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by sfrench 3y ago
That is the room where all of the eng team worked, but certainly not how it looked on a normal day. If you look, you can spot three clusters of 4 desks around the edges of the room in this picture. There were ~10 clusters of similar size
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by sfrench 7y ago
Sometime around 8-10 years ago, requiring company approval for secondary sales started becoming a popular restriction to put into ISO grants (prior to that, it was just right of first refusal on sales). It's largely unfavorable to emp
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by sfrench 7y ago
Given I had a job while interviewing, I was driving it as fast as I was comfortable. But the part that was important to me as a candidate is that I was getting feedback within 1 business day, and getting the next step scheduled for later t
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by sfrench 7y ago
I previously worked at Stripe. Mark's post mirrors my experience internally as a hiring manager, and as a candidate. But as you said, at scale things get harder; I'm sure the experience does vary and some percentage of people com
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by sfrench 8y ago
My last 2 jobs have been working on developer productivity for 100+ developer organizations. One is a monorepo, one is not. Neither really seems to result in less work, or a better experience. But I've found that your choice just d
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by sfrench 8y ago
I’m happy my stuff didn’t require multiple pages :)
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by sfrench 9y ago
I was chatting with one of the developers on this project this morning and seeing how we could integrate it into one of our projects. He mentioned that a simple js bundle version is coming soon so that you can just include it and start play
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by sfrench 12y ago
If you have a car, or don't mind jumping on Caltrain for the ride down, you can go to Mountain View to the Computer History Museum: http://www.computerhistory.org/
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by sfrench 13y ago
So interesting that this comes up today. We were discussing this yesterday in relation to an upcoming project where we want to maintain some amount of data for visitors to a website, but don't necessarily need to retain data for the v
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by sfrench 13y ago
A couple years ago at a company hackathon, I took this approach, and then just baked these same tools into the app directly. Django middleware to turn on/off and collect & store the profile data, and then a developer interface to r
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by sfrench 13y ago
First off. You can learn on anything, so get whatever guitar you feel most comfortable playing (comfortable playing is the utmost requirement here). You absolutely have to go to guitar stores and have the guitar in your hands and in your
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by sfrench 14y ago
I was a developer at digg from 2007-2010, and I can say his statement is just flat out wrong. Digg did hire great PHP programmers, but that was because they were great programmers, overall. Every single one of them moved, with ease, to ot
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by sfrench 14y ago
Owen, I think your memory is a little fuzzy on this. If you recall, we overlapped for a few months in 2007 before you left, and the "lots of women" you describe just weren't there.
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by sfrench 15y ago
If I had to guess, it just flew under the radar enough to not be noticed. I'd bet they probably will have a C&D soon (if not already). disclaimer: I used to work for Digg
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by sfrench 15y ago
This article feels very hastily thrown together. No mention of APC and they didn't even bothering to discuss profilers beyond a link (which doesn't even return xhprof on the first page!) The getter/setter thing is the perfect definition of
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by sfrench 15y ago
Check out the JGI, their office is in Walnut Creek (you'd have to commute a bit, but it's exactly what you're looking for I'd assume) http://www.jgi.doe.gov/whoweare/employment.php
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by sfrench 15y ago
I just saw the 120"x30" print rolled out in front of my office a couple days ago. I think the biggest challenge is figuring out a way to mount a rolled print that big without stabbing it with pushpins.
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by sfrench 15y ago
Netflix (who also survived the outage) wrote a blogpost last year in which they talked about a system they call "Chaos Monkey" which does this exact thing. http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-u...
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by sfrench 15y ago
This is correct, BART stops in Millbrae. The San Francisco Caltrain stops are at 22nd (in potrero hill) and 4th and King (SOMA). If you don't live in either of those neighborhoods, you'll need to take a bus or MUNI train to the station.
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by sfrench 16y ago
I just fired it up on a couple devices, and it's not very intuitive. It's a great idea, they just need some UX help now.
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by sfrench 16y ago
| What is a slow query log? It's basically a log kept of queries that are running slower than a set threshold. Read through this for the details to set it up and access it: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/slow-query-log.html
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by sfrench 16y ago
Looks like you probably can. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2009/07/30/setting-up-me...
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by sfrench 16y ago
I did a very similar hack for local gyms, but I keep it granular down to the individual checkin so I can do rollups on each hour over the week.
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by sfrench 16y ago
There really is an interesting post-mortem to be had, but I'm just not sure you're going to be able to interview employees to get it. The most candid talks happen between employees in IM conversations and over beers, and likely won't be ha
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by sfrench 16y ago
I'm not sure he said that. I think if anything, he made the strongest case for Portland. I think he does sell San Francisco a bit short in the beer department. While the city itself isn't known to produce a huge amount of widely known bre
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by sfrench 16y ago
It "feels" wrong, but that's the way it's set up. I used to work for UCOP (it's in the list), and about 5 years ago there was a big issue around "total compensation" for the high-level employees. That was the event that really sparked the
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by sfrench 16y ago
Kevin mentioned it somewhere a few weeks ago. I forget where though.
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by sfrench 16y ago
I used to work at digg as a engineer. I won't say your distribution numbers are correct, but you've got the gist. There are multiple environments, reserved capacity, research and testing machines, etc.