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by mtippett 8mo ago
A really good book on this is "Turn the ship around". Your role is to improve your staff to be better in their jobs. Ignoring the Manager/Engineer caste system, there is a lot general leadership in both roles. You want your
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by mtippett 8mo ago
Lots of good advice there. I did pause on the "Be risk adverse". My take is - Be Risk Aware - know them, quantify them, manage by mitigating or having contingencies - Don't be Risk Averse - Averse means being avoidant of ri
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by mtippett 2y ago
The following could be completely wrong... Bamboo is a grass, it doesn't layer bark. It's one and done. The internode distance is pretty much fixed once it hardens. The bamboo cells inflate and harden. So the graphs make a rea
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by mtippett 3y ago
That happened to me. AMD stock certificate from 2006 received at about $10. They accepted it, were willing to transfer it into my account. Unfortunately, I had moved country and the annual meeting messages were returned to Computershare
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by mtippett 3y ago
To me, it isn't about the code itself, it's about communication, it's about a relationship with others through code, systems and architecture. Using the relationship analogy, when you can hear something small from your partne
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by mtippett 3y ago
Externalization FTW! You don't know something until you try to spit it out in your own words in a way that make sense. As an example, you think you know what a bike looks like. You do, right? Draw it without cheating. 95% of peopl
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by mtippett 3y ago
ChatGPT (gpt-4.0) is crazy omniscient. It doesn't diminish, the knowledge is like a fractal. You can zoom out, in, etc. I created a prompt that asks me a set of questions on a topic. It then scores my understanding, gives me deeper i
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by mtippett 3y ago
My background theory is around schematization. Our knowledge is a complex web of inter-related concepts. Some factual, some abstract. For audiobooks/read books, I look for 2 or 3 key "aha moments" that stick with me. For Th
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by mtippett 3y ago
100%. Just challenged the hacker news crew to draw a bike. See my reply to the OP.
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by mtippett 3y ago
For me, it's all about coherent externalization. Your brain takes shortcuts, you can think you understand what is going on, it's only when you need to communicate it you realize how many shortcuts in hallucinations of understandin
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by mtippett 4y ago
I feel I've got something similar. Memory encoding/recall via emotions I struggle with. I can understand emotions, but it seems to be more cognitive. So I struggle to share the same "emotional space".
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Discord for Tech-pocalypse 2022 (Meta, Twitter, etc.)(discord.com)
4 points by mtippett 4y ago|1 comments
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by mtippett 4y ago
This morning after being hit by Meta's layoff, I created a discord server for those affected, and those who might want to support them. It's quickly blown up to 500ish people, and so I'm looking at generalizing it to Tech-poc
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by mtippett 4y ago
I can go back 26 years. Sorry. It was a mixture of VGA CRTs and VT220's. I just missed token ring, New graduate, started in Australia at $35k. That's about $65k in current dollars. No stock, maybe a bonus. Manuals were binder
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by mtippett 4y ago
So he can't work on the product for the full week as per the article. What about looking internally about tools, techniques and approaches that can help him accelerate the team. It is outside of the product. From what I have seen of h
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by mtippett 4y ago
I agree with most of what is suggested in the article. However a big part is missing is the reality that there are a set of hypotheses (is that right) in play at any point in time. A lot of debugging is the cycle of 1. Think about the syst
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by mtippett 4y ago
Ultimately it's a mind game. For the most part, we are all forgettable, and it doesn't matter what we do won't be memorable for most people. When you think about it, you are a single person looking at out the world. You are
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by mtippett 5y ago
I had just moved to Toronto in about 2002, and was waiting for an interview. I saw one of those microwave horns on a building in the distance. Puzzling over what it was. Interview started, talking about something glanced over the backgrou
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by mtippett 5y ago
Fully agree. There are huge nuggets of wisdom in old-school engineering. For example PERT is something that most people don't know about. But it's simple to apply in the real world. Get three estimates - optimistic, pessimis
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by mtippett 5y ago
Yay #noestimatemultipliers
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by mtippett 5y ago
Arggh. I hate multipliers. It's not poor estimates that need to be doubled. It's the lack of experience in identifying the complexity or likely risks in a project. So rather than multiply, ask for risks. You'll find that
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by mtippett 5y ago
I like how he says little-a agile - what most teams use. big-a Agile I reserve for specific Agile methodologies. Most companies aren't willing to invest in the rigor and effort for big-A Agile, and so you end up with this weird-ass h
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by mtippett 5y ago
Low Confidence = fast estimate = broad estimate high confidence = slow fast estimate = narrow estimate It's a scale that you can choose where you want to be.
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by mtippett 5y ago
That's actually a good hack. I tend to take a similar approach, but using approximate days in a fibonacci sequence. Start at the high end, will it take... years: NO quarters: NO months: erm... NO. weeks: maybe days: Unlikely hou
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by mtippett 5y ago
+1 on the private subnet. You want to design your system so that if a network a critical misconfiguration occurs you don't open yourself up - you simply stop working. (Too many years chasing EMR clusters getting dropped onto the intern
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by mtippett 5y ago
I actually see just as in a lot of cases as being as a painful indication of a gross trivialization of something. I regularly call out engineers when they say "just", in a lot of cases when I say - can you explain "just"
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by mtippett 5y ago
The above is an experiment in community mentorship. This originally came out of some threads on Blind (and hence the name). It's new, trying it out, feel free to roast the idea here, join the community.
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Show HN: Peer Mentoring for the Blind Community(blindmentors.wtf)
1 points by mtippett 5y ago|1 comments
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by mtippett 6y ago
I've often wondered if dreams are fully constructed stories during REM or REM is more or less random vignettes of cognition that are assembled into a constructed story upon awakening. Rewriting memories seems to be reasonably well unde
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by mtippett 6y ago
Oooh! The memories. First year university in Australia and discovering the internet, IPs and FTP. Everything felt so accessible then. Even 20 3.5" disks for an install of SLS Linux felt easy and effortless... Now, shoot me if I n

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