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by aalhour 6y ago
Can you please describe in more detail how you did the prep to clear your system before the operation?
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Ask HN: A story-telling intro to Probability and Stats?
1 points by aalhour 6y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Alternatives to “Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes”
2 points by aalhour 6y ago|0 comments
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by aalhour 6y ago
Invisibilia. Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently. https:
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Ask HN: What Is Your (Big) Data Architecture/Tech Stack Like?
2 points by aalhour 7y ago|0 comments
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by aalhour 7y ago
As per Dave Snowden, Wicked Problems lie in the Unordered side of Cynefin and mainly in the Complex domain (if they come from sociology).
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by aalhour 7y ago
Been there & won the battle. Talked to the other tech leads and convinced HR and the CTO with our position, that psychopath of a manager ended up getting fired during his probation period.
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by aalhour 7y ago
Did you try talking to this person? Did you try having a personal & private chat with them? Are they aware of the impact of their behavior on the environment and their colleagues? If no, then how about you try talking to them, making th
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by aalhour 7y ago
Declarative Programming. Specify a problem statement and let the computer figure out a way to implement it but take this idea and apply it to SaaS Applications. Here's how a domain model looks like, go figure out a database-backed API
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by aalhour 7y ago
I loved Ryan O'Donnell's "Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science" series, you can find it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3aafQm568bl... MIT OCW has a course on Advanced
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by aalhour 7y ago
The entire course on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcmCgguL9rxPoVn2ykUF...
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by aalhour 7y ago
It takes forever to open on my phone, tried different browsers and it still doesn't work, is this intended for desktop use only?
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by aalhour 7y ago
Thank you! Do you have any resources that help understand what Google (FANG companies in general) mean when they ask candidates about their ability to "deal with ambiguity"?
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by aalhour 7y ago
Thanks, what about the management and leadership side? Do they test candidates on project management and people skills? If so, do you have any idea how to prepare for that?
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Ask HN: How to Prepare for an Engineering Manager Interview at Google
15 points by aalhour 7y ago|5 comments
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by aalhour 7y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Any plans for extending the document?
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by aalhour 7y ago
What do you think are the best abstractions, mind models and technologies you learned at Google? I read somewhere about SSTables and several other topics related to writing distributed systems, can you share your take on this?
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by aalhour 7y ago
How easy is it to transition into a manager if you're an IC?
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by aalhour 7y ago
Congrats on the promotion, did you join Google as an L5? Also, can you share more advice on the technical side, like what do you are the abstractions, mind models and technologies that you think are applicable outside of Google and would be
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by aalhour 7y ago
Can you share more details? What advice would you give to people to engineer things at scale?
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Ask HN: What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?
246 points by aalhour 7y ago|151 comments
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Ask HN: Resources to Self-Study Communication Systems
3 points by aalhour 7y ago|0 comments
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by aalhour 7y ago
I use Pocketcasts - https://www.pocketcasts.com - and I really enjoy it. I go through the recommendation list a few times per week. EDIT: link formatting.
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by aalhour 7y ago
I have hit a paywall, can someone add the list of extensions of here as a comment?
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by aalhour 8y ago
Can you recommend a few resources on idea history, hermeneutics and rhetoric?
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by aalhour 8y ago
- 45 mins of daily morning meditation[0] - 3 hours/week of martial arts training [0] With Each and Every Breath - https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/EachAndEveryBre...
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by aalhour 8y ago
Thank you!
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by aalhour 8y ago
This is excellent, thanks a bunch! I'd love to have that list, can you email it to me please? https://aalhour.com/contact
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by aalhour 8y ago
I am interested in these topics as well, can you share your top 5 resources besides Atomic Habits?
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by aalhour 8y ago
It depends on your experience, care to share more details about what are your qualifications and experiences like? What can you do if, say, you joined a company and you where responsible for a team or several teams?

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