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by angarg12 7y ago
Previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20684463
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by angarg12 7y ago
How much does your bullshit detector hit with their promo video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_2HwAmge8
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by angarg12 7y ago
My company has a very useful guide for the software engineer ladder, and one very interesting characteristic they look for (not mentioned here) is scope. Seniors are expected to have a bigger scope, not only technically (e.g. leading the de
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by angarg12 7y ago
Do they though? I've read about senior level offers from Uber in London paying about 160k£. Might help explain their current situation.
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by angarg12 7y ago
Today I've read an article about how Spanish farmers let fruit rot on the tree, since prices are so low that they can't cover the cost of labour. Someone asked on the comments why they don't just let people go and grab as muc
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by angarg12 7y ago
Recently I found a relatively cheap goat farm for sale back on my home country. That would be my plan B. Forget consulting, forget management, my plan B is taking everything I know about automation, optimisation and continuous learning, and
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by angarg12 7y ago
This is something I'm battling with right now. As I get older, it's more common to see people younger than me being more successful. When you are starting your career, you only see all the possibilities to fulfill your goals. As y
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by angarg12 7y ago
I'm an early millennial and ex IBMer. We know this is bullcrap. What sets IBM apart from Google isn't older workers, but things that don't appeal to millennial sensibilities: deep management hierarchies, focus in sales and ma
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by angarg12 7y ago
> China’s tech sector has its own shorthand to describe the hours that employees work in the country: “9-9-6,” meaning from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. > “Our factories are still talking to us at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m., sometimes w
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by angarg12 7y ago
I was a teaching assistant for the Introduction to Programming course on the first year of a CS degree. At the very least I can say it was a humbling experience. One thing I learned while teaching complete novices is that it is really hard
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by angarg12 7y ago
One of my friends has a saying that is very difficult to translate to English, but a fair translation would be "everyone has different memories of the party". The point is not to use anecdotal evidente as absolute truth. Maybe a f
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by angarg12 7y ago
> All day interviews. Many firms expect an interview for a developer to take an entire day, typically with between 5 and 8 separate interviews. This makes it hard for developers who already have jobs to attend. This bothers me immensely.
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by angarg12 7y ago
Like this? https://gcemetery.co/
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by angarg12 7y ago
My biggest fear regarding remote work is career progression. It seems that the author is a founder, so this isn't an issue for him, but my anecdotal evidence tells me that remote workers are left behind in terms of promotions and profe
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by angarg12 8y ago
If I have a piece of advice to juniors about this is: burnout is real. I used to have personal projects that didn't pay off in any way beyond personal learning, and they sure were taxing on my life. Now I have a job that I enjoy and is
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by angarg12 8y ago
On a similar note, recently I was recounting how in my career I have always moved to places with more opportunities, higher salaries and consequently, higher cost of living. As some places become unbearable expensive, I see some people aski
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by angarg12 8y ago
Superblocks suck. So what is the solution? I would appreciate the article much more if in addition to criticism to this model they proposed a better alternative to the problem of housing tens of millions of people quickly.
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by angarg12 8y ago
The article was actually better than I expected. In my short career experience, there is no dream or perfect job. As one gains experience, you can find better and better opportunities, but instead of a single dream job, you end up moving al
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by angarg12 8y ago
Some of them, not all. And of course it's just my opinion. You can rephrase it like this: Slow, boring and clunky is actually good design that serves a purpose.
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by angarg12 8y ago
Sometimes I play retro games, and I feel like nostalgia makes us excuse what is plain bad design. I have that feeling every time I play an old JRPG. Many of them feel slow, clunky, with painful mechanics... as opposed to current games, whic
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by angarg12 8y ago
> So the rise in visible homelessness is perhaps the expected result. But this happens in the US disproportionally more than, say, many countries in Europe.
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by angarg12 8y ago
I spent a few years working on side projects of different magnitude. My process repeated the same cycle: I come up with an idea for a side project, start working on it, get more and more involved with time, until a few months later I am com
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by angarg12 8y ago
One of my companies had subsidized lunch (you could also buy dinner for cheap) with 5-6 options available. As most bulk food, options were generally greasy and unhealthy, with one unchanging exception: roast chicken. For over a year I ate r
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by angarg12 8y ago
I see where the author is coming from, but I have the exact opposite experience. Me: I'm travelling to x Chap: for how long? Me: 3 days Chap: Only 3 days?? You need at least 1 week! If it is 1 week you need 2, if it's 2 you need o
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by angarg12 8y ago
A few experiences here from people who did this and worked out nicely. I also know a good amount of stories of people who bought property with their partners and didn't turn out ok. Now take that risk and multiply it by the number of p
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by angarg12 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment that many solutions are over-engineered, but when you need to process billions of records a day, you do need more complex systems. Bottom line: when facing an engineering problem, start with the simplest, fastest
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by angarg12 8y ago
I've worked as a consultant in Germany and I was shocked by how far behind your average company is regarding cloud adoption. Modern tools and processes are also usually a pipe dream. So I agree, the industry as a whole has way more roo
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by angarg12 8y ago
Empires are built on top of old, ugly, or niche technologies. You might have more job opportunities with the latest and hottest tech, but you will have far less competition with legacy ones. And you can have a long and successful career wit
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by angarg12 8y ago
I got my yearly review recently and I got very good feedback. At the same time I have been doing Leetcode at home for fun, starting with easy problems, and I get my ass handed to me. I find it hard to reconcile these two experiences. How ca
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by angarg12 8y ago
The question: "Why it’s so hard to find roles in cloud technology, while jobs go unfilled." The answer: "The key thing here is that businesses are not hiring fresh-out-of-certification AWS experts to take over the infrastruct

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