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by Bahamut 8y ago
Note: this is my perspective, one as a software engineer who has mostly worked at startups and now currently at a FAANG Pros: - Often easier to make lots of impact/move up quicker - (Potentially) less bureaucracy around decisions - (Po
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of talk about matrices with regards to frontend for animation.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
The US military is efficient at what it does, generally speaking - it is the product of a can't fail fighting force, and all the implications that come out of that. As an enlisted infantry Marine who transitioned very easily into softw
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by Bahamut 8y ago
> Investors don't want to run the company. Sometimes they do - I've certainly seen it happen at one company I've worked at, to the point where the board decimated engineering.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Agreed - I grew up near NYC, and now live in the Bay Area. IMO, the quality of life is much better in the Bay Area, although I don't like the fake niceness you see around sometimes. Around NYC I have to be a lot more vigilant for peopl
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Maybe in a decade they'll admit their current interview process is also busted :) .
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React 16.4(github.com)
3 points by Bahamut 8y ago|0 comments
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I'm skeptical of this for larger companies/companies that aspire to get larger - time and time again, the more you outsource, the more you're tethered to those services, especially if you need to scale. This will cost compani
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by Bahamut 8y ago
One can make the exact same argument for JS as well - I’m not sure what distinguishing point is intended here.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
That site is missing a lot of data still it seems.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
The last thing I want when I browse news is for video to be incorporated. It's already bad enough seeing video only articles on Google News on occasion. This will probably push me to switching to Apple News for mobile.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I think you meant to link to https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=113706119#&openJobId=11... .
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I think this article misses the important point - you should be able to trust the coworker’s expertise. Present the facts, but leave the decision about the person’s domain to that person.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
> Cloudwick Technologies of Newark has been ordered to pay about $175,000 to 12 employees for back wages after violating H-1B rules, the U.S. Department of Labor said. Is it $175000 in back wages per person, or total for all 12 people? T
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Even companies like Google employ contractor programmers.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
For me, weather is a big issue - I’ve spent 4 years in Champaign-Urbana in Illinois, and I got sick of winter the first year I was there (two weeks where the high was -15 F, and the low was even lower than -30 F). If the weather were better
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Depends I think - big companies are vastly more efficient than small companies at certain things. To give a personal example from a FAANG, where I work at, web developers don't have to worry much about a lot of the ops infrastructure -
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Ah sorry, I misunderstood the question - the one I've seen usually is if a string could be rearranged as a palindrome ha.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
To be fair, if you wanted to do a performant implementation, this is probably a more expensive implementation. The expected response is generally for you to iterate over the string and construct a count map of how many times a character app
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by Bahamut 8y ago
That seems like a fairly arrogant response on your part - it's obvious that an interview is meant to gauge your technical capabilities/knowledge. Even if something is trivialized, the ability to solve certain types of problems can
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Chinese Tech Companies’ Dirty Secret(facebook.com)
2 points by Bahamut 8y ago|0 comments
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Conflict management - engineers inevitably have conflicts on ideas, sometimes feeling very strongly about the solution. One skill I expect from a tech lead/manager is the ability to facilitate/foster the tough conversations for re
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I always love reading stories like this - even with such a disability, he has been able to accomplish a feat that is relatively difficult to accomplish for most devs. I have heard my own company has blind developers as well, and accessibili
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by Bahamut 8y ago
An interesting fact is that Apple is probably one of the biggest users, if not the biggest user, of Cassandra out there. Can't speak to HBase, but one thing Cassandra doesn't guarantee is ACID - I've seen some data consistenc
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I hear a lot of disaster stories from corporate at Amazon too, some from coworkers who have worked there. It has a well-known bad reputation in general in tech, even for non-software fields. My girlfriend has heard bad stories about Amazon
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by Bahamut 9y ago
This reminds me of a flight I booked about 3/4 a year ago from SF to DC - I had a suboptimal layover in Houston, which was rerouted to be a layover in Chicago after the hurricane triggered changes to my routing. Unfortunately for the a
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by Bahamut 9y ago
As someone who currently is on a train to Osaka from Tokyo & who has lived near NYC, one thing I can say is while Tokyo’s system is well run, the rush hour crunch is real - basically everyone is nut to butt on the train. Sometimes you c
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by Bahamut 9y ago
If I was a prospective employee, I would probably write off ever working for Snap due to this story combined with the vesting schedule. Last thing you want as a software engineer is coworkers under artificial pressure from worries of not pe
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by Bahamut 9y ago
FB is on a whole different level in terms of revenue (and profitability) and users. While it may be possible that FB fails, there’s not a whole lot of symptoms apparent that it will, unlike MySpace.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I have been in this role at my previous job - I had the responsibilities of an engineering manager and a team/tech lead. I focused on my team's productivity/management responsibilities first, and coding/my own technical

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