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by civicsquid 4y ago
Thank you, I'll have to take you up on this
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by civicsquid 4y ago
This seems like more of a dig than a genuine question but assuming it is genuine... Here's what I'd say. Where I work, time in the job doesn't necessarily correlate with career progression. It is dependent on continuously dem
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by civicsquid 4y ago
Good point. This is actually something I have not done well. Or at all. I’ve been pretty much working and operating solo for the past two years, which isn’t great. I also live in Seattle which I have found not very conducive to networking,
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by civicsquid 4y ago
Good idea, thank you
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by civicsquid 4y ago
Do you mean of a specific company? I’m not sure which companies I’m interested in yet so it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem in that case. But yes I agree I need to chat with someone at prospective companies once I find one I like!
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Ask HN: How do I find my next job?
20 points by civicsquid 4y ago|26 comments
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by civicsquid 5y ago
I think it will be interesting to see how existing and upcoming Meta (FB) products compete with Apple products in the VR/AR space. It seems to me like Meta might have some advantage here initially, but in the long run I'm not sure
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Ask HN: If you work in infra, how's the social situation?
6 points by civicsquid 5y ago|4 comments
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by civicsquid 5y ago
I don't love these aspects. We generally don't have them as much where I work (I think). Maybe I've just never noticed.
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by civicsquid 5y ago
I assume you made the jump. What was the outcome? Did you find it just as easy to find offers elsewhere as you did when you were at a big company (if you were looking at all)? I am partly -- perhaps irrationally -- concerned that going to a
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Ask HN: Should I go from big tech to a startup?
12 points by civicsquid 5y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: If you resigned recently, what are you doing next?
3 points by civicsquid 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What Is Technical Mentorship?
1 points by civicsquid 5y ago|0 comments
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by civicsquid 7y ago
It looks like Facebook's `folly` library had an implementation of coroutines available in their experimental directory since mid-2018. There was still some evolution going on after it was pushed though (and it seems like there still is
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by civicsquid 7y ago
Beyond increasing complexity, I think this also assumes a dependency graph that _can_ be broken down into microservices by the author/the author's team. From my experience a lot of things at this scale have such complex dependenci
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by civicsquid 7y ago
That's fair, I think I forget that not everyone knows that this is a project managed by a consortium, not by a single company alone.
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by civicsquid 7y ago
I think it's more of an anti-tech mindset more than an anti-Facebook mindset. If Google did this, I imagine that Germany would be just as upset. If, for example, Goldman Sachs did the same thing, that might not go over smoothly, but I
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by civicsquid 7y ago
Something I've started doing that I picked up was prefixing my nitpicky comments with "Nit: ..." so that it's clear that certain comments are just minor suggestions, not that anything is necessarily wrong. I'm usual
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by civicsquid 7y ago
Maybe the technique in this post is common, but I personally believe that putting yourself and your thoughts out there is a good thing for engineers and critical thinkers in general. It allows us to get feedback and involve others on a wide
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by civicsquid 7y ago
Some of the examples listed when the author speaks about why they are such a good learner felt a bit forced to me. I understand that authority is being established here, but a good number of the early examples seem to be what I would expect
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by civicsquid 7y ago
One of my professors condensed that point into something I thought was clever: "Software engineering is the distilling of ambiguity". I think about that whenever I get frustrated about a vague spec or lack of details. It's th
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by civicsquid 7y ago
I might suggest adding (a sense of) purpose in there as well. From what I've seen, it becomes hard for senior citizens because they feel like they've lost their usefulness. Even with the three other things you mentioned, not feeli
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by civicsquid 7y ago
The original press release (from the FTC) and a lot of discussion about it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20515235
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by civicsquid 7y ago
I think this refers to previous stories where there were reports of passwords being logged as part of what I assume was request parameter logging.
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by civicsquid 7y ago
I also worked through the courses in this series, up through Part 4. I thought it was a great way to get introduced to Rust, especially when concurrency comes into play. Having only ever written this sort of code in C/C++/Java, th
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by civicsquid 7y ago
I never believed number 1 until relatively recently. After growing up in a family where work was life, it didn't make sense to me to do anything but work (even if constant work made me miserable). Now that I'm out of school and I
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by civicsquid 7y ago
I didn't know what "PE looting" meant when I saw this title, so here's what I would say it is based on the article: When a private equity (PE) firm buys a company (usually taking on large debts to do so) and strips any v
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by civicsquid 7y ago
The nice thing about Netflix for the consumer was that you could go there to watch a lot of things you were interested in watching. You didn't need five (or more) different streaming services to get most of what you wanted. As the arti
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by civicsquid 7y ago
This sounds like good news. While there is always the argument that innovation is stifled by regulation, sometimes you do actually need regulators and experts to step in and point out where issues may lie. With a system like Libra, this see
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by civicsquid 7y ago
That seems like a stretch. You can delete erroneous posts, reply to your own erroneous posts with corrections, or retweet with corrections. It's not like there's no way to correct yourself, you just need to be a bit more deliberat

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