Zaheer

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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   Any recommendation for alternatives?
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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   If you're in Southern California, some of the best persian ice-cream I've ever had was at Saffron & Rose in Westwood. https://www.yelp.com/biz/saffron-and-rose-ice-cream-los-ange...
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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   This is a great overview! It's a shame this sort of thing isn't taught in schools (from my very own anecdotal university experience).
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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   For those outside the bay, $117k a year is what a new college graduate could easily make in the bay area. The first rung of career ladder at any of the top tech companies makes ~$150k [1]. At that level it is very doable to be living in the
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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   I’m from Levels.fyi and one thing we’ve found (seemingly obvious) is how specific skill sets can dramatically affect comp numbers. Ex. AI / ML is the hot stuff these days. To this end, we’ve added a field to collect ‘focus’ for each sa
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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   Can't you potentially land into an inconsistent state if the failed request keeps on failing while the other db request succeeds? Is the dual-write on the synchronous request path? I'm assuming there's a timeout or some fixed
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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   During the dual-write phase, what happens if one request succeeds while the other doesn't?
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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   Mildly interesting article but mostly reads like an advertisement. Great content marketing piece though!
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   by Zaheer 8y ago

   There's several good data-points on compensation here: https://goo.gl/iHw7cj It's also broken down by area of focus (ex. ML / AI pays exorbitantly well right now).
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    There's a lot of data points here: https://goo.gl/iHw7cj
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    Check out https://aws.github.io/aws-amplify/ I haven't actually used it but looks pretty cool
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    Awesome write-up! Curious on the decision to choose MySQL since it's a write-heavy load with minimal querying. Would something like Redis be better suited? I'm not super familiar with Redis so just curious about what other DBs wer
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    Building Levels.fyi in Coffee Shops and Growing to Profitability(indiehackers.com)

    6 points by Zaheer 8y ago|0 comments
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    Looks nice! What are you using for the backend?
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    Interesting chart showing FB steady decline over last 5 yrs on Google Trends. May not be the strongest correlation but interesting nonetheless: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Especially interesting read in today's political climate - pivotal nonetheless
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    Sales people = recruiters? Or simply their display advertising? There's several channels to do the latter. The former there are also several channels though I agree they have a very targeted audience.
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    As many others, I'm surprised at the price tag. Does anyone know more information of their revenue / top drivers of revenue? I work on a website in this space (leveling / salary information) and surprised to see how lucrative
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    Some quick notes: - Feels a little _too_ mobile. Menu on left requires a click and should ideally be a hover. I had to check to make sure I wasn't on some mobile site as it looks like the mobile version just enlarged. - Search bar touc
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    All of these questions can be answered with some research online. 1) Yemen is a result of Saudi-Iran Proxy war: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-probe-details-fallou... 2) There will surely be challenging times
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    >Amazon may come to the decision that it's not worth keeping this low spending tier of customer and price them out of the service. Given the downward pricing trends of cloud providers for past few years as well as increased competit
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    This isn't really free - it's just free for first year until your free tier runs out. It's still super cheap though. I host several sites with this setup and never have a bill over $2 / month. Benefit of this setup over
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    Facebook Reports First Quarter 2018 Results(prnewswire.com)

    12 points by Zaheer 8y ago|0 comments
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    by Zaheer 8y ago

    I recently also built a tool in the job hunt space for engineers feeling very similar frustrations. One of the most frustrating aspects for me was how blurry the various career ladders translate across companies. Some people may end up with
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    by Zaheer 9y ago

    There's also crowdsourced data via a Google Form they have at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IclsJmHUMWjZCECMKi1I...
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    by Zaheer 9y ago

    Check out AWS Glue: https://aws.amazon.com/glue/ Disclosure: I work on this service
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    by Zaheer 9y ago

    In case it obvious to others: "Domain fronting is a technique that circumvents Internet censorship by hiding the true endpoint of a connection. Working in the application layer, domain fronting allows a user to connect to a blocked ser
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    by Zaheer 9y ago

    If it doesn't invent / learn novel things, how did it learn the one task that it does today? Where does the leap from nothing to knowledge of that one task come in?
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    by Zaheer 9y ago

    Nicely done! Few notes: 1. Please have an option to turn off the reader function. I'd like to go straight to the URL rather than a parsed reader. 2. Main page is a little bit busy. Would recommend playing with the font size / weig
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    by Zaheer 9y ago

    Glassdoor's effect in this space is undoubtedly huge and typically the first stop for most people seriously considering an offer from a company. There are several new players though that I think importantly complement Glassdoor in diff