Patrol8394

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by Patrol8394 4y ago
In my experience, in small/medium/big companies, I am sorry to say, but most middle “managers” are what Steve Jobs referred to as “bozos”. They are either professional managers who have only managed but never did anything else, or
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
At work? For those lucky enough to have chargers at work, good luck when fighting for one. Also, I really hope the world keep shifting towards remote working; I won’t drive to the office just to charge my car.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
I am convinced EV will be the future, but given how electricity is produced and how batteries are built the most sustainable technology is hybrid https://youtu.be/S1E8SQde5rk
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Google lacks of focus. They should take a close look at what company they want to be in the next decade and more. And yes, they should radically restructure their system of incentives. Clearly the one they have in place does not work. They
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Trying to signup, but they ask for the phone number ... no thank you
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Yes and no, very much depends on landing in the right team with the right manager. That's why it is important to realize it asap, and move on if that is not the case. So that you don't waste your time. I also find very important
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
My usual timeline at a new job requires an average of ~6 months to be effective. After that I work hard the next year or so on leading projects and major features. I try to build my network of influence by contributing to cross-team proje
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
I define myself a backend engineer, I am not super skilled in javascript and frontend framework. That said through out my career I did some front end work and I went from jquery, angular, react and vue. I must say that Vue was the one libra
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
That's what happens when you incentivize wealthy people to move in and buy houses in masses. Price rises and locals struggle. Same happens when states competes to get the next big co HQ in town. It's a double edged sword.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
True, but one should ask why was cross app tracking allowed to begin with. I think that should have never been allowed.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Google major revenue stream is and will always be search/ads. Everything else is marginal, irrelevant and that’s why I think they don’t care much. I still can’t explain how Google got beaten at their own game (cloud / computing at
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Isn’t the purpose of any business to minimize cost while maximizing profits. As long as there are people willing to pay the price, you can’t certainly blame the seller.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
True, countless times I had to fix friends/family android tablets and phones where all of the sudden apps stopped working and will boot crash . It is always some crap like apps messing settings and permissions or play not being updated
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
These days I’d probable take a closer look at spanner. It is a consistent and scalable db. It makes life much easier for developers. Like Cassandra, dynamodb requires the data model to be designed very carefully to be able to get the max ou
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
People don’t care because they don’t understand all the implications of them being tracked. And that’s why I think it’s important that Apple is looking out for the average joe making sure their privacy is protected. Regulation is catching u
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
sure, if FB was such an amazing brand trusted by the billions why would the CEO ditch it and go for a full company re-brand? Clearly the FB brand is damaged beyond any hope, and this whole metaverse is just a desperate attempt to stay relev
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
I already limit screen time for my kids at max 1h a day. You can image how can I feel as parent, seeing my kids spending hours in the freaking metaverse with screens and headphones pretty much embedded in their face. Not gonna happen.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
> I personally argue this to be similar to crypto currencies. Yes, tech in desperate need of a purpose. Today there is none.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Let's talk Fukushima ?
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
No, but wearing a VR set or glasses with cameras and what not is too invasive. And for what? Meeting in the metaverse? Video works great, I don't need an "immersive" experience. Also, most of my family members have a pretty b
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
I am super bearish on Meta: - why would anyone trust Meta/FB on anything they say or trust them with your data - FB became popular because it was easy to use, it was just about uploading and commenting on photos. I don't see any o
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
> The stock market is roughly 20% off its highs. I have the feeling that we are not done yet ...
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
I am not sure about this. In my experience, be able to be in the office and working closer with stack holders allow more visibility, faster promotions and higher paycheck. Remote co-workers careers tend to be more static. I have seen this i
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
> is impossible because a handful of NIMBYs are constantly taken seriously by local politicians. That x 1000 !
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
This is yet another great example of how HR only works in the interest of the company and never for the employees. I have never trusted HR, managers and alike. I would have simply left, no worth it discussing with a manager that clearly was
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
The flip side is that your business now depends on those few high skilled engineers. Much harder to replace. I would probably go for a main stream programming language / platform: Java / JavaScript / Go / Ruby / Pyt
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
You can implement all kind of interview processes, you will always end up hiring candidates that turns out to be not a good fit. I am arguing that LC/FAANG interview does not do a better job at filtering them out. The solution: accept
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
> keeping bad people out you seem very confident about that. In my experience LC/FAANG style interview don't keep bad people out.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
so how come that I find a good chunk of swe at FAANG are not that smart, and barely get anything done. Plus the quality of their work (generally speaking) is very low compared to what one would expect. And this is true across the board, it
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
I am not sure if this is kept up to date. I did interview at DoorDash and they definitely do leetcode style interview.

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