jressey

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by jressey 4y ago
How do you get the email address for 10?
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by jressey 4y ago
My 2 cents is that it's going to be mostly recruiters, sales, customer success, and other misc operations folks. That's the pattern I've been observing since the post-covid layoffs have begun.
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by jressey 4y ago
I did not know that there was a job "archivist" at big tech companies. Does anyone here have experience? Would you share any of your interesting stories?
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by jressey 4y ago
I've got no qualms with folks who can afford it playing the big jackpots from time to time, especially because the money coming in is typically earmarked for positive social programs.
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by jressey 4y ago
Want to talk about disgusting: The governments hold the lotteries! More disgusting: People actually play them!
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by jressey 4y ago
Write notes with your hand, paper or digital, when you notice something important. You will almost never revisit them in a meaningful way. It is better to just focus on using note-taking to pay attention.
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by jressey 4y ago
I respect your hustle and understanding of what makes a successful product. I'm making no comment on that. I was in general asking the community about how often they get paid to start apps vs. continue them.
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by jressey 4y ago
This is a serious question: Do any of you folks get paid good money to start projects? In my career I have "started" projects for maybe 2-5% of my time. All of the real effort goes in to massaging the app to actually solve uniqu
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by jressey 4y ago
The commenter is comparing a core GOP belief: Minimal gun control with a fringe Democratic belief: Defund the police. Any comparison of the parties can't be done in good faith.
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by jressey 5y ago
You're gonna publicly confront this person who has reached out to you? I think you just lost a lot of goodwill from the participants of this discussion. It actually makes me wonder how responsible you are for the misfortune you've
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by jressey 5y ago
I agree with you. I guess my words are for "good" managers, at least those acting in good faith. If you're an engineer who feels like you're afraid your manager will do this, I'd love to talk to you about working fo
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by jressey 5y ago
Really works for me. I make more money and have a lot more influence on my world. I am a total control freak though, and really can't get satisfaction if I'm not able to make real changes to my organization. - Nobody will tell you
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by jressey 5y ago
Move your resources to the one you didn't pick and point your domain registrar there.
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by jressey 5y ago
"Helvetica® Now Variable builds on the groundbreaking work of 2019’s Helvetica Now release." I am so far out of touch that I cannot believe this is relevant to anyone outside of designers who build their career on constantly chan
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by jressey 5y ago
I love to talk shit on huge broadcasters but using their app for the olympics has been amazing. I just watched 2 days of replays from their app, all with minimal or no commentary, and all with few commercials (like 1/30 minutes). Not o
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by jressey 5y ago
Our team chose it and I was pretty on the fence because wikis have existed for more than a decade and I had always considered the problem solved. However, engineers like using it and that is invaluable. I can't explain it, I guess caus
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by jressey 5y ago
Oftentimes the landlord covers utilities and lumps that up in to the rent, and I have a place in New England where that is the convention. We pay $500-$600/month for heating oil in the winter. Then we have about $300 in electricity and
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by jressey 5y ago
I am enjoying the same experience. My day at work is collecting information, and then during walks and dinner, while watching sports, before falling asleep, it's all daydreaming about work. This may sound like a bummer to some people,
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by jressey 5y ago
When Covid hit, I quit my cushy job to create a video game. It was awesome, and given the time and resources I am confident it would have sold a few thousand copies. But c'mon, I quit my job to get away from working for a living for a
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by jressey 6y ago
Everyone should read Moby Dick . If the traditional praise is not enough, it is about how hard it is to understand. Code, tech, government, whales, or anything large. I identified with Ahab, mostly because he vacillates between confidence o
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by jressey 6y ago
I just have to say thanks for asking. I don't know if folks outside of a given field understand the particular insanity one in that field suffers. TL;DR: on paper I have a perfect job/damn good life but I legit cannot force myself
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by jressey 6y ago
It says right in this article that of the money allocated, the Fed has not met it's commitment to disclose the lender, sum, and interest rate of about 3/4 of the loans they have given. It is a fair assumption by the author that we
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by jressey 6y ago
I'd suggest a textbook on formal logic with lots of problems to solve.
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by jressey 6y ago
I'm a technologist but somehow have found that my friend group is mostly English professors, and they are not idiots. This conversation comes up every time we hang out, with them stating that "exponential just means a lot."
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by jressey 6y ago
Internet 'marketing' is a fascinating pyramid scheme, where established players create content to help new entrants create content that will expose them to newer entrants. Somehow this should get everybody paid (not just the big p
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by jressey 6y ago
I honestly believe the vein of this book being presented is "try hard and maybe you'll get lucky." I'm sorry I can't find it, but there was an article on here a month or so ago called something like "to get ahe
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by jressey 6y ago
"they channeled their thoughts toward the fundamental details of having a 'good at-bat.'" I'll pass. You can't just use tangential examples of the most successful people. This feels like pop-(pseudo) science.
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by jressey 6y ago
Ex-cook here, more than 10 years. Learn about mise-en-place and implement it in your work. It will be painful as hell but you will begin working far more quickly and accurately than your coworkers and it will likely end up with you leading.
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by jressey 6y ago
Moby Dick might be a place to start. A popular reading is that it is an examination of the impossibility to understand large things.
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by jressey 7y ago
Think of your tests as a consumer of the software you create. You will know it's easy to test if your component does not take much setup. If you have to create all kinds of different objects to get a test to pass, you've built a c

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