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by angarg12 3y ago
Now that my company has started enforcing RTO, I noticed patterns in some of my colleagues, such as arriving late and leaving early, leaving the laptop in their desk disappearing for a long while, not answering messages for hours with nowhe
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by angarg12 3y ago
> * In-person is much better if you don't know what you need to build, are trying to "figure it out as you go along", and are relying on the implicit fast feedback loop of standing next to each other. My anecdotal evidence
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by angarg12 3y ago
Many of these are children of immigrants, so picture the cognitive dissonance.
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One of the happiest persons that I know is a "dispassionate" programmer. Let's call him AP. AP got a job as an intern in a local small company, and has worked in the same for over 12 years. His company is a Java shop that cra
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by angarg12 3y ago
The "self-made person" and "pulled by bootstraps" narrative is very American. People love to frame their success as the outcome of their own effort rather than from a source of privilege. If you read accounts from entrep
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by angarg12 3y ago
Thanks for writing this, I like the trust/regulation mental model. I can also use it to explain my experiences as a European immigrant in the US. One of the biggest differences I feel is how belligerent and litigious American society i
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by angarg12 3y ago
https://archive.vn/fEoP7
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by angarg12 3y ago
I didn't own a car for about 7 years while I lived in different countries. I can't say sometimes I didn't miss it, but I managed just fine. Last year we moved to the US, and we couldn't last 6 months without a car. I mea
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by angarg12 3y ago
This is more subtle and profound that it might seem. I work for a Big Tech and do tons of interviews, and not even us we have the data about what works and what doesn't (and if that data does exist, it's a very closely guarded sec
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by angarg12 3y ago
Here is a sharp take in the types vs tests debate https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology
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by angarg12 3y ago
https://archive.vn/1Dvk3
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by angarg12 3y ago
In 14 years I've got to work in greenfield projects exactly once. You are far more likely to end up working in a huge mess of legacy code...
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by angarg12 3y ago
> There are too many options. Too many tools to chose and decisions to be made. All of the code has to be written, including the boilerplate and the boring stuff. I disagree a bit here. Sure, there are hundreds (thousands?) of databases
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by angarg12 3y ago
I find it a bit sad that most comments here focus on the Apple/Android war rather than the boring dystopia fact that the police department of the most populous city in the US idea to fight increase in crime is to encourage people to us
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by angarg12 3y ago
Obviously I don't have the details of your situation, but using terms like love or hate my job are a warning sign. First, I would advice to stop using the love your job mental model. Instead look into the concept of "Career Capita
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by angarg12 3y ago
It always struck me as ironic that "the perfect murder" is such a big trope in fiction, while in real life an astonishing number of them go unsolved.
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by angarg12 3y ago
Not so dramatic, but I have a traditional CS background and got into ML much later in my career. Last year my company formalized the process to hire ML Engineers. The interview is the same format as the software engineer round, but with an
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by angarg12 3y ago
I feel all discussions about the coding interview are missing two critical points: first, how we got here, and second, why are we still here. First, how we got here. I didn't experience this first hand, so I'm just making a recoun
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by angarg12 3y ago
Interesting slide deck, but I feel we are missing some of the most interesting details out. Particularly, slides 24 and 25 could be an entire article on their own. * How did you tune Vitess for resiliency? What were the tradeoffs and how wa
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by angarg12 4y ago
On 5): The most transformative step in my journey up the class ladder was when money stopped being a source of problems and instead became a way to solve problems.
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by angarg12 4y ago
Lately I've been reading seminal papers in distributed systems, and it occurred to me that there is a niche for LLMs to "democratize" highly technical content. Trying to understand those papers is a slog, but it doesn't
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by angarg12 4y ago
I've worked in cost optimization initiatives in several teams, and how they get themselves in a money pit has different causes (e.g. lack of skills in the team, speed to market, etc.). From experience most teams that haven't done
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by angarg12 4y ago
I really like all of Will Larson content, and this one post is a gold mine. I always recommend to mentees early in their career. I find the sections about Pace and Prestige particularly insightful. Unfortunately during the last decade+ we h
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by angarg12 4y ago
The 100% CPU utilization is an odd one because, although theoretically it's more "efficient" to use a system at full capacity, performance tends to suffer and practically make it unusable (others' pointed here to queuein
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by angarg12 4y ago
This is the best talk I've watched in this subject (a bit more generally) The WET codebase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17KCHwOwgms
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by angarg12 4y ago
I've asked variants of this question before, and although it is kind of good *for it's kind*, it's still a sort of algo leetcode-style question. Actually the best questions I ask, and the ones that give me the best candidate
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by angarg12 4y ago
Fun analogy, but let's look at the Martial Artist environment > There are basic ground rules (clear requirements) which the opponents (problems) are NOT allowed to break. eg: below the belt punches, (changing priorities every week)
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by angarg12 4y ago
I also do tons of interview for a Big Tech. I ran my interview questions through chatGPT (3, the one available at the time), and the answers varied from pretty good to total garbage. I brought this to the interviewer community in the compan
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by angarg12 4y ago
I've also read the articles about prompt engineers with no experience or technical skills commanding six figures, or the one about these jobs paying +300k. I have a BSc and Master's in Computer Science, 14 years of experience, I h
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by angarg12 4y ago
This kind of matches my experience using LLMs for coding. They work eerily well for some tasks, and they are hilariously wrong at others. In general I find it performs abysmally with more obscure or complicated tasks/bugs, which makes

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