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by runT1ME 6y ago
Computation over Petabytes of data sounds fairly expensive, jobs that I was running over close to a PB could cost hundreds of dollars. Am I misremembering, doing it wrong, or underestimating your teams’s cloud budget?
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by runT1ME 6y ago
Being able to predict ride demand, optimal routes, and pricing on the fly seems like a complicated enough of a problem that it would both require a lot of engineering and provide enough value over just a 'physical service company'
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by runT1ME 6y ago
It's important to find the balance between letting your other engineers design and implement the more interesting and challenging problems, and also making sure they don't get in over their head. Sometimes tech leads (often rightf
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by runT1ME 7y ago
My current gig is using Scylla for storing time series data, we're partitioning by day and anywhere from 5-15 million rows per day. We've mostly been using Apache Beam/Cloud Dataflow for working wtih the data en mass for occa
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by runT1ME 7y ago
> but the primary datastore used at both Google and FB is MySQL I'm almost certain this isn't true, BigTable and Spanner are much more widely used at Google because.... well, MySql doesn't really scale.
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by runT1ME 7y ago
I do think Kotlin is a 'better java' while Scala fails to satisfy that niche. However, I wonder if we'll actually see some big Open Source projects/platforms released that are written in Kotlin. For Scala you have Kafk
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by runT1ME 7y ago
I primarily use airpods for making calls, and over the ear headphones for music.
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by runT1ME 7y ago
You are both making different points, because I agree with both of you. Some of the best engineers I’ve worked with have been foreign born, and I’ve also seen disasters happen due to outsourcing to foreign talent. These are two vastly dif
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by runT1ME 7y ago
off topic, but how did you find your way to HN? Are you also in IT/engineering? A hobbyist? Just like the discussion?
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by runT1ME 7y ago
Google is not dumb and realizes this, which is why they're pushing so many tools that prevent vendor lock-in. K8s entire pitch is you can seamlessly go from a cloud offering to your locally managed K8s in a datacenter. Our (small) co
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by runT1ME 7y ago
>and scalability in databases has no universal solution and the ones that exists come with the load of caveats. How is this true? Cassandra/MongoDB/Scylla are all very very popular NoSQL DBs that scale very well and work for a
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by runT1ME 7y ago
I had to do a project in C# many years ago, small piece of code that needed lots of concurrency and error handling. We were able to write it in a very clean monadic DSL (ala do notation in haskell or 'for' in Scala) by wrapping Ta
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by runT1ME 7y ago
>The boilerplate often helps when reading unfamiliar code I don't believe this to be true at all, especially for large code bases. Often the people who support this position have not worked on 100k, 500k, 1m LOC applications I&#x2
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by runT1ME 7y ago
Sure, it's unlikely someone will be totally clueless who can talk the ins and outs of a project. Let me put it another way. If we put all the engineers I've managed/lead throughout the years through your interview process, y
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by runT1ME 7y ago
I've been involved in software for almost twenty years, and while I'd agree the a majority of whiteboard interviewing is done poorly, it is something that developed out of necessity to both filter bad candidates and have a more
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by runT1ME 7y ago
How so? Presumably someone with an internal 'cloud' needs someone to be responsible for a large kube cluster, to handle a uniform way to do scheduling/resource management, etc. Having an engineer who knows how to do this in
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by runT1ME 7y ago
I can corroborate this, at Verizon we had problems scaling out ELBs for a very similar use case.
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by runT1ME 7y ago
If I am doing a phone screen + an all day onsite, sure it sucks but at the very least I know I'm a serious enough candidate that the company is willing to burn one engineer day to evaluate me. With a coding challenge, I have no way of
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by runT1ME 7y ago
I'm in SoCal, lots of companies around here will do low five figure starting bonuses now if you ask. I've seen 5k-15k in my offers at either smaller startups or non FAANG.
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by runT1ME 7y ago
Wonderful article that both talks about overall problems and at the same time gives concrete easy to understand ways to test your model.
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by runT1ME 7y ago
Of current renters, which often trails “market rate”.
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by runT1ME 7y ago
Housing going up 13% means most homeowners made over 60% return on their money.
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by runT1ME 7y ago
>we are not even close to achieving insect-level intelligence. Is this true? Is there an insect turing test?
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by runT1ME 7y ago
I believe that chart is using the governemnt's CPI to calculate the 'inflation adjusted' part. You can find all sorts of academic criticism of how CPI doesn't accurately reflect inflation (most notably of housing/r
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by runT1ME 7y ago
The times i've ever actually needed 'runtime' polymorphism (usually implemented w/ subtype & virtual methods) are utterly dwarfed by the times I'd been able to make use of parametric polymorphism, which I fin
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by runT1ME 7y ago
Scala
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by runT1ME 7y ago
just a heads up, your resume is a bit...confusing. Are you looking for a PM position or as an engineer? I think 4 pages is too long as well, I'd try to keep it between 1 and 2 pages.
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by runT1ME 8y ago
Huh, interesting. Looks pretty similar to some of Fanout's stuff. https://github.com/fanout/flychat
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by runT1ME 8y ago
I would imagine part of it is how much comp has risen for developers. If a couple founders are trying to raise 50-100k I would wonder why they couldn't get the cash themsevles by working for a big tech company and being frugal with th
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by runT1ME 8y ago
Love what you're doing. Think the model could work for other well paying jobs such as the medical field or legal?

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