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by fizwhiz 5y ago
Digestible articles authored by L8+ amazon SWEs? Sign me up!
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by fizwhiz 5y ago
Turns out having your short URLs too short can also be problematic: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02734v1.pdf An example in this paper cites the shortener used by Google Maps. The researchers were able to enumerate all
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by fizwhiz 5y ago
> de novo Paxos implementation written in Flow That's... brave. Flow is a DSL built on top of C++?
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by fizwhiz 5y ago
I hate to be that guy, but this isn't Quora my guy.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
what
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
F's in the chat for all the Amazon employees that I'm sure lurk around here.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> Unlike FIRE, there are degrees to this. r/leanFIRE, r/FIRE and r/fatFIRE would disagree.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Poe's law.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Absolutely; my response was more geared towards expectations in a design round. If you have the option to draw from personal experience / war stories then even better.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
I'm not an SRE, but for SWEs at that level you may expect a deeper discussion in: * Addressing scaling bottlenecks with a large focus on reliability and fault-tolerance. * Concepts orthogonal to the core ask (ex: security, privacy, aut
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
This book will at best get you an L5 gig at FAANG; for Staff eng positions (L6+) you need significantly more depth and rigor.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Looking at the returns alone is an incomplete picture; a huge part of being a real estate investor is having clever tricks at your disposal to reduce your taxes.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Bruh you woke up and chose violence
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
hyperbole much?
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
You could argue that bike delivery can be more dangerous than delivering by car. It's also hard to get visibility into how difficult it was for your dasher/delivery-person to actually acquire your order. Was the parking situation
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Do you tip based on the value of your meal rather than the volume/size, anticipated inconvenience for the dasher, or some other combination of factors? Or is it always flat regardless of what you order?
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> Unfortunately, she had a poor relationship with her father which is a no-go for me due to past bad experiences. Genuinely curious why this was (for you) a leading indicator of a bad relationship?
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Big Companies vs. Startups(danluu.com)
7 points by fizwhiz 6y ago|1 comments
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Obligatory: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ I realize the spectrum isn't limited to startups vs bigCo's (you can be self-employed as a consultant etc.) but the numbers are almost always met with disbeli
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
I hope the reason you're being downvoted is that you mentioned E5 "salary" but you probably meant "compensation" which includes much more like bonus, initial grant RSUs, refreshers etc. Either ways, I've always
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
That neatly falls under "extenuating restriction that makes it feel unattainable" :)
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
I think this sentiment is primarily exacerbated when people live in lower CoL areas. Folks routinely balk at typical mid-level comp of ~$500k even here on HN so it doesn't surprise me that the knee-jerk reaction is that ~$4M is out of
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7WR89GMC4
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Spot on, I think if the author spent 30min watching an introductory queuing theory video they'd realize that there's so many factors: * Workload distribution (heavy tailed, exponential, uniform etc.) * Scheduling policies (FirstCo
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Capacity is a necessary but not sufficient condition to mitigate something at this scale though.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Do you dose the D3/K2 combo on a daily basis? I've got https://amzn.com/B075R56QCQ which i do ~3 times a week.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
I sure hope so because I've been taking half a serving of these little suckers for a while now: https://amzn.com/B001LXRWWE Here's a breakdown of the DV for some of the vitamins for a full serving: B1 = 33x (yes,
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
But it does equal to unemployment in the United States because you can only get limited mileage out of OPT. Moreover, you need to work in an industry where employers are willing to sponsor an H-1B. Many of us have had to "pivot" t
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> Under the new rule, the required wage level for entry-level workers would rise to the 45th percentile of their profession’s distribution, from the current requirement of the 17th percentile. The requirement for the highest-skilled work
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Yikes. I would have been unemployed by that measure because I work as a SWE without a CS degree.

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