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murph commented on Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work? · Posted by u/shinypenguin

murph · 9 months ago

Try former employers.

You've already got context, know the stack, whatever.

They might be happy to have a known contributor solve some problem or project for them.

murph commented on Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs github.com/pex-tool/pex... · Posted by u/eamag

fsloth · a year ago

”Pex doesn't work on windows”

Oh that’s such a weird limitation.

In the early 2000’s open source hubris, next year was always the year of the Linux desktop. Since then consumer windows matured into a totally ok OS and one with the best support for graphics and C++ development at that.

Non-windows support nowadays is a fairly strong signal of a non-serious software offering if there is no obvious reason for it. And that’s totally fine, hobby tools developed by enthusiasts rock - but they are not industrial in scope as such.

murph · a year ago

PEX was originally developed by Twitter, and was used heavily within the company.

Twitter ran primarily OSX (for devs) and Linux (for servers).

murph commented on Sshfs Is Orphaned github.com/libfuse/sshfs... · Posted by u/hakunin

gourneau · 4 years ago

rclone will also mount sftp as a drive https://rclone.org/sftp/

murph · 4 years ago

I've found rclone 2-3x faster for large file transfers, personally.

Switched off of sshfs after that.

murph commented on Ask HN: How to progress in career as a Software Developer with ADHD? · Posted by u/not_a_noogler

d--b · 4 years ago

> But my ADHD, doesn't allow me to focus on stuff that I don't find fun.

Look, I don’t want to be disrespectful but maybe you don’t have ADHD. From the accounts I have read online, adults with ADHD have a _reaaaaaally_ hard time focusing on anything. Like stopping sentences midway to chase butterflies. I find it utterly incompatible with being an engineer. So it’s not like you can’t focus (you said yourself), it’s that you don’t want to focus.

Truth is everybody has a much harder time focusing on shitty half-baked non-testable legacy software than on greenfield interesting stuff.

My former boss used to say: “remember, if you enjoy it, it’s not work”. It’s a bit effed up to be honest, but if you aspire to go to FAANG and be paid $250k+, you may have to agree to sweat a little.

murph · 4 years ago

Are you... gatekeeping a mental illness you don't have? :)

I'm a software engineer with ADHD. I've been diagnosed by doctors, psychologists, and even imagery (SPECT scans). I work at a big tech company, and I'm very senior and well paid.

They're totally compatible. It's not easy, but by adulthood most of us have a lot of skills to compensate, and sometimes medication.

I'd liken focus with my ADHD to holding a firehouse - it's actually incredibly powerful, but difficult to control.

murph commented on PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk pgecurrents.com/2019/10/2... · Posted by u/johnny313

Animats · 6 years ago

Yes, I know. I may get a power shutoff.

It's not for all of California. In Silicon Valley, it's mostly west of I-280, although my own area, about 2 miles east of I-280 in San Mateo County, is on warning status.

murph · 6 years ago

Right near 92 and 101 here - pretty urban - and we're on "possibly in the next 24-36 hours"

murph commented on Ask HN: Finding tech talent is getting harder. It's not a Bay Area problem only · Posted by u/hichamin

daveFNbuck · 7 years ago

If good developers want to level up their skills, how do you keep the senior developer who you've turned into a tutor happy?

murph · 7 years ago

Mentorship and teaching are also valuable skills. Many good senior engineers would love to focus on them if their employer recognized it as valuable.

murph commented on Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of the bidding process marketwatch.com/story/twi... · Posted by u/obi1kenobi

the_watcher · 9 years ago

Twitter employees can't currently sell stock? I was unaware of this.

murph · 9 years ago

They can only trade one month out of three. Specifically, they can trade immediately after quarterly earnings.

This is pretty common amongst similar companies.

murph commented on Ask HN: I've invented / patented something powerful. Now what? · Posted by u/ipoverip

murph · 9 years ago

What evidence do you have to demonstrate the power of your invention? Is it usable, can you build a business around it and sell it?

I've got a lot of experience w/ the technology stacks used by big tech companies - a lot of time the value of things is not the idea but the execution and implementation.

murph commented on Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log service github.com/twitter/distri... · Posted by u/spullara

crgwbr · 10 years ago

Anyone know how this similar and different from Kafka? Or why Twittered decide to build their own instead of using and contributing to Kafka?

murph · 10 years ago

There's a great blog post on this: https://blog.twitter.com/2015/building-distributedlog-twitte...

murph commented on Scala School twitter.github.io/scala_s... · Posted by u/alongtheflow

nolite · 10 years ago

Any source ? Any idea why?

murph · 10 years ago

I work at Twitter.

No, we're not. Probably just some rumor.