hkarthik

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by hkarthik 11y ago
Over the course of my career I've held both the "developer and "engineer" titles in different parts of the US. While some of the differences are simply regional, I have noticed one significant difference between being ca
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>> How many times in the case of badly-organized Microservices was the solution to migrate to a single monolith? All the time. Except it's usually not a migration or refactoring. Instead it's a quick rewrite on a different s
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To someone living on one of the coasts, it seems absurdly low. But it's all relative to the cost of living. Here's what a house in Chattanooga, TN costs: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6063-Heritage-Ridge-D
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Absolute numbers really mean nothing in determining if you are being paid what you are worth. Just like in real estate, location is everything. The best metric is to determine the high water mark for being considered "well paid" g
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3D printing will have a "Napster" moment where some technology comes along and raises awareness to the mainstream level, and suddenly all the big IP holders will be up in arms and come after that technology. But by then it will be
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Find some local developer meetups and start connecting with folks there. You'll get a lot more actionable advice that is pertinent to your local market, and maybe one of them is willing to take a chance on hiring you to do Python devel
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I took one semester of French in college after 4 years of Spanish in high school. The most intriguing parts for me were around numbers and counting. For example, the number 80 is "quatre-vingts", which literally means 4 x 20. I th
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I highly recommend purchasing the material from Ray Wenderlich. http://www.raywenderlich.com/ Very good stuff and he has a new course that uses Unity.
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I don't believe so. If Snowden receives a pardon, it will be after a few decades of meaningful reform towards better privacy for citizens. I can't see this happening until most of the current political leaders have retired. The cu
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This is an interesting stack, as it looks to be Nginx + Lua based with Cassandra as the backend database. Not very common, but clearly well thought out and battle tested!
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I'm surprised he chose to use Martini for the web component since the author himself has chosen to discontinue development of Martini in favor of a different approach with Negroni. These days most people I know that use anything outsid
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Discourse maybe a good choice: http://www.discourse.org/ You will need to pay to host it though.
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Wow, I had the exact same thing start happening to me, roughly 7 years ago as well. And yeah it comes and goes, even to this day. My head hasn't had it in a few years, but I get it on my beard occasionally. Sometimes clears up within m
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Link to the original Netflix blog entry on the subject: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/03/python-at-netflix.html I dislike how Infoworld simply took this content, slapped a linkbait title on it, and makes it see
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For your use case, I'd drop both Rails/Django and instead go for something like Meteor.js. You'll get the benefit of a full stack framework with one language for both frontend and backend. And most of the batteries are includ
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CareerDean is a targeted community just for this purpose.
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The math will always come out in favor of staying in India with a $200K salary versus moving anywhere else in the world. However, based on your other answers about what you do, it's unlikely that this current $200K salary is sustainabl
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The environment you work in has a toxic culture that is absolutely hostile to junior level folks. Unfortunately, this is a sad state of affairs in our entire industry right now. You have to specifically look for environments where the manag
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There was a great John Oliver segment on the tobacco industry and how it's evolved to become even more profitable worldwide than it ever was in the US. Highly recommended to watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Us
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I think this is referring to write-back caching, where the write operation is confirmed when the cache accepts it, but a separate process is responsible for replicating the write operation from cache to the persistent storage. Write-through
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Yeah not sure where the down votes are coming from, but I appreciate your response and I think it's great advice for the folks in this thread. When I was in my early twenties I scraped together about $5K which I was planning to invest
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Wow, talk about lost opportunity. I can only assume you're willing to talk about leaving so much money on the table because you got some other windfall a few years later!
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Button-down shirt with slacks for most companies. That way you're unlikely to be penalized before being over or under-dressed. When going for a leadership level position, add a blazer or sport coat. For C-level positions or if you are
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The salaries in neither area match up to current housing prices, nor do they keep up with the increasing prices year over year. What I have observed is that housing prices going up by 20% usually results in salaries only going up by 8%. Aft
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I still hear sounds from Doom in many modern movies. If I remember right id software was able to open source everything about Doom except the sound effects due to licensing.
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The best startup opportunities will pay off more than the best big company opportunities. On the flip side, even the worst big tech company job will pay off more than the worst startup job. The problem is, it's a lot harder to determin
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I use tmux and either tmuxinator or teamocil to accomplish this. I use vim as my editor so it just works within the shell. Each project can have its own tmuxinator config and load up tmux with a number of shells. There is even native tmux s
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You mentioned wanting to create a similar environment at Shopify. How has that been implemented and how is it working out?
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They have become quite common now at the top tech companies. Keep in mind, $250K doesn't go very far when real estate like this is considered a "bargain": https://www.redfin.com/CA/Cupertino/1157-S-S
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I've been using Mailbox for quite a while, and I find the concepts and design of it to be quite good. It's just a shame that it's tied to gmail and forces you to use Dropbox. Makes it useless for many of us at work.

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