christopherslee

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by christopherslee 2y ago
I've enjoyed, and been lucky to work at companies where engineers are focused on customer outcomes. I would also cite Hiten Shah's engineering driven development: https://www.june.so/blog/the-rise-of-engineeri
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by christopherslee 4y ago
I'm sure there's some SEO component, but I'm surprised no one mentioned ads. More real estate for you to scroll through for display ads?
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by christopherslee 4y ago
I thought it was interesting to think about what Clubhouse was displacing. It felt the most analogous to radio. So, what could you do if you had radio at internet scale? Or what would it take to make internet scale radio successful? In my m
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by christopherslee 5y ago
I agree with this point. It's hard to know if the OP is talking about title progression, or growth in the same role. Without knowing your organization, I can't say whether or not people are perceiving growth as having to take on m
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by christopherslee 7y ago
I'm 5 months in. About to wrap up my 2nd rotation, and move on to my 3rd and final rotation!
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by christopherslee 7y ago
Disclaimer: I also recently started at HubSpot and am currently enjoying my embedding phase immensely. The whole embedding onboarding is awesome and I think it raises the question of how engineering leaders can go through cycles of leading
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Highrise and What’s Next with Nate Kontny(onethingbyrob.com)
1 points by christopherslee 8y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 9y ago
tl;dr - we engineers are bad at estimation because we're too optimistic, and then we don't want to be accountable to the estimate given based on limited information. i think we have phobias for estimates because of management repe
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by christopherslee 9y ago
engineers hate giving estimates for a variety of reasons that i'm not going to get into here. most modern agile organizations don't value spending time on getting accurate estimates, but some kind of best-faith estimate is still v
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by christopherslee 9y ago
Keep in mind that you also can try to sell the company for more money if there's competition. Competition from other buyers, competition from investors. You probably want to try going down both roads to see how hard it is to sell or ra
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by christopherslee 9y ago
tl;dr - if you believe in the company future and are willing to make that sacrifice, stay. if you don't, leave. all startups have risks. i think that's something people overlook and they tend to think about the non-corporate atmos
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by christopherslee 9y ago
Is this like http://www.evolveapp.com/ (Techstars Boston '17.)
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Squeezing JPEG Images with Guetzli(ariya.io)
3 points by christopherslee 9y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 10y ago
Just applauding your effort here, not only for being proactive about getting into the field you want, but also for finding ways to contribute to open source without having to submit code. Keep it up!
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by christopherslee 10y ago
What kind of technical due diligence did you do?
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by christopherslee 10y ago
To build on the suggestions other people are making, I would say that one thing I look for in the transition from to "senior" is the ability to make the people around you better. At the junior/entry level, a lot of your focu
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by christopherslee 10y ago
props to flovilmart for trying to take the high road at least.
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by christopherslee 11y ago
Software is all about tradeoffs, and there are so many ways a single problem could be solved. What works for me is to show them an alternative way that the code could be written. Then you can have a practical discussion about the differenc
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by christopherslee 11y ago
not trying to discount this or my perceived intent of it, but i was wondering if any women could share specific examples when they were being mentored/coached differently than men. i understand that every individual, man or woman, resp
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by christopherslee 12y ago
Not sure if this is your first 6 months in the working world or not. I'm guessing that it is. I'm not trying to discourage you from leaving, but I wanted to offer some perspective. If your startup is indeed rapidly growing, I thin
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by christopherslee 12y ago
Yeah, it's tricky. I guess I should amend the suggestions to be: A) start by understanding the tools and libraries available to you, and how to integrate them to build product/features faster. B) start to understand what is going
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by christopherslee 12y ago
What I tell most people to do is to build a lot of toy projects. A lot. Ship a lot of code out onto the internet for the world to see. There are several purposes: 1) Building a lot of things will hopefully help you uncover different problem
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by christopherslee 12y ago
On the bright side, I think that a good CI/CD process is really important, and not a lot of devs have a good understanding of that part of the product. They just write code and "throw it over the wall." I find that having wor
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Apple Watch PSD Design Template(impekable.com)
1 points by christopherslee 12y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 12y ago
I'm never sure what the point of these articles are. It's supply and demand. If there's a crunch, there's more demand then supply. When that happens prices go up. So really the tl;dr is, companies want more talent at the
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by christopherslee 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification!
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by christopherslee 12y ago
I thought it has previously been confirmed a few months ago that Google was acquiring Twitch. Did that fall through or was the confirmation later retracted?
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by christopherslee 12y ago
I'd be curious, have you tried coffeescript? I'm not a javascript fan by itself, but I do like coffeescript. I was probably making a comparison in my mind of coffeescript vs dart?
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by christopherslee 12y ago
My developer experience with Dart was not a good one. The most succinct way that I read from other developer experiences on the internet was, "It's the worst parts of Java brought into Javascript". Not intended as a trolling
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by christopherslee 12y ago
Agreed with the above comment about having a passion for it. Build stuff, a lot of stuff. Most of it will be bad, but it will start to get better, AND you will start to develop speed in the form of mental patterns for getting things done. S

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