el_fuser

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by el_fuser 11y ago
Sure they are... Your kid spends 6-10 hours per day under their direction. Often they spend more time with kids than the kids' parents.
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by el_fuser 11y ago
I must be getting old
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by el_fuser 11y ago
Of course, git was developed by an old guy that used CVS, so....
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by el_fuser 11y ago
Diversity isn't about making personal changes to fit in with a group that is different than yourself.
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by el_fuser 11y ago
>> I appreciate that you guys might not be statisticians and apparently very few on HN in general, seeing how this piece was upvoted. Google has been studying their process in the last few years and are reaching different conclusions
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by el_fuser 11y ago
>> You're given weeks to refresh your knowledge ahead of a Google interview Begs the question, doesn't it? >> Binary trees are MOST ASSUREDLY on that list Sure they are... and my intro to CS textbook was ~500 pages. I&
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by el_fuser 11y ago
Another instance where silicon valley favors the young... he probably would've nailed this question if he'd been only a couple of years removed from school. He also would've nailed it had he been given 10 minutes to do some r
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by el_fuser 11y ago
Because they were documented at all, at least in my experience.
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by el_fuser 11y ago
I was on BOS around the same time patio showed up... It's amazing to see how "far" he has come. What he has mastered is marketing to developers, more than anything else. Of course it doesn't add up, because it's lik
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by el_fuser 13y ago
"serious flaw" == hyperbole
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Again, not the Steve Jobs I've read about. Having your factory retool weeks before you launch an unproven product because you don't like the glass? Not very pragmatic.
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Being principled does not necessarily mean they are principles you agree with!
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by el_fuser 13y ago
not worth the legal hassle That's not the Steve Jobs I read about. Like him or not, he was a man of principle.
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by el_fuser 13y ago
I think you're overestimating how hot of a skill that actually is... But even if you could make "boatloads" of cash consulting, not everyone desires the road warrior lifestyle that goes along with consulting.
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Ahhh. That makes a helluva lot more sense.
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Not to mention having negligible relevance to your ability to lead an engineering staff.
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Before you edit much further: We want someone who has less than 12 years of MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE. The reason is that if you haven't been coding for 12+ years...you probably are not "hands-on" enough This arbitrary cutoff m
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by el_fuser 13y ago
No... It falls under disparate impact.
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by el_fuser 13y ago
As i posted above... Lightweight processes were discussed as alternatives to waterfall way back in the 90s during my software engineering courses. "Rapid application development" and RAtional unified process were the "hot&quo
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Nah... Lightweight processes were discussed as alternatives to waterfall way back in the 90s during my software engineering courses. "Rapid application development" and RAtional unified process were the "hot" lightweight
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Not only is it blatantly ageist... It's stupid. They want someone that has been building engineering organizations for 5-12 years, after having been an individual contributor. Then , they want you to drop back into an individual con
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by el_fuser 13y ago
My "career" aspiration in school was to be a bearded, suspenders wearing unix admin/hacker. I don't ever want to get non-technical. I've been a project manager, and found the work excruciatingly boring. I've b
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by el_fuser 13y ago
I totally agree. If I'm hiring someone for my team, I need to see skill. Or smarts. If we're hiring an outside consultant, it's always for technical knowledge that we don't have. Again we need to see skill. If we need to
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by el_fuser 13y ago
So true. My Facebook feed will contain no less than a dozen 2nd amendment related posts at any given point in time, but nary a peep about the 4th. If you want to see action on this front, someone needs to educate the NRA that metadata prov
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Oh yeah, definitely. I went deep into interviews with a big oil company, and when it came time to sit down with the Sr. managers, they did not like my philosophy on overtime at all (I have a family I like to see on the weekdays... Overtime
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by el_fuser 13y ago
I sympathize, brother. My most irksome comments were "So... Giving mom the day off?" whenever someone would see me with my kids. The most egregious thing to happen, was being kicked off of the local meetup for playdates... I assum
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by el_fuser 13y ago
I tend to avoid places that equate career advancement with becoming a manager.
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by el_fuser 13y ago
I'm Sooooo glad I don't work in a "professional" environment. I sometimes think professional is slang for pretentious.
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by el_fuser 13y ago
"This is why, if you are a critic of the N.S.A.’s surveillance program, it is imperative that the war on terror reach its culmination." The problem is there's no end, nor can there be an end. It's too nebulous. We have
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by el_fuser 13y ago
Everything wrong with our industry, in a neat little capsule. We have the obvious age discrimination... The confusion over faddish languages being innovation... A hasty generalization fallacy... A good testament that economists shouldn&#x27

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