fizwhiz

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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> It is indeed a pity that so many younger software engineers really have no idea of how heavily used real-world systems get built. Nor do they understand all the various tradeoffs and corner cases that need to get handled to make produc
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
This appears to survey different architecture representation/drawing tools in different domains, and not any inherent architecture (a la Designing Data Intensive style patterns) itself.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
username certainly checks out.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> It was like losing a limb or two, and suddenly realising all your friends ever do is climb. While I don't entirely agree with your comment (and certainly didn't downvote it), I did enjoy the double(?) metaphor here.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Amdahl would agree.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
My dude's just trying to get a promo, I guarantee it.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
You paint a false dichotomy here. These compensation numbers are just as likely in NYC. Work life balance at many of the FAANG companies tends to be better than other companies ( especially startups), and I've had plenty of bosses tha
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> Are $500k+ yearly salaries in SV really that usual? Salaries? Not at all. Total compensation? Well, it depends. Software engineers with < 10yrs of experience routinely make this much at FAANG. The total compensation number usually i
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Came here to say this exact thing. There have been a variety of techniques to achieve this - some intrusive to your binaries (i.e. they require embedding specific libraries) and others that are more "external" (ex: tc/iptable
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> The term latency in this context refers to ... The time between a request was submitted to a queue and the worker thread finished processing the request. Since this is a tuning guide, I would have liked to see a separation of 3 attri
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> has to birth a hedgehog backwards You have every right to be indignant, but I could have really done without that imagery.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
This is great! Though I'm not entirely sure why she's loitering around on the Google MTV campus in those pictures captioned San Francisco :/
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
That link is paywalled but from the title it appears that discusses CEO pay but not so much median employee pay.
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Exactly. Also, Broadcom on this list seems to have one of the higher median pays of $354k. Paysa seems to disagree https://www.paysa.com/salaries/broadcom
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
What's the source of the median pay data that the ratio seems to be completely based on?
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
Confirmed: the go link with the machine name works but I don't want to post it on HN to be safe :) If any Googlers are reading this: just goto go/legends and search for officespace. The first link that pops up has context as to wh
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by fizwhiz 6y ago
> There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field, and ceremonially smashed to pieces by some hardware techs. Eyy what would I search on moma to find t
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Did you get rejected while Interviewing at Google? It's the only plausible explanation for the vitriol on your throwaway account.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
These are nice though they were last updated in 2014.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Poe's Law strikes again.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
That's a pretty gendered statement.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Sure, many problems at Google require solving consensus but almost all of them use Paxos[1] [1] https://research.google/pubs/pub33002/
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
> a company that uses Raft heavily Uh, citation? Only software I'm aware that uses this is Kubernetes maybe.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
OT: I don't know if this level of rigor is employed by any major libraries. I know AWS has used it a great deal for their systems though notably recently[1] [1] https://assets.amazon.science/c4/11/de2606884b63
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
What's wrong with Ullman's lectures?
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
https://jepsen.io/analyses/yugabyte-db-1.3.1
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Forgive me for I live in a bubble so I don't know a great deal about why someone would spend that many years in school to land a 77k job. I also don't know much about compensation structure (ex: is comp == salary or are there ot
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
I think your example of a biologist is a bit disingenuous. By 27 they've probably just wrapped up their PhD and were making a paltry stipend to work in a professor's research lab. If they're inclined to continue working for a
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
> STEM fields rarely pay even close to what consulting, law and medicine pay. Peers of equivalent talent in those 3 professions are generally making double to triple (if not more) by the time STEM graduates reach the same moment in their
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
This guy SRE-s!

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