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It's still showing hurricane force winds.

I guess they've decided it's better to show the correct forecast data + bad wind data than take down the page entirely.

Not looking but great to see Bristol represented!

Asking questions is helpful.

Knowing when it's fine to let them go with a 80% perfect plan

It doesn't, a bad manager (allegedly) did. Having said that, having say 50% fewer commits than your peers is probably a reason to dive-deeper...it could be a good thing, maybe you were unblocking tasks and writing docs, or tackling the thorny issues...but also could be you are less productive.

Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold Em Poker.

Never turned much of profit at the poker table, but the life-lessons in that book have been invaluable.

I'm not sure that 55 months of up-time indicates it's more or less likely to go down in the next month, but I'd guess more likely.

Surely there are options, have you tried de-compiling the source from the binary?

>but the physical config was accidentally overwritten and there are no backups

Any old dev PCs lying around somewhere? It's worth reaching out to the old developers to see if they have a copy, in really old legacy systems it's fairly likely someone will have a copy somewhere.

At Amazon you literally can't get promoted to Senior Engineer (SDE3) without showing influence outside your team.

Development is the ability to deliver/ship the things that increase your business metrics, consistently.

Sometimes the right thing to do is TDD, sometimes the right thing to do is to ssh into a production server and modify a Perl script.

Nothing worse then the page on Friday night, oh there goes my weekend.

Do Facebook not use it?

I would never ask a candidate this, and I'd never dignify it with a response.

I work at one of the other Big4 and to be honest it's not that impressive. This kind of report would be a high severity ticket, the person on-call for the given team would get paged, and wouldn't stop working/escalating until it got fixed.

Obviously not all companies behave this way, but they should!