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by rguzman 8y ago
honest question: is work that crazy for most people in the software industry? it really doesn't square with my personal experience. from what i've seen, most people work 10ish to 6ish under very relaxed conditions like eg a comfor
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by rguzman 8y ago
try 50 Challenging Problems In Probability by Mosteller. it starts pretty basic and works up slowly to a good foundation for learning probability theory in a rigorous way using very neat problems. https://www.amazon.com/Chal
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by rguzman 8y ago
the other possibility is that they do know something that isn't widely known about quantum computing.
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by rguzman 9y ago
anyone who is going a move from monolith to microservices on top of AWS is a potential user of twirp and it will save tons of time on design and implementation. that's a lot of value and for a lot more people than just Twitch.
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by rguzman 9y ago
this looks really sweet. i've never understood why gRPC limits itself to protobufs only when the protobufs have a canonical json representation. i'm glad that twirp is fixing that piece.
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by rguzman 9y ago
use a calendar. i don't mean for appointments. i mean get rid of your todo lists and all similar abstractions and explicitly allocate your time using a calendar. i wrote this up with some more details here: http://rz.github.
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by rguzman 9y ago
> Django's fat models approach is bad while django encourages Fat Models and that approach ends up working well sometimes, django itself has no such approach to models. how much logic to put in a model is left to the application dev
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by rguzman 9y ago
> You say you get to make risky investments with time; yes...but that's even worse than money. Money is fungible. Time isn't. You have a set amount in life. that isn't an argument against startups offering options. that on
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by rguzman 9y ago
> sure but for every stripe there are 10 startups that either failed or didn't amount to a great payout. yep. it's probably more like 100:1 don't go work at the other 99! :) i agree that the value of options is statistical
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by rguzman 9y ago
i think options do a couple of things: 1) they let employees invest in startups using their time instead of their money, which is handy when you aren't rich and 2) they allow the company to have a legal framework around an IOU: take
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by rguzman 9y ago
the Classic seasons of Destroy All Software: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
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by rguzman 10y ago
> The justification for my high pay is because I integrate complex systems with shitty vendor web service api's and automate the transmission of sensitive data. The work I am doing has a huge impact on profitability of my company -
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by rguzman 10y ago
having the solutions does not stop you from developing that skill. however, the lack of solutions makes it difficult to make progress when you have time constraints, which is the common case.
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by rguzman 10y ago
> Surprised I don't see my main pet peeve - early reference check. the right way seems to be to give a heads up, early on, that references will be needed and be explicit about when they will be contacted. this ensures that the proce
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by rguzman 10y ago
i think it can go either way. i agree that it seems easier to simulate working conditions with a homework assignment. (it does add a lot of work for the company to do homework problems well, but let's leave that aside) the downside is
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by rguzman 10y ago
i agree with all that -- again, the i don't think that whiteboard interviews are perfect. but also, keep in mind that the candidate has a limited amount of time, and often a full-time job on top of the job hunt. the homework questions
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by rguzman 10y ago
> Use homework assignments to assess the candidate’s engineering skills while homework problems can be better than in-person interviews, they can also be a lot worse. for one, because they are NOT time-bound. secondly, they are much more
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by rguzman 10y ago
also, i have the impression that alchemy's bad reputation is a bit undeserved. IIRC some alchemists believed matter was made of fundamental components and followed the scientific method well. so, that bet may be less risky than we perc
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by rguzman 10y ago
there is no such thing as bad publicity. at least early in the race, the battle is not against other candidates, but against going unnoticed.
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by rguzman 10y ago
i don't think there is too much tension between "lean" and focusing on product quality before growth. the best way to improve the product is to get people using it and use their feedback to improve it. that's what lean i
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by rguzman 10y ago
this piece just highlights something that is well understood by a lot of people: non-rich/first-time founders and investors don't have aligned interests until the founders cash out. of course the VC prefers you die over you stoppi
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by rguzman 10y ago
You are right about the scalability of the process, but not about the rest. It seems possible to design weekend projects that would be way better for evaluating senior engineers than asking them to do CS brain-teasers on whiteboards. CS top
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by rguzman 10y ago
I haven't read it, yet, only did a quick search to see if I could fine the words "tonal center" somewhere. I think that concept is under-emphasized and resolves a bunch of common confusion about music. e.g. this post[1] that
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by rguzman 10y ago
> The problem I have is not that I haven't planned correctly, it's that I do not follow my plan. reply if you don't follow the plan, you haven't planned correctly. a good plan has built-in mechanisms to make you follo
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Put Time on Your Side(rz.github.io)
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by rguzman 10y ago
College != Education. Education should be for anyone who wants it. However, the returns on a college education (especially if the monetary costs are high) are highly dependent on the abilities (IQ, grit, conscientiousness, etc) of the indiv
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by rguzman 10y ago
> The real losers are the employees. Why victimize the employees so much? It isn't like you go to work for the startup and when it implodes you are left with nothing and no options -- far from it, you likely made a good salary while
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by rguzman 11y ago
From the XKCD: > This leads us to the central problem of getting into orbit: Reaching orbital speed takes much more fuel than reaching orbital height. Getting a ship up to 8 km/s takes a lot of booster rockets. Reaching orbital spee
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by rguzman 11y ago
The best way to show that you get things done is to have a record of things you've done to point to.
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by rguzman 11y ago
http://indie.vc/ maybe?

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