grumpy_coder

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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
I think the article does miss that a raise for exactly one employee is fairly easy each year. Two, maybe three is normal. But I have nearly a hundred, so virtually everyone is falling behind eventually, even the ones that do get a raise one
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
One thing I have seen is a massive increase in wider executive meetings. With Zoom calls routinely having 100 executives. There's no time to manage their own teams because top execs are forever inviting everyone to 'fireside chats
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
I would say this more aggressively, product manager shouldn't be a specific role at any company. Someone needs to do that work, but making a product manager role, who can be unable to do any of the actual tasks to make the product func
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
You seem to forget that no matter how much effort and success we have it's always the bosses son who gets the reward. And that sure doesn't feel like success. Resiliency is becoming more important in our increasingly feudal societ
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
The wages went up precisely because of the limited supply and years of training needed for devs. You get a really biased view when working in a tech company, but the vast majority of people can't code, and when they try to learn don&#x
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
At a meta level in most companies it is important to not become the quick 'bug fixing' specialist. Don't be the developer product managers use/abuse to get around processes and fix what they want fixing today. Work with
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
Most countries in the world don't do the 'depending on what your particular company decides to give'. California recognizes 18 holidays. Average holidays given is 6 ( https://money.com/columbus-day-who-has-to-w
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
Meritocracy is not really Marxist. Marxism is more 'to each according to his needs' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi... A Marxist tone would be more focused on getting rid of the
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
Would be nice to aggregate some of these together. One 'speed' has always been a bad proxy for all the different speeds you get from ISP local caches (that most companies can't get in), local COLO/CDN, regional AWS/
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
The cost of servers these days, you really shouldn't be playing with NAT hole punching except for your own interest/fun. The number of simultaneous players on your little indie game are just not going to cause one medium sized ser
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
IPv6 support is pretty 'widespread' at this point. >50% last I did a quick test You unfortunately need ubiquitus IPv6 support to actually rely on IPv6, which isn't going to happen anytime soon. So you really need to consid
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
As the person you kept interrupting and following to the coffee pot, I much prefer this new way of working. To be clear, labelled as an 'IC' I have zero interest in training you. You will job hop at the first opportunity, and neve
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
That nobody is obviously within the people making the decisions. The people complaining were a whole different set of nobodies.
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
I do feel the article isn't clear on what the context is, but it sounds like it is really this sort of corporate 'project' like internal research or tools. And from years of doing these things I think they massively underesti
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
I always enjoy the story of poor immigrants 'humble beginnings' sent away to expensive boarding school in foreign country.
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
That is the root problem with Martin Fowler and his ilk, always ignoring management, politics and existing reality. See Project Managers becoming 'scrum masters' rather than neatly disappearing. Platform teams are similar, they so
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
There is a huge problem with this idea, it suggests that a competent critic has usable skill in an area. This is obviously false. Moreover I see it as a huge problem in our current environment of easy access to Youtube explainers of everyth
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
I particularly love these hour long interviews where I've had to fly half way around the world to spend an hour answering shitty questions from some completely unprepared lazy asshole like you who hasn't spent 5 minutes reading ea
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
You really shouldn't write a long post on doing great work without mentioning teamwork. He seems to say great work is done in the garage or garden shed, which has been false for centuries at this point.
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
You forgot how great it is to be called 'Talent' The professional managerial class have completely taken over most tech companies now. 'Technologists' trading buzz words, peddling 'influence' and crowding out t
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
The actual dollar amount also matters. London's charge has tripled since it was introduced. The unforeseen consequence of this type of charge is it becomes a lever to reduce traffic by forcing poorer people off the roads everyone pays
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
Is that AAA game development, mobile game development or indie game development? All have different 'rules'
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
The problem with that statement is you have to in a very small time period pick enough corners to find what they know and not the many parts you think are not esoteric but are unused by many people. What isn't esoteric? Shared pointers
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
The linked 'scientific' paper is just embarrassing. From the study design "A comparative risk assessment model estimated the numbers, proportions and uncertainty of global T2D cases attributable to suboptimal intake of key di
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
The most depressing part of it for me was all the people pushing the lies and getting a big bonus/promoted. There has been zero downside for them. We really need government to get involved and stop the blatant fraud in marketing.
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
If the interviewer knowingly used a banned question for years could they be sued by candidates?
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
That is necessary but often not sufficient. It still leaves the problem of moving time from where garbage is created to the bulk 'collect' step. I've run collect every frame to keep stalls down, but the time always creeps up
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
This is more of a problem than it seems at first. At one place I worked that did mini-project interview most of the hires were currently unemployed and could spend all week on it. (then claim they did it in 3 hours)
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
This is a heavily massaged story built for a life long politician. (One hole in the story is only giving I think his mothers family background. There was clearly ~500k to buy a pharmacy early after 'penniless' immigration)
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by grumpy_coder 4y ago
Though it's not finding the article. It's finding a link to the article on Reddit. I hope people aren't linking to the Reddit thread...

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