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by larkfofty 3mo ago
This is great. As someone who was recently diagnosed with cancer, I've found myself quite interested in furthering my knowledge on the topic. For someone interested in the field with only a computer science background, are there any jo
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by larkfofty 3y ago
Technically yes, but sadly in practice rarely enforced. Stand on a street corner in NYC for five minutes and you will see dozens of traffic violations that go unenforced. I don't agree with it, but there is a certain amount of accepted
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by larkfofty 4y ago
I've actually really been of two minds about this since leaving AWS, though it's been a few years. On one hand, I remember spending an absurd amount of time debugging esoteric internal tooling errors that were un-googleable. The c
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Ask HN: Does your company document internal APIs?
1 points by larkfofty 5y ago|2 comments
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by larkfofty 5y ago
I'm an ex-Amazon software engineer who worked in AWS for a couple years and pretty much everything in this article and comments rings true to me and lines up with my personal experience. I won't say much about the PIPs and the bru
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by larkfofty 7y ago
I'm actually surprised this doesn't happen with wireless microphones more often. While the industry is slowly moving towards digital transmitters, many broadway shows still use old body pack analog transmitters on their actors. Si
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by larkfofty 8y ago
I was given an offer from Amazon with a BA in a completely unrelated field. They never even asked about my education. This was for a Front End Engineer role though, not sure if that makes a difference.