mharroun

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   by mharroun 6y ago

   I guess this article completely ignores something like fargate which has none of the problems listed.
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   by mharroun 6y ago

   Hate the title only because it sells itself way to short. The article talks about a lot of things the senior engineer is getting done... I hope to god he has a competent lead or manager who understands and encourages they stay on point.
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   by mharroun 6y ago

   Completely agree, I left out the "other side" of leadership, working with other departments and senior leaders as it seemed out of scope of the question. I put "optics" in quotes to use it as a pejorative as I only seen
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   by mharroun 6y ago

   As someone who's been leading people for 8+ years and also who remembers why I have left places... here is a long but comprehensive list. 1) Pay Fair at hire and try to keep it within the market as they grow in experience/skills.
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   by mharroun 6y ago

   Location: NYC / New York Remote: Opened Willing to relocate: Opened Technologies: Javascript, Java, Python, Scala, PHP, NodeJS, React, Spark, MySql, Postgres, Redis, Druid, VoltDB, Aerospike, Kafka, Kinsis, AWS, Azure, Docker.. and mor
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   by mharroun 6y ago

   Scrum, Kanban, scrumban, tickets with predefined checkins... all can work. "Formal scrum" only exists to sell books, certs, classes; but more importantly to give justification or a "fix" to failed project managers and le
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   by mharroun 6y ago

   I would suggest joining a very small startup that will let you learn/observe from watching others tackle those challenges. There is a a lot to learn and it can shift greatly as a company grows.
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   by mharroun 6y ago

   I see it this way: As a manager you are responsible for your department those responsibilities dont magically poof away because your on vacation. If you have successfully set up your team/department in a way that you can "go dark&
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   by mharroun 6y ago

   I have been in the startup world for like 13 years, and have been everything from an IC up to CTO. This is IMHO: > a) has Hacker News/YC ever seen a startup fail because the codebase is so bad. No, but I have seen the mass velocity
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    by mharroun 6y ago

    So they need a set bushiness and tech teams to build an internal ad stack, and try to get advertisers... many who wont buy in without 3rd party tracking to mitigate fraud.
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    by mharroun 6y ago

    I perfer async standup over slack. - It makes it easier to parse information, reread, and catch things like hey 2 people are working on the same thing. - Helps catch people stuck/avoiding work as you can see someone on the same task fo
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    by mharroun 6y ago

    I keep seeing things like this, people hating on the delivery companies. Customers moving to takeout and restaurants moving to self delivery. Its pushed me to have my quaranteen/layoff project be to create a competitor that supports on
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    by mharroun 6y ago

    Redux always had to much boilerplate for me to prefer it. The last couple years I have been using the new Context API and spliting my app state out by creating a global context, and many domain specific contexts where the context contains b
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    by mharroun 6y ago

    I dont know if it was because of wework but I interviewed some od rgw top engineering leaders at meetup for replacing leadership roles at a startup I was consulting for. I gained a lot of insights into the engineering org at meetup. As some
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    The deadlines for state taxes still remain.
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    Any JavaScript/React or Scala engineers in NYC (and some remote opportunities). Looking for a job my company dv01 has a lot of open roles. Currently doing interviews over hangouts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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    All Public Schools in NYC Suspended(twitter.com)

    3 points by mharroun 7y ago|0 comments
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    Thanks for the insights. Personally as a manager I give as much autonomy as I can trust a person. If you ass kick and get shit done the last think I want to do is hinder you. In terms of honesty and transparency I feel being open and honest
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    I'll admit as I moved into managmemt js has also improved. These prototypes are tossaways so it's just faster for me.to grab jquert. (Btw I love react and use it in any serious project... but each to definitely has its place)
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    Ask HN: Software engineers, what do you look for in a good manager?

    6 points by mharroun 7y ago|5 comments
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    I once interviewed at wework for an engineering manager position....the projects they were working on were.... asinine... I couldnt nearly keep a stright face on what I felt they were pissing money away on. Funny I didnt pass the first in p
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    Honestly php seems like the common cold... an annoyance that is everywhere and treated with little seriousness. However every evolution it gets better and stronger and adapts other learnings from other languages. It really shouldnt be treat
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    I would NOT recommend using a 3rd party auth platform unless its opensource or able to self run (fusionauth). I nearly never regret buy over build but I picked auth0 at a startup and in around 1 year it went from free to over 4k a month, s
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    If it's possible to prototype or test a potential new product or feature with little to no engineering effort... that is the only responsible thing to do. I've seen many cases where their were easy non custom solutions to test a f
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    > This is why the siren call of instant infrastructure is so alluring to you. While your depth of knowledge for startup infra requirements is there, it does not transfer to large enterprises/campuses/etc where demand is very pr
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    In my experience its true. When S3 went down my companies systems started malfunctioning, as well as many other vendors/system all over the internet including things like slack. Our customers were experiencing pain from multiple vendor
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    As someone who's worked at many startups and look at this from that point of view. Here are my key points: - What makes aws great is NOT ec2... it's the ALB, route53, ecs/eks/fargate, redshift, rds, lambda, SQS, Kinesis,
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    In their defense. It looks like they have over 400 employees and raised over 350 million in funding. On all things that truly matter currently they seem like a very sucessfull company. I can guarantee you a VPE or CTO who can say they help
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    Why not put the function calls into the render? And only decide to rerender on state change. You could push nearly all that logic back into extends Purecomponent
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    by mharroun 7y ago

    The this.setstate spamming and lack of using something like the PureComponent class show that the author either is bad at coding in class based react or intentionally making it look worse. Disclaimer: got nothing against hooks but hate fal