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by mmmm2 3y ago
Interesting in that I kind of did the opposite. I stayed at one company for a long time, and then moved more around later in my career. Perhaps there is an argument for getting to the "staff" level quickly, and then hop around mo
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by mmmm2 3y ago
I agree with this as well. I spent 7 years at my first job, and would have been much better off moving at least once. After that I tended to average closer to 3 - 4 years at jobs. I would recommend having at least one stop where you spend
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by mmmm2 3y ago
We've become the terrorists we feared in the 2000s.
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by mmmm2 3y ago
I wrote a few things I use all the time. 1. A youtube bookmark manager for Emacs using Sqlite as a back end. - You can keep track of individual videos. - Manage series that span multiple videos. - remember interesting moments. 2. A
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by mmmm2 3y ago
Yeah, I think it's been surprising to a lot of people. There have been a lot of questions among people who follow space as to why they didn't start with a flame diverter and water deluge system. I guess they felt the delay to ins
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by mmmm2 3y ago
It's kind of the paradox of choice. You knew you had one thing to watch and that was it. If something was interesting, you stick it in the queue and get to it when you've watched the other stuff you already head. And it was exc
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by mmmm2 3y ago
My thought on this is we've all been trained to follow the Google approach: thousands of machines, horizontally scalable, to handle any load. But this model was developed in 2004 when they wanted to hold the entire web in memory and c
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by mmmm2 4y ago
The villain in Big Hero Six is likely based on him.
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by mmmm2 4y ago
It seems it's better to be a SaaS provider than a SaaS user. I'm curious how the pendulum will swing as this all plays out.
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by mmmm2 4y ago
Always a good time to check in with old friends and coworkers who respect your work. If things get bad be prepared to make significant changes, like moving to an area with more opportunity, etc.
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by mmmm2 4y ago
This is why I switched to DevOps / Internal tooling. Yes, it has its own headaches, but usually you aren't on the critical path for the company and can get away with working normal hours (most of the time). The scope of the work
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by mmmm2 4y ago
Keep it secret. Keep it safe.
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by mmmm2 4y ago
I think it can come from natural curiosity, strong fundamentals, and experience. Search for problems that don't have canned answers and try to solve them. I think anyone can improve if they're willing to put in the time, though of
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by mmmm2 4y ago
I've been thinking about this as well, and I think it becomes fairly clear why they do it if you look at it from a BigTechCo's perspective. From Google's perspective (or whoever), they're about to sink a million dollars
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by mmmm2 4y ago
You're certainly not alone in thinking along these lines, but it is another case of "it's right until it isn't." The Fed has said they're going to tighten until inflation eases. Maybe they're wrong about
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by mmmm2 4y ago
As an old sendmail hacker, it amuses me to see SMTP called simple. I suppose it is though, at it's most basic level. It's the extra layers added over the years (MIME, text encodings, security, ...) and sendmail itself that make
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by mmmm2 4y ago
Another good approach is do deletions slowly. Put sleeps between each operation, and log everything. That way if you realize something is broken, you have a chance of catching it before it's too late.
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by mmmm2 4y ago
I use sqlite for a flashcard app to help kids with multiplication. It's running on an ec2 micro instance, because I'm trying to see how long I can stay in the AWS free tier. Everything is good so far, though most of my traffic is
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by mmmm2 5y ago
Mars is difficult of course, but it does have resources. You can get water, oxygen, rocket fuel, various ores, etc. It's also not a vacuum, and there are places where the temperature profile is vaguely similar to Earth. None of that
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by mmmm2 5y ago
I can't speak from a professional level about this, but I'll tell you why I started using Common Lisp for my personal development. One day I was thinking it would be awesome if someone created a really powerful language with great
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by mmmm2 5y ago
Grammarly, at least as of November, 2020: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...
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by mmmm2 5y ago
A haiku from the book "Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan": "The son of the third generation writes ‘Furnished house for sale!’ in beautiful Chinese-style calligraphy." It's the same idea: the first generation
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by mmmm2 5y ago
I remember this being a big concern around 2010, give or take a few years. Back then I don't think many people expected the demand for programmers to increase as much as it has. I'm in my 40's and still going.
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by mmmm2 5y ago
Tech Companies in general. What I have seen happen in the last year is the following: 1. Covid forced most people to work remotely, at least at tech companies. 2. The world didn't end for those companies, so now many more are amenable
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by mmmm2 5y ago
Good Luck! I'm in my 40's and also going through a number of interviews. It's been a lot of hackerrank/leetcode type stuff mixed with some practical problems and behavioral questions. Also stuff about times I've d
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by mmmm2 5y ago
I used to be more worried about aging out. This was about 10 years ago when I was in my 30's, but my fears haven't been realized so far. It does take a certain amount of agility to keep up with what's popular, but sometimes
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by mmmm2 6y ago
It reminds me of Ant configuration files. They have loops and if else: <for list="a,b,c,d,e" param="letter"> <sequential> <echo>Letter @{letter}</echo> </sequential
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by mmmm2 6y ago
I don't know how sophisticated of an answer your looking for, but I can tell you what I'm doing. 1. I have a standard portfolio of index funds split between stocks, bonds, real estate and cash, weighted more into bonds. The bonds
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by mmmm2 6y ago
Even in the most corrupt police state you are free to publicly praise the people in power.
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by mmmm2 7y ago
I'm old enough that I went through both, but I've been lucky in both instances. 2000: Moved to San Jose that summer (my first job) to "make it big" at a friend's email startup. The crash hit a few months later. I

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