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by avl999 5y ago
This is something that you need to discuss with your manager or the tech lead on your team if there is one. Tell the manager that you would like to work on "main service" and would appreciate if you were assigned to sprint tickets
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by avl999 5y ago
Did your org stand up their own elk stack? AFAIK when I worked there the only centralized company wide log solution that was available was RTLA and RTLA was designed for detecting and alerting Fatals/Error/Exceptions in logs and n
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by avl999 5y ago
Not really. We only had the option to grep logs on prod hosts only for the current hour so the only time that happens is when there is critical issue going on, logs being limited to 1 hour also means they were limited to a few 100 MBs tops.
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by avl999 5y ago
I worked on a tier 1 service at Amazon with over 1500 hosts in the fleet. Logs within the hour would be on the host and we would literally just grep through them, to grep through logs on a subset of the fleet or the entire fleet there was a
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by avl999 5y ago
I can't speak for Github CoPilot as I don't use it nor intend to ever use it but I find this article extremely unconvincing. He is basically considering an IDE as an autocomplete suggestion automaton. For me the features of an IDE
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by avl999 5y ago
Sad thing is that there is always a bunch of whining in any thread about 1.18 with people complaining about how much generics are going to ruin the language. I cannot wait for this release either, getting a proper set of data structures and
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by avl999 5y ago
Most people at these company are just trying to get through their day and don't care that much. At amazon the only time I heard social media/blogs/HN brought up was if one of the systems that your team directly worked on was
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by avl999 5y ago
If you are in a small meeting where you are an active participant (daily standup, sprint planning/retrospective, design meetings and basically any activity that involves your direct team) then it is only polite to have your camera on.
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by avl999 5y ago
The url is encrypted, the entire thing is over tls.
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by avl999 5y ago
LeetCode is transferable skill, any time you spend practising those types of problems will scale to all interviews for all companies you are going to be doing in that interview batch (and perhaps even years into the future). It also serves
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by avl999 5y ago
Whatever you do, do not give a "take home assignment"... one of the worst trends in the industry.
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by avl999 5y ago
During my last batch of interviews, I was salty when one of the companies I interviewed with asked me the "Super Egg Drop" question, I actually don't mind LeetCode type questions in interviews but that super egg drop question
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by avl999 5y ago
The animal covers are great branding by O'Reilly... it subconsciously signals me that the book is of high quality due to experience with other high quality "animal cover" books. It takes away the friction of a random cover on
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by avl999 5y ago
I used to listen to the "quacks" and the "conspiracy theorists" on Joe Rogan because back in the past most of the conspiracy theorists he had on were pretty harmless... people like Graham Hancock, Jacques Vallee, Stephen
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by avl999 5y ago
Andreas is such a good dude. I highly recommend his youtube channel, not just for the tech content but even more importantly for the important musings about life, overcoming your demons and overcoming that voice in your head always trying t
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by avl999 5y ago
I would doublecheck on that "Green Card in US in 2 years thing"... I know people I worked with who were from India and they said that their wait times are closer to a decade. One can work for US based companies remotely from Canad
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by avl999 5y ago
The first part about PIP is bs. No one on any of my teams got pipped and I know of only 1 person that I know who got pip'd (in my 5+ years there). No one is forcing managers to fire engineers. Most teams can't fill their headcount
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by avl999 5y ago
For Amazon/AWS make sure to read up on and fully understand various "Amazon Leadership Principles". For each principle try to come up with examples in your life where you have exhibited that (prepare that before the interview
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by avl999 5y ago
There will be Worlde inspired interview questions coming at big tech companies near you in the next couple of months.
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by avl999 5y ago
Seems like the chip shortage hasn't spare the 555 either. Even in bulk orders it seems to come out to 14-15 cents per unit https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments... . Didn't thi
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by avl999 5y ago
Airing 1 or 2 episodes a week gives maximum opportunity for a show to be successful, esp if it's a smaller show that doesn't have a built in audience (ie. if it's not a Marvel/Disney show or returning seasons of successf
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by avl999 5y ago
You should not pay attention to such conspiracy theories.
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by avl999 5y ago
Does anyone here enjoy coding after a few drinks? I don't do this often but on a Friday evening if I feel the fancy to work late and am working on a known problem space-- I pour myself a couple of shots on gin, mix with a bit of lemona
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by avl999 5y ago
> What happened to us, as a society, that creates the expectation that a thing should be monetized? The point is if he doesn't monetize it, someone else who works around the legalize and is less ethical about it will. It is going t
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by avl999 5y ago
This happens a lot. In large companies you don't even need to "prove" yourself by creating PRs, most of the time the other team would be more than happy to "poach" you as you are a more proven commodity than anyone
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by avl999 5y ago
How would you feel if tomorrow the design team or the cofounders came to you and asked you to change the backend storage for your service from Postgres to Cassandra (I don't know what you use, just using this as an example). And when y
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Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizing it?
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by avl999 5y ago
> Makes sense, do you have experience "walking back on"? Interviewing is such a PITA and I'd like to avoid it if I can. Not sure which one you work at but at Amazon when I left (~2 years ago), you could come back within 6
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by avl999 5y ago
I feel this way at times as well, a therapist can help with techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Also check out Ryan Holiday's podcast... they often help put things in perspective. For some people mediation helps, it doesn&#x2
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by avl999 5y ago
> At Rebel Fund, our job is to invest in the top 3–4% startups in each new Y Combinator (YC) batch. I immediately closed the article after reading that.

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