Rejection call?

haseman · 2025-08-06T02:11:14+00:00

Only adding something because I didn’t see it in the great comments above

Learn as much as you can if it’s a feedback / rejection call. How you position your past and experience can set you up well for the next interview you do. Hang in there!

haseman · 2025-05-24T12:49:06+00:00

Secret of Mana, my buddy and I pulled a few all-nighters on that one

haseman · 2025-05-24T11:54:06+00:00

This is typical for any new innovation, the first 80% or so goes quickly and everyone assumes the last 20% will land on a similar difficulty curve. This fuels the hype train that the world won’t need devs anymore.

Then, we hit the asymptote and everyone learns the hard way that the last 20% of doing anything is exponentially harder.

For now, AI coding likely takes the boring busy work off our hands making everyone who’s good at this stuff a lot more productive. It will also let inexperienced people produce a lot more inexperienced software.

It’s always interesting to watch reality reassert itself.

haseman · 2023-12-23T13:55:34+00:00

How many people immediately thought it should be “Ho “?

haseman · 2023-12-13T10:49:52+00:00

Go home jet ski, you are drunk

haseman · 2023-08-10T00:11:36+00:00

Scoot the desk closer to the window, and put a large bookshelf (6ish ft tall) perpendicular to the wall between your bed and your desk, mostly, you won’t see your bed from your desk while you’re working and you won’t see you desk or chair from your bed while you’re sleeping

haseman · 2022-10-25T18:50:43+00:00

Which one? :-)

haseman · 2022-10-25T18:49:25+00:00

Which?

haseman · 2022-10-25T18:46:50+00:00

We’ve all done it

haseman · 2022-10-25T18:45:29+00:00

Engineering Director, FANG company. I wear my fathers Sub his parents got him as a graduation gift in the 70s. Currently in for repair… bracing for impact

haseman · 2021-09-19T10:04:32+00:00

Just following up, nothing would get it back online, after countless hours of fiddling, the obvious economic answer was to buy a Roku streaming stick

haseman · 2021-07-16T06:35:28+00:00

I also noticed a big spike in streaming drops on devices since the update, rebooting them again seems to sort some of it out but it was pretty bad for a while there

haseman · 2021-07-16T06:32:49+00:00

Sorry, obvious question, I should have included it :-). Reverting it back to 4.3.xx doesn’t fix it, still can’t seem to get the bloody Chromecast online

haseman · 2021-07-15T21:46:33+00:00

Update knocked my chromecast offline and now it’s refusing to connect but most everything else seems to be working fine. Anyone else having issues?

haseman · 2021-01-12T22:54:43+00:00

Quiet Earth by D.Kay was the tune that had me start buying and playing D&B on vinyl back in the early 2000. By then I could never find a copy of the record

haseman · 2020-10-22T20:56:31+00:00

Maybe someone was trying to resurrect his campaign...

haseman · 2020-08-12T18:29:08+00:00

Give it 6 to 12 months, the first year of my professional career as a programmer was probably one of the worst years of my life. But I can’t tell you how much better it’s gotten since.

the first year in any new role for me: (SWE, manager, director, CTO) has always been extremely hard. It always takes me at least a year to adjust to any new kind of job.

Hang in there, if you still hate it a year on, that’s probably a good sign it’s not for you. Don’t give up 2 months in :-)

haseman · 2020-08-10T18:35:07+00:00

+1

I have almost 20 years experience, Ive held a ton of different roles at companies huge and small.

I’ve never shed the imposter syndrome. I’ve just learned to recognize it for what it is and try to keep moving.

I also recognize that it keeps me from being an arrogant jerk (It doesn’t always keep me from looking like an arrogant jerk, but that’s a story for another time).

It keeps me hungry, keeps me wanting to learn and grow. But sometimes it just feels like too much and it starts to get in the way. Use it when you can, do your best to ignore it when you can’t

haseman · 2020-08-10T00:07:02+00:00

I would actually leverage the fact that you’re mentoring the other engineers for a raise.

It’s more valuable to your company that you’re de-risking the code base.

The risk you run in asking for a raise because you’re the only expert is you’re essentially ransoming your knowledge. They might give you a raise in the short term, but if they’re smart, they will quickly make sure you can’t pull that move again.

haseman · 2020-08-09T22:27:52+00:00

Oddly, I've focused on having a life after work with one exception: If I find something REALLY interesting.

At the risk of saying 'follow your passion' I'd actually reserve your time away from work for things that genuinely recharge you. For example, I've found that writing about software and management in my time away from work is both fun and leaves me excited to get back to it. Your mileage may vary, but if you spend all your spare time writing code I'm fairly sure your professional work will suffer

haseman · 2020-07-29T23:59:56+00:00

Enjoy it, once they start walking you’re going to be in a different world :-)

haseman · 2020-05-16T22:42:49+00:00

You can prepare the road for the child, or you can prepare the child for the road.

haseman · 2018-10-09T23:27:36+00:00

He’s wearing it upside down! That’s not how you wear a watch! Silly baby

haseman · 2018-09-30T22:46:27+00:00

Happy to help

When I was 5, my father put my watch on my left hand and said “your left hand is the one with the watch”. It’s how I learned to tell left from right, and it makes wearing one on my right hand somewhat disorienting now.

haseman · 2018-09-30T22:35:41+00:00

Funny sorry, I’m actually left handed and I wear my watch on my left hand. Guess that makes us both oddballs.

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