AbbeFaria

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by AbbeFaria 6mo ago
If you have the self-awareness to realise that your job is BS and is deleterious to your well being the path of least resistance is to simply quit and find another job hopefully that is more relevant to what you’re skilled at. All this chic
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Don't Confuse Computer Science with Coding(substack.com)
2 points by AbbeFaria 6mo ago|0 comments
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by AbbeFaria 6mo ago
There is nothing wrong with using an LLM so long as a human takes ownership for the artefact (be that books, code etc). I would rather the author automate the mundane and focus on conveying their ideas clearly. As an aside, is there a Linux
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by AbbeFaria 6mo ago
I work at MSFT and I feel burnt out too and am in a similar situation where I feel like resigning would be better for my mental health but AI isn’t a big contributing factor. I do have some arguments against speculative uses of AI though. E
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by AbbeFaria 6mo ago
At MSFT, Product Managers were Technical Program Managers. Yes, a good PM is a joy to work with.
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by AbbeFaria 6mo ago
No, once you spend that much time at a Big co, you start treating it like your own little fiefdom. Your allegiance becomes to how do I increase my own scope and not how do I build great products for customers ? Also “coordination tax” is he
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by AbbeFaria 6mo ago
In the mature service I worked on, adding new code was “templatized”, you had to add feature flags, logs etc which didn’t vary much no matter which feature it was. The business logic was also not that complex, I can see AI tools one-shottin
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by AbbeFaria 6mo ago
My experience working at Big tech companies is that people with roles like “agile coaches", "technical project managers", UX testers add questionable value. And the QA is usually outsourced to service companies like MindTree,
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by AbbeFaria 6mo ago
I loved High rise and Concrete Island. He was prescient about what modern and current day society looks like. I will give his other works a read. I tried reading Crash multiple times but it was a bit too gory for me.
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by AbbeFaria 7mo ago
I am guessing this is Salesforce and the celebrity is Matthew McConaughey who’s real chummy with Benioff. Brave of the developer to bring it up. This cult of personality is pervasive throughout the tech industry.
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by AbbeFaria 10mo ago
My mistake, yes indeed it’s 6.828. On a side note, for distributed systems 6.824 is on my list after I finish 15-445 from cmu :)
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by AbbeFaria 10mo ago
To anyone wanting to learn about OS development, nothing beats MIT 6.824. I finished the assignments in that course and that covers all the important aspects like processes, context switching, CPU modes, page tables and virtual memory and m
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by AbbeFaria 10mo ago
I work at MSFT. I understand why they migrated to LibreOffice. Outside of work, I use none of MSFT products. I do have some burning questions though, 1. How are they saving their work to the cloud if they use LibreOffice ? I don’t think it
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by AbbeFaria 10mo ago
Sad news. HBO has a veritable treasure trove of TV shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Silicon Valley etc. Even their more recent ones like White Lotus, How to With John Wilson are leagues above Netflix. Only HBO can bet on a
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by AbbeFaria 10mo ago
As long as you have the small screwdrivers used to tinker with electronics, you’re good. You can easily open up the laptop. In my L480, I opened the laptop to change the battery and also install more RAM. Even for a hardware neophyte such a
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by AbbeFaria 10mo ago
I just bought a Thinkpad T14s a couple of months ago. It’s lightweight, has great build quality. I installed Ubuntu and it almost ran out of the box but I ended up having to tinker with it to get My Dell docking station and i3 window manage
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by AbbeFaria 11mo ago
The company says no roles are being eliminated as part of these changes. What in god’s name is the “voluntary exit program” going to do then ? It will obviously eliminate some roles ? Corporate doublespeak at its finest.
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by AbbeFaria 1y ago
I work at MSFT. Everything the author says is 100% true not only at MSFT but probably at every Mag-7 company. It’s also the same reason why MSFT doesn’t have a blockbuster AI product. 1. At work or for personal use, I use GPT-5 or Claude Co
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by AbbeFaria 1y ago
Go do the xv6 labs from the MIT 6.828 course, like yesterday. Leave all textbooks aside, even though there are quite a few good ones, forget all GitHub tutorials that have patchy support, blogs that promise you pie in the sky. The good folk
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by AbbeFaria 1y ago
I work at MSFT. There’s top down pressure to use LLMs everywhere. At this point, if you can convince your management about using LLMs anywhere, they would happily head nod and let you go do that. And management themselves are not that techn
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by AbbeFaria 1y ago
Well done. I am actually solving the labs rn. I am on mmap, trying to get fork to work :)
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Thoughts on Henry Ford and the UX(jonkolko.com)
4 points by AbbeFaria 1y ago|0 comments
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by AbbeFaria 1y ago
I am an employee and stock holder both. Obviously, I would rather have a job than not but at the same time a significant portion of my personal wealth is in MSFT stocks. I have seen engineering teams at MSFT that provide questionable value
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by AbbeFaria 4y ago
Fun fact: I used to work in this team. We have come a long way now that we have these advanced classifiers. You would be surprised how low tech the initial product was, by low tech I mean devoid of any ML/AI. We went GA in end of 2019.
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by AbbeFaria 4y ago
I am shocked, shocked that Alexa is spying on users and showing them ads.
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by AbbeFaria 5y ago
I’m shocked, shocked that TikTok is invasively gathering user data.
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by AbbeFaria 5y ago
There is a lot of resentment towards Algorithmic challenges here, I guess most of it is from folks with non-CS backgrounds and possibly from folks who are "non-FAANG". First off, I hate the "FAANG" acronym, its become a
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by AbbeFaria 5y ago
I don't want to underestimate the skill of being good at LC. In the past couple of months, I have solved about 200+ LC and I have been interviewing vigorously too. Its a tough skill for sure but beyond a certain point, you start seeing
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by AbbeFaria 5y ago
Skills such as design patterns etc do matter. There are separate rounds for testing just that, think Design rounds (LLD or HLD) but you usually have to pass the Algorithm rounds before to get to that stage.
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by AbbeFaria 5y ago
I recently interviewed with a startup. They had "outsourced" the first round to a 3rd party firm that specializes in taking tech interviews (Mostly Algorithm rounds). The interviewer posted an LC question and asked me to read it.

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