foobiekr

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by foobiekr 4y ago
On many systems, processes that are rapidly restarting or crashing tend to be throttled; depending on whether cores are enabled you can flood the system with core i/o. In addition, forking servers are often deliberately written to limi
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by foobiekr 4y ago
What fraction of the zoom engineers do you think are working on either the video and audio codecs, the networking code, and the video/audio I/O?
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by foobiekr 4y ago
At google the problem will be that the product can't be said to have impact.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
If you have ever been to Tokyo you have seen plenty of homeless. Tokyo is where people take their shoes off before getting into their box.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Do you want execs that never take risks and simply milk cash cows until they die? Do you want golden parachutes? This is how you get these.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Most modern SLAs are worthless. The penalty is meaningless and/or "up" is carefully defined in such a way that even a service failing 100% of requests is "up" because it's responding, or is defined such that a
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by foobiekr 4y ago
What company was this?
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Most of the people working on glue code are already at risk to job migration to HCL, Wipro etc.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
It had nothing to do with genY tech acumen, which is lower the previous crops on average due to weakening curriculum standards and a lack of experience with technology in any deep way, it was the firehouse of free capital and a “starve the
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by foobiekr 4y ago
This is not true at all in companies that know how to do layoffs. Layoffs in mature companies consult most of the management hierarchy and even many senior ICs and in addition engage the strategic planning teams to steer resources as needed
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by foobiekr 4y ago
You’re missing a number of critical factors. One of them is that companies have largely abdicated performance management and managing out underperformers, and layoffs are a primary means to get this done. Another issue is that larger compan
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by foobiekr 4y ago
gotta say, as someone made weak by the bay area climate and now intolerant of cold, this sounds awesome. except the smokers.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Another aspect is language. A lot of the calls are from india and Pakistan where English fluency is high and non-English European fluency is very low.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
In my personal observation, a lot of what spoiled the zany fun of using technology for rule breaking was the rise of really evil large tech companies. It kind of took the mirth out of it because their evil willingness to do anything to Hoov
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Funding is absolutely available. In fact it is easy to raise in a down economy if you are the right people. A very significant fraction of successful companies were founded at or around down economies. Everything is easier and cheaper and y
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Most mature companies have _all_ of that. From the position of a large vendor, Google ships software with woeful quality practices on a regular basis. That Amazon and Meta are worse than google, well, I will grant that. Meta's internal
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Most google products are crap. Google docs in particular can't handle documents the size of things I'd routinely edit on an 8088. Some are outstanding. Search was outstanding, I'm not sure what it is now.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
This just makes Google average. Execution isn't a problem at most tech companies, the problem is knowing what to build and stopping engineering teams from doing "new shiny"/resume-oriented-development. I've been wor
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by foobiekr 4y ago
It depends on your circumstances. I had months of sleepless nights when I survived the sequential layoffs at the company where I was working, trying to work out what I could do to secure my wife and I, but had I actually been laid off the t
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by foobiekr 4y ago
It’s a bit of propaganda that the DCs are powered by renewables. https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-greenwashing-par-exce...
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by foobiekr 4y ago
The average GPU utilization in AI clusters is nowhere near 100%. More like 15-20% outside of hyperscalers being generous and maybe mid 30% for the hyperscalers for periods of heavy activity. There is way too much gated on data movement at t
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by foobiekr 4y ago
if you've ever had to deal with a zombie JVM where an uncaught exception eventually put the whole application into a state where it wasn't, oh, hoovering the tens of thousands of temporary files it was creating because the vacuume
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Most networking gear control plane CPUs at this point run little endian (and x86 is surprisingly common). Even the ARM SOCs in most APs are running LE.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Everything is a big deal. Details matter. "Salary" is not what you want.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
The basic problem with the "you guys are too negative" mindset is that abusers are very common. I'm sure { manager, HR }-you-can-be-friends-with exists. I've at least got very solid friendships with multiple management
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Be careful what you wish for, there are significant non-salary benefits (stock ESPP and RSUs, healthcare subsidy, etc.) that matter a lot. These employers would just restructure compensation to effectively recreate low-cost non-competes.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Hail.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
How much of the income and wealth did they capture?
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by foobiekr 4y ago
I'll be spending my professional time working to make SONiC a practical reality for enterprise DCs. Personally, I will be getting back to my NES emulator.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
The problem everyone who cares is wrestling with is that software teams in practice do no diligence at all.

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