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by nvarsj 7y ago
At least in the UK, contactless is limited to 20£ and probably has other limits as well I suspect.
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Having been forced to become a single dad over the last few years - your view is wrong in my opinion. But I will admit I had a similar view before my own experience. The thing is, society teaches boys/men to be self-focused and work-fo
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Maybe it’s better now. But for years basic playlist functionality on google music was buggy for me (randomly reordering songs and some other issues I have forgotten). Also no Linux app. Finally swapped to Spotify and never looked back. But
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by nvarsj 7y ago
This isn't accurate as far as I know. IR35 was introduced by the Labour government specifically targeting PSCs, many of which include IT contractors, who Labour claimed were avoiding taxes. While there is a lot of accuracy to this (dis
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by nvarsj 7y ago
The first time I realized that Google search was bad was when del.icio.us got big. I was an avid user - and I stopped using Google except for basic things. You could search tags on del.icio.us - and the results were incredibly good, far bet
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by nvarsj 7y ago
It's not particularly hard. Just never accept a leadership position :). As long as you keep your technical skills sharp, you should never be short of a job. However your income will likely plateau very early in your career. You can try
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by nvarsj 7y ago
> The worst thing about all of this is that the irresponsible borrowers have in many cases come out on top. People earn more from their house than they do by going to work. This more than anything made realize that the UK has a broken sy
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by nvarsj 7y ago
It's not a "bit less". A senior engineer in sunnyvale is making 400k+ a year. That's nearly 70% more pay. Assuming 250k is correct, which I'm doubtful of.
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by nvarsj 7y ago
You can dig through the salaries on levels.fyi. From my brief perusal, it looks like 50% less for London. I'd guess other places will be even lower.
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I stand by that - I really think the JVM has a bad GC, and it has cost businesses billions probably. There is no trade off here - the JVM & Java have incredibly high memory requirements due to poor design - and this leads to all kinds o
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Sorry, you are right. It would probably be more accurate to use Spring actually. I was thinking of Cassandra/Zookeeper specifically when I said Apache.
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I'm curious how much you prepared for the interviews? I feel like after so many tries, you should have made it in (if just because you managed to get a set of questions you were familiar with). I think the reality is you need to dedica
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by nvarsj 7y ago
It's an interesting observation. I think that the modern approach to distributed systems is moving towards golang style microservices and lightweight / simple system design with RPC communication, reconcile type loops for state re
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Just because a tool is powerful doesn’t mean it’s appropriate. There’s a reason most people should just use a DB and not a raw event log. The issue I have with ES proponents is they seem to all pretend there is no additional complexity that
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I believe 2008 saw the start of mass enforcement of FBAR/FACTA, stricter requirements on foreign banks to report American accounts, etc. Things got much worse with Trump and the Republican congress - with sections 962/965 (transit
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Now if only I could file my expat taxes via some public service. The filing requirement in the Obama/Trump era for expats is literally insane, and I'd say even Kafkaesque in the truest sense. The way the government treats its expa
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by nvarsj 7y ago
For businesses, as far back as they need. Consumers don't care, and for consumer grade OS it's fine. Let's say I invest 1 million in machines that use 32-bit software for my professional studio, and it's working perfectl
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by nvarsj 7y ago
One positive point as the article points out is compatibility. This is the single reason Windows remains the staple of industry software, across almost all industries. It's particularly relevant in light of recent Mac OS X dropping 32-
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I have had a similar issue with a UX/design person. I think the main problem though is process. The design person should be challenged and accept criticism, and revisit their designs. Engineers can also fall into similar traps of follo
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by nvarsj 7y ago
To be honest I think self study can only take you so far (unless you are incredibly self disciplined). I’d recommend trying to get into OMSCS. If you have an undergrad degree you can do some nano degrees in algo/ai then you should be a
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by nvarsj 7y ago
If you really want to push yourself - I strongly suggest looking into OMSCS. If you get in, you can take classes in areas you may not be familiar (ML, AI, compiler optimisations, many things). It will stretch your knowledge for sure and exp
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by nvarsj 7y ago
That is more of a challenge :). This is why I think pre-recorded lectures are a superior form of teaching. They can be tweaked and revisioned to convey information in the most lucid way possible. Meatspace should be reserved for interactive
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I tried the cornell system when I started back at school (OMSCS). I didn't really like it. It felt overly tedious to me. I think it's probably an okay starting point if you have no idea how to learn things. At some point you'
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Well, I was using Openreach which is the largest consumer ISP in the UK. Specifically my latencies were better to the US when using PIA. So PIA had more favourable routing / commercial agreements than the largest UK ISP. So I'd sa
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Ugh, this sucks. I've used PIA for ages as well. Their infrastructure is really great too - I get better latency on PIA than my own ISP sometimes!
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by nvarsj 7y ago
DRM is old news and will never make any logical sense :). I’m pretty sure Netflix has no choice as DRM is likely required as part of licensing deals. Although Apple managed to famously drop DRM...
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I don't really agree with a lowest common denominator approach to teaching. Expose kids to algorithms (how to shuffle cards, how to sort cards), expose kids to basics of programming (ScratchJr, LOGO), and so on. The basics never go obs
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by nvarsj 7y ago
It's sort of shocking how many of my colleagues in the past did not know who Alan Turing was. Context and history is so important to understanding why things are the way they are - and it also makes you mostly bullet-proof to tech dogm
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Thanks for this. I've been having a rough couple years and this really helps out. I've grown more as a person than I did in the prior 10 years. That is something to be thankful for. Strength of character is forged in the fires of
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by nvarsj 7y ago
These kind of posts keep making me think I should go work for a FAANG so I can actually retire one day. Anyways, as someone on the other side, who has never worked for or applied to FAANG, I have a few reactions. First, your salary is absol

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