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Bitcoin is an asset not a currency

techleader.pro
2 points·by alphadevx·5 jaar geleden·0 comments

SolarWinds hack work of 'at least 1k engineers', tech executives tell Senate

theguardian.com
3 points·by alphadevx·5 jaar geleden·1 comments

Engineers Learning to Say Yes

techleader.pro
1 points·by alphadevx·5 jaar geleden·0 comments

GameStop stock up 92.7% today

finance.yahoo.com
17 points·by alphadevx·5 jaar geleden·6 comments

Podcasts to make you smarter in 2021

techleader.pro
1 points·by alphadevx·6 jaar geleden·0 comments

Tim Ferriss: Why I Left Silicon Valley [YouTube]

m.youtube.com
1 points·by alphadevx·6 jaar geleden·0 comments

Boris Johnson: no-deal Brexit now a 'strong possibility'

theguardian.com
5 points·by alphadevx·6 jaar geleden·5 comments

Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI

nvidianews.nvidia.com
183 points·by alphadevx·6 jaar geleden·154 comments

Weeding Your Bugs

techleader.pro
1 points·by alphadevx·6 jaar geleden·0 comments

Marketing versus Sales

techleader.pro
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alphadevx
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
100% this. Already happening (I moved all of mine from London to Frankfurt last year, fully expecting this to happen). DCs in the UK will suffer.
alphadevx
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
> I am also completely clueless how to switch jobs as a manager. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

I share my own (humble) insights right here, its a huge topic but I post regularly, you might find some of those posts helpful: https://techleader.pro/

> it just doesn't feel the same in terms of pride in technical achievement .. i.e. my coding days are over

Same for me, I had to learn to take pride in building successful teams and individuals, and not code anymore.

As an ex-engineer, the key "eureka!" moment I had was when I realized that management != leadership, and leadership > management. After that, I started to study "leadership" as a formal topic, everyone from Marcus Aurelius to Steve Jobs, as if I was learning a new programming language for example.

The combination of technical chops + great people leadership skills is very rare, if you nail that many opportunities will open up for you during your career.

Wish you well on your journey.
alphadevx
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
My mistakes contributed to those hard things.

I did not "claiming that is unavoidable" on this thread, if you care about being fair.
alphadevx
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Did I?
alphadevx
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
You can't "manage observable people behaviours", they are complex human beings with unique emotions and motivations, each one behaves differently.

If you try to "manage" that, they will resent and resist you.

The best you can hope for is that they like and respect you enough to follow your leadership. But that's their choice.
alphadevx
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I'd always recommend you try it! The really brilliant part about engineering leadership is mentoring, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing one of your teams succeed, or growing your own leaders and watching them thrive autonomously.

If it does not suit you in the end, your technical skills will still be there as a fallback option.

Wish you well.
alphadevx
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Yes and I could go on! Engineering management is brilliant and rewarding, but also very demanding.

I have made plenty of mistakes over 20+ years, and learned the painful way.

All of your problems are people problems, the tech parts are much easier to manage.
alphadevx
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Wow that's a pretty easy going list. Just wait until you have to fire a bad hire that you made, have an entire team quit after a bad crunch, or have to lay off an entire team due to that exciting startup just you joined going bust.
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
LOL it's a deal!
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
If I go and buy an Apple M1 (speaking as a Linux guy who never owned a Mac...), will you guys promise to stop posting benchmarks here? Pinky promise?
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
I would "start to have a point", really? I will try harder next time.
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
In my experience, the latest computer I buy is always "the best computer I've ever owned". They get better every year, why is this still surprising?
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Thanks for the tip, will try that where appropriate content relationships exist, but suspect it's minor occurrences (when you blog for 20+ years, your output varies considerably in terms of topics over time!).

Google does not like my new topics it seems, starting around 2012, but thankfully unlike the OP who I have a lot of sympathy for, my blog is for fun and not livelihood.

We write for bots, so they can decide to share with our fellow humans (or not), such is our lot...
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
For me, Google only sends organic traffic to my posts that are 10-20 years old (no joke). My newer content, while verified by me as indexed by Google, receives zero traffic.

For my old content, I have started to place warning banners for my users that they are reading old, and sometimes outdated content, that I only leave online for archival reasons.

It makes me wonder if Google is doing this with my little blog, is it doing the same more broadly? I don't believe it is providing a good search experience to its users anymore.
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Pretty big "bugs" they have in the UK, judging by that drone:hand ratio in the pic.
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Mine are accepted by Gmail so I am good. Considering how dominant Gmail is, that's all that really matters.

Regarding getting a bad IP rating, normally that's due to having an insecure config, like acting as an open relay, or not having DKIM enabled. There are lots of tutorials online about this, if you know Linux it really is easy.
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Same for me, mainly for privacy concerns. And I back it up daily to my local NAS. It's so easy to configure and run your own mail server, that I'm surprised we are the minority in the tech community.
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Nailed it. Most managers are executing a process or strategy defined by somebody else, they are not leaders.

An org without a leader is rudderless. Can't think of a real, successful example either.
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
No personal responsibility?
alphadevx
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
As a long time nano user, this makes me happy!

"To make the default Fedora experience better, we’ve set nano as the default editor. nano is a friendly editor for new users. Those of you who want the power of editors like vi can, of course, set your own default."

I can only imagine the mailing list discussion around that one :-)

Looking forward to upgrading as Fedora remains my daily driver, so thank you at all involved.