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Doctor Octothorpe

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Fuck software.

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On my tombstone please write: "He would have been CTO of Google, if only he could design a recursive algorithm on the phone with strangers."


Holy shit when you realize the candidate is a “no” 25 minutes in and that the goddamn recruiter set the interview for an hour…


Being a principal means sitting patiently for ten minutes while a junior explains why something can't be done, before showing them how to do it in three lines of script.


My favorite part of any hiring call is that bit at the end where we all try to talk each other out of hiring a candidate we are unanimously in favor of.


Nothing dumber than a good idea


Real power is being able to say no without being questioned or resented for it.


No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than a head of engineering who sets bug severities correctly.


The squeaky wheel gets replaced.


When a company has a chaotic onboarding process, but a streamlined offboarding process: 🚩🚩🚩


Several times over my career I've had a boss tell me I was underpaid. So fix that, my dude.


If somebody quits, their remaining stock options should be distributed across the people who have to do their work.


For those of you who haven't done one of these before, a market downturn is when ALL the cool shit happens in software. This is when the Dockers and Mongos get built. I hope you get to be a part of it!


I just cancelled meetings to take a nap because I was exhausted after a week of late nights to be of any use. But I'm too embarrassed to tweet about it on main.


That dreaded moment where you've handled all your distractions and now you have to get to work.


A blade is only tempered by fire, but only a fool assumes burning shit is always going to make it better.


No bleaker moment than hearing a colleague talk about "the database" -- singular -- and finally realizing they mean it. You've only got one database.


The biggest trick the Internet Devil ever played is suggesting to people that their opinion mattered.


I wrote up a document about how shitty our process was and fucking junior went and used it as a requirements doc.


What is meant by “will this meeting be recorded” is “I’m not planning on paying attention, and would like to absolve myself of accountability for that.”


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