jomkr

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by jomkr 2y ago
It's still showing hurricane force winds. I guess they've decided it's better to show the correct forecast data + bad wind data than take down the page entirely.
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by jomkr 2y ago
Not looking but great to see Bristol represented!
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by jomkr 3y ago
I'm not affiliated with him in any way, but I quite like the tweets from http://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz He has a book that I've not read, but could be worth getting https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com&#
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by jomkr 4y ago
Asking questions is helpful. Knowing when it's fine to let them go with a 80% perfect plan
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by jomkr 5y ago
At-least this persons email to jeff@amazon.com triggered a ? email. https://independent.co.uk/money/amazon-underpaying-workers-e...
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by jomkr 5y ago
It doesn't, a bad manager (allegedly) did. Having said that, having say 50% fewer commits than your peers is probably a reason to dive-deeper...it could be a good thing, maybe you were unblocking tasks and writing docs, or tackling the
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by jomkr 6y ago
Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold Em Poker. Never turned much of profit at the poker table, but the life-lessons in that book have been invaluable.
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by jomkr 7y ago
I'm not sure that 55 months of up-time indicates it's more or less likely to go down in the next month, but I'd guess more likely. Surely there are options, have you tried de-compiling the source from the binary? >but the
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by jomkr 7y ago
At Amazon you literally can't get promoted to Senior Engineer (SDE3) without showing influence outside your team.
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by jomkr 7y ago
Development is the ability to deliver/ship the things that increase your business metrics, consistently. Sometimes the right thing to do is TDD, sometimes the right thing to do is to ssh into a production server and modify a Perl scrip
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by jomkr 8y ago
Nothing worse then the page on Friday night, oh there goes my weekend.
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by jomkr 8y ago
Do Facebook not use it?
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by jomkr 8y ago
I would never ask a candidate this, and I'd never dignify it with a response.
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by jomkr 9y ago
I work at one of the other Big4 and to be honest it's not that impressive. This kind of report would be a high severity ticket, the person on-call for the given team would get paged, and wouldn't stop working/escalating until
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by jomkr 9y ago
I have a desire to be free. I'm working towards never having to look at a fucking computer again. Hopefully by the time I'm 30, I'll have enough to do only need to work about three months year. The rest of the time I'm g
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by jomkr 9y ago
I may be in Madrid next week, fancy a drink/bouldering sesh? I'm a 25 year old Amazon SDE from the UK.
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by jomkr 9y ago
I'm 25 and got turned down by a start-up for being too old.
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by jomkr 9y ago
I haven't read the article but Dr Ben Goldacre has written some great stuff on this. Incidentally he was the first person to get me engaged in science as a teenager, and I love his catchphrase: "I Think You'll Find It's
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by jomkr 9y ago
We're in an industry ten years behind so we're just getting into Big Data. Obviously the issue that we can't write working normal software hasn't been addressed but we'll see how it goes. I'm actually relative
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by jomkr 9y ago
I'm that guy but instead of leaving I hung around, god knows why. After three years, I'm interviewing and getting offers of about 60% salary increase. From £32,200 -> £55,000.
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by jomkr 9y ago
He's essentially more of a brother to me, and yes it wasn't the nicest experience for anyone involved but he didn't lose his life-savings.
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by jomkr 9y ago
Not OP but I'm in the market and need: - Windows based as I do mostly .Net - =< £500
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by jomkr 9y ago
I was in BTC from very early on. Ironically I didn't make much money but that's another story. I'm shocked, absolutely shocked that the Magic The Gathering Online Exchange wasn't suitable dealing with hundreds of million
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by jomkr 9y ago
It doesn't really matter too much, within reason. Do what you think sounds interesting. Do internships. Play sports/some form of physical activity to a relatively high level. Start reading Cracking the Coding Interview now and do
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by jomkr 9y ago
IRC is by far and away my favorite method of communication. I'm only 25 so it's not because of a sense of nostalgia. IRC in general is such an under-used resource. Everyone automatically goes to SO, which is fine for trivial probl
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by jomkr 9y ago
I got drunk with one of their employees at a conference in London and he started loudly singing "The Internationale". It really annoyed the yanks, I found it quite funny.
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by jomkr 9y ago
It was fairly big news in the UK when somebody announced he had thrown away a hard-drive containing 10,000 coins. He considered searching through the dump but didn't bother in the end.
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by jomkr 9y ago
I haven't made any money like this and it hasn't got me a job. I did put that disclaimer in the original comment. I suspect the time would be better spent elsewhere, probably face-to-face networking if I had to choose one thing.
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by jomkr 9y ago
Here's what I do. Find employees using LinkedIn, find their GitHub profile and any projects they're doing that I find interesting. Create a good pull-request. After it's accepted, I send a follow-up saying I'm looking
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by jomkr 9y ago
Not in the UK you can't. All boxes are sealed until "the count" which only starts after the election has ended.

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