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by posharma 5y ago
Good for you. However, choosing to retire at a certain age because you've the requisite funds is orthogonal to having the option to continue as an IC.
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by posharma 5y ago
Over 40 dev (Individual Contributor - IC as they call it) here and all I can say is that the article is completely ignoring large companies like FAANG, Microsoft, etc where ICs are allowed to remain ICs (design, write code, mentor juniors,
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by posharma 5y ago
This is great. Now, how do we inference these models economically? It appears there's some kind of competition to train larger and larger models, but the inferencing side of the story seems to be neglected?
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Introduction to Architecting Systems for Scale(lethain.com)
3 points by posharma 5y ago|0 comments
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My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit(motherjones.com)
537 points by posharma 5y ago|322 comments
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by posharma 5y ago
Any software engineering book worth its salt covers this topic. Besides a quick internet search on code review best practices will give you several well written articles. What’s the point of writing and discussing the same thing repeatedly.
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by posharma 5y ago
Hasn't enough been already said and written about the importance and effectiveness of code reviews? Do we really need yet another article on it?
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by posharma 5y ago
How does this compare to OpenMP? Does it support nested parallelism? (disclaimer: haven't read the post thoroughly).
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Ask HN: What Is a Tech Lead Manager?
1 points by posharma 5y ago|1 comments
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by posharma 5y ago
A change of 84 files and not a single code review comment. Approved and merged! Wow!
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by posharma 5y ago
If your question is specifically referring to the leetcode style coding interviews, this is exactly how Silicon Valley engineering careers work if you want to change jobs.
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How much money a single person needs to earn to get by in every U.S. state(cnbc.com)
2 points by posharma 5y ago|0 comments
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by posharma 5y ago
There are at least 5 problems with doing pedestrian stuff in a corporate setup. Of course, this is part subjective, part circumstantial. (1) Low pay. (2) If you mess up you get penalized more severely. If you mess up a hard problem you get
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by posharma 5y ago
How does this compare to https://github.com/openai/triton ? Why should I use this and not Triton?
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by posharma 5y ago
PyTorch is amazing. The article was a good read. Although I'm confused. How can a ML framework be not obsessed with speed/performance?
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by posharma 5y ago
Oh gosh, Agile Coach is definitely the worst. Pure BS. I can get the job of the scrum master, but agile coach? Sorry, we should've a much higher bar for subjecting our engineers to this role.
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by posharma 5y ago
Is there something like this for Azure?
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by posharma 5y ago
How does this compare to other toolkits?
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by posharma 5y ago
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
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by posharma 5y ago
There are 2 aspects to this. 1. The importance of having a solid technical contributor in an executive role cannot be overemphasized. 2. If you were not a CEO/CTO before it's easy to get anxious about the decisions executive leade
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by posharma 5y ago
How do you folks deal with the following? I borrow books from the local library but can't mark or underline anything in the book to go back and refer. How do you then keep notes to retain the salient points of the book? Maintaining not
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by posharma 5y ago
If you care about only FAANGM companies, leetcode is all that you need. No one at these companies care about your side projects.
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Dentist warns why you should never use mouthwash after brushing teeth(foxnews.com)
4 points by posharma 5y ago|3 comments
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by posharma 5y ago
This is a company that is enjoying roaring success with such questionable employee management practices. How does this happen? Does success have no correlation with bad culture? If yes, why are other companies focusing their time and energy
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by posharma 5y ago
This on hacker news?
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Cramer says this group of tech stocks – not FAANG – is his favorite(cnbc.com)
1 points by posharma 5y ago|0 comments
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Why is Git so popular and frequently used?
32 points by posharma 5y ago|64 comments
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by posharma 5y ago
Amazing! Really nice.
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by posharma 5y ago
What happened to RabbitMQ? Is that not used as a queue any more?
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PyTorch builds the future of AI and machine learning at Facebook(ai.facebook.com)
3 points by posharma 5y ago|0 comments

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