lochlan

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by lochlan 5y ago
Pay-to-continue is a concession to the reality that an arcade is designed to generate money. The balanced and high-intensity gameplay gets you interested, the continue feature just takes your money. The solution is to never continue! Try
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by lochlan 6y ago
What exactly are you risking (or incurring) with regards to FANG culture? From my perspective it's all upside.
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by lochlan 6y ago
Why should I incur the risk and time investment of founding a startup when I can enjoy comfort and success working at a FANG company? Startups _sound_ great, but death marching myself without compensation is a stressful proposition. Sure,
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by lochlan 7y ago
Counterfeit items, e.g. video games, are all over eBay. I’ve reported many auctions over the years as infringing and have never seen one taken down.
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by lochlan 7y ago
I might consider Myst a “killer app,” especially for its time.
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by lochlan 7y ago
IMO the problem is that people want to buy Agile. They want to pay a consultant, or go to a class, implement a dozen scrum rituals, and call it “agile.” Agile is not Scrum, Kanban, or even XP. It is the manifesto. It is shipping all the
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by lochlan 7y ago
Most of it. Base salary caps out at $160k except for NY/SF where it caps out at $180k. Once you get into the higher levels most of your comp is stock, which historically has worked out very well for Amazon employees.
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by lochlan 8y ago
Software Engineers outside the US make less, full stop. Amazon has a COL adjustment for SF and NYC but it’s not as much as you might think. Not as sure about other companies but I believe Google is similar (they also have a small local of
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by lochlan 8y ago
What’s the benefit of being “not connected to Amazon retail?” Serving a large customer that demands scale seems useful for driving the platform forward—what is the downside?
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by lochlan 8y ago
Two companies ago I posted in the “Who is Hiring” thread. I ended up only getting a couple responses (while other channels got much more activity) but I ended up hiring one of them. Though I’ve since left that company, my former employee
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by lochlan 8y ago
What’s wrong with working at Amazon?
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by lochlan 8y ago
You’re talking about Amazon like it is a small company. It isn’t. None of the scenarios you described are possible with Pivot, Amazon works hard to make sure the “jury” is impartial and has not been tampered with. Pivot adds an important
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by lochlan 8y ago
Ignoring stock appreciation Sr. SDEs at Amazon have a total comp target of ~$250k-$350k. Same for L6 SDMs. It’s definitely “standard” for some levels/job families.
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by lochlan 9y ago
That strict definition of “unit” testing (advocating for isolationism and banning collaboration with dependencies) is too narrow for my taste. DI can make a lot of sense, but I don’t think that means you have to mock everything (inviting a
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by lochlan 9y ago
Speaking as someone who has worked as a developer for multiple early-stage startups, the opposite is true. Early-stage startups tend to have rampant technical debt for two reasons: 1) They need to get a product to market immediately and the
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by lochlan 9y ago
How was technical debt not one of the things mentioned? In my experience that’s by far the #1 reason for poor velocity.
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by lochlan 9y ago
My understanding is that you no longer have to pay back the signing bonus. Not sure about relocation bonuses.
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by lochlan 9y ago
Stifling an established company culture and the existing behavior patterns of employees can lead to talented people leaving out of frustration. Do the shareholders of WMT want to risk devaluing their acquisition?
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by lochlan 9y ago
Amazon Delivery Experience | Front-End and Back-End Engineers | Portland, Oregon | Fulltime | ONSITE My team at Amazon is hiring in Portland! We are looking for both front-end devs with 3+ years experience and back-end devs of all levels.
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by lochlan 10y ago
Opal | Portland, OR | Front End Engineer, Mid-Level or Senior | Full-time, onsite | http://workwithopal.com/ Opal is hiring! We are a collaboration platform for omni-channel brand marketing teams. After recently doing a l
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by lochlan 10y ago
Too pessimistic. Some people, such as myself, haven't stopped playing these games since the 80s . I can beat SMB easily within ten minutes, but I still get a lot of enjoyment every run. (To say nothing of the other fantastic titles
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by lochlan 10y ago
I have never seen this be a serious consideration in this industry. IMO that is a fairly "old school" outlook. Anecdotally I have never had a job for more than two years and it hasn't been an issue for me yet. An exception
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by lochlan 10y ago
If this technology is rolled out, won't that just encourage people to buy Android devices instead?
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by lochlan 10y ago
Reduction in scope and prototyping can help reduce risk in how wrong your estimate is, but I think it is misleading to suggest that these techniques inherently "might make a realistic estimate possible." I don't think I&#x27
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by lochlan 11y ago
Just because an agreement is consensual does not mean that there is no power differential. One party will almost always have some greater leverage over another. When the power differential is too great for consent to lead to a mutually-be
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by lochlan 11y ago
ImpactFlow — Portland, OR. Onsite — Full Stack Engineer Nonprofit-giving startup seeks a full stack engineer to join our product development team. You will work with a small cross-functional group of engineers to develop features for our Sa
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by lochlan 11y ago
ImpactFlow — Portland, OR. Onsite — Full Stack Engineer Nonprofit-giving startup seeks a full stack engineer to join our product development team. You will work with a small cross-functional group of engineers to develop features for our S
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by lochlan 11y ago
ImpactFlow — Portland, OR. Onsite — Front End Engineer Nonprofit-giving startup seeks a front end engineer to join our product development team. You will work with a small cross-functional group of engineers to develop front-end JavaScript
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by lochlan 11y ago
ImpactFlow — Portland, OR. Onsite — Junior Front End Engineer Nonprofit-giving startup seeks a front end engineer to join our product development team. You will work with a small cross-functional group of engineers to develop front-end Jav
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by lochlan 11y ago
I am a big fan of pixi.js ( http://www.pixijs.com ). I haven't explored its "erasing" capabilities, but it is a great library for performant 2d graphics programming in the browser.

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