aprdm

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by aprdm 2y ago
Why do you think time or your management experience would put you in path on director instead of others ? This question is very hard to answer without a lot of context. The TLDR is that you haven't been performing at director level or
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Joplin, multi OS, OSS and syncs
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by aprdm 2y ago
Why is L1 any worse ?
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Lol isn’t that the truth, or my son !
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Any podcasts recommendation ?
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I don't think people really do it all like you imagine, you probably have the wrong image of folks based on social media highlights. Another thing to consider is that much of what you see was built over years. If you take Redis for exa
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What makes you think they don't fund it ?
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Have you checked build.nvidia.com by any chance ?
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I had one that I enjoyed many years ago, to write a service that calculated the Nth digit of Pi. It was up to you what you wanted to do / how / if you wanted to deploy. They only asked that you write how you would've liked to
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Physical AI [video](youtube.com)
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On my sleep
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by aprdm 2y ago
This is a very snarky/bitter view of it. In my career I have done fairly well and have been promoted after the fact a couple of times. People who don't take these opportunities rarely move up to bigger responsibilities. At big tec
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by aprdm 2y ago
This is a great article. Reflects my experience both in big and small companies. Anyone can be the "Project leader", doesn't need to be a TPM, PM or ENG. It isn't an org chart role, it is a role you are fulfilling. I hav
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by aprdm 2y ago
You don't need a build step if you do everything in javascript without jsx. I have done it like that in the past on air gapped environments (and vendored the deps)
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What's the use case for the encrypted passwords out of curiosity ?
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by aprdm 2y ago
I have reached limits on all cloud providers, it might surprise you but there's no "real cloud", it's just computers, and computers are a limited number of resources. For many reasons cloud providers might run out of com
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by aprdm 2y ago
With all the AI generated content, we will be having AI models using AI generated text on the internet. Blogs from people who are hopefully not using AI to generate text might be the only valid source of truth in a near future
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by aprdm 2y ago
Visual Effects industry is really cool. 3d worlds applied to more than M&E as well (Omniverse, Unity, Unreal)
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by aprdm 2y ago
hackernews is not representative of the real world, you can pretty much round to zero % the amount of companies in the world using Clojure compared to main stream languages
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by aprdm 2y ago
Joplin, it's free/OSS (I do pay for the sync 1 dollar a month which works pretty well), it works across Windows/Linux/Mac/iphone ( I am always on different computers), it's simple and no bells/whistle - mo
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by aprdm 2y ago
What does ISR stand for ?
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I subscribe to the pragmaticengineer and check HN every now and then
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fwiw that's what most of the big companies do on their product that actually make money. All the "kubernetes revolution" is pretty new, as are contianers, and companies move very slowly. The core products only move if they re
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by aprdm 2y ago
you can pay to synchronize w/ their backend, is what I do
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Joplin
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Not true at all.
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by aprdm 2y ago
Yep was hired once and hired someone once. Both great experiences, still friends with my ex-boss and my ex-coworker !
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by aprdm 2y ago
I just cancelled my Adobe subscription after trying to cancel for more than 6 months, so many dark patterns that caused my wife to sign in for a renew when she didn't want. To actually cancel you have to say you want to actually cancel
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by aprdm 2y ago
I do that in big tech too for ~100s of CVs per role, what's the big deal ? The alternative seems to be for me to lose control over who I want to work with to algorithms or people with less context
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by aprdm 2y ago
Maybe you found a great company from the get go, those exist as well ! My pay bumps went something like: 1.5x, 1.5x, 2x, 2x, 1.5x, 1.5x, 2x (note that I changed countries twice so some of the bumps of 2x were also for a more expensive cost

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