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by danwee 4y ago
They are the best. You can give your opinion and they will always go against you. That means if the project goes south, it's their fault (you have the chance to say "I told you so", but ofc you wouldn't say because you a
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by danwee 4y ago
It's very expensive whenever I look up. Sure, the apartments/rooms are quite nice and hype and well decorated, but that doesn't compensate the price (nor the fact that anything can go wrong I would be left without accomodatio
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by danwee 4y ago
These kind of people are like that. Does Linus Torvalds have a web page? No. He knows he doesn't need one. They are gods in the IT industry, and they know it.
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by danwee 4y ago
That doesn't work either. If I send you a take-home test and I set the duration of it to be 3 days: what if you (think) you are done in 4 hours? Will you just send it? Or will you spend more time on it because, well, maybe other people
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by danwee 4y ago
It depends. The snippet of code itself, yeah, it could take less than 30min. But then what, do you submit just as it is? No, you run "main.py/main.go/main.whatever". Do we need command line parameters? Maybe? Better to s
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by danwee 4y ago
Take-home tests are the worst. This is why: - it doesn't value equally candidate's time and company's time. The candidate has to spend hours/days to do the test, while the company evaluates the result in minutes (1h at m
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by danwee 4y ago
Why do you do the take home test at the end? Seems odd. Take home tests are used because it saves time to the company, so you do it first. If the candidates passes the test, then the "real" interviews starts. By doing it at the en
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by danwee 4y ago
Indeed. But then most tech companies don't pay that much to tech employees (e.g., see the whole European continent)
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by danwee 4y ago
kAIbernetes will become what jQuery became: someone will need to create something better at some point. It's all the same again. AI won't affect shit. Did we lose our jobs because of compilers?
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by danwee 4y ago
> Oracle makes millions, but is it because of their amazing devs? Meaning? If it's because of their sales people, they are making a good salary as well. > Doctors don't make millions, is it because saving human life is not v
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by danwee 4y ago
IT workers are as divas as Basketball players (to some extent): why on earth Lebron James earns millions? Answer: because the team that owns him makes much more than that by selling his image. Easy. Same of IT workers: IT companies make mil
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by danwee 4y ago
> Then you contact support, appoint disk change, you first deactivate disk on raid (save geometry etc), they replace disk and then you rebuild raid in new disk. That's it. I imagine this would take time, right? Like not 5 minutes, b
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by danwee 4y ago
Noob question: if I rent one of these dedicated servers, what happens if some hardware fails? Do I need to contact support or will they detect that automatically? If something needs to be fixed manually (e.g., hard drive, cpu, network), how
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by danwee 4y ago
I don't really get the comments from HN people. I could understand my neighbour (non-tech) saying "Ha ha, you software engineers will become jobless because of AI", but the HN crowd saying that? Here's my rationale: - AI
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by danwee 4y ago
> Because it is an easy meal ticket. Why are we pretending it's not? Well, at least for me it wasn't. I went to university to study CS (in Europe, so I didn't get a debt). It was hard (like any other Science/Engineeri
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by danwee 4y ago
It is more challenging, but not as much as it was before the pandemic started. 5 years ago less than 1% of the companies were offering 100% remote positions. Nowadays I can say that, at least from my point of view, I find that at least 30%
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by danwee 4y ago
No one cares about titles. Everyone cares about compensation. If your "staff role" is getting less than other's company "senior role", well, all things equal, you cannot compete. I was a staff engineer in company A,
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by danwee 4y ago
Gandi actually. So far so good. Need to check if what OP says is true, though.
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by danwee 4y ago
I don't get it. Every job is stressfull (that's why they are called jobs!). Now, unless one is working for non-profit organizations or similars, the goal of any regular job is: 1. do a decent job (e.g., don't be corrupt, know
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Multipass – VMs for macOS (arm included)(multipass.run)
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by danwee 4y ago
Whenever something goes wrong in terms of product management, we can always blame Jira (or the PM). I like that.
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by danwee 4y ago
Agree. I would add that "Shit-talking" is necessary in any healthy organization. Employees needs a space in which they can talk openly with other peers (usually, their equals) about what they don't like at the organization. I
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by danwee 4y ago
I would say they mean minimal interaction: going to the supermarket and say 'Thanks' to the cashier and things like that...
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by danwee 4y ago
Agree as well. In the team we all do: - git checkout -b "new-branch" - git commit - git merge --no-ff master (to get the latest from master into our branches) - git push That's all you need. No rebase or force pushes. Easy.
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by danwee 4y ago
Funny. At my uni (western europe), foundational courses for CS were about 70% maths + electronics + physics, and 30% about DS+algorithms, OS, etc. Literally, the first year of the CS degree one was asking oneself: did I sign up for a Maths
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by danwee 4y ago
A colleague of mine didn't know that it was possible to revert a commit without commiting (so, leaving the reverted changes in the staging area). In such ocassions you either a) search in google, b) read the manual, c) ask a colleague
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by danwee 4y ago
We have "problems" only because we (humans) have decide to classify them as such. Do you think dogs (or trees or stars) have problems? Is losing my job a problem? If so, how is that different than a meteorit hitting the earth? Is
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by danwee 4y ago
I want to imagine that hardware engineering follows better practices than software engineering: - no stupid sprints - no agile So, if a new "feature" needs to be implemented at the hardware level, then all the time needed will be
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by danwee 4y ago
What what's "a good time"? If you have lectures at 8:00am, explore this scenario: - let's say it takes 30min from your home to the university - let's say it takes you 15min to get ready (including shower) - let&#x27
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by danwee 4y ago
> Try another country? Not all of the 8 billion people of earth get to stay here. The partner has already a job in the country... so would both leave to another country where none of them have a job yet? Also perhaps OP doesn't spea

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