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by badfrog 7y ago
I really appreciate that this was episode 665.
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by badfrog 7y ago
From the intro, why this is interesting: > The question of whether mean body temperature is changing over time is not merely a matter of idle curiosity. Human body temperature is a crude surrogate for basal metabolic rate which, in turn,
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by badfrog 7y ago
Is F# usage growing at all?
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by badfrog 7y ago
What's the benefit for an average software engineer in going along with the acquihire rather than looking for a completely new job?
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by badfrog 7y ago
> Personally, I'd rather earn an extra $25k and buy a few cups of coffee with it than get "free coffee". I don't think there are any companies that spend $25k per employee per year on coffee???
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by badfrog 7y ago
Much faster initial load.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> contribute poorly to regular sprint style work > I am completely miserable doing maintenance level work Sounds like something you might want to work on even if you don't get a job in programming. It seems unlikely you'll f
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by badfrog 7y ago
I've seen the opposite issue. I'll tell a candidate "I don't care if you know the exact function name and parameter order for the library function the get a sub-array; just make up something reasonable and focus on solvi
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by badfrog 7y ago
I think the shortage is _good_ web developers, and it sounds like this test doesn't really help identify those.
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by badfrog 7y ago
I, for one, know what Silicon Valley is but have never heard of Palo Alto Networks before. So the title as written is much more meaningful to me.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> That being said, I think it’s hilarious I think there are many things that would be hilarious and also should get people fired.
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by badfrog 7y ago
The feature is actually called silos? I thought the hip thing to do was tear down all the silos in a company?
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by badfrog 7y ago
This crazy points system doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard of at FAANG.
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by badfrog 7y ago
Lol at "robots" and "AI". The jobs of most old school traders are being replaced by regular nerds with fairly simple code.
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by badfrog 7y ago
Are you sure that difference is not based more on how old the businesses are than where they're located?
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by badfrog 7y ago
> People are afraid to wear jeans at work because it might look "unprofessional" or like they're not working as hard as people who wear 'business' attire. That just sounds like a bad company, not an east coast pr
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by badfrog 7y ago
+1, this is not a thing
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by badfrog 7y ago
What's the actual story here? This can't be the first trading firm that doesn't have human traders?
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by badfrog 7y ago
> but the problem is actually that the UI itself only loads these things once they've been rendered by the framework which is often after another component has loaded them That just sounds like bad front end coding. A good framework
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by badfrog 7y ago
> all the data you intend to show them you should be able to fetch and send with the initial request. Sure, but if it requires data from five different services and significant compute time, the initial request is going to be very slow.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> a 2mb page right now, than a 200kb page that slowly grows to a 2mb page over the course of 20 components individually loading themselves. Isn't the point that the 200kb is static code that can be served immediately, while the rest
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by badfrog 7y ago
> What about code that proves a complex, many page mathematical theorem? The hard part should be understanding the theorem. If you understand that and the code is still difficult, then the code should be better written. I guess one excep
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by badfrog 7y ago
I've thought that many times and always been wrong. At the end of the day, code is just code. After you take the time to understand the environment it's running in, it's not that much different than anything else you could wr
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by badfrog 7y ago
Does Google have a time limit for new grads to reach L4? Seems like this person may have hit that wall.
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by badfrog 7y ago
We're specifically talking about somebody who came from Google, so whether that's a lot to an average person is irrelevant. Somebody making that at Google would be very inexperienced, and the fact that they left to work for much l
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by badfrog 7y ago
I left to work on tech at a trading firm. It pays more, and IMO the work is more interesting and less stressful.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> these engineers, while they all tend to be very smart, tend to be borderline junior engineers in the real world Define "real world"?
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by badfrog 7y ago
From that chapter: "In general, a method for combining data values satisfies the closure property if the result of combination can itself be combined using the same method." It sounds like they're just describing recursive da
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by badfrog 7y ago
Sounds like it's a bad place to work anyway. Hiring people who can recite definitions without evidence of being able to apply the concepts is a recipe for building a terrible team.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> Locally though, degree's don't matter because there aren't enough good programmers Aren't programming salaries much lower in the UK than the US? If there's a shortage, why don't companies start paying more

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