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by eshyong 7y ago
Yeah, I just started started working at Twitch about a month ago, and while I was interviewing with them I found more accurate results when I searched for Amazon salaries instead. I think part of the problem is there aren't many data p
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by eshyong 7y ago
Plus the fact that protobuf is more flexible about interface changes. My previous company had countless incidents that happened when new code deserialized msgpack records with unexpected fields from redis...
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by eshyong 7y ago
The author is not selling you anything. He is not saying that hard work is bad. His _whole argument_ is that we should work on projects that excite us and benefit us, as opposed to working on Rails because it's trendy and has lots of
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by eshyong 7y ago
No, the author is suggesting that you work on projects that are intrinsically motivating, i.e. things that you would want as opposed to problems other people want you to solve.
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by eshyong 7y ago
Yep that's what I took away from it too.
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by eshyong 7y ago
Except that's the opposite of what he's saying. Instead of valuing feeling productive, he now values feeling energetic and excited every day. I think you may have missed that part. Not everyone wants to get swole or be a rails cor
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by eshyong 7y ago
I'd guess that most people would be ok with not getting to the top. Most would be happy to have a few million dollars in the bank by the time they retire. America seems to have an absolutist mindset. Being a billionaire != success&#x2F
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by eshyong 7y ago
Their director of infra tried to recruit me and basically said that they wanted to replace every relational data store with message queues instead... that struck me as a bit weird and overzealous.
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by eshyong 7y ago
Still, looks like a nasty injury. That's enough to make anyone ponder life
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by eshyong 7y ago
That was probably a joke, see Robinhood's reply: https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434 Seems like infra problems.
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by eshyong 7y ago
Unfortunately, the original poster appears to genuinely believe in the power of blockchain. Cryptocurrencies seem to attract a certain crowd which is extremely technical but also surprisingly naive about the way humans work. The result is y
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by eshyong 7y ago
I hope you've found success and happiness in life nowadays! Honestly interviewing is in some ways closer to dating than contests of skill. Sometimes your area of expertise is just not what the team is looking for. Sometimes that compan
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by eshyong 7y ago
Agreed with your points, although I wouldn't use the word "lie". "Marketing yourself" would be a better way to put it. It's not about falsely representing your experience; it's about knowing and emphasizin
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by eshyong 7y ago
I don't think the fact that Dan posts the least controversial ideas detracts from his point; publishing one of them is admirable in itself. Putting yourself out there is better than not posting anything at all.
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by eshyong 7y ago
I agree that the author isn't totally rigorous in his methodology, which I understand is frustrating, but I think you're missing the bigger point he's trying to make. As I interpreted it, the article is mostly about self-impr
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by eshyong 7y ago
Come on man, be sensitive. This is people's jobs we're talking about.
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by eshyong 7y ago
No problem!
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by eshyong 7y ago
I think you meant "rate"...
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by eshyong 7y ago
> I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box. That's a huge benefit, considering > 75% of the world still uses Windows.
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by eshyong 7y ago
Probably the latter. Once you have that big a userbase + not much competition it's hard to go down unless something catastrophic happens.
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by eshyong 7y ago
Is PHP Ents a type of webserver FB uses?
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by eshyong 7y ago
Yes, I agree. I'm arguing against your characterization of node as a poor runtime. For many line-of-business applications node is a fine choice. However, plaid has to integrate with many banks which only expose web pages, not APIs, so
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by eshyong 7y ago
I mean, running multiple node runtimes (aka multiprocessing) actually sounds like a reasonable compromise for parallelism. That's the standard solution for dynamic languages without great multithreading support. If you needed great mul
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by eshyong 7y ago
I feel like this article is missing a crucial piece of information: why was integration code was blocking the event loop in the first place?...
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by eshyong 7y ago
Ahh, interesting insight. I hadn't considered that case before, but in that context it makes sense. I'd definitely be annoyed if I was a professor/doctor and strangers were being overly familiar with me.
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by eshyong 7y ago
Isn't that a good thing, since they're getting more recognition (people learning their first name), or am I missing something more subtle here?
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by eshyong 7y ago
I was able to see it in autocomplete, so that's something: https://imgur.com/a/dJFuNqW You are right that simply typing "work" and hitting enter returns no results, though.
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by eshyong 7y ago
Ironically, your comment is an example of a narrow view mindset that software engineers who work on React and Javascript are somehow not equivalent to "real" engineers. I don't think that's a balanced view in an industry
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by eshyong 7y ago
If you read the article more closely, it says that Borg was written in C++. If you watch the video linked by @tuvan below, you'll hear the speaker (who is a contributor) mention that the original authors of Kubernetes wrote the first
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by eshyong 7y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/gusto-headquarters-office-to... https://www.businessinsider.com/gusto-ceo-joshua-reeves-

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