wreath

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by wreath 4y ago
Holy cow, a team running for 25 years? Thats almost an entire career. I appreciate you being straightforward with priorities/goals (company’s THEN the individuals’). I think an awful lot of managers fail because they try to act like fr
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by wreath 4y ago
> Here is one thing though: I earn comfortable now. But the trauma of poverty never leaves you. Even though I work in CS/ML, my life is pretty austere. I stick to the 'needs', and avoid the 'wants' as much as pos
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by wreath 4y ago
An average income earner has the incentives to go on maternity leave without lowering their living standards, thats not the case for higher earners without burning through their savings. Its simply unfair to contribute a lot without getting
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by wreath 4y ago
Yeah I think you did. Here is an example, maternity leave is 65% of salary but capped at 1800 euros. If you make 6000 a month and want to make use of maternity leave, you have to lower your living standards significantly so you can stat wit
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by wreath 4y ago
Where exactly did I say that?
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by wreath 4y ago
You’re exactly right. The German system is setup so that you make use of it only if you are on average or below average income. Anything more is a diminishing return. This is for pension, maternal/paternal leave, health insurance etc.
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by wreath 4y ago
No you cant because the ticket is scoped with time and/or destination/direction
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by wreath 4y ago
This has been my experience. It became an expectation _of my peers_ that I am the one who should step in to fix stuff when it breaks as if Im the sole owner.
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by wreath 4y ago
Who wrote those acceptance criteria for you?
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by wreath 4y ago
> I've debated working one hour less than I'm supposed to just so that I can exercise daily, but I find myself worrying that without me things will fall apart. So be it. This may be harmful to your team/company in the shor
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by wreath 4y ago
I’d be careful with this. You dont want to build a reputation of building buggy software and have sloppy work.
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by wreath 4y ago
A long Youtube video should do the “trick”
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by wreath 4y ago
Can you elaborate on why is that?
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by wreath 4y ago
Yeah sure but the point being these people never wanted this role and not only t company lost them as productive ICs to some other role but they lost them altogether (great engineers with deep domain expertise)
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by wreath 4y ago
100% I noticed that when Im not working out I have poor food choices and when I eat like crap I avoid training or it’s a lot more unpleasant than it should be. Also training results in physiological changes that help losing fat and be gener
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by wreath 4y ago
> My perception is that I'm considered too good on the "line"; I'd be a loss to the org to move up a notch. At a previous company, they moved a lot of their top performer “line” engineers to staff level and they all f
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by wreath 4y ago
How is this his fault? Your service had poor validation or design and was used in ways it was intended to. You knew this but still didn't patch it?
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by wreath 4y ago
> I eat one day and fast the next. I rode this very simple procedure to melt away 40 lbs (was easy). Do you know how much of this is muscle, fat and water?
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by wreath 5y ago
I noticed in tech in particular people apologize for the stupidest thing, almost apologizing for their own existence. This is particularly worrisome when you see your manager apologizing for his own gender, whiteness or using the "wron
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by wreath 5y ago
> I don't understand why you'd do pair programming with two new hires! I don't know or think if it's the most effective way but it sure did help me build confidence approaching a large and old codebase with another ne
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by wreath 5y ago
I done that. I deleted items from the backlog that i thought make no sense (anymore), nobody cared or asked any questions. If you didn't work on it for the last 18 months, it's probably not important and nobody cares.
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by wreath 5y ago
> My number one requirement for a distributed system is that the code all be one place. This is a major source of frustration. Having to touch multiple repositories and syncing and waiting for their deployment/release (if it's
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by wreath 5y ago
> Every 1B requests/month translates to ~400 QPS, which isn't even that large I said billions not one billion. I guess what I find exhausting is the long feedback cycle. For example, Writing a simple script that makes two calls
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Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?
316 points by wreath 5y ago|249 comments
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by wreath 5y ago
4-5 eggs, raw bell pepper, olives, cherry tomatoes, either avocado or butter + either slices of whole bread or oats with mill, water, blueberry, almonds and a bit of almond or peanut butter and of course black coffee.
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by wreath 5y ago
And then proceed to criticize their foos choices? J/k
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by wreath 5y ago
No i did not get used to them. You can have it all if you want. Id rather have this as an individual choice
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by wreath 5y ago
Being remote only decreases the human aspect of work a lot and makes your perception of your colleagues as unidimensional (they are whatever you make out of the text they write in a PR or a document) and not having camera on makes all this
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by wreath 5y ago
I used to train (barbells) early in the morning on an empty stomach. I tried it during the day at about midday, I felt stronger and had more energy (probably because of carbs). I also at about 4pm, similar results but couldn't sustain
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by wreath 5y ago
Yes! The difference between how German employees who got laid off deal with the situation compared to bluecard visa holders, is stark, but not surprising.

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