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by peferron 6y ago
Just ordered it, thanks for the recommendation :)
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by peferron 6y ago
It sounds like a super fun question. I'm almost tempted to start thinking about it even though I'm not interviewing for anything. Given how many features AWS alone ships every year, I'm sure Amazon is very familiar with prior
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by peferron 6y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but getting a degree (not necessarily in CS) can help with international mobility since some countries make it a hard requirement. So if you are from a country where developer salaries are low, or that isn't conduci
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by peferron 6y ago
FWIW I've been collaborating on Clojure projects with other engineers for over a year and indentation has been an absolute non-issue.
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by peferron 6y ago
If your work is CPU or memory-hungry, I don't think there's a single laptop out there than can touch the performance of a Zen 3 desktop with 64 GB+ of memory. I spend 99% of my working hours at my desk so it's a no-brainer fo
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by peferron 6y ago
HN loves to be gruff and contrarian about these topics. So I'm going to say this for any readers that are or will be looking for jobs: Yes, the article is mostly right. Yes, you should quantify your achievements as much as possible. An
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by peferron 6y ago
I'm getting a few downvotes, so let me try a different approach. To the people I quoted: you evidently understand that runaway tech debt is a bad idea. So let's start a company where all of you are founders! At inception, this com
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by peferron 6y ago
Replies to your comment are unanimous so far: "You can give every engineer and team complete freedom, and you’ll end up with too many microservices to count" "Giving devs the green light to go crazy is also a recipe for disas
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by peferron 6y ago
Same here! Among many other things, it was amazing to see the amount of fighting in the midfield. It's really not just about who takes first place.
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by peferron 6y ago
This illustrates why working with Clojure feels so relaxing and elegant. Most languages operate on code as text. When commenting out code with //, it's easy to mistakenly leave out a line containing a closing bracket for exam
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by peferron 6y ago
In awe of seeing Vikingur recommended here :) he also has a great recording of Philip Glass if that's your thing.
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by peferron 6y ago
The point of hotel chains, and chains in general, is the consistency of the mass-produced experience. I can walk into a DoubleTree hotel anywhere in the world and get the same welcome cookie. It's a positive, not a negative; people oft
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by peferron 6y ago
Like many others, I disagree with several points of that article. First, even if you're dead set to work at company X, it's a good idea to get offers from companies Y and Z to help you negotiate. If X is primed for success, as the
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by peferron 6y ago
Yeah, it's such a depressing read.
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by peferron 6y ago
If you're talking about piracy, do you only read books from dead authors? Or do you pay them via alternate channels? Or are you just fine with enjoying their content without paying them back a cent?
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by peferron 6y ago
You need to preface every criticism of the USA with "I love America and it's the greatest country in the world, but...".
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by peferron 6y ago
Your link [4] shows that, since 2000, the lower class has been growing and the middle and upper classes have been shrinking.
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by peferron 6y ago
Your link shows that, since 2000, the lower class has been growing and the middle and upper classes have been shrinking.
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by peferron 6y ago
I find this principle useful when users come with negative preconceptions against the usability of your product, perhaps because of previous iterations that weren't very usable or because they tried other products in the same space tha
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by peferron 6y ago
I use Universal Principles of Design as an engineer as well. Before starting a new project, I'll flip through the pages and compile a list of principles that are particularly relevant for the project. Then as the project progresses I
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by peferron 6y ago
I'm happy you've been beating index funds and hope you can keep that streak going. Have you considered the opportunity cost of spending time researching and picking stocks though? You don't just need to beat index funds, you
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by peferron 6y ago
Cassandra and ClickHouse are designed to do different things. To flip things around, have you compared the latency of a single-row update or delete in Cassandra vs ClickHouse?
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by peferron 6y ago
Here's a calibration guide for a recent TV: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/b8-oled/settings A quick look at the screenshots will give you an idea of the sheer number of settings. Can you fatho
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by peferron 6y ago
Why do consumer-grade cameras have fewer physical buttons than professional-grade cameras, in your mind? Is it because physical buttons are expensive to make? Or is it because a camera with fewer buttons is easier to use for untrained users
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by peferron 6y ago
OK, so we agree that it's easier to find the mute button on a remote with 5 buttons than on a remote with 50 buttons, at the cost of the other operations becoming harder. I'm fine with some operations being harder. For example, my
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by peferron 6y ago
Isn't it obvious that it's faster to find the mute button on a TV remote control with 5 buttons than on a remote control with 50 buttons? I experienced that just yesterday.
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by peferron 6y ago
I did not point to him being a senior engineer at FAANG, I pointed to him mentioning that he's a senior engineer at FAANG, as evidence that the book is marketed towards people who also want to become senior engineers at FAANG. As me
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by peferron 6y ago
> your pointing to his job title as if he's some genius No, that's just you projecting.
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by peferron 6y ago
I highly doubt sales would increase by 10x, or even 2x. This book isn't trying to sell itself by saying "hey, buy me and you'll be entertained for three hours, which is a better value than a movie ticket". This book is t
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by peferron 6y ago
This is why I avoid cities in the USA. Having lived in "real" cities before (some huge like Shanghai, some small like Bordeaux, all without a car), living in a typical US city would be such a painful daily reminder of the downgrad

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