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by 62951413 3y ago
Did you know that you could have 15 years of working in the Bay Area experience and still be refused a German blue card because you majored in Physics or EE instead of CS? But mere work visas were easily obtainable a couple years ago with a
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by 62951413 3y ago
Last years I worked for a SJ-headquartered public company with spectacular compensation. While I was still there they stopped hiring in CA and the gossip was about TX. But on my team new roles were opened in Europe instead (surprisingly, no
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by 62951413 3y ago
In the Bay Area I see only a few full time positions. They average literally 500-700 applicants each (1.5K for a Databricks-level company). Accepting a W2 remote contract (sometimes from a CA-headquartered corporation) seems to be the only
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by 62951413 3y ago
Is it really $35K now? Because the way I remember it, a couple years ago the top trim Elantra was ~$25K and the same for Civic was ~$30K. So the difference wouldn't be as dramatic in purely monetary terms.
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by 62951413 3y ago
Even people with 20 years of Java experience stay clear of JEE. I imagine the closest to Django on the JVM would be the Spring framework anyway. As of now, ML/AI is synonymous with Python so it could be your hint.
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by 62951413 3y ago
It's a pity calcite.apache.org has never been known for extensive documentation.
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by 62951413 3y ago
It has the most interesting/conceptual/detailed discussion of the streaming system semantics (e.g. interplay of windows and stateful stream operations) I'm aware of to this day. At least as far as Manning/O'Reilly-l
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by 62951413 3y ago
For a Spark shop Delta is the default choice. If you deploy to AWS then Glue encourages you to go with Iceberg. What makes people use Hudi?
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by 62951413 3y ago
Consider https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Programming-Coding-Interviews... for the most pedagogical approach I have seen.
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by 62951413 3y ago
A casual search on LI shows 300+ applicants for a regular hybrid position and easily 1,600+ for a remote position in a prestigious company such as Databricks. I'm really curious how one can compete with candidates outside of Bay Area&#
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by 62951413 3y ago
If you subtract Spark/Flink-related ones not really. Plenty only in comparison with Kotlin backend roles (i.e. non-existent in the Bay Area). It's very disappointing to me personally but it is what it is.
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by 62951413 3y ago
SF to LA and SF to Crescent City are both over 350 miles and you never leave CA.
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by 62951413 3y ago
Keep in mind that Scala had been released before golang was. And became popular around the time golang was released. Without GOOG-scale resources behind it.
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by 62951413 3y ago
It's a real mystery. Some popular conspiracy theories: * Scala projects the Haskell-on-the-JVM image too much to scare off the practically-minded. It has no ORCL or GOOG behind it (its cousin F# has had official MSFT support for a deca
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by 62951413 3y ago
There was a _long_ hiatus in Java progress between 1.5 (release in September 2004) and 1.8 (released in March 2014). Before Java 8 the language was, basically, the previous generation's golang. in that timeframe there was no Kotlin, Sc
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by 62951413 3y ago
If you are a Spark shop then choosing Delta over Iceberg is a no-brainer. It's simpler and perfectly integrated. Not to mention that the Spark's Delta connector can now generate Iceberg-compatible metadata too. The choice between
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by 62951413 3y ago
Every time you touch anything ML-related you need it. Data scientists not only love their Python but also don't usually use libraries that have JVM bindings. I have not noticed much improvement in this area since 2018 and for some reas
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by 62951413 3y ago
https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-frontend-web-framework...
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by 62951413 3y ago
You can glean more from VC blogs. For example, https://www.saastr.com/carta-startup-shutdowns-are-up-237/
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by 62951413 3y ago
Aren't we going to get copious amounts of documentation for free? To me chatGPT logs look like JIRA descriptions, commit messages, and basic design specs in disguise. And they are not optional anymore. On a related note, I'd expec
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by 62951413 3y ago
You can actually see a VC seriously discussing real-life experience with doing it. For example, in the latest "This Week in Startups" episode ( https://youtu.be/RcRdwo0lI08?si=528IZSVd1kTjT5cZ&t=3335 ).
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by 62951413 3y ago
Just think about golang as the next generation's Java. The same strong points (concurrency, GC, "simplicity" for junior developers), the same egregious mistakes (generics alone prove it for me), the same BigCo backing, the sa
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by 62951413 3y ago
Re: math professor elites "David Coleman is often described in the media as the architect of the Common Core ... earned a B.A. in philosophy .. a second B.A. in English literature .. a MPhil in classical philosophy .. he couldn't
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by 62951413 3y ago
I don't know about the US but in the Bay Area PTO hasn't been negotiable for about seven years. It's all "unlimited" now and so there are no official numbers to compare anymore. The good news is that in large public
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by 62951413 3y ago
4. You'd like to work on advanced technology without a "PhD from CMU". Think CockroachDB, Druid/Imply, StarTree/Trino, ClickHouse (Hadoop/Cloudera a long time ago, Spark/Databricks when it was much smaller
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by 62951413 3y ago
Workers on collective farms up until the early 70s were not allowed to have passports issued to them. Without a passport one couldn't move to a city. Also, those millions of the most productive of them murdered in the Gulag "from
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by 62951413 3y ago
Surely you'd find something to discuss about one's previous twenty years of building software. Especially if the last ten years have been in the same domain. Somehow it all worked just fine before 2010 or so. Also, one's tole
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by 62951413 3y ago
For the first twenty years of code monkeying I was not concerned about my sitting posture. And eventually I started developing lower back pain. 10+ years ago I used to joke about people using standing desks. But a standing desk was a cure f
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by 62951413 3y ago
When you agree that Scala's adoption is stagnant and Kotlin's advantage over JDK21 is moderate.
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by 62951413 3y ago
https://www.saastr.com/why-vcs-need-unicorns-just-to-survive...

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