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fakecrusade | 2 years ago | on: A similarity between the CAP theorem and our heart

Could you share how you cope with all these findings and experiences, psychologically? I have anxiety that my heart is going to stop any moment (even after stress test came back ok), hope you can share your coping mechanism is any, thanks

fakecrusade | 3 years ago | on: Meet Silicon Valley’s rattled layoff ‘survivors’

and that's one of the many reasons why project got delayed, manager gets optimistic and consider himself a 0.5, only to realise halfway that he is overwhelmed by meetings, and his superior is asking why is he even coding? He then simply leave it to the team, which is actually the best outcome in this situation. But like inflation, the initial estimation based on 3.5 dev is probably not gonna get revised because it has been committed to the boss or client.

The best thing a manager can do, is to support team when he can and NOT consider himself a resource, even if he does the coding.

fakecrusade | 3 years ago | on: You will ask many, many questions

I myself do not subscribe to this stereotype, I have seen both extremes in junior dev. Some ask nothing but figure it out themselves, some ask too much and figure out nothing, some did both, some didn't and failed miserably. Some exhibit a mixture of these 4 quadrants.

For me, I'm resourceful and have ways to learn how things work myself, either by googling or asking peers. If I'm asked a question that I don't know about at point blank, I usually follow this template

1. Silent thinking for 2-3 seconds

2. Talk about something closely relevant that I actually know about

3. Concludes with "that being said, let me do some digging and get back to you"

This demonstrates that I understand the question, I know something relevant, and that I'm willing find out things that idk about. Especially if you're higher up the ladder, saying you don't know requires tact, I believe this is not specific to Asia. There's a fine line between this and a bullshitter; a bs-er simply drifts away from the topic and never comes back nor willing to find things out.

That being said, I adjust my strategy according to the culture of the company that I'm working in.

fakecrusade | 3 years ago | on: What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?

Companies don't spend time thinking/rationalizing why they shouldn't raise current employees' salaries. They are simply forced to pay market rate for new hire, that's all, no one thinks about "what about our existing employees?"

Sometimes we romanticize tech company too much that we forgot that they are, at its core, just like any other company, and an engineer is just a headcount. Faang sometimes has the ability to steer away from that perception, but it remains true for almost all non-faang. Everyone below leadership is replaceable

fakecrusade | 3 years ago | on: The hardest thing about making decisions is saying no

Enough No and you will find yourself questioning why are your best people leaving, very often your best people are the one who cares and are pushing for better change.

At the end you will have yourself a team of yes-man which, ironically, is often what you really need in the kind of environment that demands saying No a lot - you need people that simply get things done accordingly without having too much ambition, that eliminates the need to put those foolish ambition to rest.

fakecrusade | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?

apple dedicate its existence to building beautiful things and user experience, it makes painful work much more bearable, at the end of the day I'm just another consumer that wants to enjoy things without thinking about how to build this from source or fix that dependency, plus it's beautiful to look at
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