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by seattleeng 8y ago
Senior staff is something like <10% of all engineers (probably closer to 5%), the technical equivalent to a managerial “Director” title. Most engineers top out 2 promotions below.
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by seattleeng 8y ago
Huge fan of this site, for two reasons: - It lets “outsiders” to the tech scene understand salary and levels at big companies. If you went to MIT you probably already have frat brothers/sorority sisters or an alumni network that consis
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by seattleeng 8y ago
This is a great post. Im curious if these techniques are widely used in hedge funds/prop shops today. I was an equity options trader many moons ago, and the Chicago prop shop I traded at generally had every trader using a simple vol ar
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by seattleeng 8y ago
Conceptually, I think you're right -- to serve gRPC requests only requires http2 as a transport and more shouldn't be necessary (edit: I stand corrected, seems like not all HTTP2 features are supported by all modern browsers). In
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by seattleeng 8y ago
Did you go to Caltech by any chance?
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by seattleeng 8y ago
I think you'd be surprised. I went to Caltech (graduated 2014), which is a fairly well known university for their Electrical Engineering program, and I learned ABEL in my Sophomore/Junior year. My instructor, an admittedly old sch
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by seattleeng 8y ago
Venture Deals by Brad Feld is a good one. Mind you, I'm an earlyish employee and not a founder, but the startup I'm at is thankfully transparent and gives us enough financial metrics for me to put a lot of that book to use in cont
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by seattleeng 9y ago
This is interesting for its notes on Google's organizational history and what it got right/wrong, but the bits about other companies don't seem to make sense to me, particularly Facebook: > Facebook is kind of nothing. It’
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by seattleeng 9y ago
I see, thanks for the detail! The closest I've gotten to work like this was back in college; one of my digital design classes had us cloning CPU on an FPGA. Of course, we had full signal visibility via simulations/test benches and
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by seattleeng 9y ago
It's been a while since I've dealt with computer architecture -- what is an "in-circuit emulator"? Did this mean that having access to just the data bus (typically exposed outside of the CPU die to external memory) mean
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Doesn't weather adversely affect these, though?
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Property-based testing seems to be an interesting idea and fairly easy to trial and then recommend to my teammates. The js library I stumbled upon even has TypeScript support and plays nicely with mocha, both of which are directly relevant
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Yes, I suppose I'll try my naive TLA+ approach of modeling what I can as I document various parts of the system and see where it gets me. P looks like an interesting experiment to dabble in.
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Does anyone know of any good resources for high-level guidelines on how to incorporate model checking into a typical software development flow? I've only used TLA+ in my own time for some fairly basic modeling of simplified service int
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by seattleeng 9y ago
That's very interesting, do you happen to have any toy examples where two model checkers differ?
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Just to be clear, you're saying that the strike of the option grants (or the 409a) in 2014 was roughly based on a 10b valuation? That does seem to screw over anyone with such options, since it's unlikely they'll see appreciab
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by seattleeng 9y ago
This is an excellent short list of the main points I learned as an undergrad, and what I've retained today. One other point is that 64 bit floating points (aka doubles) really are about double the precision of 32 bit floating points, i
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what areas would you say this to be true? Not denying there are dangerous areas, but I've only lived in SF for 2 years and haven't lived in many neighborhoods (1 year near the SoMissPo underpass and another near
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by seattleeng 9y ago
It's interesting how you described that process -- I actually distinctly realized around middle school that lingering thoughts led to visualizations and eventually sleep. I got good enough at training myself to close my eyes and start
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Another point here that was true during my time: almost all exams were take home, open book. Some were even unlimited time, although that was much rarer. Generally though, time was not the constraint keeping you from completing the exam.
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by seattleeng 9y ago
I've heard first hand stories from friends who did their undergrad at Harvard that spoke to favoritism. One is: while playing rugby, a friend tackles another student. The coach pulls my friend aside and tells him to stop "hitting
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Have you spoken to current or former engineers? I have spoken to a few former engineers, and the responses ranged from neutral to negative on the prospects of the product appeal of the tech. Obviously both groups will be biased in their own
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by seattleeng 9y ago
Congrats to them. What's the value prop for databricks for orgs that already have data/infra engineers? I ask because in our org of ~40 engineers, our entire data warehouse (Spark on Mesos, Jupyter notebooks for analysis) is manag