Bahamut

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by Bahamut 9y ago
Not only that, working for a company like Apple, you aren't allowed to write any code unless its been approved by the appropriate people...that just wouldn't work.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Have you talked with others about this, or asked for help? Moments like this is when we as people need the most help, as they are extremely challenging situations. Please talk with friends and professionals about this.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I hesitate to say no, but I haven't seen this work out too well many times.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I actually just went through a thorough interview search over the past month, where I have interviewed with Google, Facebook, Apple, Stripe, Lyft, and much more. I failed on several of the more earlier interviews due to lack of knowledge&#x
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by Bahamut 9y ago
This is sad to hear, and while I don't use Uber anymore, I did have one great experience - my phone slipped out of my pocket into the car as I was getting out, and the car drove off as I got out and did not carry anything there. I was
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I wouldn't say that about all companies - I had some pretty hard whiteboarding questions when interviewing recently from companies of all sorts of sizes, but aside from Google and one other company, all of them have made it quite obvio
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by Bahamut 9y ago
There is a sort of benefit to Facebook - React increases its prestige, which helps recruiting.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Not sure where the heck you're living in the Bay Area, but I haven't had a 3 hour commute here...ever. I've lived in areas with true traffic nightmares (NY & DC), Bay Area doesn't compare at all in my experience here
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by Bahamut 9y ago
This is a supremely accurate quote - mathematicians often encounter this when teaching undergrads in lower level courses. I remember encountering some very smart people while teaching in grad school, but the people themselves did not recogn
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by Bahamut 9y ago
> I ask all the interns that I interview to hire, "why do you want this job?" I can pretty much tell by the answer alone whether or not they are going to work out. Those that say, "I didn't know what to study" or
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I don't think I have ever seen a startup offer a competitive salary/equity package here in the Bay Area for a software engineer. I have found that the best I could do is trade compensation for a good work-life balance since salary
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Can't say I agree with the big bang rewrite part necessarily - at my last job, I found myself having to do significant refactors. The reason was that each view had its own concept of a model for interacting with various objects, which
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by Bahamut 9y ago
What you see with statistics/calculus is extremely superficial compared to the realm of higher mathematics. Exceling in that is a poor indicator of ability to succeed in any proof-based mathematics coursework. As someone who had signif
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Eh, I love it in Mountain View, but it isn't for everyone. I run a lot with friends, and there are a lot of great areas to run nearby (and in the Bay Area in general).
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I cannot upvote this enough. I made this mistake when I applied for schools for undergrad, applying only to Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Princeton, and Columbia - Columbia was meant to be my backup school as I had a family friend who was a profes
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I actually was thinking it was a non-issue until I saw a designer actually struggle with working with JSX for doing some animation (I had to help him out), and the designer had some knowledge of JS.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
People often think new tech is a cure for their woes, such as poor code quality - often it is just papering over the real problems & barriers.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
This is why I oftentimes dislike take home projects for interviews - they're extremely time consuming, or are biased towards those who can cobble things together quickly. I can do that too, but it's not without stress or time spen
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I think there is space for an alternative - keep in mind that that doesn't mean that they have to be hugely popular. For example, some online communities I am a part of subsist mainly in chat rooms, or forums. Those communities are so
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I am learning a lot about engineering management through turmoil, and I think the most important lesson for me is to avoid doing too much. There are many things that can often use improving, especially at smaller companies. Process, archite
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted for this comment - for those who don't understand it, it is referencing the explicit responsibility about getting the information to the person whose domain it is vs. doing more and making sure that i
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I agree with all of this - I have had studies quoted to me by artists about self-proclaimed audiophiles performing worse in a double blind test identifying which was the lossless audio vs. a high bit rate mp3 (256 kbps? I forget). The evide
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I still use mp3s - compatibility is generally better than any other format and take up a more reasonable amount of space than lossless formats. I really don't hear a difference between an mp3 and a lossless version, and that is with a
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I find that Lyft has more consistent service availability than Uber in the Bay Area. If I have to take an early morning ride to the airport, I have had near 100% failure rate with Uber (maybe 1 or 2 times Uber has worked for me in that situ
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Probably just vocal ones - I still use it, but I have a pretty healthy relationship with it, and the internet in general from having had to keep away from it while in Marine Corps training, and actively challenging myself to refrain from lo
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Love seeing a public GraphQL API out there - my company is very interested in also using GraphQL to power the new version of our API sometime this year, it looks like an awesome way to bring customizable endpoints to the end user. Is there
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by Bahamut 9y ago
There is a huge cost to handwriting SQL too that one mist be careful of - it is very easy to result in poor abstractions as a result of inconsistent apis from lack of abstraction over SQL. My company is currently in the process of moving ba
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Going to paste this here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I'd be careful about being so infatuated by school name - for example, I went to a state school in undergrad that most not from NY probably heard of. My peers in my majors went on to finish PhDs in math, physics, economics, and attend
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I've been using the DW Pro 2 and absolutely love it: https://en-us.sennheiser.com/phone-headset-wireless-call-cen... Can't say I care for the QC35, I've seen it have significant microphone issues sometimes if

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