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seansmccullough

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About seansmccullough

Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft in Austin, Texas.

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    Comment #44843649

    That makes me feel really old.

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    Comment #44279139

    I also went to ROTC field training at Maxwell, and had a similar experience. Once on the way to the dinning hall with another cadet, we were saluted by two new medical officers who…

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    Comment #43150020

    A lot of times you have to set a “deadline” when interacting with other teams/orgs, or they will just never get back to you.

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    Comment #43083207

    > deploying a fix all by myself, no review, for a legacy product that really didn't have a good testing environment. This sounds like a great way to cause a live-site incident.

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    Comment #42248936

    Azure Storage has also had this for years - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/s...

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    Comment #40659265

    > while your peers are all making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG Unless you are a manager, in which case you are working more like 12 hour a day.

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    Comment #37523418

    By historical standards, we just got back to normal interest rates, the last 15 years was not normal - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds

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    Comment #37064059

    Yep, it's just a backdoor layoff.

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    Comment #33221662

    Ya somebody is getting paged right now.

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    Comment #33205788

    It seems like the Nvidia marketing team should have thought of this before launching the product.

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    Comment #32414144

    Your principal and interest payment can never go up, but your property tax (which is included as escrow on your mortgage) definitely can. I live in Texas, and my mortgage will be $…

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    Comment #31959884

    A reasonable US-specific problem. EV limitations like this are are why millions of people aren't currently interested in buying EVs. Compared to ICE, and EV car is more expensive, …

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    Comment #30838586

    Iowa State is a good school, I went there and ended up at Amazon and then Microsoft. The engineering programs are pretty decent and have good student outcomes, I don’t see how goin…

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    Comment #30281112

    I think the most telling questions are about attrition - "How many people have quit your team in the last year?" If it is more than 1-2, this is a huge red flag.

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    Comment #28002067

    WeatherSpark is great, probably my favorite weather website.

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    Comment #26744077

    And broke everything?

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    Comment #25087539

    > My guess is Xi felt compelled to act aggressively now to head off upcoming crisises. China is going to be facing a demographic crisis soon - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2…

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    Comment #24359598

    Executive Vice President and corporate Vice President.

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    Comment #23697974

    This is why I just cancelled. The original package and price was perfect.

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    Comment #23697964

    Just cancelled. The value proposition of YouTube TV was great a few years ago, for $40 a month. They've added a bunch of channels I won't watch several times, and raised the price …

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    Comment #22843967

    “How many people have quit your team in the last 6 month? Last year?” Turnover is a major red flag. Every hiring manager thinks their team is great, so asking subjective questions …

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    Comment #22093210

    150k in Des Moines doesn’t go as far as you’d think, the top income tax in Iowa is 8.9%.