mhlakhani

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by mhlakhani 1y ago
I believe you can just hit /cost within a session for this
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by mhlakhani 1y ago
This was me for a long time and it got even worse especially with Humble Bundles — I often ended up buying games on say PS5 though I had them on steam. Ended up building a side project for myself which would yell at me for trying to buy som
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by mhlakhani 1y ago
Thanks for writing this up! I learnt a bunch from it. I noticed this didn’t discuss additional layers of caching - I can see how it would fit in, but is prompt caching out of the scope of this system?
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by mhlakhani 1y ago
Case in point: 2 years ago i interviewed at a number of places with mind boggling valuations and most of the places I got offers from either no longer exist or laid off half their staff. It’s a lottery
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by mhlakhani 1y ago
They moved to Hack many years ago, at some point the languages diverged too much
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
As a sibling commenter said, it helps brand and recruiting - which meta cares about
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
I don’t know if that would have helped here, if memory serves me right: 1. The copy was needed initially 2. This structure wasn’t as heavy back then … over time the code evolved so it became heavy and the copy became unnecessary. That’s har
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
That one diff blew my mind when I saw it. It’s a prime example of that story about “you paid me a lot of money to know where to fix that pipe”
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
This echoes well. The most popular posts on my blog are things where I wrote things for myself (e.g. reflections on my career), rather than trying to orient them for an audience or maximum clicks.
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
I have been using the product for a while and I’m a huge fan. At least for solo/side projects it helps me get reviews in an easy manner similar to what I’m used to at $dayjob and the SNR was good enough that I find myself reaching for
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
> Please explain exactly how you managed to put together a test suite that costs up to 50€ to run. I'm not OP but have worked with them: have you considered a repo that might have tents of thousands of committers over decades? It&#x
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
yeah. I am talking about repos with hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of tests. Here's just one example of the scale: https://engineering.fb.com/2018/11/21/developer-tools/predic... if you c
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
In large mono-repos, like this one is presumably targeting, running all tests in the repo for a given PR would take years (maybe even decades/centuries) of compute time. You have to do some level of test selection, and there are full
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
I built the same for my browser extension (effectively dead product) -- would love to see if this pattern has a name so I can share it more widely!
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by mhlakhani 2y ago
I was at meta. What do you mean? It’s how we used to define staff in our cross company leveling docs.
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by mhlakhani 3y ago
This is a great idea! I remember facing similar pains when applying to dozens of companies last year and talked about a similar idea with a friend - glad to see someone building it. Wishing you the best of luck, and I’ll hopefully try and p
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by mhlakhani 3y ago
It does show up on mobile; but only at the top and it’s easy to miss
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
It varied, but I would say most places I looked at were comparable (or higher). there were a few places with lower comp that I was OK with (startups, or nonprofits).
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
I filtered companies down to places where I felt I had a good chance of success, and applied to jobs within my comfort zone - this was a very biased sample. I don't think this generalizes unfortunately
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
I was between jobs so I had the luxury to do this - I wouldn't recommend this heavy a schedule for people who already have a job. It's impossible.
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
I've generally had bad experiences with third party recruiters so I try to avoid them when I can. in your position I'd probably be upfront and mention the ranges you are OK with in the different situations.
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
whoops - will fix, thank you!
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
thanks for hitting the nail on the head - this is what I saw. I was comfortable with TLM/pure people manager, but not the hybrid (been there, done that - it was rough).
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
I agree it's touchy unfortunately. I'm not comfortable sharing in public due to $REASONS, but I have been sharing with friends/family/folks who've been looking. I will say I got offers comparable to my pre-stock cra
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
I was genuinely glad I didn't get those offers as it would be awkward turning them down. As an example, in one of the cases they were looking for someone who could do a lot more frontend/product work (something I don't have m
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
I've heard / read stories from people who tried really hard and failed to find jobs (both within tech, but unfortunately more common outside of tech). Unfortunately they don't get as much traction as people prefer to hear sto
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
To be fair, these interviews provide a lot of valuable signal in terms of how you approach tradeoffs and explore a problem space. In that sense they're quite similar to the work I did at $dayjob, just in a compressed timeframe (which m
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
To be clear, I explicitly chose to not interview at FAANGs since I was previously at a FAANG and wanted to try my hand at a different type of company. I'd probably practice a bit more for FAANGs
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
thanks! I agree that you don't need this many offers - I took the time to interview at more places since I wanted to explore what was out there. Wouldn't recommend interviewing this heavily.
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
author here - glad to see this post on HN, and glad you liked it! re: your last question - I interviewed for both SWE and EM positions, depending on what was available at any given company. At companies that had both roles open, I talked to

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