akamia

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by akamia 9mo ago
I would clarify this in the HN post. As it is right now, it looks like this is a remote first role when the reality is it is a hybrid role. Just because you might be willing to make an exception doesn't make it a remote role.
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by akamia 2y ago
Some of the most important work that a good manager does goes unseen by their team. I've been a manager and now I'm an IC so I've seen both sides. There is a lot of shielding and pushing back that managers do to protect their
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by akamia 2y ago
I can definitely relate to this. I worked at a startup where the founder learned this the hard way. We were trying to sell to government agencies. He insisted on a pricing model that meant we had to go through complex and expensive RFP proc
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by akamia 2y ago
I hear that narrative a lot and I think it does a major disservice to the people interested in entering the field. Are there blue-collar workers making huge sums of money? Yes. Are most blue-collar workers making huge sums of money? No. The
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by akamia 3y ago
Do you have more documentation somewhere? If so, I’d suggest making it more easily accessible. I couldn’t find any on the site and the support link just takes me to discord. I’d be more inclined to sign up if there was some documentation I
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by akamia 3y ago
That was why we used an at home euthanasia service for our dog. He hated going to the vet and had to go multiple times a week toward the end. We didn't want to have him scared and stressed in his last moments. Look into at home options
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by akamia 3y ago
This is the reason why I refuse to pay for any work travel expenses with my credit card. I once worked for a company that had a similar travel process. When I was asked to travel, I insisted that my VP have his assistant schedule and pay fo
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by akamia 3y ago
That's super helpful to hear. I'm also making the move after 3 years in management. Being able to be done at the end of the day is something I'm really looking forward to but it's going to take some time to get back into
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by akamia 3y ago
I'm in the process of transitioning back to an IC role from a management position and that was one of the biggest factors. As a manager, the level of stress I felt just became unbearable. I'm wrapping up my management responsibili
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by akamia 3y ago
I had something similar happen with a Facebook recruiter. I didn't reply to her first two emails so she started emailing my mom to try to get in touch with me. My mom called me because she thought it was a phishing email. I had never h
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by akamia 4y ago
The concern could be a brain drain. If lots of your early employees cash out and leave, you are potentially losing a lot of historical knowledge and expertise at a time when you are trying to build up to a successful IPO. Early employees of
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by akamia 4y ago
My mother and my sisters all have degrees in English. My mother had a good career as a high school English teacher and one of my sisters is doing the same. My other sister works as an editor for an educational publishing company. Outside of
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by akamia 4y ago
I was a lead at a startup that was acquired and the acquisition process would have probably sunk us if the acquisition had not gone through. We were in the middle of raising our next round when the offer came through. The founders and the b
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by akamia 4y ago
That's the approach I've taken and it has worked out really well. As long as they're getting their work done, I'm not concerned with how much time they're taking off.
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by akamia 4y ago
There are always going to be people who take advantage of anything "free". I once worked at a boring large company that didn't offer any of these perks. They repeatedly had to tell people that the office supplies were for wor
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by akamia 4y ago
One practical benefit for the well-off is having people in close proximity who can staff their local restaurants, shops, schools, etc. It's much easier to hire and retain staff for your business when your pool of potential employees is
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by akamia 4y ago
Not necessarily. They're describing the benefit for me. I only really use these services during the work week for lunch. My wife and I both work from home and sometimes we didn't make something in advance or stop at the store to p
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by akamia 4y ago
We had this challenge when we moved into our house. Our current vet was over 30 minutes away and we have to take our dog in 3x/week for fluids. Our new neighborhood has five vet clinics. Four were not taking any new patients. Luckily w
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by akamia 4y ago
This is a really great point. My brother-in-law went to film school and did exactly what you described. He networked with his professors and peers, worked on lots of projects, used the software and equipment available through the school, an
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by akamia 4y ago
Even in the early 2000s this was a thing in some places. I remember working at a store that printed the full CC# on the customer's receipt. As an employee, it would've been ridiculously easy to steal credit card information. You c
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by akamia 4y ago
This is spot on. I had a coworker who was in the reserves and the commitment was significantly more than what they say in the brochures. He was often gone for weeks at a time. This made it really difficult for him to progress because he was
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by akamia 5y ago
I think you need to clarify what you mean by at rest. You mention browser history but it's not clear to me if you mean that it's encrypted in the browser. If you mean it's encrypted within your data store on your servers, tha
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by akamia 5y ago
I interviewed at Microsoft around 2010 and had a horrible interview with a Principal Engineering Manager in Bing. He was my last interviewer of the day and the interview started at 5 PM. I had been there since 10 AM and the only "break
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by akamia 5y ago
I also find that I'm more confident in the manufacturer to actually ship the item properly. On several occasions I've ordered something expensive from Amazon only to have it arrived beat up and damaged. When I've returned it
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by akamia 5y ago
That's funny. I read it that way too.
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by akamia 5y ago
When I was a kid I shared the second Red Alert CD with my friend. We used the Modem multiplayer option to dial each other directly to play 1:1. So many great memories.
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by akamia 5y ago
I have experienced the exact same thing. In fact, the worst person I have ever worked with consistently aced interviews wherever he went.
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by akamia 5y ago
It’s been several years since I worked there but if I remember correctly it was a little more complicated because these were basically subcontracts under one larger contract. The company had a huge contract agreeing to purchase some volume
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by akamia 5y ago
That was my experience when I worked at Boeing in IT. As soon as the contract was signed we got the most mediocre people. Occasionally we’d get someone good but as soon as the consulting company figured out that they were good, they’d get r
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by akamia 5y ago
Mistakes happen. I've never met an engineer who has never made a mistake. However, I have met brilliant engineers who have written incredibly complex software and have also managed to make some silly mistakes along the way.

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