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by pyb 4y ago
It's interesting that one can take away radically different things from a technical career. For instance, at around the same age, I much prefer pair programming ; try to avoid remote work ; have little time for drawn-out technical disc
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by pyb 4y ago
This. Pichai doesn't need to cut the perks/ travel expenses and freeze hiring. He just wants to. It's a weird power play.
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by pyb 4y ago
I can't speak for AWS ; my experience is at a much smaller company, where the DevX team was mostly busy with enforcing coding standards and other uniform "best practices" upon other teams. OTOH if your build system needs a lo
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by pyb 4y ago
What do people think of DevX groups in general? I'm not sold, but in my (only n=1) experience, it'd be best to try to address the cultural problems that led to the perceived need for DevX. For instance : if build times are really
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by pyb 4y ago
Car salespeople still exist for the same reason recruiters still exist, despite Linkedin.
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Y Combinator is still paranoid (Michael Seibel interview)(techcrunch.com)
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by pyb 4y ago
I think I particularly like this film because it is a highly structured story around feelings that can be illogical. The Green Ray is an improvised film, so the polar opposite in a way!
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I hope you like it!
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Highly recommend "l'Amie de mon Ami", my favorite Rohmer. "Maud" is probably second.
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The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill
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by pyb 4y ago
Looks like they accidentally hired a high performer.
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This. People usually say "get a used Thinkpad", but any of these laptops will also do. There are many options.
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by pyb 4y ago
Put it that way. I pay you $100k to work in a fast-moving environment, or $130k to work in a bureaucratic environment. Which do you choose ? (it's worse in a company as it's the shareholders who earn +30%, not you)
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by pyb 4y ago
> Startups with managers 33% more likely to develop product innovations If the upside of managers is only 33%, they're probably not worth the added complexity/friction/expense !
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IME, The managers who believe this tend to hide too much information from their team. The team doesn't have enough context as a result, and is in the dark re. what's really expected of them by higher-ups.
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A classic rebuttal : https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/
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by pyb 4y ago
Agree with "Racket is more principled..." Where I differ with you if that I'd say that Racket theorically provides more power, but the system is not tractable in practice. I suspect all large Racket programs were written by p
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by pyb 4y ago
Unfortunately, I think perhaps might have come to a different conclusion if you'd tried Racket's so-called "hygienic" macros in anger. I've found them difficult to properly understand, not very usable in practice, a
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by pyb 4y ago
This is definitely pirating.
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Do you have a source for Notion?
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Dune Analytics, Udemy, Metamask
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by pyb 4y ago
For FT articles at least, I usually see links to pirated content here, rather than workarounds?
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by pyb 4y ago
As the tech is still unproven, it's research, rather than building capability, that they're spending money on. I hope all these investors understand this...
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Until Federer et al. came along, it was common knowledge that tennis was a young person's game. Competing in singles past your mid-twenties was unconceivable, at the highest levels. So, I guess the answer to all this is "fast prog
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by pyb 4y ago
It's probably not enough new housing is getting built. People don't even remember what a real large-scale housing spree looks like, because these last happened generations ago. These are transformative events. eg in Athens in the
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The problem is always not allowing more housing to get built.
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I am a software engineer with 15+ years of experience. I work on hardware projects. Resume/CV : https://www.dropbox.com/s/l6w2wd55ql5acnn/CVPYB.pdf Location : UK, EU, possibly Asia, remote. My experience is i
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by pyb 4y ago
Hiring for "$LANG engineers" happens not because it makes sense, but only because it gives non-technical recruiters something to filter for. This is one of the reasons why recruiters should not be filtering candidates.
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When Dune Analytics applied to Y Combinator(twitter.com)
6 points by pyb 4y ago|0 comments
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But, in other terms, it means they no longer have enough tech talent in-house to solve hard problems. This points to further decline down the line.

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