shakkhar

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by shakkhar 6y ago
First, it takes years to become true expert in a particular branch of software development. There is no switch career button. You just have to put in the hours to grow as a developer. You will spend the rest of your thirties just catching u
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Not saying that this can't work in practice, but it sounds a bit passive-aggresive to me. I'd imagine if someone has some feedback for me, they'd talk to me directly instead of leaving a ticket in an issue tracker. You alread
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by shakkhar 6y ago
> Recently I started seriously looking into opportunities in FAANG. Somewhat orthogonal to your question - but I wanted to point out that if FAANG opportunities are what you're after, doing projects is not going to help. > it doe
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Should be "Ask HN" or "Tell HN".
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by shakkhar 6y ago
I think the biggest hurdle in hiring offshore employees is a legal one. A company has to comply with local labor laws and tax code. In some countries, you may even be required to have some form of physical presence. The hassle of working th
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Once Google realizes that people are willing to work for 250k, there really is no reason for them to continue to offer 500k. The salary inflation in the Bay area is at least partially fueled by a shortage of people willing to move there. Th
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by shakkhar 6y ago
I track my workout progress in a sheet that is backing a google form. After every session, I enter the details from my phone. My priorities were: 1. not having to install yet another app; 2. not locking my data into a silo.
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Don't they also care a lot about pedigree? I heard that they only hire from Top 10 colleges and companies like Google and Facebook. Paraphrasing an acquaintance from Citadel - "You don't find us, we find you."
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Only someone like Elon Musk could have done this. If you or I pull a stunt like this, we'll just be thrown in jail and forgotten. So I think it's appropriate that he did it with a bit of flare.
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Participated in Google Summer of Code back in 2011. Worked on a project that involved adding a large-ish new feature to an existing open-source project. Helped me land a job in the US straight out of college. Otherwise, I don't think a
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by shakkhar 6y ago
As a long time C developer, I'd say this looks like something I would have written in my early days. While I admit that Huawei is not above trying to put a backdoor in the kernel, but Grsecurity also has a history of blowing things out
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Aren't you guys on a hiring freeze? At least, that's what I was told when my virtual on-site was cancelled.
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by shakkhar 6y ago
I do.
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Because we don't trust either amazon or google.
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by shakkhar 6y ago
If you are looking for a self-hosted solution, check out Streama [0] and Jellyfin [1]. I have Jellyfin running in a box at home for personal videos, and it works pretty well with very low maintenance. [0] https://github.com/
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by shakkhar 6y ago
I would worry about being DoS'ed, and having my home network compromised because of a vulnerability in raspberry pi software stack. Other than that, I think it's a good idea. I do the same for a personal use server, but don't
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by shakkhar 6y ago
When I interviewed at Google a few years ago, my lunch buddy was a blind software engineer (sounded like L5). He navigated multiple floors, guided me to the cafeteria, checked his emails completely on his own. It was impressive to see him n
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Resist the urge to contribute something and you'll be doing everyone else a big favor. Not being snarky, but in my experience, the worst kind of meetings are where everyone feels like they have to contribute something. Nobody will thin
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by shakkhar 6y ago
Wife tested positive and was in the hospital for 4 nights. My symptoms were mild so I was never tested. We presume that our baby had it too. His symptoms were the mildest but he also took the longest to recover. All of us recovered and feel
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by shakkhar 6y ago
We used Kanboard at my current job until recently. It works, but has a very MVP feel. We basically used it as an improved TODO list. The UI is barely usable, and it is missing a lot of bells and whistles around notification, text editing, c
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by shakkhar 7y ago
Start with CLRS. It's an excellent intro to the fundamental algorithms and DSs that makes up CS. Absolute must read.
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by shakkhar 7y ago
I pay ~$10 for membership on a niche dating website (for a community that is not served well by the likes of Tinder / Match.com / etc.). The emphasis is on meeting IRL, and the biggest problem they solve is to offer a large and de
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by shakkhar 7y ago
Honestly, I prefer keeping things in queue for a while before reading them. A lot of things seem vaguely important at the moment I bookmark / archive them. By the time I circle back to those, most lose relevance. The ones that don&#x27
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by shakkhar 7y ago
Most certainly. I do suggest C++ over C though, for a higher paying job.
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by shakkhar 7y ago
Yes.
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by shakkhar 7y ago
Hurd was already a pretty high-profile CEO before joining Oracle. Oracle was already pretty well-entrenched long before Hurd joined the company. Hurd's primary skill, IMHO, was in managing the public market.
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by shakkhar 7y ago
Speculating a bit, but I think Mark knew he was not well. He had not been looking good for at least a year. He just kept on working until he physically couldn't anymore. I didn't find the above comment insulting, but exposes a gen
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by shakkhar 7y ago
I have no interest in Libra, but the fact that government basically bullied these companies out of this initiative is alarming. If the regulators think that they should scrutinize these companies deeper, being involved in Libra should not m
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by shakkhar 7y ago
It is very deceptive to say that you can _store_ timeseries data in "Postgres ... Redis or Cassandra" so the nature of the data should not be used to categorize databases. You can "store" data in /dev/null if y
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by shakkhar 7y ago
If you could store timeseries data "in any database", kdb wouldn't be a thing. Just go and ask a quant trader replace his kdb instance with postgres. (Be prepared to be laughed out of the room.)

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