djmill

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by djmill 9y ago
I hike and backpack as much as I can. It also helps that I built myself a side project to keep track of all of the trails I hike/camp, so this pushes me to find new places to explore and to add new trails to the site. While hiking only
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by djmill 9y ago
Very weird, now it works after reading this and re-checking. Oddly enough I restarted Chrome and Firefox twice before posting the comment in hopes that it was just my machine. Thanks for the sanity check!
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by djmill 9y ago
Edit: About 15 minutes after posting, this seems to work fine on my site now. Sorry for the confusion! The spinner does not stop and it gives no results for my site ( https://myhikes.org ) - this is with both FireFox and Chrome ex
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by djmill 10y ago
This site is great - and it looks like there are others out there too. I use this for backpacking and astrophotography to figure out precipitation and cloud patterns (as to not waste a drive out). Very helpful!
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by djmill 10y ago
Totally agree. It's great for fellow engineers to poke around on to make sure you aren't an idiot or aren't copying/pasting projects from the web, but you're right.. for the most part, no one cares about side projec
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by djmill 10y ago
Good to know. Maybe I'll post again in a couple of months to see if I can snag more users.
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by djmill 10y ago
Nice! Yeah definitely mixed results with Reddit, but it's great for free one-time advertising. Another downside is you can't hit your audience more than once without being targeted a spammer, so I like to think of it as a free &#x
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by djmill 10y ago
Yeah it's definitely mixed. Luckily I haven't had any negative feedback, it's been mostly positive and I've had some great suggestions as well. Downside is it takes a bit of time to post the same thing across subreddits,
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by djmill 10y ago
Reddit. As an experiment I posted my side project in subreddits related to what the project's about. I went from ~15 registered users to 45 registered users in a couple of days. Google Analytics showed ~300 new users in 1 day and ~3000
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by djmill 10y ago
Onsite engineers for UAT and rapid bug fix turnaround. Most bugs reported from customers, during UAT, are fixed by the next morning for another round of testing. This is not always the case, but for most issues, we turn them around in less
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by djmill 10y ago
https://myhikes.org This is a site I built for myself, friends, and the public; however, I haven't promoted it much... Trying to get more users, but it's been under construction for a while. Nothing fancy, but I wanted
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by djmill 10y ago
Very true
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by djmill 10y ago
Yeah I'm currently at the 'next big project' and asked for a fair raise. I got a bonus and was told salary reviews will happen within a few months. The company reviews everyone at the same time... maybe they should reconsider
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by djmill 10y ago
My equity is extremely small, if not negligible. The company continues to grow, but the engineering teams grow slower than other parts of the company. This puts more and more strain on engineering as work continues to pile on. The good news
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by djmill 10y ago
Very good point!
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Ask HN: No Profitability and Raises why the guilt?
5 points by djmill 10y ago|14 comments
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by djmill 11y ago
I think I've decided to take a different approach... I want to know what I can do to be inline with the rest of the industry. I think it makes sense to propose this as a question to my boss(es) after highlighting my accomplishments, et
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by djmill 11y ago
Great advice, this is really what I'd like to do... propose that I have an offer that I don't really want, but the money is better - hoping that they can match it, since the offer proves my worth
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by djmill 11y ago
Gotcha that makes sense. Part of me feels like I'm being greedy and part of me actually feels like I'm being taken advantage of in certain ways, so I'm personally struggling with whether or not to ask for a raise anyway... yo
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by djmill 11y ago
Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I've literally never had anything negative come from my bosses, it's only been praise about how much I've grown and to keep up the good work. When I moved away to go remote, none of my bosses
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by djmill 11y ago
Okay, very interesting... I like the way you think. Luckily, I built various components and the entire CSS layer (which gets very complex) is really only understood by me... which is a nice monopoly from time to time. But yeah, if I leave I
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by djmill 11y ago
Okay great, that makes sense. Thanks for the advice!
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by djmill 11y ago
I feel as though I need a raise because my responsibilities have changed drastically since my last raise. I'm now managing people and leading a project. On top of that, my pay has always been less than that of other folks in the indust
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by djmill 11y ago
Also, just stating that if Google throws me an offer, I'm obviously going to take it... but I'm not banking on that. This pay raise demand would be the latter if/else in the Google offer edge-case!
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Need a raise, how to ask?
17 points by djmill 11y ago|29 comments
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by djmill 11y ago
Exactly, I totally agree. Thanks for the advice!
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by djmill 11y ago
You make a really good point. The boss does know how shitty it is for people and he mentioned he hopes things will change by Q1 of next year. 2 mental break downs in 5 months, I don't think I can make it to Q1 of next year. The Princip
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100% Burnt Out
10 points by djmill 11y ago|10 comments
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by djmill 11y ago
Maybe for a small backend project, you could use Ruby on Rails? RoR gives you easy JSON API capabilities, an app server, and an out-of-the-box sqlite3 db. I figured I'd throw it out there because for a beginner, all of these things wou
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by djmill 12y ago
Great advice and thank you very much for posting. Luckily I've had the privilege of work from home since I started my career, so I've adapted a lot to not being in the office, but you're right - get a sweet office, separate s

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