jpseawell

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by jpseawell 5y ago
I wear khakis and a dress shirt just to put me in the working mood. No shoes or socks though.
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by jpseawell 5y ago
My idea is that the skills required to build things are at odds with the traits/skills required to persuade. My cherry picked list: Building: honesty, introversion, reason Selling: charisma, extroversion, empathy
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by jpseawell 5y ago
I’ve only ever heard of managers “working on developer KPIs” and never seen them actually defined and distributed.
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by jpseawell 5y ago
I definitely agree that (in general) devs and mgmt do not understand one another. I think this is bc one practices abstraction while the other practices persuasion. I see these two forces as equal and opposite. A yin and yang kind of thin
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by jpseawell 5y ago
As a developer, I’ve noticed a pattern: devs complain about too many meetings -> devs are left alone (aka isolated) -> devs complain about being left out of decision making process/chain of comm.
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by jpseawell 5y ago
Tattooing a wolf on yourself is sending a strong signal.
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by jpseawell 5y ago
I’m from the Midwest/South and a lot of the author’s behavior would be considered normal here regardless of income. Although I’m not sure if stealing the head phones was a good call? (Unless they had a policy stating they were fair gam
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by jpseawell 5y ago
Lol, idk if that’s true? I’ve been poor working with poor people and we did not all say hello on a regular basis
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by jpseawell 5y ago
Interplanetary battle bots
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by jpseawell 5y ago
I’m curious if they would petition Steve Jobs today if he were alive.
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by jpseawell 6y ago
One time an old guy faking a limp walked out with a $3k Les Paul stuffed down his pants. Our managers chased after him and tackled him in the parking lot. Afterwards they were reprimanded for creating a litigious situation... Other than tha
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by jpseawell 6y ago
I worked there once as a sales associate. Worst job I’ve ever had. Disclaimer: I am terrible at sales.
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by jpseawell 6y ago
No it’s not
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by jpseawell 6y ago
Managers at my small company don’t last three years
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by jpseawell 6y ago
I half expected this to just redirect to twitter.
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by jpseawell 7y ago
Scary shit.
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by jpseawell 7y ago
Like what? Everyone always bashes where they live though, right?
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by jpseawell 7y ago
Takk fyrir!
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by jpseawell 7y ago
Awesome! Thx I’ll check this out.
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by jpseawell 7y ago
The latter. I’m attracted to the Icelandic culture as well as the landscape. I mentioned Reykjavík specifically because I assumed most dev jobs would be there, but I really just want to move to Iceland, haha. Learning new languages is fun t
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by jpseawell 7y ago
Hi! Thanks for reaching out. I specialize in enterprise web applications. Mostly PHP, Node JS, and React.. but I can learn new things very quickly. Here’s my email if you’re interested: jpseawell@gmail.com
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by jpseawell 7y ago
Agreed. Better to keep them corralled. Now that I think about it we did hike for 25min out to the plane crash. When we arrived it was full of instagram models taking selfies and wearing Supreme gear.. not really the kind of wilderness I was
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by jpseawell 7y ago
I went to Iceland back in March. I drove around the entire island in a “touristy” Mercedes camper van. As a visitor, I would say there were the perfect amount of tourists there.. not so many that it ruined my “experience”. However, that was
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Show HN: Read Me Hacker News – Siri Shortcut(icloud.com)
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How to Manage for Innovation (1984) [pdf](apps.dtic.mil)
3 points by jpseawell 8y ago|0 comments