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by dhd415 4y ago
>>I'm somewhat blown away by this whole thing. Leverage to finance an already-leveraged derivatives position on illiquid stock. From the issuer of said stock. Who is also the borrower's employee. That's both risky and d
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by dhd415 4y ago
I suspect that lots of people ask for O(n) when they mean Θ(n) instead which specifies both an upper and lower bound. For example, specifying Θ(n^3) as the running time for a bubble sort would be incorrect whereas O(n^3) would be imprecise
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by dhd415 4y ago
Perhaps that is the disconnect here. Negotiations do not necessarily include ultimatums. Obviously, one must be prepared to deal with the situation where an employer declines to meet your compensation requests, but framing it as an ultimatu
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by dhd415 4y ago
Daily 30-minute meetings sounds to me like the antithesis of good management. If you feel like you need 30 minutes of synchronous time per day from your team of engineers, you are not a good manager.
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by dhd415 4y ago
I recently went through this process with a lot of the same companies on this guy's list although I limited mine to 100% remote roles. I do agree that some interview and coding prep is beneficial although not nearly as much as he sugge
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by dhd415 5y ago
I recently had a slew of interviews at FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies (and accepted a great offer at one of them) that were 100% remote. It's good to name and shame the ones that are lying or otherwise underhanded about it, but I&#
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by dhd415 5y ago
I am no fan of a lot of the design choices or the effort required to operate large ES clusters, but there are easily several hundred man-years of development effort behind ES. It would be a really long time before a team starting from scrat
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by dhd415 5y ago
It seems especially egregious that AWS claimed their hosted offering was a partnership with Elastic when they launched it: https://twitter.com/kimchy/status/1351534454154543106
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by dhd415 5y ago
Having interacted with Elasticsearch a lot, I assure you there is a lot for them yet to improve. Frankly, I think Elasticsearch followed the MongoDB model of "make it easy for developers to adopt and then make it good." MDB did th
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by dhd415 5y ago
Wow, it's pretty surprising to me that the agreement allowed AWS to refer to Elasticsearch at all when promoting their own managed search offering.
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Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit(elastic.co)
226 points by dhd415 5y ago|184 comments
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by dhd415 5y ago
I guess there's some value to a listing of salary/equity figures without the associated company, but it would be far more valuable if the company were included. One thing I really like about levels.fyi is that their comp data stre
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by dhd415 5y ago
This +100. I'd pay a reasonable amount for my Google Voice numbers, too, if it would ensure that I don't lose them on short notice.
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by dhd415 5y ago
In addition to ringing true, this seems largely in line with Thomas Kuhn's thesis in his Structure of Scientific Revolutions [0], a book which despite its shortcomings, should be required reading for anyone in a STEM field. [0] https:
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by dhd415 5y ago
Frankly, you should just ask your manager what the comp change, if any, would be if you switched roles. This is a normal question in all but the most dysfunctional companies.
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Airbyte relicenses its source code from MIT to the Elastic License v2(airbyte.io)
6 points by dhd415 5y ago|1 comments
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by dhd415 5y ago
I would expect that your startup experience would place you well among a pool of entry-level candidates once you made it past the resume screening stage. Where the FANG position is going to help you is in getting past that stage. Fairly or
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by dhd415 5y ago
In my experience, getting a FAANG job accelerates your career as well or better than titling up quickly in a startup. Having a FANG position on your resume is more of a known quantity for future potential employers than being promoted quick
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by dhd415 5y ago
Michelin has been selling these under the "Tweel" name[0] for skid steers, commercial lawn mowers, and other mid-sized wheeled equipment for several years now. Supposedly, they improve the handling and ride of the equipment since
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by dhd415 5y ago
Alloy wheels have had open designs for decades and that hasn't been a problem for them.
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by dhd415 5y ago
Interesting -- this reminds me of the the Greenbrier Bunker[0] which was a secret fallout shelter intended to house Congress in the event of a nuclear strike on DC. It was also decommissioned in the early 90s and ~20yrs later repurposed as
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by dhd415 5y ago
While this is tangentially related to Amazon's fork of Elasticsearch, it's more related to Elastic's trademark infringement suit against AWS's use of the trademarked Elasticsearch name in their managed service, especiall
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by dhd415 5y ago
Especially considering ~11 of the Apache Lucene committers are Elastic employees as well as 10 members of the Apache Lucene Project Management Committee.
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by dhd415 5y ago
I have essentially this setup -- A decently powerful Win10 machine connected to three large monitors and I connect via X11 over wired gigabit Ethernet to my Linux work machine using Mobaxterm in Win10. It's the best of all worlds -- pe
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by dhd415 5y ago
Using the standard definition of "independently wealthy" as "no longer needs to work to cover living expenses", I would say that $1MM is nowhere enough to do that in almost any place in the US, especially if you have kid
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by dhd415 5y ago
Would storing a wallet's private key in an encrypted password manager be insecure in some way?
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by dhd415 5y ago
>>A household that makes $500k on a good year is actually in the 1% statistically. They have left the working class long ago. They could work for about 7-10 years in their career and retire with an above-median salary (withdrawing fol
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by dhd415 5y ago
In addition to that, there's some unwarranted anti-grass sentiment in the article with sentences such as "Good things happen when you remove the choking thatch of grass and let the earth breathe.". Non-grass landscaping can b
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by dhd415 5y ago
Looks like there's an extra zero in the HN title on this one.
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by dhd415 6y ago
The article's author clearly has an ax to grind if an unsubstantiated "botched Covid vaccine rollout" accusation is thrown into an article about this winter storm and the power grid. In reality, Texas has one of the most effe

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