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by peferron 7y ago
Then try 1 hour every day for 3 months, or 1 hour every 2 days for 6 months, or whatever you can fit into your schedule. Do you really have no time at all after your kid(s) go to sleep? I prepared and interviewed with a 1 year old at home,
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by peferron 7y ago
> expecting people to spend 6 months on preparation for interviews considered normal or totally acceptable You're expected to be able to solve a certain set of problems. Whether you don't prepare at all, spend 6 months, or spen
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by peferron 7y ago
Your experience is incredibly close to my own. I'd love to know if you also feel the same about a few other issues: - I used to have a massive impostor syndrome due to not having a CS degree. Joining FAANG alleviated perhaps 80% of it.
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by peferron 7y ago
I can't speak for everyone at Netflix, and as you mention it may depend on the team, but in my team I don't think anyone cares. Why should it matter how many hours someone works a week, as long as they do a good job overall?
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by peferron 7y ago
My impostor syndrome briefly reappears every time I read articles like this :) I don't feel any state of "flow" or "zone" or whatever, and certainly wouldn't consider my entire afternoon ruined because of a sin
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by peferron 7y ago
Flash was incredible. Not just for the animation and games, but also for the audio and video streaming from a server to you, or from your mic/cam to a server, or between you and other users via P2P, all of that live and with the abilit
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by peferron 7y ago
But you can have a "real career" without ending in management. In the Bay Area you can make absurd amounts of money as individual contributor. Not C-level of absurd, but high enough to be fine with earning less but enjoying your w
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by peferron 7y ago
Realize that the interviewer wants you to succeed! For an interviewer, a candidate that does great and gets hired is a much better outcome than another hour wasted on a rejection. (I'm sure they are some toxic interviewers and dysfunct
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by peferron 7y ago
> Any software engineer that wants to build a _real career_ with _real progression_ will already know that changing jobs should be done by connections, not cold-applying for jobs. If you can get referred, sure, do that. Why should that b
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by peferron 7y ago
Zurich (which is mentioned in the article) sees ~1,500 hours of sunshine a year [1]. That's absolutely horrendous and not "lots of sun" by any measure. I grew up in a place in France that gets slightly more sun than Zurich. I
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by peferron 7y ago
On one of your links she writes the following: > In my email I said clearly that I'm on board with "use preferred pronouns when using pronouns" I think this rules out using singular "they" if the person would rat
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by peferron 7y ago
Sounds insane. Based on our two experiences it seems like the requirements can change a lot. Hopefully if you apply again in a few years they won't require that anymore, but it's hard to say without knowing what are the factors th
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by peferron 7y ago
I think the initial level is mostly a function of experience. Then depending on your interview results it can go up or down. In my case I interviewed at level 5, and did well enough to be invited to come back for another round at 6. I was s
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by peferron 7y ago
~11. Had 4 more before that but not in the SW industry, although loosely related.
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by peferron 7y ago
Starting your own company is easy for sure! Starting your own successful company is something else, and I found it much harder than getting into FANG, but it requires very different skills and I'm sure some people are better at the f
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by peferron 7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's definitely not that hard, and contributing to LLVM/Rust/V8 is not a requirement either (I would still recommend it, but mostly because it sounds interesting and you would likely
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by peferron 7y ago
Which companies are you talking about?
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by peferron 7y ago
> we'll likely never convince the people who have never experienced another culture and who value money over everything You certainly won't convince many people currently living the USA by throwing veiled insults at them for no
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by peferron 8y ago
2010+ version is that real programmers don't use JavaScript. After all, it's a scripting language—don't try to deny it, there's "script" right there in the name—and scripting languages are not real programming
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by peferron 8y ago
The sensor doesn't appear to measure particulate matter, so I'd take the air quality reading with a large grain of salt.
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by peferron 8y ago
Sibling comments mention Chris Lattner. For readers that might not know him, he's the main inventor of Swift. Him pushing Swift should not necessarily be taken as a sign of general community enthusiasm. I would love to see more Swift o
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by peferron 8y ago
Nope, the author is right—for many people, it's hard to find a better place for life and work than the Bay Area, and that's why so many people move here. That's perfectly compatible with you and your friends disliking the Bay
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by peferron 8y ago
They should also not have mentioned that both planes were Boeings, since 100% of 737 MAX are Boeings.
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by peferron 8y ago
Alstom EMU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGV_(train) SNCF doesn't want it because they believe locomotives are cheaper to maintain and they want double-deckers anyway.
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by peferron 8y ago
H-4 holders (spouses of H-1B, for the uninitiated) should be allowed to work. That they don't is inhuman and de facto hurts women, since the overwhelming majority of H-1B holders (at least in the Valley) are men. It's forcing wome
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by peferron 8y ago
> H1B's are immigrant visas No, H-1B visas are explicitly nonimmigrant visas for temporary workers. [1] > They terminate in greencards after one renewal No, they don't. You can apply for a GC, but there's nothing automa
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by peferron 8y ago
ClickHouse is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, but isn't an "Apache project" as in an ASF project. Maybe that's what you meant—just want to make that clear for other readers. ClickHouse scan performance is through
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by peferron 8y ago
Regarding your second point: your intuition seems good, as Alipay apparently extended Druid to performs joins this way, with good performance [1]. Unfortunately it looks like they won't finish open-sourcing it, but it at least validate
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by peferron 8y ago
Are there studies showing that? Switching seems perfectly natural. If a good game comes out I'll play that. If a good TV show comes out I'll watch that. And since my free time is limited, if I pick one it means I'm not doing
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by peferron 8y ago
If Fortnite gets replaced by another similarly popular fad after a few years then people still aren't watching Netflix. That's what Netflix has to compete against. I'm quite sure that's how the quote is supposed to be un

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