jmchuster

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by jmchuster 5y ago
That's a preface by the individual who found this book only after years of research and then decided to post it online. This is not the author of the book talking about their own book.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Then, at the risk of looking stupid, he could have first asked the administrator "Do you care at all about how many of the questions I answer?"
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by jmchuster 5y ago
The moral of the story is that Lawrence was an idiot for not properly understanding what answer the test administrators wanted him to give?
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by jmchuster 5y ago
velocity = speed + direction If you are able to achieve speed that is 2x, then as long as your angle is less than 60 degrees off axis from the theoretical perfect direction, you're making progress towards the goal faster than everyone
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by jmchuster 5y ago
You can probably think of it as hidden secret in the sense that, here a couple of people who believe they have greatly increased their own productivity, that it gives them an advantage relative to others, and that you need to piece together
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by jmchuster 5y ago
If your motivation is to be able to work "at a FAANG or any of these beautiful environments with amazing people dedicated to the craft of engineering", then maybe it's more useful to think of the advice in terms of, making it
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by jmchuster 5y ago
When you have completely given away everything you are responsible for, then you are now free to pick up all of your boss's responsibilities. So i guess the sign is, your boss gets promoted, you get promoted into their job and so on.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I would posit that no company "actually" cares. The premise of twitter isn't "the social platform that has no abuse". If that were the main goal, i'd imagined they'd be another nothing startup that ran o
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I find video is the easiest for eyeballing how well they actually hold up. https://youtu.be/QQWIZNlf9ZE?t=480 There's also an aspect of how straightforward or finicky they are. So some designs have high risk of user e
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Computers are very fast and fast storage is very cheap these days. Your Data Isn't That Big https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
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by jmchuster 5y ago
And the best part about not writing bugs is that you then don't have to write tests either.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
So, it seems to me that if you already do 2D animation, then figuring out 3D should be something you almost think of as guaranteed. Like it's inevitable that you'd get it right if you put in the time, and then you just make some
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by jmchuster 5y ago
> If you’re senior, get some press before you start meeting folks. Really helps contextualize how easily many of us throw around the term "senior" engineer.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
> But it could help explain why Columbus, a Genoese, was prepared to set off across what most contemporaries considered a landless void. I had always thought that Columbus made the trip because he miscalculated the distance around the gl
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I wonder what percentage of WSB thinks they are secretly smart and just playing a dumbass. That seems like it would be an attractive role to be in, especially for humans.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Interesting on that first point, that's not what i would have expected. So what are you seeing from these product-minded engineers that leads them to choose a consultancy over a product company? For "underdog" consultancies,
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I would probably consider consultancies very differently from product companies. Since the company charges a per-person rate on hours worked, all it needs is to charge more than you pay them (plus utilization). So it's a very viable b
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by jmchuster 5y ago
In Go, for example, for the professional ranks (1 dan through 9 dan) each rank should win 70% of their games against players from the next rank below.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Though, the order of events might be backwards there sometimes. The director has a highly visible and strategic new feature they need executed, so they'll handpick the best engineers to work on the project. The engineers complete th
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by jmchuster 5y ago
If we're taking about is just output on a larger macro scale, then yes, hiring enough people will replace 10x engineers. But some things i think you won't be able to replace -- You won't be able to replace speed on short-term
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by jmchuster 5y ago
And Reves is the Court doubling down on Howey and saying, yes, our decision from 1946 totally still works 50 years later, here's us restating it for you if you're still confused.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I don't see how that passes "effort of others". They're clearly working in the sales and distribution business at that point. Now, if they then went around the school and said to everyone, give us $1 and we'll pay
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Right, if you have the resources and the ability, then writing bespoke tailored solutions will yield better results. You only get problems when your custom solution isn't as good as a hardened solution, or you can't spend the time
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by jmchuster 5y ago
For many companies (1) and (2) are the boring choices, as the infra is already in place, well-supported, and there are existing patterns to follow for how it's already being used by other teams in your company.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Ah, excellent, just wanted to make sure there wasn't some magical insight i was missing out on by not being familiar with emacs. re: clicking/squinting/dragging/animations those i would usually handle by things like keyb
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by jmchuster 5y ago
> buffers and windows How is this different from tabs? You have global search to open files in new tabs, you can opt to leave a trail of new tabs as you follow links through your code, you create arbitrary new tabs and plop snippets in,
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by jmchuster 5y ago
If you want to "apply", then have a friend who works at a FAANG, and they'll connect you. Otherwise, you don't apply, you just have a resume online that looks like that of someone who would have that experience, and FAAN
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by jmchuster 5y ago
and now as easy as adding `@AutoConfigureEmbeddedDatabase` https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-database-spring-test also helps with having it verify all your database migrations as well
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by jmchuster 5y ago
At 100x, gitlab would be generating $15 billion in revenue each year. Having to redesign their database structure wouldn't be the thing that keeps them up at night. I'll also add, that the point is that a devtools unicorn is able
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by jmchuster 5y ago
It seems to me that where we really ended up was distributed systems. We solve problems by not just making our code concurrent to use more cores, but by also making it use more computers.

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