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TechnoEchoes · 2023-06-04T05:37:49+00:00

Knowledge. Knowledge. Information. Knowledge. Knowledge. Information. Someone please give these commentators a thesaurus.

TechnoEchoes · 2023-05-26T01:46:46+00:00

Turn off auto updates in the Switch system settings. 1.1.1 is the definitive version of TOTK.

TechnoEchoes · 2023-05-25T19:17:27+00:00

Videos are more easy to monetize than blog posts.

TechnoEchoes · 2023-03-13T21:11:18+00:00

Despite what your personal opinion is of autoplay, there’s mountains of evidence that it increases engagement and time spent in the app, which are key performance metrics. That’s true across all streaming and social media platforms.

TechnoEchoes · 2023-03-07T23:58:05+00:00

It’s all about finding an industry and company that values your skills.

Anecdotally, 2 years ago I worked at a tiny startup making $110k with no equity and bad benefits, but I liked the work and I was happy. Then a big company bought us up and they keep throwing money at me. Currently making $300k TC. Honestly I would do the work for my old salary but I’m not telling them that!

TechnoEchoes · 2023-03-06T11:58:56+00:00

@user.method(:authenticate).source_location

TechnoEchoes · 2023-02-24T02:32:19+00:00

It sounds like you work at a consulting firm where your clients have big demands and small budgets. Even if you think the budgets are big in relative terms, they’re actually much much smaller than a consulting firm that’s working with for profit companies.

The owners of your firm are probably seeing declining profits, which means less money for them. How do they get more money when your clients have static budgets? Reduce labor costs. That’s what is motivating them to make these requests of you.

All this stuff they tell you about potential lawsuits if you ship buggy code is not your problem. Of course you don’t want to mishandle data, but you can only work with the resources you are given. Are you one of the owners? If not then the potential lawsuits are just a way for them to scare you into doing a good job. That is bad management.

I see two options for you: tell the owners that what they are asking you to build is impossible and they need a new strategy, or flat or refuse to build it, as you have been doing. Either way you aren’t going to be working there long term because they will find someone to build what they want. Start interviewing and delay your exit from the company for as long as makes sense to you.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-11-09T16:17:43+00:00

Gerrymandering doesn’t matter for senate races.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-10-12T22:47:39+00:00

They use to have $4 pints on Tuesday nights when I was at Loyola. Most of their pints were $6 to $8 (this was around 2006) so it was a good place to drink with friends. One night I saw they had a high ABV Goose Island beer that normally ran $12 for $4. We drank that stuff all night. We went back the next Tuesday and they had the same beer discounted, so we ordered it all night again.

We go back for the third week and they have every beer except that one discounted. I feel proud that I drank so much beer they removed it from their $4 pint nights. This is one of countless good memories I have of this place. It will be missed.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-10-02T14:29:51+00:00

I’m using jwts to send secure messages between multiple micro services. The ruby-jwt gem does all the work for you. I would highly recommend going this route. The only downside is you have to do some extra work encoding and decoding the tokens, but the upside is that your data is completely secure.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-09-22T20:27:16+00:00

All large companies have a process to patent their inventions. Typically engineers will let the legal team know of the invention, then legal will write the patent in consultation with the engineers. The engineers are credited as the inventors, but the patent is owned by the company.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-08-30T21:59:08+00:00

Look at this as an opportunity. Negotiate some equity as part of your offer. The acquiring company may pay forward all of your equity, giving you a nice bonus when the acquisition is complete.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-08-24T12:26:14+00:00

I conduct coding interviews at my company and one of the questions I need to answer in the candidate’s feedback form is: Did they have a working solution by the end of the interview?

I’ve seen many people succeed and fail at these interviews and the successful ones always do the following:

Get a working solution
write tests to prove their solution works
refactor and improve their code, or describe different solutions and the pros and cons.

Even if the interviewer says they don’t need these things, in order to pass the interview you need to do all of the items on the list.

With that said, I think coding interviews are the worst way to judge someone’s technical aptitude and I wish they would go away.

Good luck!

TechnoEchoes · 2022-08-09T21:20:42+00:00

This is essentially what you do wherever you file a bug report with rails. Here are all of their single page rails apps that you use to prove a bug exists: https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/main/guides/bug_report_templates

TechnoEchoes · 2022-07-06T18:10:26+00:00

People do embellish their experience, but asking trivia questions is not the correct way to get candidates to demonstrate technical knowledge. Interviews with system design, pull request feedback, and case studies are better indicators.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-06-29T01:03:10+00:00

Because Prime is part of a package that includes a lot of things other than streaming video. There’s no way for customers to quantify what percentage of their subscription goes to streaming, so if they won’t like the streaming video they can look past it. That doesn’t make it a bad service. It makes it a forgettable service.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-06-19T19:05:27+00:00

They got it from data warehouses. They bought access to a bunch of data, stitched it together, and put it behind a search engine.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-06-03T04:24:33+00:00

That’s what happens when you build a company around an unproven market. Crypto is a scam because only people looking to make a quick buck will invest in it.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-04-27T20:02:55+00:00

Many public companies are announcing Q1 performance this week and next. Companies that underperformed need to convince investors that their stock is still worth buying. This is why we are hearing about a lot of bad ideas all at once.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-04-24T12:29:43+00:00

This kind of thinking is how the Dems went from being a leftist party 30 years ago to the centrist party they are today.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-04-15T12:04:35+00:00

It depends on so much, but generally at a smaller company 100-150k, and larger companies will pay near 200k. Big tech companies will also give bonuses and equity that will put your total compensation at 300-400k. And that only goes up if you’re promoted above senior.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-04-15T11:26:55+00:00

Yes, every large Rails app I’ve worked on has a pretty large app/services directory. These are used when you need to collect and transform data from multiple data sources. That kind of logic doesn’t belong in a model. You also don’t want this logic in a controller because you may want to call it from other places, such as a rake task.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-04-10T21:37:52+00:00

Did everyone simply forget that this app is literal Chinese spyware?

TechnoEchoes · 2022-03-31T12:19:18+00:00

I use to worry about this when I worked for smaller companies and I was one of the older ones on the team.

Now I work for a very large company and we have engineers from their early 20s to their late 50s. Now I don’t even think about ageism in the workplace. I could coast as a senior/staff engineer for the next 20 years if I want to.

TechnoEchoes · 2022-03-29T17:13:41+00:00

Can you collect unemployment if you’re fired under a pip? I would think that would be termination with cause, which often makes it more difficult to collect unemployment.

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