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by monster_group 5y ago
A long article that is basically saying you can't gain deep expertise by merely reading instruction manual and executing the instructions over and over. Expertise comes from a lot of experience with various situations that develops a s
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by monster_group 5y ago
I turn off my work computer after work day. I never install company chat apps / email on personal devices. So it really doesn't matter whether my manager messages me after hours or next business day because I'll only see when
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by monster_group 5y ago
IMHO, in middle age there's more to do and worry about. For example, I took off today and the morning was over before I knew it. That's because I spent an hour trying to make sure that my insurance agent is not gouging me by getti
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by monster_group 5y ago
I have not read Lingua Franca so can't recommend a Sanskrit counterpart. It is hard to make a recommendation without knowing what your skill level is. You can go to the below bookstore and find something appropriate for your level. On
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by monster_group 5y ago
I have been teaching Sanskrit for five years. 'Latin' can replaced with 'Sanskrit' in this article and the article would still be spot on (for Sanskrit of course). Latin and Sanskrit both are highly inflected languages a
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by monster_group 5y ago
tulip != turnip.
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by monster_group 5y ago
I am not the GP and I mean no disrespect to you. Your below phrasing seems presumptuous to me - >>..someone who can answer the leet code questions easily (and has been able to for a decade)... If you are a CTO chances are you have not
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by monster_group 5y ago
Add to that - one is still writing CRUD apps that seem to run slower than ever even though the computers have become faster. That's why I feel more drawn to my guitar now than computer but then guitar will never make me any money so ne
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by monster_group 5y ago
Interviewer - "That's impressive Daniel. Now can you invert a binary tree on the whiteboard?"
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by monster_group 5y ago
Just to be clear - I am strongly in favor of code reviews and do them every day. However, the article advocates spending 20-40% time on doing code reviews. Good luck convincing your manager why your productivity is so low when others are ch
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by monster_group 5y ago
10 hours? Preparing for FAANG interviews requires months of preparation.
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by monster_group 5y ago
The first half of the article resonates with me. I didn't use to have hobbies and I used to feel like a machine just going to work, coming back, sleep, rinse and repeat. I love programming but after writing nth CRUD app in flavor of th
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by monster_group 5y ago
There's definitely "good enough" in commercial run of the mill programming. You can always improve a feature, make your tests more robust, automate something more, improve the UI etc. At some point, you absolutely do need to
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by monster_group 5y ago
For virtually everything in life (not just cars and taxes), there's always "maybe I could have done better". This attitude is a recipe to be always dissatisfied and unhappy. The approach should be "did I do a good job?&q
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by monster_group 5y ago
100℃? You were in boiling water temperature? How's that possible? Or did you mean to say 100°F?
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by monster_group 5y ago
Those are some awesome videos from Mars. Why is there no coverage of this in US media?
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by monster_group 5y ago
I find this article jarring. FTA - "it's important to be cautious even if there's not complete certainty these animals are sentient." Uh what? I am no zoologist or marine biologist (or whatever 'ologist) but this is
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by monster_group 5y ago
Unless your boss is a total jerk, they wouldn't do that. Also, you are not as important as you think you are. Everybody is replaceable and people leave all the time. Your boss is unlikely to take the trouble to call some random person
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by monster_group 5y ago
Not sure where you are from but Americans have mind boggling amount of stuff. There are people in my neighborhood who have 3 car garages attached to their house and yet they park their cars in the driveway because the garages are full of ju
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by monster_group 5y ago
I always wanted to be a physicist. I even got into a Physics program in a decent college. But my dad forced me to go the engineering route and I switched my major. Two decades later, I often wonder what my life would have been if I hadn&#x
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by monster_group 5y ago
The best leverage you have during negotiation is to negotiate when you don't really need the job. Don't wait to be out of a job before interviewing. If you can do this, most of the advise in this article is immaterial. Have a numb
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by monster_group 5y ago
It is very sad how under-appreciated and underpaid teachers are (especially in US). I know my son's teacher works a lot of hours just by knowing how much responsibility she is expected to take on for her class. And she gets paid a frac
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by monster_group 5y ago
I really don't get this advise about not giving out a number. Seems like you yourself don't know your worth. Most of the times, save for FAANG companies, no other company is willing to pay me what I am asking for. So to go through
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by monster_group 5y ago
IANAP but wanted to say this - Same argument could be made for EM force. There is electric field around a charge but only when you place another charge the two charges attract or repel as per electromagnetic force. That way gravity and EM s
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by monster_group 5y ago
I am in same situation as you. What keeps me going is practicing songs that I enjoy. If I am working on a song that I enjoy, I am excited to pick up the guitar and am more or less able to find time every day. I also see progress because I a
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by monster_group 5y ago
What's the tech interview process like in Germany? Do they ask you to do LeetCode style problems on whiteboard or Google Doc?
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by monster_group 5y ago
Rarely. All features are gated by feature flags with the capability to dial up the feature gradually and dial down the launch instantly. I can monitor if the feature launch is going as expected by monitoring errors and metrics in the logs.
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by monster_group 5y ago
I don't keep track. All microservices use continuous deployment pipelines. If you check in code and it passes all the tests, it will make it out to prod some time in the next few hours.
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by monster_group 5y ago
The article assumes that people in developing countries like India will get paid more. Most likely the salaries in US will drop instead.
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by monster_group 5y ago
I vividly remember writing my first few Java programs. It was the most ridiculous thing to get it to run. JRE can't find the program when both the source and class files are right there in the directory where you are trying to run the

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