mav3rick

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811.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Wow, you are completely wrong on that. RMS was so blatantly wrong that even he had to back track on his views.
812.
by mav3rick 7y ago
He clearly used a generic phrase not aimed at you. What is it with deliberately taking things personally ?
813.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Again this is "lesser" in terms of an offer I would expect from F&G. Not lesser in terms of a person. You're taking this personal for some reason. I'd stop engaging now, best of luck at Amazon !
814.
by mav3rick 7y ago
You asked my experience and I told you with a disclaimer. You clearly aren't interested in it, rather than some platitudes like "everyone is the same". Again, I have no personal grudge against you or NCSU or other state schoo
815.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Given a choice would you not have picked MIT over NCSU ? The CS program there is quite amazing as well as the opportunity to meet other smart people and minor in a plethora of courses.
816.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Assuming TC means Total Comp yes thats way lower than what Facebook and Google pay. Over 4 years salary + stock / 4 + signing / 4 is what I count as TC. Also no food and the horrendous equity vest schedule just makes Amazon lag be
817.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Sure, MIT grads knew many general CS and systems concepts more in depth than their NCSU counterparts. They would also finish their artifacts way faster than the NCSU grads. This is just anecdata and may or may not reflect the average grad q
818.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Top universities have top funding and research that if it meets top talent can be extremely useful for the world.
819.
by mav3rick 7y ago
I've worked with both MIT and NC State grads and in all 3 cases MIT was far ahead. Now whether it was the CS program that was better or the raw smarts of the grads or both, I don't know.
820.
by mav3rick 7y ago
I'm not here to help you with your pay research. Just telling you my experience. There are many threads on Reddit and stats on levels.fyi to compare your offer with others. You clearly like being on-call and seem to be happy with your
821.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Thats rarely true. No extraordinary thing was made with a 9 to 5 and then zone out.
822.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Wohoo Year of the Linux Desktop. Best Desktop OS ever.
823.
by mav3rick 7y ago
How does it matter ? You may be both but unlucky or not market your skills.
824.
by mav3rick 7y ago
They could have saved Earth and you would find a fault. This is a great initiative, but you're criticizing about not "open sourcing" it. Google open sources plenty of things. The solution maybe heavily coupled to their infras
825.
by mav3rick 7y ago
My problem is with any issue or article about these companies is not evaluated on merit. It's all conflated with one or the other issue. There are many people happy at these companies as well and some who really like the culture.
826.
by mav3rick 7y ago
No one does this inside. People outside do it more.
827.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Most of my friends left as they were done with the low pay and on call.
828.
by mav3rick 7y ago
What about the KoolAid that HN drinks against anything Facebook, Google ? Biased takes without even reading the article.
829.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Again you don't need to remember or forget this. Big O is worst case , theta is always guaranteed bound, Omega is minimum bound. My point is call them whatever, just know the concept to help you make design decisions.
830.
by mav3rick 7y ago
To any new grad reading this...Code Complete is still relevant !!
831.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Java Concurrency in practice doesn't tell you that at the kernel level what is the difference between a process and a thread.
832.
by mav3rick 7y ago
It kind of feels wrong when dynamically typed languages add "hinting". It means they admit that strongly typed is the way to go. Edit: typo statically typed
833.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Great rebuttal.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Your employer may think it's better if you debug stuff faster. That may or may not directly lead to better career growth. I can't make the CS education choice for you. And I have no personal beef with you or anyone who is self tau
835.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Threads, processes and OS primitives are a big part of your foundational knowledge. In your own words, you are only limited at attacking an problem by the tools and language primitives afforded to you. What about thinking for yourself when
836.
by mav3rick 7y ago
You maybe an outlier. I clearly said some are great. "Our" - you don't represent all self learners.
837.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Can you also prove self learners are proficient in the same numbers as CS grads ?
838.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Any one working on any sort of back end infra needs to know this. Ask yourself how a simple webserver can process multiple incoming requests efficiently ? Or an app wants to do a network call without blocking it's UI from being updated
839.
by mav3rick 7y ago
The point is probability. The probability of someone having these gaps from a top 50 school is way lower than one without a degree.
840.
by mav3rick 7y ago
Exactly what I mentioned in my other comment in the thread.

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