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by anchochilis 4y ago
Because people who become high-achieving outliers tend to distinguish themselves in their adolescence. It's the start of a virtuous cycle where talent + hard work leads to admission into elite institutions (universities and, later, com
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by anchochilis 4y ago
I think a hybrid format is the right way to do take-homes. The candidate is less likely to resent the time invested in the take-home if they have a chance to discuss or "show off" their work. It also gives candidates who have less
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by anchochilis 4y ago
It actually is, because the interview process influences the size, diversity, and caliber of the pool of candidates who apply to your organization, complete the interview loop and accept offers. If you have an unlimited engineering budget o
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by anchochilis 4y ago
As a candidate, I vastly prefer a take-home to live whiteboarding or pairing. That background sensation of being observed and evaluated greatly interferes with my ability to concentrate and perform at my best. (I'll note that I have
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by anchochilis 4y ago
My mid-sized shop uses managed offerings for MySQL and Postgres but we run several stateful workloads, including ElasticSearch and MongoDB, in GKE. I personally haven't experienced the issues the OP is describing. It might be that Stat
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by anchochilis 4y ago
> it is also not rocket science to take words literally and not look for subtext Has it occurred to you that just as it is difficult for you to adapt to the communication styles and thought patterns of allistic people, your manager exper
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by anchochilis 4y ago
Yep. If my manager asks a question like that, there are three appropriate responses: (1) Unfortunately that would be challenging for us because X. (2) We've been talking about that for ages, because X, Y, and Z. I'd love it if we
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by anchochilis 4y ago
My wife almost died earlier this year giving birth to our very much wanted child. She was in great health and had a normal pregnancy, then developed HELLP and related complications (DIC, kidney injury) while in labor. This took place at a w
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by anchochilis 4y ago
I'm obsessed with the stuff! The crushed ginger is also excellent for curries and stir -fries.
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by anchochilis 4y ago
I always resisted garlic in a tube or jar because it tasted a little off to me. (And, sure, maybe because I was a bit snobby.) But my supermarket started stocking Doro frozen minced garlic (and ginger!) and it's a game changer. Tastes
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by anchochilis 4y ago
Your management style sounds like it would rapidly kill creativity and innovation, psych safety, and codebase quality. I hold myself to high standards and have been described as a top performer by every manager I've ever had. I am disc
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by anchochilis 4y ago
About what year did this take place? It sounds like the employees would have had a solid basis for an age discrimination lawsuit.
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by anchochilis 4y ago
The solution I know for this one involves topo sort and a trie, once you have brushed up on those concepts it's not so bad.
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by anchochilis 5y ago
I'll also note that I think it's difficult for managers to transition from managing mediocre teams to high-performing ones. The job changes from "telling people what to do and making sure it gets done" to "advocatin
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by anchochilis 5y ago
I agree with this (and that manager sounds awful). But want to note that having a successful remote/async team has a few prerequisites: (1) Skilled, engaged contributors. Most high touch management processes (frequent 1-1s, agile cerem
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by anchochilis 5y ago
It's not. But elite schools select for (1) students who will enrich the experience for their classmates and (2) who are likely to have an outsized impact on the world as adults and bring prestige to the institution. There are some peop
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by anchochilis 5y ago
Studies have shown that later sunsets lead to worse health and economic outcomes. People who live on the western edge of a timezone earn 3% less and have higher rates of lifestyle diseases than those on the eastern edge, because they go to
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by anchochilis 5y ago
Yeah, for a few years in my 20s I was bike commuting 24 miles/day and running 6-10 miles/day on top of that, with longer runs or hikes on the weekends. I was in the best shape of my life, felt great and ate whatever I wanted witho
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by anchochilis 5y ago
Posts like this make me feel like an idiot, TBH. Signed, Underpaid conscientious tryhard
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by anchochilis 5y ago
I love it! Artificially constrain the labor supply with licensing. It would be incredibly lucrative for programmers. As a bonus, it would increase the prestige of our profession. Of course it would be a terrible deal for companies and quite
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by anchochilis 5y ago
I've never had a manager who "owned" anything, let alone to an "extreme" degree. It's ICs who are responsible for shipping quality work on time, sometimes at the expense of their health and personal lives. And
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by anchochilis 5y ago
Yeah but it's also not unusual to have shared accounts for manual testing in prod, or to write automated smoke tests that run in prod after a deploy... I'm not sure how to get around this, actually. Any production service of a cer
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by anchochilis 6y ago
> Instead, we talk about how sexism is the biggest problem. Sure, sexism might be annoying, but in the west, it is hardly something that creates a genuine barrier for women. This is something I've heard a lot of talented young women
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by anchochilis 6y ago
Nope! We went from not having a container orchestration system to having one. If you're determined to be skeptical of the value-add from Kubernetes, my random post on HN ain't gonna convince you :) The developer experience improve
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by anchochilis 6y ago
Helm isn't great (god, Go templates, shudder), but I love being able to bundle all the manifests for an application together with well-documented parameters/values... If you want do something like conditionally switch from a LoadB
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by anchochilis 6y ago
Oh man, I can't believe we didn't think of migrating our mature 20-service stack with complex hardware, security, and compliance requirements to App Engine. Dang it. I should've known to consult HN first!
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by anchochilis 6y ago
It's not the only thing we've been doing, just the most important. I think it's great you guys have 2.5 dedicated people operating 6 services across 12 prod instances, with that kind of ratio our team would be 15 people!
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by anchochilis 6y ago
There already are a number of platforms that make deploying and operating apps very simple! Heroku, AppEngine, Lambda, so many others. Your 5-person startup does not need a DevOps engineer. Your 50-person org should start thinking about it.
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by anchochilis 6y ago
I don't know what to tell you except that with years of experience implementing this infrastructure outside Kubernetes, letting Kubernetes handle it is cheaper. That doesn't mean Kubernetes is a good fit for every organization or
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by anchochilis 6y ago
Updated original comment to clarify :) Although, to be fair, the article is about GKE.

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