jkingsbery

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by jkingsbery 2mo ago
Isn't Infantino European?
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by jkingsbery 3mo ago
I'm both happy to argue about it, and have someone tell me why I'm wrong.
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by jkingsbery 3mo ago
Since this is at the top of Hacker News: this article is not good advice generally. Here's what I do (and mentor people to do the same): 1. Don't start with the argument, start with the data. Debates/arguments/discussion
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by jkingsbery 3mo ago
Mostly agree with this article. When I mentor people about managing, some other bits I also usually mention: 1. 'You’re not “part of the team” anymore.' - You're not part of the software dev team, but if you're doing thi
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by jkingsbery 3mo ago
I was in middle school at the time, learning programming. I think by that time, we had home Internet, but it was really slow, and so a lot of my learning about programming was either from the help files that came with the IDE (at the time f
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by jkingsbery 3mo ago
Not a question, just thought I'd throw out that I worked through Black Art of Java Game Programming when I was learning Java in 1997 or so. I still have my copy because I don't like getting rid of books. I found it really helpful
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by jkingsbery 4mo ago
Not OP, but within Amazon we have pretty good connectors around integrating with our task system (so you can pretty easily ask your GenAI tool "look up the next item in our sprint board, let me know if you have any clarifying questions
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by jkingsbery 4mo ago
I work at Amazon (standard disclaimer: just sharing my own experience, not an official spokesperson, etc.) I can't say that this isn't happening, but at least the parts of the company I get visibility into, what the article descri
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by jkingsbery 4mo ago
Within a few years Xi coined this phrase, China began having a massive real estate sector problem due in large part to speculation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_sector_crisis... . Part of this specula
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by jkingsbery 4mo ago
In my experience as a former astronaut, international spy, and traveler to half the countries in the world, the jury is still out.
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by jkingsbery 6mo ago
I am glad most places are getting rid of non-competes. But here is the best argument I've heard for them: For many companies, a lot of their value is in their intellectual property. Non-competes exist not because the company will enfor
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by jkingsbery 6mo ago
Not sure if this is meant sarcastically or not, but it is - it helps reduce transaction costs of changing employers. Anyone who has ever signed a contract with wide non-competes knows that it is hard for an individual to negotiate against i
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by jkingsbery 6mo ago
1984 is 22 on the list.
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by jkingsbery 8mo ago
The examples in the first paragraph, while not grammatically passive, are functionally passive. They would be stronger in most cases if the author wrote them with the actor as the subject. For example, yes "the bus blew up" is act
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by jkingsbery 8mo ago
This isn't really just a big company problem, lots of start-ups fail too. It plays out a bit differently at big companies, as those failures tend to be more public but also done in a way that lets the company shuffle people around to t
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by jkingsbery 8mo ago
With other engineers I mentor, I often give similar advice: break the promotion into two steps. The one everyone talks about is when the email goes out. The one that probably matters more is when your manager says: "I'm going to s
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by jkingsbery 9mo ago
> The strength of conviction people have about this policy–almost either way, but certainly among those against–seems to scale with distance from the city. Writing this from mid-town Manhattan. There are a lot of strong feelings about co
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by jkingsbery 2y ago
Mostly because of the Maker's Schedule vs. Manager's Schedule ( https://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html ) issue. It's really hard to be in a role that deals with a lot of randomization and then sit and f
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by jkingsbery 2y ago
The Last Viking - a biography of explorer Roald Amundsen The Wager- a book about a ship by the same name which wrecked in the Drake Passage. Eccentric Orbits - about the Iridium constellation. The Great Bridge by David McCullough - goes int
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by jkingsbery 2y ago
"No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded" finally makes sense. Yogi was presciently talking about X, being crowded by bots.
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by jkingsbery 2y ago
Yes, the case would be stronger with specific examples. However, I did not find it alienating, as examples of these 6 myths readily come to mind. We see people appeal to expertise all the time, rather than using their expertise to explain.
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by jkingsbery 2y ago
I had a similar reaction. I plan on using this paper mostly for it's bibliography.
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by jkingsbery 2y ago
I work at a FAANG (and obviously, I'm not a company spokesperson, just sharing my own experience). Those who are passionate about interviewing internally all seem to agree on not asking leetcode questions. I know leetcode questions g
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by jkingsbery 2y ago
> “We should phase in new energy sources and technologies when they are genuinely ready, economically competitive and with the right infrastructure,” On the one hand, that seems like a reasonable approach. On the other hand, if we only h
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
> It’s difficult to type and think at the same time I'm pretty good at typing, but not anything special, at around 90-95 words per minute. I type while thinking all the time, although usually the thinking is the slow part. Other hav
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
I don't know much German, so I can't read the original article. It would be helpful to know if by "they might otherwise engage in climate protests," the people in question had planned to just say things but otherwise sta
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
I had a math professor in college, whom I had for Real Analysis. He told us that one thing that helped him learn was to ask somewhat-obvious sounding questions to try to make connections to things to check understanding. There are at least
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
> We have a good leader, which makes all the difference. I think this is the trick right here. Our paycheck might come from such-and-such company, but really we work for the people in our management chain. I'm currently at Amazon, a
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
Not everything that we learn has to be learned in college. Not sure if 100% accurate, but a quick google search shows WVU tuition is about $9k for in-state, $25k out of state... does it really make sense for someone to spend $100k (or $36k,
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
Jim Geraghty of National Review has written a lot about this, as he pretty early advocated for the possibility of the lab leak. Because he writes for a right-leaning publication though, there are lots of ad hominem attacks thrown his way th

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