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by nbm 7y ago
Basically, an L5 (or equivalent level at other companies) is supposed to be largely independently competent (but not necessarily excel) in most engineering areas. They understand the context enough to determine which projects are important
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by nbm 7y ago
I'm definitely not going to defend the industry's interview processes' effectiveness at consistently and/or accurately extracting useful information (or even just the information that it is intended to). When faced with
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by nbm 7y ago
L4 is an intermediary level between new-to-industry junior (new grads generally start at L3) and mid-level (L5). In many companies, it's expected that people will reach L5 within some time period. Failing to have grown skills and proj
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by nbm 7y ago
Answered at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21985518
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by nbm 7y ago
Being hired in as an engineering manager requires having been an engineering manager previously (at any company), generally for a reasonable period (let's say, minimum two years of full-time management experience minimum with at least
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by nbm 7y ago
Yep, it could help in some cases. It's nowhere near as standardly applied as the other approaches to release verification, though. And in complex cases (say, a large multi-tenant service with complex configuration), it can be very hard
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by nbm 7y ago
Since the work involved in doing a regular expression match can depend largely on the input for non-trivial expressions, one fun case (probably not the one here, though) is that a user of your system could start using a pathological case in
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by nbm 8y ago
Services have different relationships with each others in terms of dependencies, and in terms of what you think those dependencies are. If your idea of how things work is that services A, B, and C can optionally use service D, else use some
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by nbm 8y ago
I was basically introduced to Twitch by Handmade Hero, and Casey (the host) seems to have brought a bunch of his contemporaries in as well. Handmade Hero: Complete game from scratch (nothing but platform libraries). Has spawned a number of
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by nbm 8y ago
You probably don't need to force the _best_ engineers go into management to achieve this - you just need someone with the necessary background and experience - and from that larger pool you can choose the ones that want to do managemen
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by nbm 8y ago
Why not just hire a (hopefully) good people manager? It's hard to find good managers, but it's also not entirely likely that your best IC engineer is going to be a good manager naturally either. Whereas you know they're goo
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by nbm 8y ago
When people talk about agism and finding it hard to find a job as an older person, they're generally comparing against someone with the same capabilities and salary expectation going for the same job. (Edit:) And they're not comp
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by nbm 8y ago
If you're writing code in a language that compiles to multiple CPU architectures, it's not hard to get 90% of the way towards supporting all those CPU architectures without trying much. The remainder certainly requires some effor
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by nbm 9y ago
The cynical view: "We took a calculated risk, announcing the set of changes, and seeing what the fallout would be. The fallout exceeded the threshold we set, so we're now going to issue the apology we had prepared in case that si
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by nbm 9y ago
At FB in engineering, you generally don't get placed on a team, you choose which team you join, only after 6 weeks of "Bootcamp" where you ramp up on the technical and cultural environment. That said, you're right that
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by nbm 9y ago
What size would be "relatively small" in your measurement? They're certainly smaller than their Bay Area headquarters, so "relatively", they're smaller. But for FB, at least, there are many Seattle-primary te
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by nbm 9y ago
Most people don’t spend nearly enough time in a editor-specific language to keep it fresh and loaded at all time. So having to switch from a language/environment you’re fluent in to one you can merely get by in is a frustrating experi
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by nbm 9y ago
He's using 4coder - https://4coder.handmade.network/ He likes that its configuration language is C, so he doesn't have to learn a configuration language to get things done.
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by nbm 9y ago
He doesn't anymore. He has a portion before the stream where he likes to talk about things that are not code-related (like his opinions on X), and he doesn't want those recorded. As I understand it, people were taking the vods a
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by nbm 9y ago
In order to really start talking about it, we'd need to see someone writing something of similar complexity and longevity live in the same amount of time, and see whether they've spent less time to get to the same place. With the
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by nbm 9y ago
I've watched pretty much every episode, mostly live. It is pretty amazing. It also pretty much single-handedly reinvigorated my love of programming. But there are definitely entire weeks (or weekends these days) of video that aren&#x
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by nbm 9y ago
The Alexa SXT doesn't match the first requirement - a true 4K sensor. It has a 3424x2202 sensor.
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by nbm 9y ago
Separate from non-lock-in reasons, I'd consider using the hosted version if I could export data at a later time so I could go self-hosted in the future (say, if I start writing some code for it and there's no API that does what I
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by nbm 10y ago
One of the benefits of publicly traded and soon-to-be-traded companies is that they release things like DAU in their S-1s and quarterly reports, so we don't have to rely on anecdote. Disclaimer: I work at Facebook (but don't follo
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by nbm 10y ago
At the core, it's really a simple iterative process - I wrote this in mine to remind me/cement it - https://www.instagram.com/p/BOflnzggBbc/ Basically, every day, write down anything that comes to mind t
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by nbm 10y ago
I've been keeping a bullet journal-style journal for the past month and a bit, and I've found it pretty useful. I don't write any "dear diary" style entries, but I do write down thoughts I have about game ideas, ca
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by nbm 10y ago
If you're at FB, reach out to me (nbm is my unixname). 100% privacy guaranteed or your money back. Otherwise, you should consult with your manager and a trusted (but not necessarily intimate) peer or mentor about what your options are
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by nbm 10y ago
Not sure where you got the "less than or equal to a second old"? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean? There is no single system-wide imposed sampling rate, so it's up to you to set the sampling rate based on what s
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by nbm 10y ago
Comparing to Tableau, Scuba is schema-less and doesn't require any setup beyond creating the table (which doesn't have any approval process in the way and gives you a reasonable amount of scratch space to test before you get serio
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by nbm 10y ago
Be careful comparing the "Registered Users" metric on the page between sites. In some cases they're using total number of registered accounts on the forum, and in others they're using metrics that involve recent activit

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