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by alex_lav 3y ago
> Honestly, I am not sure I have personally ever had to communicate low level details like that with anyone else. The people I have talked pogromming with in my life have all be capable technologists, which allow us to discuss in high le
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> Why would I need to know their names? Why would you need to _communicate about programming_? Because it's a core part of your job... > That's great if you have prioritized trivia Every interview question can be characteri
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> I think the part of the question that throws people is “most common”. It begins to sounds like a trick question, because it hat is the most common? Its going to very from code base to code base That’s pretty textbook overthinking for a
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> It’s quite possible to avoid learning this. Could it be inferred? It feels kind of self explanatory...
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I interviewed an ex-FAANG (developer) currently working as a software executive for a director role at a previous company. This person included 5 years-ish of Haskell experience on their resume. I don't know Haskell at all, but am awar
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I worked at a startup that had <4 months of runway left and thought the best plan was to bring on a VP of Data Science because of their resume/history, in spite of the fact that we had no data to do science on and no customers for w
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Might be worthwhile to define what PM and TPM mean in your case as they're both pretty ambiguous. I've been all kinds of things. Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager are probably most relevant to this
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> After all, when I tried to discuss wealth and human merit, at least 3 people (me and you and the original reply) got into a discussion about something totally unrelated: uninclusive word choices. I suppose what I'm trying to impar
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by alex_lav 3y ago
The pandemic was definitely the lowest I have ever been in my life. I can totally understand how others didn't make it. Insanely sad.
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> I'll be argued with and attacked If you consider this interraction an "attack", I'm unsure how you're able to communicate with other humans at all. I've been very cordial, simply pointing out an alternati
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by alex_lav 3y ago
What a weird post. A person that read some headlines, no other information, and then got upset about those headlines and decided to consolidate those headlines into a single poorly informed blog post?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> It's impossible to become perfect It's not impossible to improve though! > but I also disagree that saying "men" is necessarily wrong or "imperfect" I'm sure that you do. > (that worthy people
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How did you get a diagnosis? Everywhere in my area has a 6 month+ waiting period.
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If you’re getting rid of things compulsively and it’s causing you anxiety/stress/shame, yes. The disordered behavior is how it impacts your mental health, not how others observe the validity of the behavior.
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> > > And people who buy less and consume less show less depressive symptoms, so there’s a positive mental health effect.” Eh. For me personally I think there's probably some equally depressive behavior going on, as the revers
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by alex_lav 3y ago
This seems like a pretty wild overreaction to pointing out the implicit bias of referring to all people as "men". > Imperfect communication is better than none Staying imperfect forever is laziness.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I’ve become somewhat of an opposite-hoarder over the last few years. In 2015 I threw away most of my things during a move across country, keeping only sentimental/irreplaceable things in an effort to “upgrade” the more utility focused
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by alex_lav 3y ago
A person had a bad experience. There's a decent chance that bad experience is more that person's fault than it is any technology's. But also: > If there's a _right_ way to do things then it should be blindingly obvio
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> But it is an incredible pain in the ass in production environments. "I find it hard to maintain Python in production environments", but worded adversarially. > One of favorites was when we did a dependency upgrade (somethi
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> I've been wondering what might move data scientists to Rust. The two things that keep Python as the incumbent in this space is A.) It gets out of the way, sometimes to a fault, such that you can kinda write it without knowing what
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by alex_lav 3y ago
This comment seems abnormally toxic for what's being discussed. > Yeah, but the goal of this isn’t “use this instead of Python to hack up a model” This was never said. > You know, those hugging face guys kindaaaaa do know what t
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Looks great, but 159 a month to even use the tool at all is an instant no.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
There's something uniquely social-media-y about a person posting a list of websites they don't enjoy the contents of or discussion around, and then posting that they've filtered them out in a way that only impacts them, and t
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The chart is un-enlargable and also unreadable in its minimized form.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
It's funny to me that governments (and citizens) aren't realizing you can't simply _do less_ and expect things to improve. As in, deciminalizing drugs could work if the effort that was formerly spent mindlessly arresting and
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Cloudformation, SAM, Terraform, AzureRM. Terraform by miles and miles, then SAM. I mostly won't work in CF anymore. Rider, Visual Studio, VSCode. Just use Rider. AWS, GCP, Azure. Never Azure. The rest doesn't matter. A more obscur
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Are these actually attainable, as in I can log in and launch an instances with these specifications right now, or are they just listings? I ask because literally last week I was unable to launch similar instances on AWS despite those specs
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It's interesting to see mushrooms on the same ride as marijuana 5-10 years ago. Almost identical. It's illegal -> "This probably shouldn't be illegal, it's not as bad as the government has suggested" -> &
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Move Fast And Break Things^TM Jokes aside I think it's mostly a value/cost thing. NASA's software has different requirements and failure scenarios than most software developers (in this context I will not call them software e
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I believe your question is asked in good faith, but it seems important to bring up the well-written-about Startup vs. Incumbent concept that's been all over startup culture for a long time now. Meaning, just because there's an inc

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