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by codeonfire 11y ago
Groovy's problem is that it is the "anything goes" language. There is the eternal September problem of new people entering the industry, and for the first ten years of a person's career they think that more complex, mor
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>Some of the best developers I know didn't even get an engineering degree. How do you know this is just not confirmation bias on your part. You like to think that degree-less people are somehow vaguely 'better.' You know
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Hiring for specific skills in my mind is the mark of a inexperienced company, manager, or department. Usually people think their choice in technology is prescient and amazing. Anyone that doesn't know that specific technology must be
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Yes, but everybody thinks they are a 10x developer and everyone else is shit. Big companies know exactly how to take advantage of these dummies. "What you're not done yet, I thought you were a 10x developer. Better get it worki
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Amazon is involved in a lawsuit over CloudFormation and U.S. Patent No. 8,271,974. Perhaps they are hesitant to invest until that is cleared up.
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Dynamo + lambda + sns?
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Hmm. Interesting. Last time I asked for a job I had to do 5-6 useless tests. I was told experience and education didn't matter. What does matter besides politics?
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But what part of that is just hubris or real estate investment? They arguably have enough people to run their retail and AWS operations and to expand those businesses without expanding people. A large portion of their other projects are j
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Well, people starting a job often have a large number of expenses and have probably gone a few months without income and have a few catastrophes they pushed back a few weeks. Yeah it's nice not to live paycheck to paycheck but even a
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by codeonfire 11y ago
No bonus should ever have to be paid back. If you have to pay it back it is a loan or prepaid work. Signing bonuses should be a reward for agreeing to start work, not work for a year. If $35k is too much for that, then don't pay $35
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I for one think companies need to be taught a lesson for giving paycheck advances and calling it a bonus. You have been given an interest free, unsecured loan with no minimum payment and unspecified term. So, just pay it back at your leis
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Underperforming means whatever your manager wants it to mean. That is why it is bullshit. For instance, after I closed some wide open security holes (0.0.0.0/0 open, no authentication or access control to our $$$ stuff) after several
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Did you break it down by citizen, green card, guest worker visa?
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I stopped using crucial SSD's after I had several with the 5200 hour firmware bug. Perhaps you were experiencing the same issue? I was able to upgrade the firmware but now go with Intel SSDs.
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Web-based services make it difficult to bilk customers because there is no way to increase costs. The rate is fixed ahead of time. The service either works or it doesn't. There is no possibility of hardware problems, software rework
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It costs four to eight thousand dollars assuming $2k in legal fees. That isn't easy.
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You're in a better position if you resign first, although you'll probably just lose your job. Obviously it's time to change companies.
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Ride sharing is helping lots of not-rich people in small and medium sized towns who can't find jobs but have a car. I can go to my hometown and probably would request an Uber or Lyft. I never once took a taxi living in the same area
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Whether you can use distributed web services like s3, elastic mapreduce, or google storage to copy it largely depends on what kind of ISP connection you have on both ends. With gigabit and multipart transfers it seems feasible within a wee
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What you're describing is not consciousness. That's just a machine responding to inputs. If all matter including monkeys, dogs, and plants is removed from the universe and there was only blackness, consciousness would be the thi
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Engineering firms won't even talk to someone claiming to be a ME or EE with no degree, no certifications, and/or no license. And, the premise of the article are that they are ignoring both education and experience, so I don'
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In a way, the entire premise of what a software engineer is has been destroyed. Imagine if mechanical engineers were hired based on their ability to design a simple bracket. Imagine if electrical engineers were hired because they amazed m
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When people abandoned resumes like this it's because there is some corruption in their hiring process and lesser skilled management is attempting to hire down for political control. Their only goal is to go through the motions and sta
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I'm going to say 25%, so the company replaces 10k SDE's every four years at a cost of $4.5 billion dollars (based on 4x salary replacement cost and 10k SDEs). Why 4x? There's an army of HR and recruiting people. There&#x27
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Work hard, play hard always means engineers working hard nights and weekends and people in charge not really doing anything in the way of work but drinking, drugging, partying, etc all the time.
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>I also do something I call "walking the floor" Also known as drive-by management. Why not schedule some time instead?
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>you don't even know where to find credentials to log into its production systems since it was setup by some employee in the middle of the night a year ago that is no longer there. Recently I was searching for some report generating
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University of Washington might have a top CS department, but this institute is not teaching CS or even STEM. This sounds like a fluff school for rich families that want their kids in the US. Microsoft execs will control a complete immigra
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This school is not UW though, is it. Who, specifically, is going to teach at this new institute since UW profs are already at capacity and Tsinghua profs are in China. They certainly are not funding any new research here. How can you hav
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This place is only going to hand out Masters degrees in 'technology innovation.' It's goal is to be a diploma mill for people Microsoft wants to bring over from China because there is a higher H1B cap for people with masters

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