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by carc 11y ago
To all the people that are somehow saying that this isn't all that bad, you seem to be missing the point. The problem isn't that these professors are taking money to support something they already support. It's that they are
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by carc 11y ago
Everyone I know who works in AWS (several engineers, either closely or as acquaintances) say their experience was nothing like what the article described. My evidence is anecdotal, but so is NYT's. I'm not saying who's right
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by carc 11y ago
Well known, top tier tech companies. I won't get into more than that they're senior engineers (partially because I don't know that I can answer that with more specificity). They all have 10+ years of experience and are typica
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by carc 11y ago
Equity is almost always worth close to zero? You realize at publicly traded companies, it might as well be a cash bonus because you can instantly cash it out the second it vests, right?
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by carc 11y ago
FWIW, I know senior engineers that chose the technical route rather than manager route, who make absolutely ridiculous amounts of money. Like close to 1,000,000/year including equity. I don't know any non VP level people making a
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by carc 11y ago
Maybe his/her experience in the US is so very different than mine, but I feel like he/she's grossly over exaggerating. I've lived in 4 cities in the midwest and west coast and would not hesitate to call the police for th
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by carc 11y ago
The insecurity is strong with this one. You're projecting that the person's literary references are "name dropping things in largely irrelevant contexts". There is no basis for this assumption, other than your obvious bi
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by carc 11y ago
Not necessarily disagreeing, but I'd like to point out that you your logic is based largely off of survivor bias. You've never seen an entire startup fail because of bad engineering probably because they never get to the point of
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by carc 11y ago
No one is claiming that makes you a bad programmer. However, if you got this as a problem to solve and your response is "I don't know" and you stop there, then you are a bad programmer. As I've commented elsewhere, the i
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by carc 11y ago
The question is definitely not described in sufficient detail. That's usually on purpose. The interviewer WANTS the candidate to realize that too and ask the questions necessary to actually understand what they are trying to solve. It&
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by carc 11y ago
Well one of the points of an interview is to see how (or if) the person goes about understanding problems the context of a given problem. So presumably it's unclear to inverse a binary tree to you - that's why you ask clarifying q
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by carc 11y ago
To be fair, inverting a binary tree is a pretty easy question. Google also tells you BEFORE you start the interview process that it'll be very data structure/algorithm oriented and asks that you please prepare (and take as much ti
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by carc 11y ago
I think you're a bit off base about the implementation level not making much of a difference compared to the strategy level. Have you never seen engineers essentially fail at building a spec because they couldn't implement somethi
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by carc 11y ago
Completely agree. I switched out of the finance/accounting industry to be a software developer because I fell in love with coding. I would not have been able to learn the skills to make that switch (while already working full time) wit
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by carc 11y ago
This is fantastic. I switched careers a couple year ago (used to be a CPA) and am now a very happy software engineer at a tech company. These sorts of resources are great. I want to iterate, though, for people without CS degrees that doing
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by carc 11y ago
I've also had a bad experience with hired. Seems like they do not run a tight ship at all.
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by carc 11y ago
Getting unnecessary tests can do more harm then good. Please don't try to get every test 'just because'. Here is a good resource that recommends what preventative measures are recommended for people of different age groups an
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by carc 11y ago
Here's what she pointed me to: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Topic/reco...
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by carc 11y ago
Some of these aren't even up to date. Lets stop acting like we're health experts here. If your doctor is still making you do "turn and cough", then your doctor is using out of date practices (source: my GF is a doctor).
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by carc 11y ago
Which is what perpetuates these types of things to continue to happen.
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by carc 11y ago
I find it interesting that some people have a problem seeing the difference between willingly and knowingly giving data to a corporation in return for a service and a law-enforcing organization using that data without permission
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by carc 12y ago
As someone who is self-taught/switched careers into a job as a software developer but mostly works very far from the machine/OS, I found this interesting and really educational. Since I rarely need to do system work, I accumulate
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by carc 12y ago
Sure stack overflow isn't perfect, but shit... Do you know how much productivity would be lost on a global scale if the site suddenly disappeared? I still use it in some capacity almost every day. Sure some of the rules might be nit pi