woolvalley

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by woolvalley 8y ago
We definitely have a planning process, I do write things down into design docs, and do keep track of things in some spreadsheets, docs and tickets. But I don't find it an excessive, oppressive or impractical process, which is probably
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by woolvalley 8y ago
The best way to find out is to go interview at big cos, and ask them about all of your worries about process. One team can have a ton of process, the other can barely have any. It's really mostly a team and department basis thing. I
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by woolvalley 8y ago
As some counter ancedata, I worked at a relatively successful startup for several years and I ended up as a sr eng in big co anyway after the experience. Startup options ended up being effectively zero. I should of hopped to big co sooner
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I work at a big tech co. I almost never fill out any spreadsheet, use JIRA, use a ticketing system that strongly, worry about 'user stories', have 'hurry up and wait' deadlines and so on. Maybe go to another big co?
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by woolvalley 8y ago
So your saying your sister had a 12-14 hour 'work' day on average and the parents didn't revolt in response?
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by woolvalley 8y ago
There are jobs that need to be done, but not enough funding for it. A lot of people could use some therapy or other mental health resources, but don't because of a lack of funding for it. It lacks funding because the people who need
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Find other people to cover their job role? Or their project is put on pause until they are back.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Most video conferencing is fairly crap to it's actual potential, 2 decades in. I'm not so confident VR will be there either.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
You can put a cheap binocular camera on the goggles to give people a quick way to see the outside world, kind of like how the Sony NC headphones let you hear the outside world when you put your hand over one of the pads. I don't reall
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Bitbucket, gitlab, some other new service that takes advantage of the gap left by mismanagement?
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by woolvalley 8y ago
What I've always found funny about "B2B is more valuable than B2C" is how all economic value eventually comes from B2C eventually, and all the meta B2B tools in between don't really make value independently on their own.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
The casual handgun on the desk in pictures is quite hilarious.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Spain and Greece have higher home ownership rates than the USA, Germany and Switzerland, but far worse economies. Home ownership being correlated with wealth is the correlation of being able to consume more resources and what the policy en
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by woolvalley 8y ago
The TSA made what was something that individual airports paid for to meet regulatory requirements into a federal agency. It's the laws & requirements, not the specific labor agency doing it. For example, the TSA added pre-check,
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Well if people pay for it, you can have more security processors and process more people at once. So it is a parallelizable problem solvable with more money. If everyone had their own personal security processor, then security only adds a
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Engineering resources are not unlimited, so naturally new bugs and features will be updated only on master vs. 2 or 5 major semver branches, because 2-5 module Bs haven't bothered updating yet. If you maintain 5 separate branches, th
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Why does the build not work at 500 engineers? Just because there are 5 apps / services and their 25 libraries doesn't mean you have build the 4 other apps when doing development just because you did a git pull. Libraries would s
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by woolvalley 8y ago
My org went from polyrepo 10 commit semver dependency hell when updating an internal API to monorepo and it saves a lot of time. Unmigrated semver breaking changes are a form of technical debt, and it takes a lot more total man hours to do
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by woolvalley 8y ago
What is the tooling for multi-repo atomic synchronized commits? Monorepo's give you that for free, which is the reason why I think monorepo projects exist. SVN kind of gave you partial checkouts, which was helpful.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
If the only reason why your buying a degree is get past an automated resume filter, and they are all the same otherwise, then for god sakes, don't buy the porsche, buy the used toyota!
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I think your issue is you got a GM car, which has had a decades long reputation for some of the worse reliability and quality issues.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Well at that point I'm guessing you buy a few $25 backup phones that you leave turned off in your bag. Also in that cash free society, which will probably not have phone numbers anymore, adding a few more phones that you never use wil
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by woolvalley 8y ago
How often is IC & circuit board failure a thing in cars although? I've had 20 year old cars, and the only components that failed in that category were micro switches on boards for windows and the ignition, and I was able to buy ne
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by woolvalley 8y ago
A lot of adblock can be circumvented if the ads were served from first party servers and didn't use obvious keywords or advertising sizes. The NYT could serve their ads from NYT servers instead of nagging you to turn off adblock and co
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Digital ocean has not nearly as much of an incentive in selling or tracking the huge amounts of traffic that goes over most of their B2B customers, while your ISP wants to up that ARPU number from every B2C customer in every way possible.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I would call them malls in america ;p
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Well it's a pay issue too isn't it? If a family paid for the teachers time for extra work, then I'm guessing the pushback wouldn't be as bad.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
You don't really need functional languages to have those features, as swift, kotlin and others show.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
They were paid better than the typical tech company in beijing, so definitely not a discount team. It was a combination of a culture that valued quantity over quality & long hours, management and time zones. When some staff moved over
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by woolvalley 8y ago
It happens even when they are part of an internal company office and not a contract shop.

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