a drop in the bucket and thus 99%
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by wnolens 5y ago
Downvotes? It's a major component of the supply side of the equation, and one which is controlled by policies. And it's not like you proposed "close borders completely!" or "send people back". There's a li
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by wnolens 5y ago
I'd love to see what the numbers are when you follow the capital and not just 'ownership'. There's a lot of ways around this ban. I don't think it's a boogieman. But I also don't think it will change much
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by wnolens 5y ago
Yea a lot of people in this thread missed that point. It's still contrived problems, just testing comprehension rather than creation. But you can contrive much larger problems than you could ever ask a candidate to code, so you escape
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by wnolens 5y ago
I've been asked to reword my peer reviews to be a function of leadership principles only. And my promotion is justified as a function of them as well. They run very deep. I cite them on a weekly basis. The two new principles are less t
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by wnolens 5y ago
On an AWS team currently, some of our best left to similar'ish google cloud products. No issues there. The turnover rate is extremely high at Amazon. I don't even consider my non-compete clause when looking at other roles. If you&
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by wnolens 5y ago
> Amazons leadership fundamentally does not see their employees as human beings I'm there right now and this is very true. It isn't even a hidden truth about working there. In fact, the company has a set of principles [0] that
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by wnolens 5y ago
> I have lost my drive for intellectual and creative pursuits, though. I've got a point where I've already figured out all the things I was curious about in my youth and no more have been added to the list. It just doesn't
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by wnolens 5y ago
All my job opportunities include on-call. I'm not an SRE/devops either, just everything is a 24/7 service now =\ And hilariously I enjoy the fire-fighting and deep root-causing under pressure. But 99% of it is waking up in th
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by wnolens 5y ago
Turned 34 today and feel similar, minus a loving partner and millions in the bank. The only way I keep going is to keep an intellectual and creative pursuit at all times. Currently I'm trying to build a deep understanding of public hea
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Ask HN: How much do you learn about a role before interviewing or accepting?
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