mkl95

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by mkl95 2y ago
The silver lining is that they are lucky to have contracted HIV rather than some of the nastier stuff. There are plenty of worse reality checks.
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by mkl95 3y ago
AAA games would still look like Quake. The web would be much more static.
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by mkl95 3y ago
Whatsapp is kinda ubiquitous in some EMEA countries where stuff like iMessage is virtually unused
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by mkl95 3y ago
It's a very early stage non-YC, non-AI company that has raised a fair amount of VC money, and their very niche products have a small cult following on HN and elsewhere. That's probably all I can say without doxxing myself.
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by mkl95 3y ago
I went through 8 interviews and a take home only to be told I had been the best performer, but they weren't hiring for that role anymore. I baited them, and they quickly admitted they were lying and they wouldn't give me any actua
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by mkl95 3y ago
At some point, Prog pop/rock was relatively popular and influential. Some pretty complex pieces became hits. Nowadays the big labels are selling extremely simplistic music - it's much cheaper to produce and perform than something
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by mkl95 3y ago
If that thing is in production I wouldn't just change the code, submit a PR and move on with my day. For interviewing purposes it could work, but in the real world it's a reckless attitude.
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by mkl95 3y ago
I'd assume there's some kind of gotcha that makes naive solutions not scale. I may just be cynical, though.
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by mkl95 3y ago
> You have three hours. Go! Cool challenge, but isn't it a bit of a red flag? I don't expect you to ask me to get familiar with a codebase, test, and implement a feature in 3 hours. Ever. It's also oddly specific, if you k
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by mkl95 3y ago
You can do things the hard way and build a good product, or take shortcuts and build a not-so-good product. Most OKRs encourage leadership to take shortcuts and be cheaper (AKA more efficient). You can improve OKRs as much as you want, but
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by mkl95 3y ago
Glassdoor has the worst UX to popularity ratio I've ever seen. Only X and Jira come close.
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by mkl95 3y ago
The reality for most engineers is that their CTOs stopped caring about tech somewhere between the late 90s and mid 2000s. You'll have to put up with processes designed by some dude who still views platform orgs as a bunch of sysadmins
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by mkl95 3y ago
I thought level 4+ self-driving was going to be the face of "modern AI"... instead we got this thing
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by mkl95 3y ago
My building still has some asbestos pipes. Removing that stuff can be expensive and annoying, so it is usually delayed again and again.
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by mkl95 3y ago
Pay down your tech debt before it's too late.
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by mkl95 3y ago
There's a kind of satisfaction I get when I browse hypertext that loads in less than 100ms that I never get with slower sites.
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by mkl95 3y ago
At my current company we have pretty high test coverage. The test suite also happens to be full of mocks plus some cargoculted antipatterns that make many tests useless. The engineers who actually test their stuff can be counted with one ha
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by mkl95 3y ago
> We went from 1/150 to 1/36 Children with Autism in the last 20 years. Go back further, and it was practically unheard of. Sounds like doctors got better at diagnosing people on the spectrum.
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by mkl95 3y ago
> That's 20 times almost the size of my, how, how do you even build that? How long to build? Oh, 17 minutes for a new build. That's, that's not bad. We should probably make that better, but that’s not bad. Am I spoiled for
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by mkl95 3y ago
What do you mean my login flow sucks? Its time complexity is really good!
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by mkl95 3y ago
This site looks like a similar concept to https://immersivemath.com/ which is one of my favorite sites ever.
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Go Enums Suck(zarl.dev)
4 points by mkl95 3y ago|1 comments
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by mkl95 3y ago
> "I rearchitected a massive system to run on microservices" Saving a company from political mayhem is a pretty good achievement to have on your resume. It's also impressive because most engineering teams give up early on.
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EyeDropper API(developer.mozilla.org)
2 points by mkl95 3y ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 3y ago
I bought my first apartment in my mid twenties, like my parents did. Let's measure it in Porsches. Their place was newer than mine and cost them less than a run down Porsche. My tiny apartment cost me about the same as a new 911 with m
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by mkl95 3y ago
I recently spent a few minutes applying to a Gitlab position, only to get a link to some Gitlab wiki explaining the list of EU countries they hire at is limited, and mine isn't among them. I wish whoever posted the ad had spent a few s
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by mkl95 3y ago
There's data and there's also the behavioral / psychological stuff which is the bigger tell in my experience. Things like delivering half assed work despite having a good track record, and not caring about problems that need
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by mkl95 3y ago
When I was a teenager I dreamed of having a huge bathtub. Now I own a tiny apartment (EU) with a bathroom that is too small for even a tiny bathtub. Ironically my working-class parents' apartment has a much bigger shower.
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by mkl95 3y ago
Sounds like a great way to find out who's working late or is an early bird
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Gitlab Country Hiring Guidelines(handbook.gitlab.com)
2 points by mkl95 3y ago|0 comments

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