lynchdt

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by lynchdt 11mo ago
Irish accent appears to break it.
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by lynchdt 3y ago
I mostly agree with this. If you observe the KPI set used to run support teams, especially with large inbound you will see NPS used as a proxy for quality of resolution but folks mostly don’t respond to those prompts. More interesting to su
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by lynchdt 4y ago
I mean sources of incoming work, could be a quick question, an ask for something, automated alarm or a bug. Slack makes it super hard to stay on top of this and systematically triage the low from the high value.
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by lynchdt 4y ago
I work mostly with Engineering teams, and consider slack inbound a pathology. Slack is great for collab in places, but it’s not a strong way to manage inbound, IMO. The teams I’m responsible for make it easy for their stakeholder to raise i
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To Become a Better Engineer, Try Management(linkedin.com)
2 points by lynchdt 5y ago|0 comments
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by lynchdt 5y ago
The best advice I can give is don’t treat it like an irreversible fork in the road or a path that won’t ultimately make you a better engineer. Find the right environment and give it a go! I wrote a bit more detail here: https://w
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by lynchdt 6y ago
Yeah, it’s really hard to be overly critical. You could argue the government did its civic duty here, public sentiment was overwhelming in favor of reduced restrictions. Unfortunately, as detailed elsewhere in comments, enough of the populo
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by lynchdt 6y ago
Also Irish. +1 on your assessment here. The virulent strain narrative was peddled by the Irish government who went against medical advice and tried to deflect blame. The evidence doesn’t support the narrative. I think the COVID-fatigue angl
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by lynchdt 6y ago
I didn’t leave voluntarily, miss a lot of things but I absolutely don’t miss this.
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by lynchdt 6y ago
I’m surprised this book didn’t come up sooner, it’s a fantastic book. To my knowledge the only book mentioned here that takes the time to define technical leadership and present models of leadership suited potentially to different circumsta
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by lynchdt 6y ago
This is the crux of it. Even to a well calibrated tech recruiter, the resume reads thin on substance.
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by lynchdt 6y ago
Maybe I was a little terse in my response. Humility often comes hand in hand with a growth mindset and a real eagerness to learn. Not hiring for that limits the long term upside of the hire ie you get what you get right now.
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by lynchdt 6y ago
Some perhaps unsolicited advice from a hiring manager in a company very similar to the great ones in which this writer was unsuccessful. - Rare programmers won’t identify themselves as such. - Most great companies hire for humility as a tra
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by lynchdt 7y ago
That's great context, thanks!
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by lynchdt 7y ago
This is a pretty cool idea, so I signed up and eventually got... 'report will be ready shortly' Would be great to have a lot more context on what this means.
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by lynchdt 7y ago
2200 on food per month, utter nonsense. 380 on baby kit per month for children in preschool? Nonsense. Recently moved to SF with family of 4, combined income of about 130k less than this and living well including private elementary schools
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High Imact 1:1 Meetings(blog.intercom.com)
2 points by lynchdt 10y ago|0 comments
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by lynchdt 11y ago
This us utterly hypnotic. Nice work.
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Backstage at a Music Tech Startup(medium.com)
1 points by lynchdt 11y ago|0 comments
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Metrics and Monitoring at Soundwave, a Music Tech Startup(medium.com)
26 points by lynchdt 11y ago|2 comments
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by lynchdt 11y ago
So the 'Daily Mail' makes the front page of HN. Interesting times.
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by lynchdt 11y ago
We tried Evernote for business in our office for around 6 months. The sharing and communication feature-set was really bad. In a shared notebook we ended up with 'conflicted copies' of lots of important notes that really needed to
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Club Politics(medium.com)
1 points by lynchdt 11y ago|0 comments
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by lynchdt 12y ago
Nice job man, this is some great work for somebody your age. I know 'senior engineers' twice your age who couldn't write these notes, nevermind code it up. http://acuman.us/about.txt Are you sharing source?
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by lynchdt 12y ago
Nice work, this is great stuff.
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Metrics and Monitoring at Soundwave(medium.com)
8 points by lynchdt 12y ago|1 comments
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by lynchdt 12y ago
It's all hunky dory, mostly, until you jump from 2090 to 2100. At that point the apocalypse hits, obviously.
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by lynchdt 12y ago
I tried to write something somewhat balanced, with respect to engineering a feature while leaning quite heavily on MongoDB. It has worked out quite well for us, and we continue to see relevant updates to the MongoDB product that remove some
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MongoDB and The Soundwave Music Map(blog.mongodb.org)
4 points by lynchdt 12y ago|1 comments
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by lynchdt 12y ago
This is really cool, nice work.

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