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by aynyc 5y ago
Americans tend to speak their minds more freely than others. Just in general, we tend to speak what's on our mind, and that can create some discomfort and confusion. When I run design meetings, I really have to call on engineers who ar
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by aynyc 5y ago
We saw this a few times over the last two decades. This is just another form of offshore outsourcing. It failed every time. My personal take? Culture, as in American culture. I worked with internationals people my entire career. American cu
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by aynyc 5y ago
In my opinion, event sourcing is a data persistence strategy. I personally never heard that it's considered part of event-driven architecture, but given speed of change in that space, I wouldn't be surprised.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Event sourcing and event driven are two different things.
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by aynyc 5y ago
In the US, do you really see a higher comp range now for senior IC like 20 years in? I don't. Other than the usually FAANG and buyside shops. I just went thru several interviews, while they all want me, the comp (10-20%) isn't eno
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by aynyc 5y ago
Username checked out.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Usually, it means teams don't share within the organization. Each team basically toss releases over the wall to whoever is next. For example, my team wrote a feature, toss the entire thing over to QA team for testing, then toss the thi
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by aynyc 5y ago
If you haven't tried a nice pair of sunglasses, you should. It's a game changer. I got a pair of Maui Jim at company raffle, it was one of their high-end ones and man, I can't believe how clear I see on sunny days. Like I sai
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by aynyc 5y ago
Why does the author equate expensive with fragile? My rule is “buy nice or buy twice”. My 20 year old All-Clad saucepan is still going strong. It costed 3X compare to others. I see no reason why it won’t last another 10 year. My Weber charc
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by aynyc 5y ago
Euler has a lot of math related questions that unless you have exposure to it, you won’t be able to solve.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Middle class blacks and Latinos, as well as women.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Despite that, it was sad how many people not only couldn't complete this test, but frankly didn't even come close. This has been my experience as well. Our options were: 1. Given a merge sort algorithm psuedo-code, implement it.
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by aynyc 5y ago
I think highest here means highest salary floor for the job, not the ceiling. I think it was at one point, at least according to my recruiters who want me to do DevOps.
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by aynyc 5y ago
If Carl is uploading financial reports or payrolls for the CXO every month TWICE, then I'll just make sure I have a script that can handle that file unless the fix is easy. If you have SLA, that's easy, ship as soon as you hit tha
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by aynyc 5y ago
I don't consider myself as experts compare to some of the big names, but my habits have served me well. 1. Don't assume anything. Go in with an open mind and blank canvas. I can't tell you how many times I've been in des
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by aynyc 5y ago
Maybe it's just me. But if societies collapsed in 2050, you really aren't going to get a choice as to where you live unless you are the 0.1%. You will most likely have to choose a place where your race fits in with the population.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Depending on how hard you want to manage your money. 1. Short term: instead of CD ladder, you can do TIPS ladder. 2. Long term: correctly allocated index based portfolio.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Sometimes, I feel like Apache foundation is like Thanos, collecting all the distributed engines and watch the IT world burn. From the beginning, Heron was envisioned as a new kind of stream processing system, built to meet the most demandi
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by aynyc 5y ago
People buy restaurants and car shops mainly because of licensing such as alcohol and zoning laws. It's rare for a specialty shop to be sold unless the owner has an apprentice.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Because they are friends with CEO/board/investors. I interviewed three startups that are exactly like that. One of the CTO asked how I would validate US zip code. I told him there are around 42K zip code, just store them in a hash
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by aynyc 5y ago
I did this back in college. I had a Perl script that takes in a text file (before markdown) and generate a static one page site for local small businesses. I started with $250, depending on complexity. Ongoing maintenance was $25 a year for
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by aynyc 5y ago
I only work for three large (2000+) companies. I’ve written reports to executive management committees. CEO never really cares about projects per se. they care about business units. Each business unit can have important projects. CEOs and m
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by aynyc 5y ago
Every company I work for, legal usually sign of every deal, in terms of legality of the contract. They know every contracts/clients we have. They know where all our business is. They might not care whether our business plan is or works
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by aynyc 5y ago
Ah, got ya.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Funny you said that. Two of my friends just resigned. They aren’t moving to low cost areas, they are staying in NYC. They just got jobs with hybrid approach that they like.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Limited admin practice isn’t just to save money. It’s a security practice and it’s a good one. In a large business, no one understand the whole business maybe except legal department and CEO.
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by aynyc 5y ago
Almost every stadium deals in the US has been a disaster for locals. I'm not talking about the group of folks who get displaced and have no place to go. I'm talking about local shops, businesses that aren't into venue-related
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by aynyc 5y ago
Done that before, where my largest clients are exponentially bigger than my smallest client. The key is to realize one-size-fits-all doesn't work, not in the long term. I'm talking about feature development, storage, etc.. In the
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by aynyc 5y ago
The question I have is this, is amazon doing well because of this? Or in spite of this?
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by aynyc 5y ago
My macro economic understanding is that real estate is a debt that hedge against inflation. Since inflation will cause raising cost, your mortgage is locked in while cost of everything is going up. Inflation punishes savings but help debtor

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