curiousDog

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by curiousDog 8y ago
The bigger problem is the inconsistency amongst interviewers when judging candidates. All these articles from TripleByte and Gayle (who've built business on the flaws of interviewing) focus on the questions instead. Doesn't matter
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by curiousDog 8y ago
I'm probably a luddite but the new reddit ui is downright painful to use.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
What are you building with Rust if you don’t mind sharing? I’m curious to know what sorts of companies are using it out there in production.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Isn’t this common sense though? How else would you re-write a complex, legacy system? But then again, I feel the same way about all virtues Martin Fowler extols.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Those who think Slack is just IRC are the same ones who have been predicting the year of the Linux desktop
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by curiousDog 8y ago
The cloud bet better pay off or they’re in big trouble. Especially since they’re the number 3 player and not the market dominant player like Ads. Will be interesting to see how they play out
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Amazon went from nothing to 500k employees and $200B+ in only 25yrs. Even more impressive
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Excellent work and write-up. Very happy to see the next generation of engineers are top notch like you!
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by curiousDog 8y ago
“Finally solving Physics?” Yikes.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Yes. The people I interviewed with wer actually pretty smart and competent. I am US based though
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Yes, I don’t live in the Bay Area but I am US based. $200k base is fairly standard for reputable tech companies on the west coast I think.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Docker. They made me an offer of around ~210k base + options for a Senior Software engineer a few months ago. Fully remote! I ended up passing on it for different reasons on it though.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Are you still at Netflix?
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by curiousDog 8y ago
They have close to a 100k employees. It’s hard to maintain “Googlyness” at even 1/10th of that size.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
This is analytics data. Likely won’t bring down the site but delay internal reports and ETL pipelines
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Well then you could pay for your account. You can’t have it both ways.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
And yet, Google has way better speech recognition than Alexa.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
The graphs chapter is my favorite. It's not very rudimentary like other text books
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by curiousDog 8y ago
There’s a bunch on their website. Amex, betterment seem to use them as well
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by curiousDog 8y ago
What's a boffin?
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by curiousDog 8y ago
One of the many reasons I’d never invest in a Chinese company HQ’ed over there.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
The funny thing is Google is the new Microsoft for precisely most of the reasons he mentions. The worst part of Microsoft's culture (empire building by middle managers) has now infected Google as well. Amazon is the only one that has b
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by curiousDog 8y ago
I haven't been keeping up with Go much these days but is there proper debugger support now? Or is it still a half-broken experience?
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by curiousDog 8y ago
If you’re hitting the disk, aren’t you losing some of the advantages of using an in-memory database in the first place? Or would it still be more performant than a traditional RDBMS due to optimized in memory data structures?
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Exactly. The bottom line is every interviewer is different and comes with their own quirks and biases. Writing another me too post just because you squeaked through the 5hr gambit isn't going to help anyone. I've met some intervie
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Microsoft would have actually been better. They're at least still a product development company. IBM at this point is just consultants and their sales ilk. They'll gut Red hat.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Sure but that would mean copying the data in/out. Instead you could get data-compute co-location with a proper HDFS cluster. But I think BigQuery launched SQL ML APIs recently to train simple distributed ML models on the fly.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Isn't a DW just part of the overall equation? These days I assume you'd want to do a lot more like train ML models as part of your pipeline, things that Spark/Scala allow you to do that'd be harder than just SQL. I think
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by curiousDog 8y ago
I was laughing at that myself. Guessing this is something that sounds way better in the author's native language.
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by curiousDog 8y ago
Very true. He's apparently worth $200million. That's generational wealth 99% of us can only dream of.

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