crustacean

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by crustacean 7y ago
But why talk shop on a date at all though? - A shared niche interest is not sufficient basis for a good relationship. - I’m a woman in tech and I don’t necessarily wanna talk code on a first or second date, I’ve got professional development
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by crustacean 7y ago
That has presumably worked _for Elon_...
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by crustacean 7y ago
If my meetings happened as described with no one rescheduling or derailing them then actually my meeting life would be fine. I want to go to the meetings described on my calendar. But nearly every time “It’s a trap!”
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by crustacean 7y ago
This is such a good point. Take SQL. It has survived because it is well designed, and changes so little and so slowly, and it’s obvious what SQL is and isn’t meant for. Amateur programmers can port SQL queries between database systems semi-
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by crustacean 7y ago
Edit: *Inmon
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by crustacean 7y ago
Better to have “nothing but prod” than something bad, imo/tbh.
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by crustacean 7y ago
Sorry to be that one avoids-the-question comment, but: Without design sessions to figure out your data store design (look up Kimball, Immon), and then monitoring/testing to make sure everything is running smoothly, any data stack will
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by crustacean 7y ago
At some companies you can get a negative performance review for not being on Slack during working hours. “Needs to be more responsive / better team player.” In other places you might be expected to be online beyond 9-5 too.
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by crustacean 7y ago
I think you’re right to connect “co-location” with “cruft”, though. “Co-location for the sake of the flourishing of cruft” is a management philosophy.
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by crustacean 7y ago
I’m just as curious about how the managers were trained to be process-driven. Manager behavior seems to me just as if not more important than IC behavior here. Since managers have power, and engineers usually don’t personally know their ski
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by crustacean 7y ago
I totally agree with you. I like all-remote teams. I’m wary of teams that are part remote and part collocated, especially when the leaders are part of Team Collocated and I’m not.
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by crustacean 7y ago
It’s only going to stop when being on Facebook is seen as shameful.
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by crustacean 7y ago
Unless you were a contractor, your company should have bought you a computer, full stop.
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by crustacean 7y ago
Sadly it sounds like your options are to leave or to stop caring so hard about your job. I wish I had better advice, I am also familiar with micromanagers who make bad macro decisions. They are too into how work makes them feel. Some people
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by crustacean 7y ago
Yep. Everyone is gonna start to see tech the way tech sees finance and military contractors
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by crustacean 7y ago
I avoid any company that has forced arbitration as a condition of employment
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by crustacean 7y ago
Can anyone give advice about how you built your personal website(s?) while having strong professional interests in multiple areas? I’d be really grateful to see an example. I have a career in tech and also a career in music. My professional
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by crustacean 7y ago
Colleges themselves are not the only institutions keeping records about students. For instance, you can send people your transcripts and proofs of graduation through https://studentclearinghouse.org/ , a nonprofit