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by Bahamut 7y ago
Slacking in Apple? From what I've seen, Apple engineers probably amongst the hardest of the FAANG - probably less so than Amazon if I had to guess, but I know my Google, FB, and Netflix friends do not work nearly as hard.
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by Bahamut 7y ago
Most math you learn in undergrad was invented 200-300 years ago - 50-200 years ago is grad level material.
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by Bahamut 7y ago
If it were something worth asking to figure out who is a good hire, maybe - however, it's viewed as irrelevant at most jobs, so why waste precious interviewing time asking about irrelevant grades? It's a waste of time, and thus un
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Art of Teamwork(products.office.com)
2 points by Bahamut 7y ago|0 comments
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by Bahamut 7y ago
Great content alone won't maximize stickiness - better UX than competitors is also a major selling point. For example, on Netflix you currently don't get ads, which when compared to broadcast TV or even some streaming services, yo
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by Bahamut 7y ago
To add to the comments here, I highly recommend networking locally at meetups if you can - those have the best bang for the buck for first positions that I've seen for people.
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by Bahamut 7y ago
Modules avoid the variable issue because ‘use strict’ is applied by default for them. IMO JS as a language is in a much better place than Python currently. I end up frustrated a fair amount by arcane errors in Python due to less expressive
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by Bahamut 7y ago
They just happen to be people who has done Java - we hire the best devs we can, regardless of language experience (my own team has interviewed/hired people who have done primarily Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Clojure, and/or Java). A
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by Bahamut 7y ago
FWIW, I'm in a FAANG and finding Scala devs is even a problem within my own org and team. We've resorted to teaching largely Java devs Scala on the job with mixed results. A former senior manager who made the decision supposedly v
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by Bahamut 7y ago
I'd argue that inheritance and mixin patterns are both things you should stay away from, whether it's Angular, React, or whatever, they have proven to be poor patterns IMO and it is simple enough to create reusable abstractions wi
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by Bahamut 7y ago
It surprises me too personally - the testing experience is worlds better, better built in modules than what you get in the React ecosystem (especially routing, http request layer, forms, testing, etc.), and opinionation that helps improve t
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by Bahamut 7y ago
I personally found JS much easier and accessible than Python, but YMMV. I tried a number of different languages when I first started seriously pursuing a job in dev - C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, and eventually I settled on JS. JS let me quickly
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by Bahamut 7y ago
For another data point, I just completed a flight on a United 787 from SFO to Seoul (12-13 hours) - that was a rough flight, almost as bad as my flights from SFO to Haneda (I puked on or from both flights to Haneda), and I had a wicked head
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by Bahamut 7y ago
That's why I'm at a big company now instead of startups, where I have most of my experience in my career (about 5 years). 2 years of working at a lower paying FAANG and I am getting ~$320k total compensation for a mid-level dev (g
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by Bahamut 7y ago
You can do that in a branch without polluting git history.
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by Bahamut 7y ago
Before Mountain View landed rent control a few years ago, my rent was being increased 10% year over year - I had enough after 3 years and moved to Sunnyvale where my rent was $50 more a month for an extra bedroom and 300-400 sqft extra. Int
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by Bahamut 7y ago
My team owns a Clojure app, amongst a lot of other apps - my understanding is the current DRI (who inherited this app once the original one left for another org) doesn't like working in it though, and that has been the experience of ot
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by Bahamut 7y ago
I too wanted to comment on some of the points, as this just isn't a well written article and reads more like the rants of someone who isn't ready emotionally, letting the frustrations boil over into not evaluating the scenarios pr
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by Bahamut 7y ago
Consider a friend. Now imagine if the friend won a professional lottery of some sorts - one example could be that the startup they slaved at had a huge exit and their stock became worth a couple of million $. How would you want to respond t
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by Bahamut 7y ago
As a counterpoint, I have had a developer who had wrote production ClojureScript tell me it was the worst of all worlds - it doesn't abstract away issues of the DOM and yet you still have to debug what was happening in JS and translate
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by Bahamut 7y ago
These middle layers are doing a lot more work than you probably realize. I am a little more privy to some of what they do being a senior IC at a FAANG (6 managers away from my CEO) - sometimes managers take on projects that have to be done
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by Bahamut 7y ago
Even worse than the channel mechanic is the thread mechanic - anyone can turn your comment to a thread, and you cannot mute threads by default. Even worse, updates to threads suppress channel unread notifications, causing you to miss update
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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, the Modes of Persuasion(pathosethoslogos.com)
1 points by Bahamut 7y ago|0 comments
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by Bahamut 7y ago
Most shell scripts start with a reference to the program that should execute them at the top of the file (i.e. #!/usr/bin/bash), so this shouldn't affect most people, especially since this change will only apply to new u
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by Bahamut 7y ago
There’s definitely a shortage of skilled professionals - we have a hard time hiring without lowering the bar as well, and I am at a FAANG. We don’t necessarily care if someone has experience in most of our stack - myself, I hardly had any e
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by Bahamut 7y ago
And this is how we end up with long lifetimes for software like Internet Explorer, which ends up holding back most people's experience with the web, especially mobile, because a lot of extra scripts/code has to be shipped to maint
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by Bahamut 7y ago
Bronx Science is one of NY's most famous public schools, along with Stuyvesant and Brooklyn Tech - these are the top 3 of NYC.
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by Bahamut 7y ago
They definitely are - two years ago I left a previous place that had jacked up my rent for a 1 bed/1 bath place to a little over $2600, and was frustrated by the housing market in Mountain View. Most places were charging over $3k, with
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by Bahamut 7y ago
I have been told there is guidance that generally that either management gives a lot of stock or none. It probably does also vary with your role/responsibilities - I am a software engineer in SWE on high visibility/impact work. Ap
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by Bahamut 7y ago
At Apple, they are very generous with refreshers - my initial grant was $105k, and my refresh grant was $125k and I expect at least similar, if not more, for my refresher in a couple of months. The only reason my refresh did not exceed my i

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