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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Used Java a lot. It decent for applications, web services. Prefer C++ for embedded programming. Python for scripts and data wrangling and ML. Sorry but what do I not know about computer science? What a general purpose programming language c
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
before laying off ic..start with managers. main issue in big tech..manager reports to manager reports to manager reports to manager. one dev team with 5 coders plus product manager, software engineering manager, technical program manager.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
scotty kilmer. does not teach ‘mastery’ but he teach much about what to look at when buying car..have car issue..avoid get scam by mechanic. his speaking style like old grandpa. very enjoyable and improve my ability to understand spoken eng
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Assuming you os has grep agree it is fastest. to search for name joe as example: > grep -r joe . -r will do a recursive search in case you have files in folders and those folders have more folders with files
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> Should corporations be accountable to society in some way, or do we trust them to "do the right thing"? This strawman. you jumping to big conclusion by asking aggressive question. im minority person. dei things me saw at big
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> Why does everything need to be "disrupted"? If the business is doing well with what it has, maybe that's fine. Worse is when a company starts spraying new ideas at the wall, hoping to find something that sticks. prefect.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Same story at Amazon. have kindle, fire stick, prime subscription, and alexa echo puck. prime shopping worse today than 5 years ago. many item take longer than 2 day promise. too many scam items, like shopping at some flea market. reviews
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
this misguided and only purpose it serve to make these company die sooner. Main problem these company took benefit of cheap interest rates and overhired. hiring for promotion and ego. hiring not sake of true business growth. Saw entire team
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Davos is private gathering with politicians..media..celebrities. It saddening to see it not questioned enough. A private gathering—-people with agenda and means..capital media and celebrities—-to normalize and propagate that agenda. while t
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opportune time to do beginning of year before new projects..goal measurement and execution get underway. also remember part of this to help share price. executive leadership teams sending message to market they ready to focus on “value” and
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english not me main language but it not mean me stupid. i was at two big tech company for over past 10 year. this a massive GRIFT..saw armies of new hires. Now people on HN and LinkedIn say, "So hard to recruit this level talent. Will
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> Genuine publishers, meanwhile, seem wary of commenting on the issue. This may be out of fear of antagonising Amazon, on whose distribution model they almost universally rely for book sales, or because such information is commercially s
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> Do better, Apple - if you say you're leading the way in helping the environment, especially when it comes to the disposal of old devices, an excessive drop in value when trading these in is not going to be a success. author has be
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
- all in - this week in tech - Lex freidman
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
This look like it written by ChatGPT. you wrote post and asked chatgpt to clean and rephrase for you.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
maybe follow up question is what problem being solved. do users not intuit checkbox button? is this some problem being solved or more of fad?
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> So the next time you’re introduced to strangers at the party, and they start talking business, spend at least a little time sizing up their partners. If you don’t pay attention to this, you will have lost an important source of insight
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
me life or career not change so much at age milestones. changes for me were more life events. marriage gave me partner but it was several years living together to really understand spouse and show proper love respect understanding they dese
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
you should be able to see their CS syllabus online. in me experience.. essential math is single variable calculus and multi variate culture usually taught over 1-3 separate courses. linear algebra..discrete math (more of CS class than just
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
new companies have structural advantages. amazon for example is services architecture. many frameworks and solutions built once for shopping/seller use case. now you want to join Y space? incentive to reuse tooling and framework that a
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> “ One of the most nonsensical things I have read on here in a long time.” at risk of sounding arrogant, maybe you missing important experience so this not resonate with you. me time in big tech had many teams or even orgs focused on ad
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
msft is a business..not charity. my experience at two big tech companies said this extremely overdue. especially since about 2012.. lots of added head count. managers and sr. managers and directors #1 priority on increasing head count to gr
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op exaggerates. it has proper ending. the pace questionable, but it more or less exactly as book. no liberty to make big change in story like other shows do.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
-> “Cuban rulers would rather its citizens starve than implement democracy.” cuban here. please dont pretend america care about democracy. america have interests. when they need new regime they suppress democracy as needed or push for de
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Really enjoyed reading this article. > The wedding was held outside, the food prepared out in the open air as it always is. The crows sat on their electric poles overlooking the venue as preparations were made. If an opportunity presente
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
>”Don’t fucking simp for Amazon. People do things different ways (hell, Amazon themselves barely have a phone number), and absent some indication of fraud their behavior is unreasonable.” Easy solution for you. dont like their policies?
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> Office politics is one somewhat cynical perspective had director colleague say this in same words. it cynical view, so we pretend it not happening and not rock boat. well here we are now with layoffs. entire teams who produce no econom
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Admittedly wouldn’t have clicked otherwise. 100% click bait title.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
How do you define modularity? Written modular code in many languages. Me experience: functional constructs and declarative problem solving helps in grand scheme, as does putting your time into building missing abstractions or using right li
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Time space diagrams in distributed systems. Very obvious once you see but never before saw some critical problems in distributed systems like fifo ordering, causal ordering and other things explained with such diagrams. did not have formal

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