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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Brave doesn’t have the political agenda of Mozilla. I have no idea why this comment is downvoted
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Theme park + teens seems like a use case.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Literally never? Do you live in a sitcom?
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Anyone who spends time fixing a coffee machine is not earning their extremely high staff engineer salary. My time is not suited to fixing coffee machines. People paid literally 1/6th what I am are tasked for that.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Can’t work if the driver is making small talk.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
These are horrible interview questions. Data issues like this do pop up in the real world; heck I deal with them. But when you run into <algorithm> or <feels like algorithm>, the correct solution is to slow down, Google, then do
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I don’t even play DnD and I know it’s 1d6 bludgeoning per 10ft fall damage with some very high cap that is unlikely to matter for player characters. I heard it once on a podcast. Rules esoterica sticks to me like glue. I’ll remember 1000 of
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
It’s government software right? There’s no chance the opt out button works.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
President Biden does not control his tweets. Even if he wanted to tweet that, his handlers would not let him. The stepping down announcement was probably a layoff notice to his staff. I bet many are/were shocked.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Out of 100 people I interview, maybe 1 would know what recursion even is.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Exactly this
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Nope, too difficult, and if you know the solution off hand that makes you look better than someone who doesn’t. For a question like this I would explicitly allow Google and inclusion of libraries, but I wouldn’t ask a question like this. Le
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Chat gpt can solve any take home problem. You need to be on video making interactive feedback and demands to see that someone can actually write code and understands programming even a little bit.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Chat gpt can ace any pre interview sadly. You really need video on the person with back and forth questions to detect if they’re copying and pasting from AI. All of this could be mitigated with in person interviews, but I’m forced to hire a
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I run coding interviews. I would never give an esoteric algorithms question, or even really an algorithms question. I have prompts that test very basic concepts and nearly everyone fails. Resume fraud is rampant.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Ignore the bad title. The first column is a factor, like being a manager, a millennial, or a woman. The final column is intent to stay reduction given a RTO mandate. So for all groups, intent to stay is lowered with a RTO mandate. Some grou
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
And yet Fred will take 2 weeks to do the work, and the team is dysfunctional so only certain people work in certain areas. Fred sucks. We can say his work is easy, and continually make him feel bad without firing him, or we can pretend it’s
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
At my current rate of spend, about $3M-3.5M. (Spending 100k/year) I’m working to bring down the spend rate, but even if I don’t I should be good well before 50. I’m saving/investing about 160k/year, plus or minus. Some of the
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Even if you make half that, which is a common offer all over America, you can retire early.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
But they have, plus or minus 40% adjusted for inflation. Soul sucking corporate jobs have always paid well.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I make $300K/year. I’ll leave when I’m ready to retire. And if I’m lucky enough to get laid off (around retirement time), that would be a huge windfall to move me toward retirement. Programmers planning to work after 50 are fools.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
That is only ever theoretically possible with a direct fiber connection between both nodes at <= 200 miles between. So the answer is “there’s a data center in your city.”
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
No one here can force AT&T to spend more money on IT. If they do, even briefly, everyone involved will be laid off and outsourced within a few years.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Syncing audio and video timing for multicam is so difficult that it generally requires onsite highly paid camera operators to manage. I wonder what magic they used (and what underlying data format for the video) to make this sync magic happ
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
It’s just an unsolved problem in computer science.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I’ve reported comments like this that were delivered in writing and HR couldn’t care less.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Run benchmarks. It doesn’t matter what I think is easier to parse. Protobuff is slower than JSON.parse in node by 4-8x for my data sets: large reference data needed. I was only measuring decode time, since that’s I can recompute my data wel
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
All of those are slower than json in many contexts. JSON parsing and serialization is very fast!
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
“An application controls its database.” You’ve fully misunderstood what I said. When you have 500 applications, the graph of calls for how any one api resolves will go deep. Api1 calls 2 calls 3 and so on. Vs creating an organization wide p
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
It’s not unusual but is never performant. Adding an api layer and network hops on what should be a database shard or view is why enterprise software sucks so much ass. Why does the api take 3s to respond? Well it needs to call 6 other apis

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