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by ascar 8y ago
Odds aren't that bad that you work for the same one :D
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by ascar 8y ago
Yea you're right. I dunno why I added the 5% part here, it's something I saw across other comments.
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by ascar 8y ago
Not sure why you jumped to trickery. I got them handed at the same time, actually in the same DocuSign pdf. They were basically an addendum mentioned in the contract that required a separate signature, even though the signing was required b
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by ascar 8y ago
The main contract may have a clause it's only valid, if you also sign the NCA and NSA agreements. At least mine had.
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by ascar 8y ago
If you make rash decisions based on your perception of opportunity costs at that kind of sum, it's a good first step for losing it all. I'm also surprised by the attitude of 5% gain is easy and guaranteed. It's not. Neither t
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by ascar 8y ago
Isn't index funds risky for living off year-to-year returns given they have up to 50% drops occasionally? Especially if you assume up to 15% return which sounds super optimistic too me. E.g. You would have made 0% return off the S&
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by ascar 8y ago
Network failure in the desk room sounds like a complete outage for that.
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by ascar 8y ago
The author even said "we immediately knew what to do", which is kinda the contrary of surprising. The interesting bit is not that a slow loading dependency got imported anyway, but why that dependency is slow and that it can get i
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by ascar 8y ago
Personally I have learned most of the stuff I want to do as a boss from experiencing them first hand from the great bosses I had. But missing these things while working with a mediocre boss, just emphasized how good these things felt for me
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Study finds bad bosses could turn you into a great boss(eurekalert.org)
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by ascar 8y ago
Because it increases responsibility, when you are the who has to clean up the mess. It makes you care more to keep your system reliable and available, because your personal stakes are higher. There are some good comments here along those sa
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by ascar 8y ago
High realiabity and high availability are not the same thing though. There are still problems in aviation, like the dreamliner who had to be restarted every x days or it would go full system shutdown. In these kind of systems you often sacr
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by ascar 8y ago
My contract with a company that had on call read somewhere along the lines of 9 to 5 are the core working times and all work necessary outside these times, including Saturday and Sunday, is already remunerated in the base salary. In this ca
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by ascar 8y ago
Adding an extra layer of people between the customer and developer is certainly a good idea as it requires a completely different skill set to communicate with a customer and troubleshoot their issue than for being a developer. Like I alway
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by ascar 8y ago
That kind of sounds like fantasy for complex high throughput systems. As it was also mentioned in the article, the usual on-call response is a rollback to the last working version of the correct deployable. This is pretty easy to identify f
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by ascar 8y ago
According to Wikipedia Reddit had 230 employees 2017, so they are scratching the threshold or are already over it.
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by ascar 8y ago
I find it weird that he doesn't mention this difference as part of the performance difference. A left shift should be considerably faster than a mul operation?
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by ascar 8y ago
As I said in my comment, a lot of the stuff I see as positive for making code more readable more often than not adds extra lines as comments or as code, because you keep it simple. You are right that cramming 5 lines in one, doesn't re
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by ascar 8y ago
The most impactful change I made in 6 years of professional programming was 1 LOC in one file and about 5 LOC in another file. It was a 10x reduction of queries at a billion queries per day scale. I fixed a broken cache and it took me over
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean with "reducing total code instructions" and "lean code", but I'm not sold on the idea of making code less readable which often happens when you try to reduce code by being smart. Read
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by ascar 8y ago
I assume high pay. Personal financial troubles don't really put you in a negative negotiation position with an abundance of job options.
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by ascar 8y ago
If you need to worry that much about the rent payment as a software engineer in current times you either lack skill (in interviewing or on job) or sold yourself way under worth.
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by ascar 8y ago
Exactly this. An employee who thinks he won't get hired, if he asks questions very relevant for him, is probably a bad hire in the first place. And for the top talent employee the startup needs, not answering the questions is a huge re
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by ascar 8y ago
I don't think that is true in general. Heavily depends on the employer, industry and country. Also unions play a big part in worktime.
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by ascar 8y ago
I got my after graduation job 1 year before graduation through LinkedIn recruiting of a very big engineering corp (100k> employee big), with way better pay than my after internship offer from an American cloud company. The recruitment pr
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by ascar 8y ago
Chance? Hashes are not unique by definition, though we can treat them as such in many practical situations. The same is true for anything with a fixed number of variables with finite states, e.g. DNA.
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm not going to dispute shoulder surfing is a big problem for unlock patterns, but if you do not care about that attack vector patterns are super efficient and freakingly hard to brute-froce. Considering about 400k combinations [1] on
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by ascar 8y ago
You can learn something new every day :) I still wonder what the efficiency loss is on actually capturing the heat here so it is usable elsewhere while the building where it's generated stays cool. I guess most of the heat will be lost
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by ascar 8y ago
That's an interesting comic. Though I think it's very one-sided especially in the last parts and written from the point of a women, who had bad luck with her partner. Staying with these stereotypes there are other mental tasks tha
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm totally doing that for my girlfriend for years. Never thought about it this neutral though.

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