stocktech

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by stocktech 5mo ago
I'll echo that the UI design is cool. I do think it could be improved to help parse information. Right now, it feels like everything is bold, highlighted, italicized, or something denoting how important it is. This is made worse as e
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by stocktech 5mo ago
I built something like this at work using plain Docker images. Can you help me understand your value prop a little better? The memory forking seems like a cool technical achievement, but I don't understand how it benefits me as a user
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by stocktech 2y ago
Good for you for trying to do right by your team, but oof. An entirely junior team with no tech leadership is going to have problems beyond mentorship.
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by stocktech 3y ago
iirc, eqemu reverse engineered the server based on the traffic. I remember being impressed.
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by stocktech 3y ago
You can always ask the team. Either in a 1-1 or a retro, "What does my role look like for you?" or "What are your expectations of a manager?"
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by stocktech 3y ago
For reference, 14 yoe and currently in management. Today, I don't think the tools are good enough to make a material difference. It may help a bad engineer tread water, but it won't take you from good to great. It may save you t
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by stocktech 3y ago
Hopefully it will eliminate all the boring shit like managing JIRA, giving status updates, and following up with communication tasks. Another large part of my day is also troubleshooting random things, so hopefully AI will benefit my team
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by stocktech 3y ago
When you say 'analytics database', what kind of performance are you implying? Massive queries that respond in 10min? How tuned were things for the queries you were running? I'm currently working through an analytics architec
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by stocktech 3y ago
https://github.com/apache/doris Is a great example. Same for it's cousin https://github.com/StarRocks/starrocks that was an early fork of the doris project. To be fair, these are the only ex
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by stocktech 4y ago
A junior dev isn't competing with those people. Teams don't only hire senior+. SWE is still a fine career.
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by stocktech 4y ago
my self?
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by stocktech 4y ago
What process is going to help senior contractors understand the codebase they've been in for 2+ years? We can create spike tickets all day, but at a point, that's just a distraction.
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Ask HN: As a manager, when should I give up?
1 points by stocktech 4y ago|7 comments
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by stocktech 4y ago
Splitting teams with interconnected and related work, I do something like https://agilesquads.org/ . For each sprint, we'll have a planning cadence where we scope 2 weeks of work e.g. Feature X and Feature Y. Each squ
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by stocktech 4y ago
That GMT offset is probably from your browser. The github API doesn't include timezone information. If this is the direction you want to go, the only way I can think of determining this is by telling the contractor to use a github acc
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by stocktech 4y ago
No, eng and product are separate orgs, but I'll work with them on process, documentation, meetings, etc. I'm a big believer in demonstrating value before asking people to do more work. So when I wanted product to do write more d
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by stocktech 4y ago
I'm at a tech company as an EM. My primary responsibility is making sure my team is delivering high quality software. Sometimes this means my job is documentation, testing, being a PO/PM, or recruiter. I have to know the codeba
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by stocktech 4y ago
fwiw, I'm currently ending ~6mo of time off. I'm further in my career, 15 YOE and in management. I didn't plan this and only did it as a result of joining a toxic startup. The time off itself was great. I struggled to get
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by stocktech 5y ago
There's a tangent behavior where people are difficult because it gives them power/control. You add just enough interpersonal friction and people will do it your way. It's similar to the described scenario - nothing is good
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Ask HN: Has anyone gotten into management coaching for startups?
5 points by stocktech 5y ago|1 comments
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by stocktech 5y ago
I'll add here, even if it's not really what you're looking for. I'm a director, not at faang, fwiw. My first 2 years of managing was hands on, probably 50% coding. I had a small scope and the energy to do people things
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by stocktech 5y ago
Interesting. Guess I'll have to figure out social media after all. Thanks.
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by stocktech 5y ago
Out of curiosity, how did you find your customers? I'm building out my MVP to scratch my own itch, but have been hesitating putting it in front of others.
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by stocktech 5y ago
I don't think I really understand what you're getting at. What I'm hearing is that the culture is different, but I'm not sure how that fits into product vs project. It kinda sounds like you're saying that the work
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by stocktech 5y ago
levels.fyi has ranges for metro areas and mostly aligns with what I said.
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by stocktech 5y ago
The majority of SWEs are not making 300k+. Can you? Sure, but 80% of people are making 125-200k in average COL areas.
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by stocktech 5y ago
We'd need a lot more info to make a meaningful suggestion, but I'd at least investigate TimescaleDB to see if it fits. The fact it sits on postgres should be attractive to your client.
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by stocktech 5y ago
Do you have a good relationship with your boss? If you do, just talk to him. He's a person and he probably wants to keep you around. "Hey, I feel like I'm doing a lot, I want to do more, and I'd like to make more money
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by stocktech 5y ago
I did self organizing teams at a startup where Engineering grew from 20 to 100. It sounds like the article had the same philosophy, but implemented it differently. We didn't eliminate roles, but the roles became more fluid along with
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by stocktech 5y ago
metabase looks native.

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