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by mdm12 4y ago
At that point, you would think there would be some introspection with respect to the hiring process and the possibility of an alarming number of false negatives occurring due to absurd leetcode gauntlets. But, naaah...
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by mdm12 4y ago
The StackOverflow survey supports the argument that niche language practitioners get paid more: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#top-paying-te... I wish my anecdotal interview experience was LeetCode-less
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by mdm12 4y ago
In such cases, I stick with the tried-and-true 'N/A'. I still get offers, so it doesn't auto-delete my application!
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by mdm12 4y ago
Not to mention the second batch of 40 hours will likely be nowhere as productive as the first 40 hours.
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by mdm12 5y ago
Generate an NFT with a user's score on it, and you've got VC money all over it.
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by mdm12 5y ago
There is a lot of good advice here, so I will just add: be a pleasant person to work with! It will take you far (and is generally the right thing to do anyways :) )
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by mdm12 5y ago
Some companies do pay for take-home problems, DuckDuckGo being but one example.
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by mdm12 5y ago
Learning is its own reward. Also, if you are looking for an F# job, ping me and we can chat :)
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by mdm12 5y ago
The Philadelphia tech job market exists, but...it's not like New York/Boston/SF. The major players are Comcast(...), Vanguard and a smattering of Big Pharma companies. There is a startup scene (most notable success likely bei
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by mdm12 5y ago
It's the logical next step in the saga that is cryptocurrency: have human miners waste their mental CPU cycles.
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by mdm12 5y ago
Not only that, but people were stuck in their houses all day. It's not surprising at all that people ordered tons of crap on Amazon or decided their house needed some renovation/appliances/etc.
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by mdm12 5y ago
I know it doesn't directly answer your question, but there is a nice repository of companies[1] that lists their technical interview processes (take-home project, live coding exercise, etc). [1] https://github.com/potet
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by mdm12 5y ago
The short answer, in my experience, is 'no'. For a company-to-company level comparison, levels.fyi is usually what I use to try to infer title usage. But, even within a company, responsibilities for high-tier IC levels can vary dr
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by mdm12 5y ago
It's anecdotal, but on the F# Software Foundation's slack workspace[1], 4 out of the last 5 postings in the #jobs channel were in Europe. No doubt, any company that picks a niche programming language as their business's lingu
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by mdm12 5y ago
Nice catch! It surprises me how much more popular F# is in Europe compared to the US. I finally got a professional F# gig in the states (\o/), but there were very few options. It makes me wonder, are universities in Europe providing a
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by mdm12 5y ago
Your post echoes my sentiments one hundred percent as a mid-30s SWE. The only consolation for myself is...I literally don't know what else I would do other than software development. At least my schizoid personality is profitable...
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by mdm12 5y ago
To go with your shipping metaphor, a sinking tide sinks all boats...the best you can to is try to stay diversified in different asset classes.
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by mdm12 5y ago
You, my friend, are diving into the realm of formal semantics for programming languages. Benjamin Pierce's Types and Programming Languages is an excellent reference, but it is not for the faint of heart.
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by mdm12 5y ago
I feel like Scott Wlaschin uses an effective model of teaching concepts closely related to category theory without intimidating learners with mathematical definitions and verbiage. Railway oriented programming is a good example.[1] My perso
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by mdm12 5y ago
Oh, it's for real alright: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Netflix/salaries/Software-Eng...
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by mdm12 5y ago
It is definitely possible to achieve the total compensation you're looking for working remote. The companies generally fall into two categories: FAANG/MANGA/BigTechAcronymOfTheWeek companies that are remote-tolerant, and remo
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by mdm12 5y ago
Some of the issues (such as null values sneaking through the standard library) are a price to be paid for using a runtime such as .NET with a large ecosystem of existing libraries. This can be avoided to some degree by writing/using th
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by mdm12 5y ago
Your description of a monad comprehension in Idris reminds me of computation expressions in F#[1]. Looks like I have one more programming language to dive into! [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp&#x
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by mdm12 5y ago
The return/pure distinction is due to history, I believe. The Monad typeclass was defined before the Applicative typeclass. Part of the fun of being a research language is that you don't know everything up-front!
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by mdm12 5y ago
There are inpatient mental hospitals in the US, but they are intended for short-term recovery, not long-term institutionalization. Couple that with health care usually being tied to employment (and not being that great to begin with), it is
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by mdm12 5y ago
Indeed. Better temporal support was added the ANSI SQL 11 standard[0] and it is supported by a number of databases, some (like Postgres) by extensions and others (like SQL Server) natively[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by mdm12 5y ago
And version 6 is about to drop! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-fsharp-6/
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by mdm12 5y ago
I have an Onyx Boox Note Pro that I have had for about two years now. Not cheap (was $500 when I purchased it) but well worth it for me, given how much time I use it and how much space it saves. I only use it for reading, so I can't at
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Don Syme, creator of F#, defends lack of type classes(github.com)
8 points by mdm12 5y ago|1 comments
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by mdm12 5y ago
Can confirm, have been seeing network latency issues in us-west-2 since 2:05EDT.

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