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by angarg12 3y ago
My home town has a treasure trove of Art Nouveau buildings in it's historic city center. It's a very desirable area to live in, so most of those units have been renovated over time. Sadly those renovations almost never respect the
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by angarg12 3y ago
This is a terrible take, please don't try to normalize discriminating against groups that have a history of abuse.
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by angarg12 3y ago
The article is a rehash of other sources and not particularly original, although it packages it in an easy to consume format. It does have, though, an important insight that I haven't seen talked about much: when you do some upfront op
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by angarg12 3y ago
I don't care about new tech per se , I care about solving problems for me and my customers. When new versions of libraries/frameworks/whatever do that. That's exciting.
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by angarg12 3y ago
Bit offtopic, but if live in a big city, you don't even need to visit every street, just visiting every neighborhood might be insighful. My wife and I are looking to move back to my home town possibly next year after 10 years abroad, a
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by angarg12 3y ago
The problem I always find with these "career decision frameworks" is that they vastly underestimate the randomness of life. Also they always seem to come from people whose problems were "should I work for high flying startup
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm a Machine Learning Engineer with 5+ years of experience at FAANG. I have designed and built real time ML systems that support millions of QPS with < 10 ms latency. I also have a variety of other skills. And yet I can't esca
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm a new tech immigrant worker to the US and I'm borderline tempted to qualify it as "cruel". I've lived in different countries so I'm familiar with immigration processes. The US has by far the most obtuse, di
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by angarg12 3y ago
> may in fact be doing harm without actually sufficiently preventing any risk. The biggest practical impediment to increasing velocity of delivery that I encounter is trying to convey this. People can visualize and estimate the risk and
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by angarg12 3y ago
Cool as a long term strategy, but hardly helpful if you want a job this year.
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by angarg12 3y ago
I agree here. The opening statement of the article is simplistic and inaccurate. Sure, most big corp jobs might be rather dull, but you can lit that spark in the right circumstances.
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by angarg12 3y ago
I think this is nicely captured by the concept of "cost of carrying". Keeping code around is not free. Cost of carrying refers to the ongoing efforts of maintaining code, not to mention side effects such as increased complexity an
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by angarg12 3y ago
I think the whole premise of this article is wrong. If a project is successful, it isn't 99% done; essentially it will never be done so long it is alive, supported, and/or used by anyone (I won't get into semantics here). As
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm from Spain and during the last couple of decades cities have experimented a lot with urban planning, including turning streets into one way with broader sidewalks, or turning them pedestrian only. Anecdotally I can say that every s
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by angarg12 3y ago
I think OP is mixing up people who are not career driven (not sure how to better describe them) with bullshit jobs. OP is also conflating potentially dysfunctional workplaces with bullshit jobs (possibly highly correlated but not the same).
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by angarg12 3y ago
If this is a jab to supposedly mediocre programmers, it fails to be funny. I have a friend, let's call him AP, who is a programmer in a local java shop. He's been working in the same place for 12 years since he graduated. He kind
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by angarg12 3y ago
But don't they already do? either cities have strict rules about how buildings look like (rare) or they don't. Probably what you are seeing is just a side effect of the slow effect of gentrification. When you have old houses in de
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by angarg12 3y ago
> Broadcast an email with the takeaways so that the rest of your organization knows about it. Funny that OP mentions this as part of the last 10% because the experience in my company is the complete opposite. People tend to send self-con
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by angarg12 3y ago
Really? I feel the complete opposite. I moved to Seattle recently from Europe, and I feel the contemporary houses way prettier. Most of the homes in my suburb seem to have been built in the 60s or 70s and they could be described as a shed-l
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by angarg12 3y ago
Even if we accept the premise, the problem is that what's surprising varies per person. Particularly if you are an expert on the topic you are presenting, chances are that stuff that seems obvious to you will be surprising to others. I
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by angarg12 3y ago
The difference is that it doesn't work on MY container, it works on A container. And I can run the same container byte by byte in my machine, yours, or a production cluster. Most/all of the issues highlighted in this article can b
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by angarg12 3y ago
Odd that no one is highlighting that the 900k salary quoted is almost certainly bogus. Now companies are forced to disclose salary ranges in California. Some tech companies combat this by publishing unhelpfully broad salary ranges. Some peo
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by angarg12 3y ago
My employer forces me to go to the office, which is in a HCOL area. Maybe after I get my green card I can get a pay cut and move to a LCOL area. But again, is it worth it? I can also get a fully remote job and move back to my hometown by th
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by angarg12 3y ago
I moved from the UK to the US recently and I'm not sure it's worth my while. Sure, I make more than 2x the salary, but the cost of living of a bit tech hub chips away most of it. Specially housing, which has increased dramatically
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by angarg12 3y ago
It's a matter of degrees. I've been to truly "communist" countries (e.g. Cuba), and lived in several European countries, and without a doubt US has a much more capitalist bend.
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by angarg12 3y ago
In the 90s I had internet at home at a time when almost all of my friends (school children) didn't even have a computer. Trying to explain the internet to someone who doesn't have a computer is still one of the most alien experien
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by angarg12 3y ago
It might sound silly when spoken out loud, but I found the following example quite enlightening about this phenomenon: imagine that you want to drive to the airport, and you need to estimate how long it will take you to get there. You can s
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by angarg12 3y ago
So I keep hearing this, but I haven't seen it actually working in practice. My wife has been (trying to) freelance since we moved to the US. She applied the playbook, rejected lowball offers, and negotiated higher rates. The result? Sh
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by angarg12 3y ago
Aren't most of these actually anti-patterns? The best example is lines of code written. If we measure individual performance on that, it's trivial for people to game the system. Also, number of lines of code doesn't correlate
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by angarg12 3y ago
> If you’re doing what you’re told to do, they are paying you too much. I'm glad Kent Beck got that one out. I work for a Big Tech that pays (comparatively) well, and sometimes there is lot of ambiguity. Some new hires have a hard t

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