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edabobojr | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people

We had the books on black men and black women in history by the same author. Each biography is only a page or two, but I found them interesting.

edabobojr | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How Common Are Algorithmic Interviews in SRE Hiring?

The point of fizz-buzz was to serve as a simple filter at the front end of the interview process. It should be simple, but a surprising number of job candidates were unable to do it.

edabobojr | 3 years ago | on: A Response to Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s “Incompetent but Nice”

I've always been afraid of pairing. I don't know how well others would appreciate my periods of daydreaming followed by periods of hyper-fixated focus.

edabobojr | 3 years ago | on: Split Your Overwhelmed Teams

When your team owns an application you have no background knowledge in, and it uses a technology that you haven't touched since you attended a training 18 months ago; I would assume that your on-call response for any non-trivial issue would still be to page someone for help.

edabobojr | 3 years ago | on: Stranger Things is being edited retroactively by Netflix?

I find it ironic that the article itself was edited after the initial posting, per the disclaimer at the bottom. If Netflix added such a disclaimer in the credits of the episode, would that make it more acceptable to the author?

edabobojr | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you keep engineers happy in “Professional Services” teams?

I would recommend looking at the company's culture. I've seen similar situations where the services team were treated as second-class citizens. What opportunities for advancement are recognition are there? Are they comparable to the product side? Is there any movement between the two sides?

edabobojr | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I practically create wealth?

To quote Charles Dickens -- "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery"

edabobojr | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why does everyone keep suggesting teenagers to get a girlfriend?

To practice being in a relationship. To gain a better understanding of what you want in a relationship. It is one thing to have a bad significant other as a teenager, it is totally different to have a bad spouse.

edabobojr | 4 years ago | on: NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup

Many years ago I interviewed at a military contractor. Every time we walked through a work area someone went ahead and announced I was coming through to ensure nobody had something that would require a clearance to see.

edabobojr | 4 years ago | on: Best practices for remote software engineering

I am glad it works for you. Maybe (hopefully?) I have just had an abnormal experience.

edabobojr | 4 years ago | on: Best practices for remote software engineering

In my experience, pair and mob programming are just yet another scenario where neuro-atypical people are punished for approaching their work differently.

edabobojr | 6 years ago | on: On Pair Programming

I have long thought that pair programming and open offices were yet another way of punishing anyone who is neuro-atypical.

edabobojr | 8 years ago | on: Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals

Des Moines offers residential tax abatement on new construction and home improvements from renovation, a deal very similar to what Apple is receiving.

edabobojr | 9 years ago | on: Cycling to work can cut cancer and heart disease, says study

I use a cycling poncho, fenders, and chain guard. I only ride about 3 miles, but even in the worst weather I only get wet from about mid-shin down, and even then only enough to be bothersome in the worst weather.

edabobojr | 9 years ago | on: The myth of using Scala as a better Java

I take it you prefer CORBA?

edabobojr | 9 years ago | on: The pension gap

Ouch! I feel the fool.

Revised thoughts. It would only be 10 billion, which would equal two years of payouts for the entire pension.

edabobojr | 9 years ago | on: The pension gap

Also, in 2008 and 2009 California did not fully pay pension contributions. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023048301045751722...

edabobojr | 9 years ago | on: The pension gap

I'll just throw for the opposing side and point out that "Gov. Pete Wilson, took $1.6 billion from CalPERS accounts in 1991 to help close a state budget gap". A random internet calculator tells me that investing in the S&P 500 with reinvested dividents since July, 1991 has had a 844% return. I wonder impact $1.3 trillion would have on the CalPERS shortfall (edit: this would only be $13 billion).

edabobojr | 9 years ago | on: Reflections of an “Old” Programmer

That almost sounds exactly like the Java argument from the late 90s

clean syntax standard libraries write once, run anyone

edabobojr | 10 years ago | on: The Absurd Primacy of the Car in American Life

You could also just use better brake pads. Then add full fenders with a rain cape. I only get wet from about mid-shins and down.