elptacek

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by elptacek 1y ago
Your logic is side-stepping the point. There was a period of time, at least in the USA, where the goal was economical and social stability (New Deal, GI Bill, unions). Over the course of my life, the goal has morphed into wealth transfer. Y
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by elptacek 2y ago
Wait... you didn't know about this?
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by elptacek 3y ago
I had a single phone interview with someone at Northwestern (a long time ago) where they were looking for someone to build a pen of developers to "partner" with MBA students to turn ideas into apps. I laughed so hard my sides hurt
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by elptacek 3y ago
Not a bad idea.
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by elptacek 3y ago
No, we never really got far enough that we were able to collect that kind of data. I'm glad it was fun; certainly doing it for a living is entertaining. Mostly. IMO, the messiness of hiring processes and the lack of adoption of work sa
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by elptacek 3y ago
I may or may not have picked the locks to my middle school's computer room and I definitely didn't hide in there when I was supposed to be in class.
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by elptacek 3y ago
I think if we'd survived there would have come a day when we got a letter from somebody's lawyer. But as a kid who grew up below the poverty level, the idea of an epic escape remains near and dear to my heart. I've probably s
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by elptacek 3y ago
The way I remember it, the general experience was that companies reached out to us and were very excited by the idea, but when we actually sent a candidate, they scotched it. I did make exactly one placement where I waived the fee (because
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by elptacek 3y ago
Invisible, forgotten third partner here... more made it through all of them than you might think. They even set up their own Slack community to help each other out.
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by elptacek 3y ago
Yes to "existing bad hiring pipelines." In at least one case, the in-house recruiter was obviously offended that she had to speak to us at all. The one placement we made was with an old pal and I had to yell at him to even give th
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by elptacek 3y ago
Attracting entry level hires is part of the point, but the problem remains that most companies lack the resources and/or desire to train entry level hires. Heck, most of the ones I've worked for didn't really train me at a se
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by elptacek 3y ago
I left a job in 2007. Things were so stacked against me that I had no choice but to leave. Two years later, the manager contacted me to apologise. He told me that they'd had to hire five people to replace me because they could not find
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by elptacek 3y ago
Losing plants is still a bummer. I think I average over my lifetime ~60/40 for survive/die over here. The soil here is hard clay, which is not helped by decades of previous owners mowing the grass and setting the clippings out for
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by elptacek 3y ago
This tracks. As a gardener, you also have to be comfortable with things dying and general risks caused by events that are beyond your control. The weather, municipalities trying to kill mosquitoes and inadvertently killing pollinators, faun
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by elptacek 4y ago
You're gaining a skill, though. For example, in future interviews, you will see obvious red flags that indicate a similar environment. Being able to gracefully navigate bureaucracy and not get burnt out by it is a very underrated skill
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by elptacek 4y ago
These past few months, I have been slowly working through the audiobook version of Steven Strogatz' Infinite Powers. The work is enjoyable exactly because there's a bit of effort made to breathe life into the names everyone rememb
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by elptacek 4y ago
What’s doing the verification of the email on the server side? How does this service associate the email with the account? Specifically, what could be put in the email header or body by the MUA that is equivalent to a single use auth token?
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by elptacek 4y ago
Thanks for this. I recently left an otherwise awesome job mostly because of OKRs. I am still trying to articulate why. I'm going to correct you, because it's relevant. Mehta says, "but only if it is actually accretive to the
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by elptacek 4y ago
And there it is, the one thing I can never have an honest conversation about. The rules are different for ugly people, based on my personal experience as one data point. We're the last lot that everyone can discriminate against, or abu
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by elptacek 4y ago
I'll bite. We're coming up on our 24th anniversary. I will likely regret this, but this is what I have learned. 1. Misery is a function of expectations management. As is said, every relationship is different. Expectations could ra
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by elptacek 5y ago
I've seen many apps sending metrics to domains owned by Facebook while I was testing them. This does not surprise me at all.
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by elptacek 8y ago
My money is on there being a direct correlation between companies who did early adoption of internet technologies as crucial to business and 'doing it right' versus those other companies who view IT and security as a 'cost ce
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by elptacek 8y ago
I may not be caffeinated enough to participate in these threads articulately, but this question made me realize something that hadn't quite clicked before. As I have experienced it, the existing (waterfall?) model for deploying new fea
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by elptacek 9y ago
There's a word for that. Gaslighting.
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by elptacek 9y ago
If this is a way to treat depression, maybe dialing back the crap way we treat each other is preventative. I've been angry for a long time that I have to take medication because most of my life was full of people who seemed to get some
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by elptacek 9y ago
Any measure like a PIP is an attempt to reinforce a political/power structure. Where "mismatched expectations" indicate that it is not clear whether the behavior of the employee or the manager -- specifically, whichever manag
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by elptacek 10y ago
Oxytocin levels also increase. That would be the first one I'd test for -- if there was a correlation between oxytocin levels and extent of grey matter loss.
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by elptacek 10y ago
"Mice Splicer" on your resume, though? That'd be an interesting interview conversation.
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by elptacek 10y ago
No, no boarding school. Just a seriously crappy childhood.
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by elptacek 10y ago
This is particularly fascinating to me, because I am a deeply and painfully lonely person. My current working hypothesis is that my life experience has caused some level of attachment disorder, resulting in a feeling of loneliness even when

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