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by pkaler 3y ago
I have two Staff+ level positions open on my team. The expectation for them is to be able to work in a cloud-native (AWS/K8s/Terraform/etc), distributed systems (Kafka/SNS/SQS/Kinesis) that is mission critical
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by pkaler 3y ago
> Is the coding question that is representative of the work you do at your company, and that you expect candidates to have done? The solution is a while-loop with a couple of if-statements. I would hope an engineer would write code like
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by pkaler 3y ago
Hiring manager here with open REQs. I've been doing multiple phone screens daily, and it's been brutal on my end, too. I structure the hour-long phone screen to be 1/3 coding, 1/3 behavioural questions, and 1/3 car
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AWS and Blockchain(tbray.org)
2 points by pkaler 4y ago|0 comments
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by pkaler 4y ago
This is an interesting topic. I suspect you are being vague for privacy. But is it possible to get some more context? What do you think your strengths are? Which strengths does the manager want you to grow?
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by pkaler 4y ago
> I'm not familiar -- do you have to actively consent to Apple's tracking too? It's called App Tracking Transparency and there is a scary prompt when Facebook/others do it. It's called Personalization and a frie
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by pkaler 4y ago
I've been to Montreal a few times and live in Vancouver. The missing middle of housing is what Vancouver could take from Montreal as the article states. The other thing it could take is the events (F1, ComedyFest, JazzFest, etc) Skytr
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by pkaler 4y ago
This is an excellent 3-part series on Apple, ATT, and how they robbed the ad mob: - https://mobiledevmemo.com/apple-robbed-the-mobs-bank/ - https://mobiledevmemo.com/apple-robbed-the-mobs-bank-part-2
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by pkaler 4y ago
>> Totally agree with this article. It's not just about funding methods, but also playbooks for these types of businesses, and best practices. I think the word you are looking for is called "business". There are tons o
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by pkaler 4y ago
Isn't this a good thing? If the workers were fed up enough with conditions that they formed a union, doesn't that imply the managers were terrible? Shouldn't terrible managers be fired? For example, my wife is a unionized n
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by pkaler 4y ago
>> So I get notified of every order that accidentally used my email address (common Indian name @ gmail.com). Someone needs to solve the (common Indian name @ gmail.com) problem. Preferably, Google/Gmail would solve this. But m
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by pkaler 5y ago
Chromium embeds the Blink browser engine which is a fork of WebKit which is a fork of KHTML. You can read Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda to get the backstory on why they chose KHTML over Gecko. You can also Google for podcasts that Don
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by pkaler 5y ago
> Can the NYTimes or WSJ even think about covering local issues? Yes. The NYTimes has a Canadian desk. Eventually they'll have a Vancouver desk. Eventually they'll have an East Van desk. Eventually they'll have a Main S
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by pkaler 5y ago
I've had my account hacked, too. I used to own: https://www.instagram.com/kaler/ Have owned it since Instagram launched and it was connected to my Facebook account which I've had since 2005 or so. There is n
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by pkaler 5y ago
This looks like a Painted Door Test where the creator is testing the value proposition and the pricing. I suspect the next iteration of the product/company will have a different brand name.
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by pkaler 5y ago
Looks like Helion has a long-term target of 1¢/kwh. Conveniently, BCHydro just emailed me my bill this morning. They charge $0.2077/day. Then $0.0939/kWh for the first 688kWh and then $0.1408/kWh after that. It looks l
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by pkaler 5y ago
It depends. The main lever is where you will find a great mentor. Here are a few points you should think about: 1) Sponsorship/Mentorship. Will your current manager or another manager in the company champion your transition to a man
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by pkaler 6y ago
There was a similar ML bug on Instagram last year. I had a 5-letter username that hackers would constantly try to take. They somewhat succeeded this summer by having my account deactivated. There is no real recourse on my end since Instag
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by pkaler 6y ago
I would recommend that you read a book a week, every week, for the rest of your life. :) Just start with the ones in the article and Amazon/Kindle will get good at recommending books. Here's some books recently read on my Kindle:
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by pkaler 6y ago
I recommend all of the books referenced in the original post. They are all very good. But the expectation of an engineering manager is fairly simple: Do whatever it takes. Way back in February or March, when we were still working from the
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by pkaler 6y ago
Google search is up. Google Mail, Calendar, Docs seem to be down. (This is probably a testament to who pays the bills.)
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by pkaler 6y ago
This is a whole lot of words that doesn't clearly convey the core point: Apple App Store payments should compete on technical/business merits and not be mandatory based upon contractual obligations.
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by pkaler 6y ago
Earnin | Senior Android Engineer | Full-time | Vancouver, Palo Alto Earnin is building a financial system that works to enable people, not profits. We’re fed up by the fact that $1 trillion is held up in the pay cycle every year, causing Am
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by pkaler 7y ago
Former game developer here. Game studios don't need unions, they need better management. Basically, an 18-year-old QA tester gets promoted to lead QA then associate producer then assistant producer and then producer. The producer ma
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by pkaler 7y ago
Earnin | Android & iOS Engineers | Vancouver, BC | https://www.earnin.com/careers/ Earnin is building a financial system that works for people. There are 80 million Americans that live paycheck to paycheck and the
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by pkaler 7y ago
I've been listening to The Art of Product podcast since the start and Level really didn't make sense to me as a solution even though I understood the problem. Most issues are around context and focus when moving from an individual
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Book Notes: High Output Management by Andy Grove(parveenkaler.com)
1 points by pkaler 7y ago|0 comments
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by pkaler 8y ago
I fire up either Kanye West or Jay-Z whenever I have that feeling in the pit of my stomach before doing a difficult thing. Sometimes you just need a little bit of brazen, bombast to get started. Added to my .zshrc: curl -s 'https:
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by pkaler 8y ago
>> He had received an offer at a start-up, and he would have loved to take it, but it paid half as much, and he felt locked into a lifestyle that made this pay cut impossible. “My wife laughed when I told her about it,” he said. Sou
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by pkaler 8y ago
>> He argues that eliminating the power of the super-rich would created would lead to America that was "the country we think we live in but don't. A transfer of wealth from billionaires to the government is a transfer of p

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