alex-nt

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by alex-nt 7mo ago
> Code has always been expensive. Producing a few hundred lines of clean, tested code takes most software developers a full day or more. Many of our engineering habits, at both the macro and micro level, are built around this core constr
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by alex-nt 11mo ago
There are places that offer Copilot to any team that wants it, and then behind the scenes they informed their managers that if the team (1+ persons) adopts it they will have to shed 10%+ human capacity (lose a person, move a person, fire a
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by alex-nt 2y ago
I've been working with Java for the last decade and for the past 5Y used the latest LTS versions in a very regulated environment (we have very strict patch deadlines for most CVEs). Rarely we hit issues with migrating to different vers
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by alex-nt 2y ago
It's never that simple. There is a strong herd mentality in the business space. Just yesterday I've been in a presentation from the risk department and they described the motives around choosing a specific security product as `sa
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by alex-nt 3y ago
We did that! Sometimes I would sprint across the stairs 1-2 floors to go to the bathroom. The problem was that just to reach another stall you had to go through x4 security doors that were quite hard to open so it took quite a bit of time.
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by alex-nt 3y ago
A few years back, after I left my old employer I went on the local IT subreddit to find a question from somebody about another company from the same building. First comment was that he should accept the offer if he is open to go to the toil
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by alex-nt 3y ago
Where I live this was mostly a voluntary thing. I do not have a problem with it happening, I have a problem with the implementation. The lights thing is just nonsensical. Having them completely off during the day would have been better on b
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by alex-nt 3y ago
This week I went to the office (not Amazon, another company in Europe) for 3 days in a row because we had new-joiners and I wanted to make it easier for them in the beginning. I live near the office, just a 15m walk away, and I would still
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by alex-nt 3y ago
I might have a bit of insight here. I work in a bank that has a lot of history. In practice, the IT infra is never truly merged (it takes 10+ years to migrate some components), not the functional components at least. There are bridges to co
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by alex-nt 4y ago
Fun story about the 3-4Y window, one of the execs at my company was having a Q&A, and he gave an example in another question a new set of components, saying that he expects them to be in use for the next 20Y. I asked why does he think h
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by alex-nt 4y ago
Similar for me, I noticed that the thing that lead to burnout was the politics around work, not the work itself. I changed companies and was happy till I got myself in the same political nightmare. If you find yourself in the same position,
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by alex-nt 4y ago
Regulatory changes in banks kept accelerating in the last 50Y and I see no reason this will stop. It is harder and harder for them to keep up. Reasons for this are: * Banks still have very old codebases and changing anything is fear inducin
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by alex-nt 4y ago
I keep hearing about these magical systems that work like clockwork, but I also work in a bank and the reality is very different. In a void, yes, those systems are amazing. Now add all the other systems that have to be linked with that and
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by alex-nt 4y ago
I am looking into buying stuff from them, I would also love some feedback. I just wants simple pants that fit, this seems to be a difficult requirement to fulfil.
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by alex-nt 4y ago
I am looking for an apartment in eastern Europe. I was shocked to see listings with the windows covered in Microsoft Paint. I was able to find the location in some instances by finding the same property in other listings (the images were st
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by alex-nt 5y ago
This is kind of the strategy, every 2 years. It's a new company because I/most ppl kind of feel slighted by the previous employer, especially if we know a bit more about the compensation of their direct manager/other colleagu
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by alex-nt 5y ago
The company knew the problem. I had a discussion with the manager of another team, and she was well aware that I/we were payed well under market prices. They just banked on the fact that to leave it is a lot of work, and some people wi
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by alex-nt 5y ago
Depends on what you work on. If you are not on pure tech (a minority of people are), as you get closer to the business you will get insights on how things work, how you can change them, make them better etc. Only part of our job is technica
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by alex-nt 5y ago
Yes, it takes about 6m in a medium to big organizations to figure out what to do and with whom you have to speek to get stuff done. And for 2 years everything is rosy. Then you speak with you colleagues that changed jobs and find out that t