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by zn44 4y ago
I've never regretted changing jobs. Go to new place, learn and experience new environment, expand your network. I'd bet if you don't like it you can always go back to MSFT later, likely for higher salary
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by zn44 5y ago
king games (candy crush) run on prem without containers while i was there (until 2016)
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by zn44 5y ago
Ukraine is not in NATO. Sacrificing three member states won't happen because everyone knows if that is allowed they will be taken one by one NATO is doing everything it can to avoid war now but i'm pretty sure everyone is preparin
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by zn44 5y ago
that's what everyone thought would happen with Ukraine, and Baltic statse will have full support of nato
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by zn44 5y ago
ha nice to hear this idea. I'm planning to work on this as a side project, just started recently
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by zn44 5y ago
Fair I guess on that note I've promoted people to managers that other didn't considered lesser or equal from technical stand point. Usually reason for that promotions were either better product/business sense, more clear ambi
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by zn44 5y ago
I'm a boss (founder & CTO) and I consider my reportees often equal or superior to me on many aspects of our work. The main reason i'm in my possition is willingness and confidence to take the risk and start a business living o
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by zn44 5y ago
After covid sure, I have friends starting fully remote distributed startups over last few months
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by zn44 5y ago
My solution after 8 years in industry was to join an early stage startup as technical co-founder. It has been most challenging, difficult and satisfying experience by far compared to anything else I've done before. I feel i've gro
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by zn44 5y ago
Kill Process by William Hertling And Kill Switch also by William Hertling
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by zn44 6y ago
Feels like fundamental problem with everything these days is the obsession with growth.
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by zn44 6y ago
According to some studies between 58% and 68% of their time https://blog.feenk.com/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-f...
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by zn44 6y ago
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
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by zn44 6y ago
This is a perfect hn, reddit blog post. Controversial title catching points even if people don't read it. Simple contents that are easy to disagree with and broad topic that has a lot of meta. Karma production machine
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by zn44 6y ago
Some examples of expert networks I know: https://colemanrg.com/ https://www.guidepoint.com/advisors/
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by zn44 6y ago
i believe this also often happens when original designers of the systems are out and not involved anymore, the new team wants to rewrite everything from scratch but that's hard to sell. So they find few technical reasons and pick some
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by zn44 6y ago
Haven’t used that many but most of the ones that I did try do indeed suck. We are using looker and we are at least very happy with their data model
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by zn44 6y ago
Definitely, we've hired a general counsel after Series B funding when scaling the team rapidly. Frankly i wasn't sure if we need them at the time, i didn't even know what GC are supposed to do ;). But it turned out to be one
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by zn44 6y ago
I’m uk based and ended up finding the team on workinstartups.co.uk. Other than that angel list has a lot of early stage offers and networking on startup related meet-ups.
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by zn44 6y ago
I had exactly the same problem, my solution was to not come up with the idea myself and instead to join as a technical founder to a very early stage venture. There is plenty of teams looking for cofounder, it took me 18 months to find one I
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by zn44 6y ago
Masters of scale - "how companies grow from zero to a gazillion, testing his theories with legendary leaders" https://mastersofscale.com/
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by zn44 6y ago
I'd assume most of the people posting this happily instal random packages from npm without second thought. Surely it can be a potential threat but in most case there is a VERY long list of things you need to secure before it's rea
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by zn44 6y ago
I’d recommend reading “clean code” by Robert Martin. It’s full of good tips, you don’t have agree with everything he writes but it is a great food for thought
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by zn44 6y ago
fair, maybe it's me getting old (and i'm only 32) but perspective of the slow immersion is more appealing. Taking the time to make your entire environment just perfect, with good music and some whisky is part of the enjoyment for
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by zn44 6y ago
“ All entertainment since sung epic poetry has aimed to briefly take us into another world. ” Maybe it is just me but I can achieve perfectly satisfactory immersion with a good book.
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by zn44 6y ago
I’ve started journaling with Day One app few months ago. I am starting to use it more and more with every week and I am really enjoying it. Interesting side effect was that for a long time I wanted to have a comfortable note system that wou
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by zn44 6y ago
You should check out special effect https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/ it’s an organisation that focuses specifically on this issue
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by zn44 6y ago
I was just going to post the same link here ;) Great game highly recommended
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by zn44 6y ago
Off topic - somehow I’ve never heard of the register.com. Looks interesting, is it worth reading?
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by zn44 6y ago
I’m enjoying Level Up By Patrick Kua https://levelup.patkua.com/ ‘ Level Up delivers a curated newsletter for leaders in tech. A project by http://patkua.com . Ideal for busy people such as Tech Leads, Engineerin

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