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by nvarsj 4y ago
I think it’s a common principle of modern computing. We trade productivity for performance all the time. The idea being machines are fast enough it doesn’t matter. There are order of magnitude gains to be made at most levels in the modern s
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by nvarsj 4y ago
I can agree things like sports are a lot better at high frame rates. You want to see what players are doing precisely in a live setting. But people don't watch sports in movie theaters. I'd argue stylistically the lower frame rate
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by nvarsj 4y ago
You're in the minority, I think. The Hobbit was shot in 60fps and most people found it very uncomfortable to watch. It felt like you were watching a movie set rather than a movie. Suspension of disbelief is pretty important for cinema
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Therapy - if only to get me analyzing it rather than letting it control my life. It's still there, and it's still a struggle. I've learned to mostly accept it as just how my brains works. I can recognize when it's causin
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Good question. I guess I have made some assumptions about it that I still hold onto. Like, it will be less pay with longer hours. Not really in a great spot right now to career switch either.
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I agree with Armstrong here. Just look at the Kubernetes landscape. It’s easy to get crippled by the vast array of choices for every little thing. It’s a consultant’s dream though.
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Letting anxiety control my life for so long. Marrying the wrong person because I didn’t want to be alone. Not going into the game industry. I was too afraid of the horror stories at the time, so ignored my passion.
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Well, people on blind have admitted to cheating during algo interviews. Not sure how prevalent it is, but a lot of people openly admitted to it. Guess it shouldn’t be surprising given the nature of these interviews and the money at stake. I
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It's why I dislike LinkedIn so much. Almost every post on there sounds like this twitter post. Devoid of real meaning but meant to sound profound.
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I really enjoyed LycoReco too! One of my favourites of the season, and I'm surprised to see it on HN. One thing sakuga blog hammers in every article is how chaotic production is. It's a miracle that shows of this quality get produ
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I wonder if Google even realises, like at Pichai level, how much this hurts them. I’m fairly sure it’s at least one important piece as to why GCP is struggling to gain market share. Who in their right mind would depend on a Google product f
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Anecdote but my close friend joined Google about a year ago. His sentiments are pretty similar to yours - he says he’s never experienced such entitlement before. Not sure if Pichai is taking the right approach but I can see where he’s comin
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Well it’s a very popular prequel story. A bit like Arcane for League. So yes, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it got people to play the game.
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As an engineer, you should love FB. They had a large hand in breaking up the lowball salary cartel maintained by Google and Apple, and set a precedent in the industry for paying engineers well. As far as societal impact - it's debatabl
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Definitely something of an Emacs renaissance, I'd say. Personally, I have been on a 2 year experiment using doom-emacs as my primary IDE. Doom really helped ease me into the Emacs world, by vastly improving and modernising the UX for n
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Edgerunners was released on Netflix. It’s really good and got people playing again.
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Orbital recently released a great remix of it on 30 Something. The original is one of my favourite songs of all time.
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Great suggestion! And you earned them a sale from me. Going to try this out to bring my rustlang knowledge up to speed.
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Yep that was what the critical loop trading components did (the ones w/ the models for buy/sell hooked up to the exchange feed). Completely disable GC and restart it every day. Every line of code in those critical loops was pored
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When I worked in HFT with Java code, creating caches/pools of commonly used objects (generally serialized/deserialized real time parameter updates) was pretty common. It significantly reduced memory allocation in hotspots. But the
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by nvarsj 4y ago
I lived for a few years in a converted meat packing factory in west Chicago. The apartments were really nice, except for the giant house centipedes that would occasionally migrate inside when it rained and would drop from the ceilings. It w
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Fellow "slow thinker" here. Yes, you can! In fact, I recently got a staff engineering role at FAANG. I also have really bad performance anxiety and don't sleep at all before interviews. Yes, it felt like everything was stacke
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I think you're right, this was in the UK (pre-brexit) so 140 was competitive with similar contracting roles. Elsewhere it is probably a lot lower.
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140k is possible, it's probably an outlier though for a perm role. I worked at a SF based start up and that is around the salary they paid EMEA principal engineers. FAANG will pay more than that for a senior engineer (around 200k). As
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Honestly that's why I swapped from front-end at the beginning of my career. Back end and infra moves much slower, jobs tend to be more secure and specialized, and pay seems higher overall. Learning Java back in the 00s was one of my be
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I was browsing Carmack's twitter feed, and stumbled on some posts in there from his ex-wife of 20 odd years, saying he was an absentee dad and husband. Sort of opened my eyes a bit. He also famously took his work computer on his honeym
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Because we value our time? Self hosting is a time sink.
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I think Redis Pub/Sub is up there too. Plus you get an amazing KV store.
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My general impression is that a well paying, full time compiler position is quite competitive. It's relatively niche, and there are a lot of good engineers who would love to work on compilers all day rather than the typical drudgery (i
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As an aside, I'm always impressed by Discord's engineering articles. They are incredibly pragmatic - typically using commonly available OSS to solve big problems. If this was another unicorn company they would have instead written

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