avl999

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by avl999 5y ago
Not switching industries or roles but went from a FAANG to a regular tech company close to my hometown. Took a paycut but I am single, no house, no debt and no kids so it hasn't affected my lifestyle one bit, on the other hand my curre
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by avl999 5y ago
citation needed
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by avl999 5y ago
That seems to be node.js drama... not sure what it has to do with rust.
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It went fine. I did this ins 2019. I had more than enough in savings and no other responsibilities (no mortgage, wife or kids). I took about 5 months off during which I travelled for a couple of months. Felt it was worth it and had no troub
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by avl999 5y ago
A sideeffect free api to turn on the computer in haskell would be brilliant.
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> steel erection companies Nice!
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by avl999 5y ago
If I am doing something that requires a lot of thought (like designing a solution or trying to figure out an algorithm for something tricky) or absorbing something new (like learning a new codebase or a finding my way around a new api) then
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by avl999 5y ago
Go to RottenTomatoes and any movie in the genre of your choice with over 70% fresh is going to be a good bet.
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Google should be paying a competitive wage to support these projects. They can afford to! They don't get to get cheap publicity and goodwill by putting their name on this thing while paying developers who work on these projects like cr
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by avl999 5y ago
Do not give Google free/cheap labor. It's one thing for students to do this another for those who are past that stage.
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by avl999 5y ago
This book is recommended (and heavily upvoted) on every such thread about good software books but I would very much doubt more than 5% have read more than a few chapters, probably less than 1% have read one book in the series and probably l
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by avl999 5y ago
In my free time I watch sports, some tv shows, read books and play golf. I am spending minimal (if any time) on those things you mentioned above. It seems like a personal choice to spend your free time on things that feel like work.
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by avl999 5y ago
Quit and find a new job. No tech company worth its salt should be counting hours worked for its developers.
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by avl999 5y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. You are right, there is no such thing as "essential carbs", the body can easily create glucose it needs from protein and dietary-fat. Whereas the opposite is not generally possible.
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by avl999 5y ago
The responses in this thread are classic pedantic HN with the actual point whoooshing over so many people's head.
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by avl999 5y ago
Chaining works well in builder objects and perhaps in some GUI programming or some other very specialized cases but most of the classes I write don't have sufficient mutable state to make this kind of thing worth it. My advice would be
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by avl999 5y ago
OS/Desktop environment does matter. It is going to be the single biggest thing that competes for resource if you only intend to use the machine for what the OP wants. Most websites still work OK on slow machines (my travel laptop was o
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by avl999 5y ago
Most linux distros would fit the bill for that. Very often it is the desktop environment that kills resources on your machine. So if you have a slow computer make sure to pick a desktop environment that is lightweight (Gnome likely won&#x27
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by avl999 5y ago
I don't own a Dell right now but in the past I've had good success with the Inspiron series.
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by avl999 5y ago
The answer is do not buy a MacBook pro with their ridiculous premiums on memory and disk. Buy a Dell or Thinkpad, install Linux on it, will support all your usecases and you won't be trapped by Apple, will also save some $$$s in the pr
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by avl999 5y ago
On the System 76 website, this laptop upgraded to 16 Gigs of RAM comes at at $1288 for me. Which Dell XPS with equivalent specs at 15 inch screen is cheaper let alone considerably cheaper? I can't seem to find on the Dell website http
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by avl999 5y ago
This never happened once in any of the teams I worked on in my 5 years at FAANG (Amazon specificially).
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Dealing with any kind of collections will often require you to write more code than you are used to, see the other post in this thread about someone complaining about a lack of Set type. Most of these problems are due to the fact that the l
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by avl999 5y ago
Go is my favorite language to write code in. I was very skeptical when I first started learning it for a new job with error handling that looked archaic in comparison to exceptions but once I got the hang of it it has quickly become my pref
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by avl999 5y ago
One thing I would like to point out is that it's not just the US government that is paying attention to these things. Many countries like China[1], France[2], the UK[3] have been investigating UFOs and find them credible. I personally
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by avl999 5y ago
Mick West- a game developer is in no position to question observations of trained top gun pilots and the vast infrastructure of the US Navy/Pentagon who analyze this kind of stuff for a living. If they can't explain then I am sure
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by avl999 5y ago
The tic-tac ufo and the USS Nimitz incidents are eye witness accounts of pilots observing these crafts while them also being registered on the radar. It would be one hell of a coincidence for machinery and multiple humans to malfunction in
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by avl999 5y ago
Why are you expecting your nurse and anesthesiologist friends to answer questions about mrna technology and then taking it to mean something when they can't answer? That's like reading a paper about an advancement in compiler pars
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Amazon, Apple, Netflix or Google are not even in the same ballpark of evil and destructive to humanity as Facebook. Facebook literally adds nothing enriching to our lives other than just being a vampire hanging over everyone's head. I&
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If Facebook were to just disappear tomorrow all of humanity would be better off. I am not saying it would solve all our problems but I think it gives such a boost to humanity in so many spheres that it instantly pushes us on a much more pos

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