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by 3minus1 5y ago
I switched from SWE to devops and leveraged it into a job at FAANG. I think switching was good for my career because I was doing kind of boring CRUD and the devops work was way more interesting. Devops also has as hype factor as some other
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by 3minus1 5y ago
> Too many people are leaving the platform A quick google search shows the platform has 2 billion monthly active users[1]. A number that has only been growing. Why do you claim people are leaving? Is it because of a handful of high-profi
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by 3minus1 6y ago
Man I'm so cynical. As soon as I see "I landed a great job a few months ago," my thought is just wait a few more months. I hope the job stays great for you.
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by 3minus1 6y ago
> I feel like 80% of people could probably go from zero to fizzbuzz in a week Then why do so many self-described professional coders do horrendously on fizz buzz or equally simple problems?
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by 3minus1 6y ago
My perspective based on the places I've worked: * Jr Engineer - Your work is given to you as bite-sized well-defined tasks. * Mid-level - You're working on and delivering entire projects. The project is often well-defined. * Sr Le
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by 3minus1 6y ago
This is funny, but each year residents should be saving more and more.
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by 3minus1 6y ago
It's not that bad. Real hypocrisy would be lying about how great the job is to get better candidates, and then getting upset when the candidates lie about how qualified they are to get better jobs.
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by 3minus1 6y ago
For the love of god, don't take mental health advice from strangers on the internet. Talk to a professional. Don't be afraid of medication. There is science (double blind studies) backing up anti-depressants as an effective way to
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by 3minus1 6y ago
> Capitalism is just an exchange of something(work/goods) for currency. This is kind of like saying evolution is just animals surviving and breeding. It misses the crucial concept of natural selection, where beneficial adaptations g
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by 3minus1 6y ago
> Being able to sleep fully through the night is increasingly rare. Are there are actual user-facing issues occurring every night? That sounds extremely bad and unusual.
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by 3minus1 6y ago
I wouldn't like it nearly as much if I thought it was fantasy, but I believe it is based on the author's real experience. I like it because people generally like to present themselves in the best possible light; sharing one's
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by 3minus1 6y ago
I heard this on NPR recently and was really moved by it [1]. Recommend reading the whole thing. > You know me. I'm in your friendship circle, hidden in plain sight. My clothes are still impeccable, bought in the good years when I wa
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by 3minus1 6y ago
My perspective: unless you have iron self-will or insatiable curiosity there's only 2 ways to make meaningful progress in those fields: school and job. If you're still in school (or can go back) it's easy, just start taking c
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by 3minus1 6y ago
> [everyone] understands that this only affects a small percentage of those who contract it This is highly questionable. There are many articles (whether factual or not) suggesting widespread lasting effects, e.g. just last week on HN on
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by 3minus1 6y ago
advertising
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by 3minus1 6y ago
It's not only that. In the Social Dilemma they basically say Facebook/Youtube/etc promote disinformation because it increases engagement/money
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by 3minus1 6y ago
> Debt fueled by inflationary government money-printing drives wealth inequality between asset owners and salary earners How does that even work? Inflation tends to decrease wealth inequality as basic salaries keep pace with inflation, a
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by 3minus1 6y ago
> On a different topic: is there any data for salaries in other fields for the same companies (FAANG and similar) ? It'd be interesting to see how much earns, for example, a lawyer in such companies. The government requires that com
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by 3minus1 6y ago
At my last company it was a huge push from leadership around cost-saving. Also there was a big engineering push (tons of work and features) for a POC for client that hadn't signed a substantive contract with us. Basically it was giant
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by 3minus1 6y ago
This is a fun thread. Here are some I thought of: "envy is ignorance...imitation is suicide" --Emerson. For me it's about embracing your own weirdness "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true no
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by 3minus1 6y ago
Reminds me of this clip of David Foster Wallace where he discusses puffy words like "prior to" and "utilize" that people use for some reason when a much simpler word works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by 3minus1 6y ago
just ftr here's one person that found the article quite enlightening
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by 3minus1 6y ago
> Skip the degree. It's expensive and you'll never recoup the cost. Counterpoints: the vast majority of people in the industry will have technical degrees. A degree makes getting that first job much, much easier. In fact going
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by 3minus1 6y ago
I graduated with a minor in CS. It took me 7 or 8 months to get someone to hire me as a web developer. Once I was in the industry I got a Computer Science master's while working. Now I work at FAANG. I think if you believe in yourself
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by 3minus1 6y ago
I love the freakonomics podcast, especially when it gets into behavioral economics. There's a ton of good episodes. If you've never listened before try the Trader Joe's episode.
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by 3minus1 6y ago
I love the freakonomics podcast, especially when it gets into behavioral economics. There's a ton of good episodes. If you've never listened before try the Trader Joe's episode.
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by 3minus1 6y ago
The best online class I ever took had this thing called "muddy buddies." Basically each week we were required to post questions about something we "didn't understand" from the assigned reading, and your assigned mud
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by 3minus1 6y ago
There was a really interesting freaknomics podcast discussing remote work. There was some study on a large sales company in China that experimented with half of employees working remotely and half not. At the end they found that remote wor
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by 3minus1 6y ago
I like the idea behind this article, but a 62% increase in calls to phone hotline after an ad campaign doesn't sound that amazing to me. Ads are pretty effective in general; even just reminding someone that a hotline exists to quit smo
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by 3minus1 7y ago
In the comic someone posted above they talk about how you must have a code given to you by a doctor to upload your identifiers. That seems pretty effective. Similar to prescriptions preventing people from abusing harmful drugs (yes I know p

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