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by Bahamut 9y ago
I created one in JS a couple of years back for fun (not as clean as I’d like, but I did it in an hour or two of work: https://github.com/wesleycho/secret-santa It’s a surprisingly fun little problem
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I've been laughed at by HR at one startup where I mentioned I did it for every job whenever possible. I usually use it to explain my background, and how it relates to the position. However...I find myself not having to do it much anymo
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Doesn't this have negative ramifications for email too?
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I work at one of the companies in the parent post (~1/2 year), and worked mainly at startups prior. I have less meetings than I had at most startups by a significant fraction. I have total technical direction on the product I work on (
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I have it from a first hand account that FB pays 25% less in London than in Menlo Park fwiw.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
My roommate finds it helps with loneliness - oftentimes she's home alone because of her work schedule as a flight attendant, and everyone else is busy at work, so she has no one to really talk to. She has found some happiness with talk
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Unit tests run much faster and are more focused - relying too much on integration tests to catch bugs is a massive maintenance smell, as you will waste an enormous amount of time trying to figure out the root cause of a failing test.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I think having someone who does their coding at work works better for people later in their career, or who have at least done a good solid couple of years of development professionally. For those early into their profession, I usually recom
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I don’t agree with the assertion that leaders cannot become engineers. I have had leadership experience before even becoming a software engineer through my time in the Marine Corps (infantry), and it has served me well in being able to demo
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I should note that these are things good leadership does in general, not just management - it also applies to technical leadership as well as management.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
To be fair, most of the state is very different from Northern Virginia and in a lot of not good ways - I have heard stories of murders being swept under the rug because people didn’t like the way they looked & acted, with police partici
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by Bahamut 9y ago
All depends on your team - my current project is in React since it leveraged the team’s strengths/preferences in an optimal fashion. That calculus is different for different teams. I will say that it feels like using React demands more
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Agreed - I have had a pretty pleasant experience with Angular in general, although it wasn't without its issues. Tests ran clearly slower than in AngularJS for example - the overhead in compiling TypeScript and setting it up is greater
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by Bahamut 9y ago
NSA is the obvious answer if you want to do math - they do math at a lot of levels, from research in algorithmic number theory to programming in mathematically correct exploits. One former NSA employee told me that they retrained him as a p
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by Bahamut 9y ago
This article is quite presumptuous - there are a lot of people who never had the luxury of being able to do any of that in their 20s. I was fortunate just to nab my first full time job at 28, and if there is anything people criticize me for
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by Bahamut 9y ago
FWIW, my BigCo has base comp in that range for the second lowest level. I think comp gets even higher after a few years, but there is pressure at these companies to reach a certain tier in a couple of years. For competant engineers able to
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by Bahamut 9y ago
At my BigCo, I am working maybe slightly more than 40 hours/week on average, and mainly due to unfortunate circumstances. Otherwise it’s pretty relaxed - I did mostly 5-6 hour days last week for example, and that includes meetings wher
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Way to cherry pick. Usually it’s under $60 from the South Bay to SFO on either service, and I flew about 40 times last year.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
IMO, the first thing one needs to do in order to be high functioning with challenge is take the mindset that it is ok to underperform in an interview session and not get a particular job. Taking the stress out and focusing on clarity of dee
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by Bahamut 9y ago
WSJ has always pedalled some dubious editorials like that, even before acquisition. I’d be curious to know what other differences there are though since they were acquired.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
All this was sort of my impression too. I always reflect on the anniversary of my first job in tech (hitting the 5 year mark in a few days) - I still remember the days where I didn’t have enough money to eat, and I would have to ration out
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Just some food for thought - having come from the world of math & physics, I understand what is at its core an elitest attitude on the purity of a discipline. However, I don’t think most of those who have that attitude understand how mu
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Having used both, they both have their strengths and weaknesses - I know both Angular and React is being used by my employer, a top 5 tech BigCo that is not Google (although I have heard there is a little React in Google floating around cur
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by Bahamut 9y ago
My only issue in my half year of use so far has been this - they don't fit nicely in my ears, but I know people where it is a perfect fit. If this could be improved, I'd be a very happy camper.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
That's fine, but ghosting while also in the process of setting up an onsite is pretty bad, especially for a company that should be at the stage where they get that right. There's no good reason for that behavior.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Reminds me of a question one interviewer asked me to do at the very beginning of the session when I did my first onsite at Google - write a regex for emails. I told him no, and explained why. He then asked me to write a naive email regex to
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I have had some sad rejections over the years. I remember one company rejected me a few months ago for not knowing enough algorithm/data structure knowledge - I subsequently passed interviews with two teams at my current employer, one
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by Bahamut 9y ago
That is something I don’t miss at all from Android after abandoning Android for iOS 3 years ago (Samsung started locking down their phones with the Galaxy S5, decided I wanted no more part of Samsung bloatware and losing the ability to rid
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by Bahamut 9y ago
If anything, I have reason to suspect my Netflix friends might be on the lower end of software engineers there based on some things I've been told & their roles in particular. They really do pay incredibly well. That said, that is
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by Bahamut 9y ago
That Glassdoor reference on Netflix software engineer salaries is wrong/outdated from my understanding - I don’t know a single Netflixer making less than $300k. Netflix seems to have an unusually open culture in general, including topi

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