ALSO Y'ALL I FOUND AN INFRA TEAM WITH TWO OTHER WOMEN!!!! CAN U BELIEVE IT? I can't tell you how excited I am about it. I might or might not have cried when I found out during interviews.
I get to work with both @Lemonjet and @AmandaK_Data!!! 💪🎉🥳
You get promoted from Backend Brat to Diva of Dysfunctionally Distributed Systems when you learn enough about consistency models to realize everything is broken and you don’t engage in ranting about DBs anymore you just tell everyone they are all broken, please make 15 backups.
Why is software so often late? Because forecasting well is very expensive (and makes software take longer); the political costs of being pessimistic are high; and the political costs of being optimistic are low. The punishment for lateness, if any, falls on convenient scapegoats.
Currently at USENIX Security 19 which is a great conference with lots of inspiring talks. I am already excited to do my talk around 3pm in Track 1 about our study of security threats in the npm ecosystem. #usesec19
14. A 10x engineer doesn't have hair, but Ethernet cables snake out of their skull. They can quote passages from the Agile Manifesto from heart while humming the sound a MacBook makes when it boots. You will know them because they're in the house right now omg run
9. 10x engineers are poor mentors as they can't teach others on what to do OR parcel the work. They always think "It takes too long to teach or discuss with others, I would rather do it myself." They are also poor interviewers.
5. Most of the 10x engineers are full-stack engineers. For them code is code, they don't care whether it is front-end, back-end, API, database, serverless, etc. I have rarely seen them doing UI work.