SwSwinger

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by SwSwinger 3y ago
Twitter also had to move away from Ruby into a service-oriented architecture back in the late 00s. It's not a very scalable language, even when you hire people who work on the compiler.
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by SwSwinger 3y ago
You advance in either lifestyle or risk (maybe both). Managers are better equipped to optimize and climb established business structures. ICs are better equipped to create new products or at least jump into a nimble team. Maybe you shoul
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Strength Training @ Crunch Gym, 2-3x/week, 90 min each. I walk uphill or bike to get my heart rate up, then 1 hr workout. I used to do a wide variety of physical activities: tennis, rock climbing, dancing, golf, hiking, running. They w
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Annecdotally, as an ambivert, my experience with chat apps (versus physical life) results in even more social anxiety. The amount of criticism on Slack is higher than I experience in physical life. When you see a person, you can pick up on
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
This is a different age, but I think the same principle applies. When I was 20, I started getting issues from excessive keyboard usage. It stayed for 5 years even though I cut down substantially & tried massages. I ended up rock climbin
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Given that there is tremendous code sharing of Apple's OS+AppStore software on the laptop and phone, I have not understood how both hardware products are not subject to the same rules. Phones are basically micro-laptops and should hav
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
When I see Vanity Fair, I think: the Middle America Centrist I can trust.
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Why not CCTV? Having video footage to subpoena after a crime is committed, then analyze, seems less surveillance society than going straight to a real-time, individual tracking data store.
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Somehow, Meta managed to overhire in low cost of living areas and will likely look at employee overhead when considering where to downsize.
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
1. Note that this is a news aggregator for tech startups. Tech startups in large cities tend to hire most of their experienced engineers from FAANG companies. So, it's in a tech startup's interest to critique FAANGs. 2. Y
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
This seems like a pretty generic question, so I assume you're looking at it from a new grad standpoint. Distributed Systems is more of a technical/resource specialty. You will be optimizing data across multiple systems. You&#x2
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
While I agree that multi-tenant urban housing is lacking in America, the real question seems to be why no other American city has made significant progress on catching up to the Northeast corridor. I don't think that Washington DC is
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Research hypergamy. It's a pretty well-established phenomenon across generations.
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
That's essentially what GitHub is doing. You have your entire contribution history and they have a product to help managers analyze contributions across teams. I worked at a couple startups that used this to evaluate their employees
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Negative externalities play a large factor in the cognitive split. I'm more willing to tolerate a minuscule amount of people who hurt themselves more than a minuscule amount of people who hurt a random innocent.
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
I agree with your analysis. My frustration is in this reality, which I think could have faster iteration speed with the right framing & education.
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Oregon has decriminalized all drugs and I have heard a number of people in the Bay Area wanting to make progress beyond this without definitive results: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs&#x2F
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
Drug legalization highlights one of my frustrations at the practical American dialog about controversial topics: 1. Liberals get acknowledgement that weed isn't so bad and should maybe be legal. 2. Liberals: "Legalize all drugs!&q
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
https://www.yugabyte.com - Postgres fronted distributed OLTP database I work there (300+ ppl). It's primarily open source. It makes money through support contracts and cloud hosting, but all core development is done in t
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by SwSwinger 4y ago
I find power in art through reflection more than immediate action. A lot of how we perceive the past and the lessons to be learned from it are reading a historical account. Seeing an accompanying art piece that makes the text come alive.
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
I work at YugaByteDB as a software engineer, and I encounter people in your situation regularly. You are asking HN for product-market fit basics on something that is more like a tool or innovation than an end-to-end company. If you join a
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
I think the point is that this negative pitfall happens to people and multiple people concur. It's easy to say "fight this with positivity", most people on HN started with this philosophy. In practice, it's hard to do
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
If you were the only party to win in the spirit of the competition, you should be the first person to accept the prize money. Why would you let the unethical companies get even more prize money from a hijacked idea? Also, if you make an
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
Coming from a Southern US state, I expected that the Bay Area would be more egalitarian given the language. Instead, I've found that it's more like an idea incubator setup by generational wealth that people need to leave if they
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
I was 27, living in the Southern USA with a MS from a State University, feeling very similar to you. I decided to push through my comfortable malaise and got offers at early Amazon AWS & Facebook back in 2009. It changed my life traje
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
Without harassing frat boy culture, how else could they convince developers to work long hours for such little pay compared to the rest of the industry?
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
TCL is quasi-religious. You either appreciate the simplicity and elegance of the 12 clearly ordered rules, or you think the nutbag scruffie programmer is talking to a burning bush. I learned TCL for adding an embedded scripting language to
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by SwSwinger 5y ago
I worked as a manager at a FAANG for 2 years and switched back to IC. It was fairly common practice at my company, even among directors. I actually preferred the management role, but felt like there were many downsides. 1. I wanted mo
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by SwSwinger 6y ago
To give a different spin on your question: you are really asking if should you relocate to a high cost of living environment and geo-arbitrage. SF, NYC, Seattle, Boston. All of them pay high salaries for highly educated labor. They have

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