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by mkl95 4y ago
Disclaimer: I work for a similar SaaS that targets a specific industry and integrates hundreds of APIs, and I previously worked for a similar company. I see that you are targeting 18 industries but how are you going to disrupt online sales
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Within 5 years Scrum will be largely irrelevant as an influence in modern software companies I am a senior engineer and I still haven't experienced the mythical "scrum done well". Every single project that attempts scrum
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by mkl95 4y ago
This. At this rate I would be financially independent by my late 30s. I'm expecting the bubble to burst before that though.
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by mkl95 4y ago
From a startup engineer's POV this is a non issue - a 18-24 month tenure is pretty standard. However I can't help but feel the bubble will burst eventually and it will be a success to run a VC-backed startup for a few months witho
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by mkl95 4y ago
Netflix's algorithms are very good at offering interesting content for a short period of time, like a few weeks. Even when I'm crunching at work and can only watch Netflix a few hours a week, I end up running out of interesting co
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by mkl95 4y ago
26/30. Since 90%+ of images seem to be have been generated by a machine, a better challenge would be to pick which image was generated by a human from a gallery of images.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I couldn't care less about leetcode, I literally have done less than 10 leetcode exercises in my life. I have been getting hefty pay bumps every 1-2 years since I graduated, and there are no signs that curve is flattening. FOSS /
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by mkl95 4y ago
> complaining about needing to do documentation, or basic project management? Some engineers are allergic to teamwork. I deal with coworkers with a similar attitude on a daily basis. The most frustrating aspect of it is that companies ar
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by mkl95 4y ago
Banished does a good job at simulating a resource strained community where bad choices can have terrible consequences in the short term.
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by mkl95 5y ago
Imo the biggest difference is that in the Python / JS world you can be considered a senior developer at many respectable companies and still be clueless about tooling, optimization etc. Most shops (exceptions being places that do a lot
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by mkl95 5y ago
If you use Python and JS chances are you do some form of web development, where most performance issues have to do with I/O, and most of those I/O issues are caused by bad queries. It ultimately comes down to using application per
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by mkl95 5y ago
> I see a lot of criticism/hate of C++ lately (mostly due to the comittee), but the tooling and libraries are there for multiple areas. I like C++ and my main caveat is that you don't just write C++. You also have to get good a
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by mkl95 5y ago
> ~5 years Python, STEM non-cs degree that all recruiters tell me is “amazing.” Over the years I have had several coworkers with STEM non-cs PhDs. It does carry over to fields like data science, but it doesn't carry over too much to
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by mkl95 5y ago
95%+ of SaaS engineering seems to be some form of that. I've been sick of it since day one but it's where the big bucks seem to be.
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by mkl95 5y ago
> Can you answer all of the questions I asked and not just pick and choose one That hit close to home.
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by mkl95 5y ago
I'm a developer who mostly works with Python and I recently interviewed for a position that seemed to mostly involve Ruby on Rails. I was genuinely excited about working with Ruby, but the interviewer said they are struggling to hire R
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by mkl95 5y ago
> And a lot did use to be expected. There were social norms to work hard, provide, take care of loved ones, and so on. Today, these norms have largely dissolved. Young men have responded accordingly. I mostly agree, but I think there are
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by mkl95 5y ago
In my relatively wealthy EU country there are two types of non upper class young men: those who are set to receive a relatively large inheritance and those who don't. People in the second group have to work much harder than those in th
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by mkl95 5y ago
The conductor in my comment is a project / engineering manager and is meant to show how bad OP's analogy is.
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by mkl95 5y ago
> When we see a world-class musician flawlessly play challenging music, it can be tempting to imagine that they were always able to do so. A moment's thought makes it obvious that they must have had to spend huge amounts of time pra
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by mkl95 5y ago
> With a top-grading interview, you are working through the candidate’s last five positions (in chronological order), asking a set of questions to determine how successful they were. It's important that the hiring manager responsibl
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by mkl95 5y ago
It is also agile done wrong by companies that don't understand how iteration works.
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Cdecl: C Gibberish ↔ English(cdecl.org)
95 points by mkl95 5y ago|62 comments
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by mkl95 5y ago
Growing complexity makes your stack more specialized over time. You may be considered a jack of all trades at some point, retain and improve your skills, and be considered a specialist a few years later because there are a gazillion more te
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by mkl95 5y ago
I'm not assuming, I'm just saying a vast majority of 40+ devs in my area fall into those groups. It's a different story at tech hubs where there's actual career growth.
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by mkl95 5y ago
15 year olds: they "yeet" and make weird noises when you merge their code. Shouldn't be allowed near the beer fridge. 25 year olds: good at inverting binary trees and writing Javascript.
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by mkl95 5y ago
In my area, 40+ developers basically fall into two groups: - Burnt out developers who still like their job. These people often have a background in some STEM field, may hold a PhD etc. They can be difficult to work with due to the odd outbu
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by mkl95 5y ago
I unsubbed for two major reasons: 1. Netflix is boring 2. Their recommendation algorithms didn't solve 1. The root cause of it all is their odd focus on expensive originals over third party content. Their catalogue is just not deep eno
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by mkl95 5y ago
This is exactly what I needed to read after a ridiculous job interview! Faith in humanity restored
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by mkl95 5y ago
To me AWS are the Apple of cloud computing. Expensive, reliable, opinionated, etc. I have been in very few situations where some AWS service was the ideal tool to solve a problem, but those times it just worked.

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