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by hiyer 5y ago
Well, it's not only big SV corporates that are doing 5-7 rounds of interviews. In my experience even 3-4 year old startups with under 100 employees do at least 5 rounds - 2 coding, 2 system design and one hiring manager. The most commo
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It's big in the data science world because of Spark. For general purpose JVM apps I see people mostly going with Java or Kotlin.
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You don't need crypto for that. Cash will work. Or a system like India's UPI - direct, instantaneous inter-bank transfer, with no fees, via mobile apps.
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That may be the idea, but in practice, companies don't even hire SREs and just have engineers do on-call rotations instead.
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by hiyer 5y ago
> On-call is a way for bad businesses to steal money from their workers by expecting them to work 24/7 without paying them 4.2x their salary. This is not entirely true. I think the fact that companies don't have to hire separat
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by hiyer 5y ago
I wonder if Facebook would be equally lenient to, say, Palestinians calling for violence against Israeli soldiers; or Houthis calling for violence against Saudi Arabian ones.
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by hiyer 5y ago
To be fair, that is a bit hard to read and some people probably just read it letter by letter in the heat of the moment. Maybe you should have put underscores or hyphens between the words :-).
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by hiyer 5y ago
I like reasonably-paced RPGs and strategy games. Some of the recent good ones I've played: 1. Civilization 5 (I know it's not too recent but I haven't gotten around to trying Civ 6 yet.) 2. Pillars of Eternity 1&2 - a par
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by hiyer 5y ago
When a section of Indian farmers imposed similar blockades on Indian highways, Trudeau was shilling their "right to protest" to pander to his Sikh voters. This despite the fact that the Indian protests were far from peaceful - dev
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by hiyer 5y ago
Came here to say the same thing. I was not aware of the artist when I read this book, but looking at his works, the name for the book makes perfect sense.
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by hiyer 5y ago
I think this is a risky take. Any company you work for will use dozens of tools and it is possible you will dislike one or many of them. Having said that, I'm tired of using Macs, and would love to work for a company that issues a Linu
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They were surprised to see it "on HN". OTOH despite the poor quality, the article seems to have spawned a healthy discussion, so maybe it belongs here after all :-).
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24 CRs can be huge in Amazon, depending on the team. It can take months to get a single CR approved and merged.
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by hiyer 5y ago
There are plenty of great engineers at Amazon, although most of them are long-timers. It's probably true that good engineers don't join Amazon any more .
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I've found minimaps to be useful when you're also using linters or compilers - you can quickly jump to the next error by looking at the little red dots or lines on the minimap.
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Seems to be doing quite well too, considering all the hardware on his channel.
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by hiyer 5y ago
When I first visited the Bay Area in 2005 Hummers were all over the place. And not just the smaller H3s but the massive H1s as well. The next time I visited in 2013 I saw exactly zero Hummers on the streets.
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by hiyer 5y ago
> My students were taught to think of themselves as vectors of disease. This is ridiculous. I have a four-year old and even she understands that masks are for her own protection and not because she is a "vector of disease". If
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by hiyer 5y ago
99% of crypto enthusiasts are in the game because they think it's a get rich quick scheme. It's only natural that a significant subset of them would be attracted to such scams.
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This is an incredibly detailed set of recommendations! Thank you for this :-)
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> the takeaway for me is that a SAT solver isn't that great a way to solve wordles. It may not be the best way, but it seems to lead to very clean, compact and understandable code. I have no background with Z3 (or any SAT solver for
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by hiyer 5y ago
> doctors not telling family members that their loved ones had passed away so as to be able to keep charging the family for continued hospital care. While I've heard anecdotally that this happens, I find it hard to believe that this
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by hiyer 5y ago
Are you saying not being admitted to a hospital is a privilege? I would think that if a hospital did want to fleece someone, gainfully employed and insured people would be the best candidates rather than poor people who may not be able to a
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by hiyer 5y ago
Well, it's not one anecdote - it's 70+ in my apartment complex and probably 100+ overall, but I get your point.
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by hiyer 5y ago
> If you’re curious, they live in Srirangam, Trichy, TamilNadu Wonderful place, except for the heat :-). I've visited there (for the temples) on a few occasions.
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by hiyer 5y ago
True, but what I'm saying is there's no reason to mistrust the hospitals as I've not seen the alleged behaviour at all. Add to that the fact that you don't even need to go to a hospital to get yourself tested in the firs
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In India - at least in the cities - you don't even need to step out for a Covid test. You can request a technician to come and collect your sample from the comfort of your home, and you'll get the result in a few hours or the next
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In my apartment complex in India, we have ~300 apartments and ~1000 residents. There have been over 70 cases of Covid here since the beginning of last year (including 15 as I type this) and only one of them was hospitalized - a 3 year old b
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by hiyer 5y ago
Hash Tables Linked Lists Binary Search Trees I would add tries to this list - I was asked trie-based questions in 4 of the companies I interviewed with over the last couple of years, including a FAANG.
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My favourite Kipling - aside from If itself - is Gods of the Copybook headings: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm

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