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Having worked on teams that do it well, and on teams that don't, it's because people were never taught the right approach. They tend to write bad tests making the experience frustr…

Definitely The Happiness Advantage. It’s about how we keep moving goalposts on what makes us happy and how to stop that. TedTalk from a long time ago: https://youtu.be/GXy__kBVq1M

Midwest. Was hiring entry-level consultants from a reputable company for about $100/hr. Never saw rates for the lower-tier shops but I’d guess it’s about $70-80/hr for low quality …

I regularly burn 800-900 calories an hour during HIIT workouts. Typically I’m worn out and very hungry throughout the day. Most I’ve burned was 1500/1600 calories riding a bike wit…

The FAA is also maintaining a core set of ground navigational based stations (VOR) in case of GPS failures. It’s the COBOL of the aviation industry :) There are occasionally parts …

CFI here. It’s not a big deal in most of the country but the Pacific Northwest does have variation of about 20 degrees. It can make a difference when calculating takeoff and landin…

Yes with a local bank. No fees for basic account services, mobile app is decent with remote deposit capability, local branches for the difficult things like cash deposit and the mo…

When a director pulled two engineers together, gave them the problem and told them they had until the end of the year to make it happen. Ended up hiring an external consultant to h…

Being a new parent, I realized this is one thing I have failed at in my 20s with my parents. Should have definitely called them more often, even if it's just for a few minutes here…

OrangeTheory fitness. It’s fun, great for any shape and you’ll be motivated because you pay for it. I had the BeachBody app but got bored of working out at home alone. I used to be…

Any specific resources that took you to the advanced level?

Not going to to a software engineering heavy organization. Instead I went to a place where we had to justify using Java 8 instead of Java 7.

They have been focusing on selling other products besides ads so curious how much of that revenue growth is from ads vs other products.

Last few teams did not but current team does. I can see it helpful if you’re shipping a customer-facing app, you need rough lead time on internal training (customer service), sales…

One way is to isolate the applications that actually need SOX compliance and have separation of duties for those. The ones that don't need to follow SOX compliance don't need those…

It's common practice to change procedures instead of certification. I flew an airplane that was getting ready to be retired after it's been in service for ~30 years and we had a lo…

Good response, just a side note: there are much simpler and cheaper hosting options than EC2. Consider Heroku, AWS Elsastic Beanstalk, probably others.

Somewhat surprised at the number of negative experiences. I've had them for ~3 weeks and can't believe I didn't buy them sooner. I did go from a wired headset to these for work and…

That sounds not great. Two years into your career you need a better experience and great mentors. Get any job that is writing code. What's great is that you're only two years in, I…

I like their interview process (minus the leetcode grind that’s been happening lately). They focus on fundamentals and core CS knowledge. Other company interviews, like mine, focus…

Not Amazon but at an HR/leader meeting our HR disclosed 45% of people on PIPs end up staying with the company.

Mostly pair programming for about 7 years now. It's not a silver bullet and don't overdo it but it definitely has advantages. I like it but don't love it. People dislike it when th…

That's my current setup. TV with the network connection disabled running Apple TV.