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by angarg12 4y ago
Here is mine: you can pay local tailors to alter or make garments to measure. Terminology is confusing, but usually made to measure is when a garment (jacket, coat, shirt, trousers) is made to your specifications on demand. Services vary, b
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by angarg12 4y ago
Please bear in mind this post is OPs speculation and some of this advice goes against well established strategies e.g. spaced repetition for learning.
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That's exactly my point. The comparison is not mine, but from the article. > but my work at Sendwave led to saving well over 10x more money, because the scale of the product was bigger and the improvements I was making were more imp
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm not quite sold on the first bullet point that if the impact of your company/project is 10x, then you are a 10x engineer. Here is my case. In my previous (small) company we achieved a yearly revenue of ~1M eur. I was super prou
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by angarg12 4y ago
That's fair. Most of it is hear say and anecdotal evidence. I know my company has increased salaries but that's one data point. The only data I got from the top of my head is levels.fyi annual report. Numbers are all over the plac
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by angarg12 4y ago
Hey, I want to answer this one because I think it's important. You might think of me as a privileged high paid tech worker driving prices up. Actually I come from a working class family in southern europe. I'd spare you the detail
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by angarg12 4y ago
Don't know about others, but I can tell you my reasons: a) Higher salary b) Better career opportunities c) An idealized view of the American society a) is easiest. I more than doubled my income by moving here. If I jumped companies (I
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by angarg12 4y ago
Great website! thanks a lot for that. This seems to confirm my intuition. Our parameters spit out southern california and a few places in Texas, including Austin. SoCal is still incredibly expensive. I considered Austin before but I'm
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by angarg12 4y ago
This year we finally moved to the US after 2 years of Covid-induced delays. We moved to Seattle because it's where my team is based. I'm far from impressed. The housing market is so inaccessible that we had to rent a house about 1
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by angarg12 4y ago
Doesn't Python 3.10 add pattern matching? [1]. Seems to make this much more palatable. Specifically look at [2]. [1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0636/ [2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0636/#add
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by angarg12 4y ago
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
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by angarg12 4y ago
Practices. It's a skill, you get better at doing it by doing it. However don't just drone through interviews. Do deliberate practice. Be mindful and participate fully in the process. After the fact reflect on your performance. Wha
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by angarg12 4y ago
After hundreds of interviews for a FAANG I'm become more and more weary of this format. Particularly I find the the leetcode style "problem solving" question to have the higher rate of false negatives. It's common for ca
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by angarg12 4y ago
We use tons of configuration at work and this has come up time and time again. The biggest pain is when inevitably you need to "parameterize" your JSON files. The most common route I've seen is to turn your configs into templ
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by angarg12 4y ago
Those are big and bold claims with no data to back them up. Here are two mental models I used successfully to reason about teams. One is the idea from Team Topologies that whenever a member leaves or joins a team, you get an entire new team
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm perfectly aware and I suffer the consequences every day. No matter how awesome I say my team is, that doesn't erase the bad experiences of others. I don't know what my options are other than seeking change from within or
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by angarg12 4y ago
I work at Amazon and we are still hiring like crazy. Last year was the worst I remember regarding attracting talent. We have 6 heads open and only managed to fill 1. A selected few companies have deep pockets and enough cash to weather a re
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Slight offtopic, but this is why the "if you try hard enough you will succeed" advice sounds like BS to me. Even if the most dedicated entrepreneur can only try so many startups in their lives. If the odds are vanishingly small th
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by angarg12 4y ago
We got a winner! We moved to the countryside to be closer to my wife's family. My family lives in a big city in another country, so we could have moved there instead, if that didn't involve a massive pay cut.
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by angarg12 4y ago
But I do love urban density! I grew up and lived 90% of my life in big cities. Moving to a village was a big shift for me. I love the space but I also appreciate it's boring AF. If I could choose I'd probably go for a house, not a
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by angarg12 4y ago
All of my career I prioritized short commutes, which led to living in tiny apartments (as small as 25 sqmt) within a short commute from work. When Covid hit we had just moved to a new 1 bed flat and were paying our highest rent yet, but hey
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by angarg12 4y ago
Before we criticize the current interview format and propose alternatives, we need to understand how we got here first. This is my understanding of what happened (I wasn't there for most of this!). Leetcode-style interviews became popu
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by angarg12 4y ago
Senior developer is such a loaded term that I find it futile to draw any conclusions based on the job title alone. Depending on the shop it can mean anything from "literally not a novice" to "coordinates the architecture betw
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'd like to take a step back for a moment here. I see this pattern in career conversations online. Someone has an issue at work, they ask online if they should quit, and the overwhelming answer is a resounding yes. The problem with thi
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by angarg12 4y ago
I used to be very active in the Incremental/Idle game community and penned a few games myself. At some point I toyed with the idea of an Idle strategy game. Battles would play automatically, and as a player your intervention was purely
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by angarg12 4y ago
This is a topic close to me, and one I have problems expressing my thoughts about without coming across as cynical. My bottom line is "not my job" is a way to avoid companies taking advantage of you. I'll give you a real spec
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by angarg12 4y ago
In a world where new grads can easily make 6 figure salaries as software engineers, yes. I mean, everyone I tell literally has a hard time believing I was making a poverty-level wage as a programmer.
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I'm not sure what part of my comment made you draw that conclusion. This was a science team and we used servers mostly for scientific computations. Sysadmins jobs was to operate and maintain the servers e.g. make jobs run, upgrade, pat
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I always get flak for this but here we go anyway: the key is to manage expectations in the short term. First realize that the market you know is far from the norm. We were at the end of the longest bull run in history and the hottest tech j
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by angarg12 4y ago
One thing I don't see mentioned often is that productivity in software development has skyrocketed, but it's hard to appreciate. Today's services are much more sophisticated and complex than just a decade ago. Even if some of

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