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by TideAd 4y ago
I have a couple quasi-mentors like this. I'm stuck between feeling grateful for what they taught me (a whole lot) and feeling absolutely sure that I will never be that neglectful to a junior dev in my own career as they were with me.
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by TideAd 4y ago
I recently heard that a stale index was the thing that really killed AltaVista. https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1117859464793583616 Do you have any insight into why that happened?
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by TideAd 4y ago
CockroachDB is nice to use but every database has complexity you have to deal with. Here's one I ran into recently: if a range has only 1 of 3 replicas online then it will stop accepting traffic for that range until it has 3 replicas a
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by TideAd 4y ago
Is that not what we're doing with distributed systems? A lot of the theory & practice of our field is how to elegantly cope with servers dying, data being corrupted, load limits of single machines, etc. We have a lot of constraints
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by TideAd 4y ago
it was "I fucked up" https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2022/12/13/exclus...
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by TideAd 4y ago
I believe you can be notified when a collection is imminent. I saw a service use that to remove instances from the load balancer before that happened - super useful for higher-percentile latencies.
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by TideAd 4y ago
> The cost to our world from this behaviour is immense and it is quite frankly indefensible at this point. This is just neurotic. On what margin is throwing away a microwave destroying the planet? It's not going into the ocean. We&#
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by TideAd 4y ago
You say 40+ interviews. Is this something you've done? I did 10 last time I was on the market that was about my limit. 40 sounds like it would take inhuman stamina.
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by TideAd 4y ago
Come on, they know that money won't be theirs. I have never heard of a corporation saying "we'll fire this person and distribute their next vest to the rest of the team"! No, it goes into some generic pool. First priorit
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by TideAd 4y ago
I mean the answer is that you just feel it out. 1 month is soon enough to wait, 2 months is gray area, 3 months is probably fine. And if it's a huge vest, then you give more leeway. You're not appealing to some objective rule here
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by TideAd 4y ago
at Amazon it means surprising them with a PIP
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by TideAd 4y ago
In many cases, the point of writing the book is getting the book tour. Ever thought "wow this book really should have just been a blog post"? Well, there is no such thing as a blog post tour.
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by TideAd 4y ago
Always a 50/50 shot whether typing three tick marks ``` will do what I want, or do nothing.
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by TideAd 4y ago
When I was at Microsoft circa 2018, our team had a senior engineer whose primary job was doing manual validation of releases. That and keeping a single custom legacy build server running.
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by TideAd 4y ago
For a tech company in Seattle, $80k is not exactly great pay.
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by TideAd 4y ago
Do you understand the basic reasons why? Developers are on the hook for bad code and complexity. Rushed code makes feature work take longer, it makes working more irritating, and creates operational work. Everyone is burned by a team that d
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by TideAd 4y ago
There might be 1% of the population with the expertise to build it from source, and even most of them would prefer to just pay $15.
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by TideAd 4y ago
PIP culture at Amazon comes from the very top. Bezos was a huge fan of it and so is the new CEO. There's no way your friend is going to be able to fight institutional power like that.
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by TideAd 4y ago
Money is a tool for many things in life. Here are some things you get at $250k that you don't at $50k in a cheap place: - Have enough financial security to know that you can weather most emergencies, medical bills, etc. - Tip well and
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by TideAd 4y ago
I mean, would you rather my company have the money? As a software engineer you have the ability to take a lot of money from a lot of soulless bureaucracies and do whatever you want with it. You could do a bunch of good with it if you want.
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by TideAd 5y ago
The .NET Framework HttpClient was considered really slow by the .NET team themselves. In .NET Core they scrapped the old code entirely so they could build a good one.
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by TideAd 5y ago
Even if there's just a 10% chance of this, the OP should get ready for a genuine fight from these people (i.e. he needs a lawyer). They could be trying to protect themselves from jail time.
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by TideAd 5y ago
Do you still have to go through a full interview loop?
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by TideAd 5y ago
FAANG interviews are best approached as iterative steps. That is: expect that you'll fail the majority of them (this is true for most capable people) and keep doing them as regularly as you can until you get an offer. I bet most engine
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by TideAd 5y ago
I think he threw this background check thing out there as a red herring. You're telling me that a standard background check for a candidate succeeded for Google and two other big tech companies but not Stripe? No, what probably happene
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by TideAd 5y ago
Writing High Performance .NET Code ( https://www.writinghighperf.net/ ) has a chapter on this. In C#, time spent collecting depends on the number of still-living objects. That means you want objects you allocate to be short-l
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by TideAd 5y ago
My team has issues deploying builds to test machines. It's like 15 steps and takes an hour. The tooling is atrocious and recently got even worse. We eventually found the team responsible for this (the org structure is hard to penetrate
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by TideAd 5y ago
Probably the claim of 0.2% IFR. I don't know what the latest IFR estimates are, but it can't be that low: for example, more than 0.2% of Americans have died from Covid, and many Americans have never been infected.
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by TideAd 5y ago
I bet the managers who are running IPv4-only places know what's coming, they just hope to get lucky and see it delayed long enough that they get another job someone else is holding the bag.
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by TideAd 5y ago
I've worked on some legacy code in my time but debugging this thing has gotta be completely nuts.

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