Technical Team Lead, Software Engineer
Joined February 2009
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Wise words from a recent interview with @geoffreyhinton, one of the smartest people in the world regarding AI
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benefit of hiring junior engs is they can be molded into what works well for your team
benefit of hiring experienced engs is they can run on their own
problem with mid-level is they don't have enough experience to be independent but enough to have opinions
this is you btw
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26 Jun 2023
Toxic cultures exploit generosity. Takers impose extra work on givers, and no good deed goes unpunished.
Healthy cultures reward generosity. People protect givers from takers, and cream rises to the top.
Helpfulness is not a weakness to target. It's a strength to safeguard.
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19 Dec 2022
What do you think?
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18 Oct 2022
Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.
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25 Sep 2022
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” —Pema Chodron
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When the "stakeholders" control the work, the company will probably fail. You cannot succeed when politics, force, and power trumps skill & customer input. Without customers, there is no company. Without skilled workers who make their own decisions, there is no company.
24 Sep 2022
When the people paying the bills (the stakeholders) ask for estimates, you better provide them. You aren't writing code for yourself if you are working for someone else.
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14 Aug 2022
Learning programming following a video tutorial
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2 Aug 2022
Remember, people can’t use you if you’re useless.
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29 Jul 2022
Almost 20 years as a professional software engineer.
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10 Jul 2022
“It will never get easier, handle hard better.”
—@karalawson20, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team (@DukeWBB)
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When people say they can estimate accurately, here's what usually happens:
1) You make a wild-ass guess, often after weeks of careful analysis.
2) You know you're probably wrong, so you add padding, sometimes as much as 10x, depending on risk. 1/3
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29 Jun 2022
ironically sums up the culture at google
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29 Jun 2022
Tech Twitter is an amazing place.
18-20 yrs old kids who have never raised a single PR to any public GitHub repo are writing threads on "How to start open source contribution"?
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30 Jun 2022
Psychology says, break your people-pleasing habit before it breaks you.
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23 May 2022
Startup: We barely get any applicants for our job ad. Any advice?
Me: can I see the job advert?
So, here's a tip. You're asking for 15 different "must haves". Let's take a look at how many things Stripe asks for: not even half.
Which job would you apply for?
ALT Stripe vs not-very-known company job ad
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13 May 2022
"Our application has 20 microservices". "Wow, how many developers are you?" "2" 🤯
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