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Interesting, how did you find that lawyer? (google? personal contacts? Approached a law firm?)

I fully agree with your comment about whale tasting like crying, I have a profound regret over eating it....but...not sure why...as I eat pretty much ever other animal. The lobster…

I would say you need to keep in mind that delivery of the team against product commitments should be a priority, and being able to do that in a long term sustainable way is very im…

- Google questionnaire and spreadsheet for food options. - Laptop plus usb cables/audio cables for peoples music collections instead of a DJ (gotta trust you're friends taste thoug…

One thing that helps me avoid notifications is turning my screen to greyscale, notifications are way less visually distracting then. Only problem is that WhatsApp 'read' ticks colo…

This is giving me fond memories of things I had to do or had heard about from colleagues:- - To improve game loading speed of a CD - Load level on PC from hardisk, log all filename…

I just looked at your resume, I didn't actually think it was too bad, feedback on the PDF version:- - way too cramped, you're already on 2 pages so add so spacing to it, it's reall…

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Hi, at stage of being presented with NDA and options agreement for a startup I've been talking to, for a tech advisory role. Does anyone have any recommendations for lawyers based …

Goodreads:- 'Debugging Teams' - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920042372.do 'Managing Humans' - https://www.amazon.ca/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engi...

I agree with your disagreement. If you don't care about your people and team and don't put them first then it's highly unlikely you'll actually be in any way productive to give the…

I view my relationship like the stock market, it'll have its up and downs, sometimes I'll be ahead, sometimes the market/she'll be ahead and I'll be down....but overtime the stock …

I created some specific 'coffee' time slots in my calender and use https://calendly.com/ to organise the time slots (and put location details etc in as well) and then I just occasi…

I offer to meet random people for coffee several times a week, sometimes it turns out to e networking, sometimes it turns out to be ad-hoc advice/mentoring, I just try to put mysel…

blunt feedback after spending a few minutes looking at it. - Get a better photo, current one makes you look weird, can't tell if it's being arty or just blurry. - Try to break up w…

yes do it, setup 30mins per person every 2 weeks, in the meeting invite describe this is a time for discussion, feedback (for you to them and them to you), for things like career p…

First off, managing people is not a 'promotion', it is a complete job change. It is not a incremental increase on previous skills or job expectations; it is radically different and…

Cut scene might have different shaders than in game, generally cut scenes are far more controlled and so might have higher quality shaders than in actual levels. And also that solu…

Sorry not a startup manager; but people manager at one of the bigger tech companies, hope it's still relevant to you Main surprise was how much I had to become truly aware of exact…

Do you mean if you do an in-place upgrade? or a VIP swap? A inplace should just go through the update domains so if you have your extra 20% provisioned as normal it should be fine …

You shouldn't really be getting 'promoted' from engineer to engineer management. I know it always happens but it shouldn't, being a good engineer does not mean they'll be a good pe…

What's your end intent? (to get better at giving interviews? To get better at taking them?) What industry?

Reminds me of the Mulberry harbours from DDay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour

I'm happy to help, (~14 years dev experience, currently run a 10 person dev team in one of the 'big' companies, I do hiring). What's ya contact details? (if you're interested)