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I very much recommend this book as well. Great read. Thanks for writing it!

Why are these comments saying that not doing a small part of a job that your boss doesn't want you to do is means for dismissal? If something you are doing is being thrown away, yo…

But that isn't what appears to be happening. Their "boss" (the DA) is the one saying "I don't want to". When your boss gives you clear incentives, like not prosecuting (throwing ou…

My other option was AWS though. That $700k is like 4 years of effort, and I get vacations. Actually realizing a sale on a billion dollar company after 4 years is just incomprehensi…

This is why I joined AWS 9 years ago, and left the startup world. I own (still?) 15% of a company as a founding engineer (with no voting rights). As part of a raise, the company so…

I agree this is a great question. Maybe more for managers, but it let's people think "This is day 2 of that blocker, I need to step in". Sometimes junior devs will let external ask…

These three questions are intended to keep standups short. I haven't, personally, been on a team that sticks to this format. It always ends up with individuals talking about their …

I started doing the listen-only as well! By this, I mean I just don't look at the screen, I'd love to know if there is a way to setup a listen-only option. I've also used Jumpspeak…

Our team had so many planning poker sessions where we spent 12 people * 2 dev hours trying to figure out whether stories were a 2 or a 3, management finally said it is always a 3. …

Almost 25 years ago I worked at a little startup. I started to build a network management system using ..... tcl/tk some open source HP Openview, what was the name? Anyway, I had a…

This is something my company's internal RTO channels seem to have missed. What if large corporations really *did* collect enough data during covid to justify working from home? Now…

> In the office they are. lol what are they doing? Staring at the ceiling? What makes them always available in the office and not always available at home? How is this still a thin…

> Walking over and talking to someone is still far superior to any online communication. The reason it isn't, for me, is that I'm usually answering questions about Why we do someth…

I had never heard the "superman" part of that, I always thought it was Stussy. But I knew exactly what you meant! Turns out both were accepted origins, but not necessarily true. ht…

I'm just moving into this phase as well. The same parents that said it was ridiculous kids have phones, are now getting their kids phones. I've heard that not having a phone is ess…

IME at startups (well very small micro startups) you focus on quality at first, and wait for the company to go bankrupt. Then sell the IP to another company you happen to own. That…

I made it for a little over 6 years as a full time freelancer before I went full time (about 6 years ago). If you are going freelance to avoid getting laid off... Since I became a …

I just disagree entirely with this. Isn't Esperanto that planetary language? Or possibly even English? Apparently it doesn't scale a 8 billion people, and I'll say that is A Good T…

This is precisely my fear using an AI model. I don't want to end up in some local minima where I endlessly misspell Snow, and get forced into aggressive weather training. Through i…

Thanks! I had 4 years in High School (well, 3 years took me 4 years :)). That was 2 decades ago. Some of it, apparently, stayed in my head. I have learned WAY more with Duolingo in…

I'm a little over six months into Spanish and I feel like I'm learning a lot. Although I seem to get stuck in weird sections like weather for a week at a time. I have been in Diamo…

I don't know this person, and I'm glad he writes children's books. I wonder if he has been shot by a six year old while writing any of those books [0]. All while the government act…

More plus one :) The secret is, once all us wayward youths find each other, we are more interesting than the typical advanced high school => ivy league => enterprise developer. I w…

Nobody "made" them do anything. I never graduated college, I barely made it out of high school. Where did I acquire this knowledge to save money and live reasonably, while these ot…

I'm also 42 years old. None of this happened overnight. It is one of those things where you have to ignore where you will be in 5 months, and focus on 5 years.