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by bfung 2y ago
As an older coder, past my 40s, the industry hasn’t forgotten, it’s just moved on. Distributed transactions across many microservice is too inefficient and complex to deal with. DT is fine if you don’t have microservices, scaling out quickl
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by bfung 2y ago
It looks like he’s close to having own AMD stack, tweet linked in the article, Jan 15,2025: https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1879615316378198516
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by bfung 2y ago
(Disclaimer: also datadog employee) I joined Datadog after the Vector acquisition and now currently am the manager for the Community Open Source Engineering team that works on Vector open source. Just confirming strongly what ripley12 said,
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by bfung 2y ago
(Disclaimer: datadog employee) I joined Datadog after the Vector acquisition and now currently am the manager for the Community Open Source Engineering team that works on Vector open source. It’s def. not deprecated, but it did take awhile
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by bfung 2y ago
> I really am interested in the specific job I'm applying for. Are you doing anything that shows and differentiates your interest isn’t the same as all the automated “interest”? Ex: understand deeply some parts of the industry the
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by bfung 2y ago
Also (at least in Southern California) electricity prices and how long the rig is on. Not as bad as the initial build cost, but run costs will add up over time.
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by bfung 2y ago
Spicy take: I write minimal but easy enough code to follow that there’s no “flow” needed. And by extension, no need for anything except a text editor. Easy to say, takes a lot of practice, focus, and knowing common concepts across all langu
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by bfung 2y ago
I was about to ask… looks rss to me XD
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by bfung 2y ago
Na, the 3000 sounds the like normal flood of LinkedIn type apply now button presses. The real number for them is probably the next few parts of the hiring pipeline after those resumes are scanned and filtered.
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by bfung 2y ago
Except, how long does it take to throw the code away? Sometimes never. Write short designs; Goals, constraints, options. Prevents the tech debt from building over time and signals better when to throw chunks of systems away.
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by bfung 2y ago
Or compile to wasm
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by bfung 2y ago
Layers of directed graphs where: * Nodes can represent code units (lines, functions, AST) or some low level thing, even hardware parts. * Can expand a node which contains other graphs * Can group graphs into simpler graphs to describe a hig
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by bfung 2y ago
HN meta: an actual research paper vs product posing as science. Nice.
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by bfung 2y ago
I’m also in camp The Great Divergence. Learning and using the tools to become multiples more productive is relatively hard, still. In programming, most people still struggle with syntax. The few that get past struggle with conciseness. The
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by bfung 2y ago
To be fair, I will do both presidential candidates. Kamala Harris’s answer on fracking and position change. Input: "My values have not changed," Harris asserted. "My position is we have got to invest in diverse sources of ene
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by bfung 2y ago
Only one that’s shell specific is 4. The rest can be applied any code written. Good work!
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by bfung 2y ago
There's an extra qualifier here, where are there Software Engineers past 40s that started in their 30s . I'd don't see many, if at all, that are basically at entry level and end up doing PM/TPM work (not that it's
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by bfung 2y ago
> I'm skeptical about the idea that we can simply "choose" to be thermostats. Well, it’s like most things, it takes practice and time to be good at it if natural talent isn’t there. Sure, things out of our control can trig
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by bfung 2y ago
https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-replacement Fill in the form and send your iphone 11 in for battery replacement. I've done this a few times w/different iphone models, works great, no fuss
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by bfung 2y ago
> Here in this article we’ll bring together research, comments from people who are very familiar with CPUs, and a bit of our in-house data to show why focusing on the ISA is a waste of time Very amateur-ish question and counterpoint from
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by bfung 2y ago
Clickbait title. Even the article cites the number from Jensen’s interview. https://youtu.be/NC5NZPrxbHk?si=8uQ4zdMU02f4X1Hc (at 1:41) Hyperscalers & Meta. (Corp speak 101: Hyperscalers = AWS, GCP, Azure)
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by bfung 2y ago
^^^ this. LA is such a sprawl, public transit barely covers all the places people want to go to. Any improvement is welcome, hopefully it won’t regress after Olympics, but wouldn’t be surprised.
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by bfung 2y ago
Not technically a tech lead anymore, in people mgmt for last 10yrs, but still code at least 60% time and still scrappy. 1. at least 2x a week, group meets on Mondays and Friday to set weekly expectations, 1:1’s as needed weekly or bi-weekly
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by bfung 2y ago
> Maybe I don’t know much about Markdown… Says the inventor of it, 20yrs ago. https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
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by bfung 2y ago
Other curiosity/follow-up questions: * has this impacted biases or political stances (extreme or middle) in any direction? * has this impacted individual happiness in any way?
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by bfung 2y ago
Strategy is only good for really, really good runners. At ~160m, (similar to the 200m), at-pace speed for the pro is already all-out for the average person.
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by bfung 2y ago
The job titles in the different industries are pretty interesting, also, that inflate/confuse things. At financials (and sometimes sales departments), you have, from most junior to senior: 1. Associate 2. Analyst 3. Vice Presidents 4.
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by bfung 2y ago
server-less - like the server that runs the browser that the VM runs inside. /sarcasm
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by bfung 2y ago
Yo Dawg, I herd you like bootloaders, so I put a bootloader in your kernel so you can boot w/a kernel while you boot a kernel.
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by bfung 2y ago
> secondary indices on the external_id columns in both tables pick your poison, slower lookup or more disk usage

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