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Literally how it used to go, so now when asked "are you free" will reply "chat yes, voice no" or "yeah sure" if I'm prepared for either. I mean, if I'm already in a meeting then I can't literally talk to you, but it's probably boring enough to be able to multi-task some simple questions over chat.
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downout posted:Ya'll need kids. I welcome coworkers interruptions over the kids every 15 minutes "can you come HERE? I need xxxxxx!" Did you know that in the precoronal era, people would go to buildings called "offices" to work. They were places were kids weren't allowed in so you didn't have any distractions. It's true! I saw a History Channel documentary about it once.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Did you know that in the precoronal era, people would go to buildings called "offices" to work. They were places were kids weren't allowed in so you didn't have any distractions.
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Carbon dioxide posted:you didn't have any distractions. *cue two managers having an extremely loud conversation in an open office full of designers and developers trying to focus*
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Manager just repeating as you're trying to fix a critical issue, like a child in a car "IS IT FIXED YET?" No. "IS IT FIXED YET?" No. "IS IT FIXED YET?" No. "IS IT FIXED YET?" I SWEAR, STEVE, IF YOU DON'T JUST WAIT FOR ME TO GIVE YOU A STATUS UPDATE I WILL TURN THIS CHAIR RIGHT AROUND AND GO HOME.
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Piano Maniac posted:Man I was having a google meets call with my coworkers yesterday (since both me and my wife were working from home). This is why I only like stuff like pair programming and group work in theory, because almost everyone I've ever paired with or done group work with will either play deadline chicken or just pretend to be useless and I end up doing most of the work.
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"Hey, got a minute?" if I need them to be present for a conversation "Hey, <question>" if it's a one off I'm an unabashed message dribbler because if I try and write a whole rear end message I'm gonna get stuck in an edit loop
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ChickenWing posted:"Hey, got a minute?" if I need them to be present for a conversation On the other hand, preparing the entire question ahead of time, including adding as much context as possible, has often led me to figure out the answer myself without having to actually send the message out. If I were a dribbler I’d send a bunch of disjointed messages only to end off with ‘oh nm I figured it out already’.
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beuges posted:On the other hand, preparing the entire question ahead of time, including adding as much context as possible, has often led me to figure out the answer myself without having to actually send the message out. If I were a dribbler I’d send a bunch of disjointed messages only to end off with ‘oh nm I figured it out already’. Yeah. Put enough time to compose a full thought and they often figure out the solution in the process.
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I joined a new team a couple of weeks ago and the other Sr. on the team and I are butting heads on basically everything and I am torn between not wanting to be That Guy who comes into a team and says "no no you're doing everything wrong sillies  " and wanting to be confident in stuff I've previously learned and 
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ChickenWing posted:fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I joined a new team a couple of weeks ago and the other Sr. on the team and I are butting heads on basically everything and I am torn between not wanting to be That Guy who comes into a team and says "no no you're doing everything wrong sillies The fact that you are having this personal quandary is a good indicator that you probably aren't totally insufferable, if that helps.
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Smugworth posted:The fact that you are having this personal quandary is a good indicator that you probably aren't totally insufferable, if that helps. username / topic combo
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The LinkedIn api is a giant piece of poo poo, in case anyone was curious
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prom candy posted:The LinkedIn api is a giant piece of poo poo, in case anyone was curious good to know it's not an outlier on the platform Smugworth posted:The fact that you are having this personal quandary is a good indicator that you probably aren't totally insufferable, if that helps. it does a bit, thanks being a senior is weird because now I don't have a lot of immediate coworkers that I can just sorta defer to in times of crisis and I gotta say, I don't love it
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ChickenWing posted:good to know it's not an outlier on the platform All truly great seniors understand the value of delegating the stuff you can’t figure out to people on your team who can’t say no.
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ChickenWing posted:good to know it's not an outlier on the platform So, in summary prom candy posted:LinkedIn is a giant piece of poo poo
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"Two Hours Is Too Long For Retro" Says Man Who Spent An Hour And Fifteen Minutes Talking About A Single Point At Retro
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YanniRotten posted:All truly great seniors understand the value of delegating the stuff you can’t figure out to people on your team who can’t say no. gently caress that I am a senior and by god I take full responsibility for every problem that ever has existed or will exist on my project 
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When I finally got that senior bump I assumed that I'd be able to gently caress poo poo up on a significantly larger scale but so far it has been disappointing.
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Does anyone have any favorite books / resources about analytics / metrics? I've been looking around but everything seems to be focused on marketing stuff like conversion rates. I'm more interested in gathering data about frequency of errors, size of queries, that sort of thing. Is there different terminology I should be using?
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A lot of that falls under the umbrella of telemetry. That's more general than engineering, but if you refine your search a bit, you should get relevant hits.
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"observability" is a good key word too. Often paired with DevOps and SRE.
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vonnegutt posted:Does anyone have any favorite books / resources about analytics / metrics? I've been looking around but everything seems to be focused on marketing stuff like conversion rates. I'm more interested in gathering data about frequency of errors, size of queries, that sort of thing. Is there different terminology I should be using? https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html
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Cugel the Clever posted:How can I persuade people to formulate a single coherent message that they can then send in its entirety in chat instead of a slow, drawn-out stream of consciousness over a series of messages? I've tried telling folks that they don't need to start a query with just "Hi" and await response before proceeding to their specific question/thought, but it just doesn't stick. I've had some coworkers get grumpy when I do this, and some coworkers get grumpy when I don't do this  Can't win really.
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Work shipped me the hardware to work on, but none of the accessories it needs. So I've got a fun little Jetson nano sitting on my desk but no power cables, usb-cables, or even a large enough SD card to hold the SDK. Oops. My favorite part about this story is, I asked for all this stuff 3 weeks ago. I'm trying to make this screwup productive by adding a list of essential components to the onboarding document for this product. LLSix fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Oct 27, 2020 |
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LLSix posted:Work shipped me the hardware to work on, but none of the accessories it needs. So I've got a fun little Jetson nano sitting on my desk but no power cables, usb-cables, or even a large enough SD card to hold the SDK. Oops. Using a delay to rewrite onboarding documentation is great because you get to be productive and ever so slightly passive aggressive towards your team/company 
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LLSix posted:Work shipped me the hardware to work on, but none of the accessories it needs. So I've got a fun little Jetson nano sitting on my desk but no power cables, usb-cables, or even a large enough SD card to hold the SDK. Oops. SD is fine, but NFS also works great. The thing will even boot PXE if you play with the U-Boot params to put it above the eMMC in the boot order. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Oct 27, 2020 |
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vonnegutt posted:Does anyone have any favorite books / resources about analytics / metrics? I've been looking around but everything seems to be focused on marketing stuff like conversion rates. I'm more interested in gathering data about frequency of errors, size of queries, that sort of thing. Is there different terminology I should be using? What are you looking for? The theory? Or like, "yo! implement this OSS project for much glory!"
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captkirk posted:What are you looking for? The theory? Or like, "yo! implement this OSS project for much glory!" A general overview? Best practices I guess? I'm on a project that is maturing (as in, has customers who have expectations) and we don't have a dedicated team keeping an eye on how things are running. There's a lot of "wait for customer to report issue and then grep logs for likely suspects" which is not efficient. In the past I was either working for startups with no customers (or so few that you could just read logs to see how things were going), or large companies that had dedicated reliability teams that I was not part of. This is a big hole in my knowledge - I've spent my career building things and not so much maintaining them. The Google SRE suggestion Vulture Culture made was an excellent resource. Already started implementing a way to get some of our errors propagating into our ticketing system.
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vonnegutt posted:A general overview? Best practices I guess? The SRE book is good, there are some additional books (SRE Workbook, Pursuing SRE) which could also be helpful. There's also Implementing Service Level Objectives which I can't fully recommend yet as I haven't finished it but if you aren't satisfied with the treatment of SLI/SLO in the SRE book, it does have a more thorough treatment. As you're diving into the land of observability you should keep your eye on three arms of observability: 1) metrics - what most folks think of as monitoring: collecting numeric data over time. 2) logging - stuff your logs somewhere, ideally centralized that you can easily search and do analysis on. 3) tracing - this is the arm that is often ignore because it can difficult to implement and to train developers to make effective use of (there is an O'Reilly book, Distributed Tracing in Practice, which I can half recommend) Metrics and logging in particular are likely to result in monitors/alerts being set up to notify admins/devs/sres/whatevers. You should make sure to give thought to how your folks get notified (e-mail is probably the wrong choice, it's not interruptive enough and it's easy to lose alerts in the noise of your inbox) and make sure you're watching out for alert fatigue.
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Thanks, that seems like exactly what I'm looking for. We just got logs centralized in Kubernetes and spent some time tuning them to make them easier to query - which is when I realized that there is a lot I can probably figure out how to do but I had no real idea what I should be doing.
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captkirk posted:3) tracing - this is the arm that is often ignore because it can difficult to implement and to train developers to make effective use of (there is an O'Reilly book, Distributed Tracing in Practice, which I can half recommend) what’s the half you can’t recommend? (I’m one of the authors)
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kitten emergency posted:what’s the half you can’t recommend? (I’m one of the authors) Wait, does your CEO currently sport a ZZ top beard?
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captkirk posted:Wait, does your CEO currently sport a ZZ top beard? not really ZZ Top length no
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but seriously I’m thinking about taking some time next year to write errata and maybe do a second edition so if you have any feedback I’d love to hear it
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kitten emergency posted:not really ZZ Top length no We might work for the same company... anyway! It seems like a fine book, I just can't recommend the second half. Because I haven't read it yet.
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captkirk posted:We might work for the same company... anyway! It seems like a fine book, I just can't recommend the second half. Because I haven't read it yet. 
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although you know there’s a bunch of companies that have ceos with ZZ Top beards
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If y'all work at Twitter, tell the web UI teams they suck TIA
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