burnoutgal

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by burnoutgal 4y ago
"getting hit for a bus" is a hyperbolic example meant to stand in for a catastrophic event. It really means you (or a family member like a parent, partner or child) has a major health event, for instance. Some things are random,
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
But you need a house with a backyard, two teslas, a wine cellar and a college fund or you aren't really living /s
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
In the boom time there's an unending appetite for mediocre engineers to inflate headcount, making managers look good (more reports) and companies look good (to investors). In the bust time, I don't think even the smartest people w
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Do you worry about being hit by a bus before you have FU money? Personally I'd rather work half time for twice as many years than try to race to retire. A lot of responses seem to be focused on high cost-of-living areas, which is kind
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Seriously, why do people care about being promoted beyond senior/staff? Even at a smaller company you're making 200k/year, you probably have a good handle on your job, why not just coast? There's a big discontinuity in c
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
I worked at Shopify - Pay is all about getting the Shopify brand into consumer minds. They had a huge problem where retailers used their platform but there was very little stickiness, the customer relationship was owned by the retailer. Wit
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” The overton window in america is so far to the right that the
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
A remarkable thing about these stories is that many artists end up enjoying lavish lifestyles while they're popular, but having no money (and going on the dole) when their success wanes. The record industry absolutely encourages this b
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Dave Grohl is the Paul McCartney of the 90s - survived the breakup of a band that had massive mainstream success, reinvented himself as a solo artist, now gets to be a lifetime musician with more money than god. I like Nirvana and I like ea
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Yeah, having seen the monstrosities Tableau generates, that example seemed quaint.
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
There's lots of python libraries for graph visualization, it's probably force-directed layout or something else similar. The name is indeed a reference to data warehouse design, where you normally have heavily normalized data in a
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Glad to see this perspective. I find the industry in general is full of very confident people who will try to bowl you over with their cursory understanding of topics.
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Personally I hate scratch images because once you lose busybox, you lose the ability to exec into containers. It's a great escape hatch for troubleshooting.
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Women should have the option to control their own bodies - that means allowing birth control and abortion. It's also patriarchy at work that men would never tolerate even 1/10th of the risks women face in preventing pregnancy. Loo
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Women get IUDs inserted with nothing more than OTC painkillers, generally. Especially in people who have never given birth it can be cripplingly painful and cause severe cramps for weeks.
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by burnoutgal 4y ago
Have you ever read about what it's like to get an IUD inserted? I would recommend checking that out and then asking whether a small injection to the genitals is really the worst possibility.
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
When I was at Shopify, it was Python unit tests for ETL code. There was a framework of reusable components that simplified things, but it was all homegrown. They were trying to move to dbt
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
The IDF have also murdered a lot of innocent palestinians, but if you do it dressed like a soldier somehow it's not "terrorism"
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
well, and the israeli definition of "terror activities" for palestinians could be as simple as "showed up at a protest"
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
I have been the token woman interviewing a woman and also joined teams where the only other woman interviewed me. It always struck me more as "look, we have one and she's not mouthing 'get out' so we're a good emplo
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
Graviton2 is generally available and depending on your codebase and dependencies can be a drop-in replacement. I was amazed at the breadth of ARM docker images that exist for common use cases.
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
Yup, classic fascist rhetoric. It's not surprising they point to a woman being independent and expressing her sexuality as the example of "degenerate culture". The "other" (people of colour, women, queers) are produ
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
They're spending money to build housing, which will be used to house people without homes. The headline makes it sound like they're paying a million dollars in rent, but in fact this is real estate development.
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
In practice people will accuse non-pornographic LGBT educational resources of being pornography and breaking the law. Pornography is subjective, and straight people have historically tried to say that any information about gay sex or being
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
Your link doesn't say "give your employer all your medical records", it says "if you take medical leave you need a certificate from a doctor". There's no obligation to prove you have no medical problems at all,
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
There's no "but", it's invasive and illegal. The boss is using OP's ADHD as an excuse to demand all this private information, to "prove" they need accomodation.
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
Car companies do a lot of revenue, but margins are slim. When you actually have to build something out of metal and glass you have to be fixated on cost cutting.
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
It is not. As many people have pointed out, this seems to be a ubiquitous pattern in high growth companies that I assumed was unique to my last big startup
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
I have a therapist, but sometimes it can be difficult to talk through these things with someone who doesn't know the field or the ground truth. My big stressor is that I have hit the jackpot, and where do I go from here? So many people
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by burnoutgal 5y ago
I've commented elsewhere, but this is a >1000 person company where deployments are owned by a dedicated team. There's a lot of technical debt involved, but my team is pretty far removed from it, and there is also necessary comp

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