ZephyrBlu

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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Everything has opportunity cost and therefore constraints. I feel like you are oblivious to this. If I'm going to audit whatever classes I want, why would I even enroll in the university? Chances are if I asked nicely I could sit in, t
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Doesn't really add up for me, because it's very obvious that university is definitely not purely about learning, and even if that was the case why does self-teaching from open university courses tend to have zero weight with emplo
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
A financial strategy is worthless if you don't follow it. If the most optimal strategy isn't going to work for your situation for one reason or another, there is no point in trying to force it. Picking a sub-optimal approach that
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Funnily enough, Peter Thiel called this years ago.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
KYC is that poorly known? I would have expected most white-collar professionals to have at least heard of it.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Yeah this feel way overblown. Just do less. You probably don't need to try and juggle so many things.
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Mediocrity can be a sign of excellence (2023)(predr.ag)
1 points by ZephyrBlu 2y ago|0 comments
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
What? The 2nd paragraph explains that they already raised VC a couple of years ago, and how are you expecting a hardware startup to get off the ground without VC funding? The founder has also just chimed in to mention that they don't
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
Yes, I know what it is and what you can use it for. I have built my own trie before and like I said this data structure is used for autocompletion. A Markov chain is different. It's just not going to be able to scale up like an LLM bec
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
I'm telling you this is literally a trie dude.
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
This is an extremely inefficient trie. It's just a data structure, not an LLM. It's used for autocomplete, but it's a bad way to represent large amounts of text because the fanout is insane. Markov chains would be an improvem
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
Comparing a marathon with walking your dog is clearly implying a negative or lesser perception of the "walking your dog" activity. That is not a neutral statement of preference. If you intended for it to be a neutral comparison ab
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
What a surprise that you are also a reader of books rather than other content: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7288759-vasco Reading a book is arguably easier than reading technical content or other articles,
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
Yes I know it's useful. The last line of my comment said that: "Reducing blunders is obviously good in any situation, but is it the dealbreaker for startups? It always depends on the context" . "is it useful?" usua
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
A better way to read this is "80% of a not losing strategy". The author agrees with this but buries the lede at the very end of the piece: "Is this a fail-safe path? Of course not. Even in chess. The rest of the game does ma
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Linear: A design reset (part I)(linear.app)
2 points by ZephyrBlu 3y ago|0 comments
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
And yet many people on this post are claiming that they cannot tackle this task for a variety of reasons non-programmming reasons (I.e. they don't even get to the programming bit of software engineering). Sure, it might not hit everyth
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
> You'll never convince me that copy and paste is better then reusing existing code or that it's considered good engineering What's better engineering: not solving the problem, or solving the problem in a sub-optimal way
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
It's pretty clear to me what's being tested: do you have strong fundamental engineering skills. This kind of problem/situation is a very common pattern. Honestly it sounds like you don't have good engineering intuition.
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
This challenge is the complete opposite of a highly specific technical question that requires an optimal solution. It's very open ended and the notion of "optimal" doesn't really apply.
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
Why would you automatically assume there's a clever trick instead of breaking the problem down and making assumptions like an engineer? Very odd to me that you wouldn't see the question and think "multiplication is a pretty s
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
The point he's making is that software engineering skills are about a lot more than just programming. Being able to navigate an existing codebase, implement new functionality and blend it into the surroundings is an important skillset
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
I don't know a lick of C/C++ and I found the add delta method in <10min after poking around the memcached GitHub repo. I feel confident I could complete this challenge in 3hrs, or at the very least make a strong attempt. I thin
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
2000 repos what the fuck. More repos than engineers sounds terrible. Having worked in a large monolithic repo, I much prefer that. Everything (Shipping, testing, debugging, etc) is much easier that way.
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
This is way off. The median US SWE makes ~$120k according to BLS (Govt data). Median. High comp is not at all disconnected from value. Revenue per head for engineers can be extremely high.
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
That entirely depends upon whether you are in an environment that takes levelling seriously or not. It is possible to break it down like this if your org and manager are competent [0]. Good managers understand what the shape of each level l
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
> You seem to be focused on proving that great people exist, which is obviously true I would not know it from the way you talk! > I'm more concerned with the average case because that reflects how an organization should be str
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
The way you describe managers makes it abundantly clear you have never worked with one that is good, or great [0]. It seems like you think they are actively harmful. > There is this bad meme going around that because managers are often
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
> The idea that most managers have something to teach you, are good judges of your flaws, or can give better advice than you would get from a senior peer is ridiculous. These are great traits that you should seek out in a mentor, but to
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by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
If you want to be promoted, every single thing you discuss with your manager should center around that goal. Any conversations about things going well, feedback, etc should always be framed as "am I getting closer to Senior?". You

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