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by goostavos 1y ago
One of the surprising things about working inside of $MegaCorp is that if you knock on enough doors, you'll eventually find that each org has, like, one dude* with a spread sheet that powers everything else. Teams will get spun up to
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by goostavos 1y ago
I don't think you can capture the complexity of the world with a single variable. I'm at Amazon. We all make about the same. Some more than me. Some less. However, while I don't have to worry about changing jobs, or _not_ hav
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by goostavos 1y ago
Hey, I'm that guy! Thanks for the shout out!
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by goostavos 1y ago
This is why I still come to Hacker News. Amazing.
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by goostavos 1y ago
I similarly half-joke about the same thing. Being "replaced by AI" would be the kick in the pants to finally make a run of it. In Seattle, I feel like I could get really far on a dumb, single-issue platform: "I will fix the
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by goostavos 1y ago
Hate writing. Love having written.
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by goostavos 1y ago
I similarly got this lesson early in my career. One of my first jobs. I was young and excited to be at a startup. Learning a ton. I poured hours into that job. Then, one day we were pulled onto a call, told they couldn't afford us any
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by goostavos 2y ago
This is a lovely write up. I don't have anything real to add in this comment, but somehow just clicking the upvote button doesn't feel like enough.
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by goostavos 2y ago
I think it goes beyond that. TLA+ requires you to think about problems very differently. It is very much not programming. It took me a long time (and many false starts) to be able to think in TLA. To quote Lamport, the real challenge of TLA
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by goostavos 2y ago
That is interesting. Link?
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by goostavos 2y ago
4443! Heck yah. Although, it's weird that I'm listed as having "career advice." Nobody should listen to me. I have no idea what I'm doing.
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by goostavos 2y ago
I work at a FANG. Senior SDE. I don't have slack on my phone. I don't read emails (unless someone tells me out of band that one needs a response). Once I close this laptop work is dead to me until the following day. You pick and c
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by goostavos 2y ago
He says, from his comfortable chair, and behind a keyboard, and not having just experienced a horrific plane crash.
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by goostavos 2y ago
Sandy Maguire wrote a fantastic book on the topic: https://leanpub.com/algebra-driven-design You can also checkout the work of Conal Elliott: http://conal.net/
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Software development topics I've changed my mind on(chriskiehl.com)
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by goostavos 2y ago
That was such a frustrating decision. I had almost convinced Spotify that that one time I listened to Lustmord was just a random mood, and I don't actually want to only listen to dronecore for the rest of my life.
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by goostavos 2y ago
I think it's something people keep rediscovering. It's a pretty fun programming problem that lets you explore lots of different domains at the same time (video processing, color theory, different coordinate systems for visualizing
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by goostavos 2y ago
Weirdly aggressive.
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by goostavos 2y ago
I'd argue it has less to do with the "capitalist systems" and more to do with how obnoxious "slugging" sounds. Commuting in your own car guarantees (a) you have a ride and (b) you have flexibility. You can change yo
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by goostavos 2y ago
Hard disagree. I think a huge part of our job as engineers is to build systems that can outlive us and comfortably change hands (without the next team cursing the former). Maybe this is born from spending so many years in Amazon (with it&#x
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by goostavos 2y ago
Nothing, I suppose. I honestly didn't realize it's so contentious. I guess it just seemed kind of weird for "the news" to have an opinion at all. Why do people want an organization to tell them who they think should be p
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by goostavos 2y ago
Just because it has always been done doesn't make it good . It's surprising to me that a news organization not publishing an opinion piece is itself giant front page news
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by goostavos 2y ago
I know nothing about snake hunting other than the 3 youtube videos I just watched ( https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5JB_bzQwtZ8 ), but this professional sure makes getting them into the sack is about as hard and dangerous
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by goostavos 2y ago
This question is probably obvious if I knew what a microbatch or topology or depot was, but as a Rama outsider, is there a good high level mental model for what makes the cross-partition transactions work? From the comments that mention que
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by goostavos 2y ago
My entire team is in another time zone. And like many, I don't even have an assigned desk at the office. So, my RTO is commuting in, booking an empty conference room, and then dialing in to meetings with people on the other side of the
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by goostavos 2y ago
Costco brand is surprisingly good. A bit chalkier than Gold Standard, but hard to beat the price.
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by goostavos 2y ago
Huh? In the commercial model, why would an individual still pay for "a lot of crap art". What you call "no taste" is just "taste," right? Nobody who gets to pick is going to pick the crap stuff. I've liked
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by goostavos 2y ago
Unfortunately, my bubble isnt subsidized.
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by goostavos 2y ago
Also currently working on a book (shameless plug: buy my book!) and feel no pull or need to involve AI. This book is my mine. My faults. My shortcomings. My overuse of commas. My wonky phrasing. It has to have those things, because I am tho
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by goostavos 2y ago
And they might have dreams! One of the coolest things I've encountered at an aquarium was a sleeping octopus wildly shifting its colors. It seems truly alien to behold -- like it shouldn't be possible. My googling after the fact s

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