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by gopalv 4y ago
> If they're not doing that, they're wasting your time and their time. Actually, they're getting paid for the their time. I'm not. I'm actually burning my time. > Recruiters should be talking about numbers in
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The worry is that the person prying it, rather gently, will be Tim Cook. The only hedge against that is the ecosystem for phone & ipad development is still the macbooks - so it does hurt Apple to take away the ability to write your own
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> I would quit immediately if I were put on a customer support rotation Why? I sort of thought similarly about a decade ago, until I actually was on the end of a giant on-call tree almost permanently for 3 years. I wasn't the first
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> The Mac Mini is what you get if you want to make a Mac or iOS app This is probably closer to the Mac Mini with M1 that they shipped to kick-start the Apple Silicon transition for desktop apps. Because if I was a windows programmer for
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by gopalv 4y ago
> I wonder if thats because, if you let engineers do both, you end up with a mess and accomplish nothing No, it is because an Engineer (with technology selection blinders on) will jump to a What/How before the Why actually lands in
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> Being generous and parting on good terms is desirable The desirable part might be what happens to the morale of the rest of the team. A possibly vindictive boss is going to be on the mind for everyone who is still there and delivering
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> because the gap is so large I drive with a six car gap and even that was a close-call when someone had a contact about 3 cars ahead. The good part is that if the car in front of you flashes the brake lights, that seems to trigger the b
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> they've done is nearly completely untie compensation from the stock price. Not entirely, they've created a relationship, but it is the opposite of what is normally considered in "line goes up" thinking. Usually when
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> the author has never tried breakfast tea which has almost as much caffeine Tea time is a better cultural marker than the drink itself. And probably why you jumped to breakfast tea, because you're thinking of something occupying th
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> impression that US is a nation of germophobes and FDA regulations Germophobes I don't think so, but there's definitely something to be said about the way the regulations are setup to be protectionist of rural voter groups. An
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> 4th amendment violation because DNA is scary to the lay person it seems. There's probably a curve where it gets scary again as you know more about it. DNA isn't just identification. It is a lot more than just a unique identif
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by gopalv 4y ago
> use a well-designed message queue service There is a faq about ZeroMQ written in the Monty Pythonesque fashion of "other than that, what does ZeroMQ do for us?" I can't quite find it in my bookmarks, but it went by the &
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> As people skill up, they become interesting to more productive companies I don't think that's the GP comment. I've had offers below my current pay and not switched. Hell, I've even got 10%+ bumps and turned it down,
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> Granted, there are some breakthroughs that come from military research Nobody knew at the time that Hubble was literally a KH-11 class telescope, but one pointed the other way. The mirror size and the ability to be carried in the shutt
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by gopalv 4y ago
> they mention that a member of the upper-middle class, Mr. Yu, purchased a new home, a duplex, and an 8-unit apartment complex during the pandemic. A lot of people who though they were "comfortably rich" in the last couple of
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by gopalv 4y ago
> We (the Indian technocrat cohort) need to get into politics This could be lifted out of Plato's Republic and it would be exactly as relevant. But the counter-point is that politicians run very close to their electorate's idea
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> commercial engines will use the presence of fk constraints What, postgres doesn't do FK join removals? Like I tried it right now and it didn't remove the hash-join http://sqlfiddle.com/#!17/073747/2
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by gopalv 4y ago
> And an all potato diet, while monomaniacal, even more effective. I met someone on a Potatoes + Curd/Butter diet and he said something that stuck with me - "You need to eat the skins too". So you can't just eat fries
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> I would like to understand why people are so enamored with Costco The first thing someone told me when I got to the US was to go to Costco, pay the membership and get an AMEX charge card for Costco. If you are someone with zero credit
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> In this meaning of optimization, "premature optimization" is a bogus concept. The idea is that you can end up optimizing before you know the entire use-case, because software engineering isn't like building bridges or sk
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by gopalv 4y ago
> It’s super easy to blow through a 250K salary (which is not 250k in your pocket each year.) As someone in that side (if I made 180k post-tax, I would be living paycheck to paycheck - I became aware of it because I'm funemployed wi
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> I had anticipated that my peers and leadership would notice a drop in quality. Speaking from my experience in writing docs fast vs slow, the peers probably noticed the drop in quality, but as a positive on team-work. Getting a document
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> While it might not be the most efficient, it will not perform so bad that it causes an availaiblity impact either. Performance is important, but the biggest performance gain happens when a program goes from not working to working corre
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> This is completely different from any other catalysis anyone has shown, that I'm aware of The part right before that is much more interesting. I quote >> The platinum is actually a little bit below the surface and it&#x2
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> you don't run out of power once the batteries have depleted That's definitely true if you charge only via grid, but my friends who got a powerwall bought it because they need to off-set the 9 AM to 3 PM solar into a 6 PM to 1
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> As much as people bitch about dealerships, and some of them truly do suck, the business model is well established and clearly successful. So the Lindy effect sort of suggests the dealerships will be around for a while - but the real re
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> That said, I had been hoping for better tools to identify "problem queries" early instead of just when the billing cycle comes up and so I'm happy to see work in that direction I see the documentation and graphs, but can
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> why are Alpine docker images a dead end? That's the most controversial thing at work too. It comes up so often because it is a measurably good idea when you look at container sizes or startup times (gzip is terrible, terrible way
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> you shouldn't go look for company priorities to fix, to be a hero The "to be a hero" is the problem, you can always feel good about solving hard problems and finding your boundaries, but "avoiding a crisis" is
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> What are the practical implications for internet users and infrastructure maintainers? There are technical implications on routing and "what is on the internet" vs "connected to the internet" (the difference between

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