skwirl

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by skwirl 4y ago
USA universities and the US labor markets are so bad. Famously, nobody wants to come here for either.
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by skwirl 4y ago
It means you can let the database engine determine the best way to get you what you are after. If you write imperative code, you are telling the DB exactly what to do and you don't really give it much ability to optimize your queries.
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by skwirl 4y ago
This is exactly the type of content I hope to see when I check HN. Awesome.
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by skwirl 4y ago
I thought companies already had to make H1B salaries public -- you can see them at https://h1bdata.info/ .
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by skwirl 4y ago
"It only takes me 4 hours to complete my work" is a sign that you are a ticket drone and not an engineer with agency. This by definition means you are not a top performer. You also seem toxic to boot.
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by skwirl 4y ago
>Exxon doesn't ban talking about politics and it hasn't crippled their operations! Probably because it's not happening there to nearly the extent it happens at big tech companies, partly due to the culture of older compani
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by skwirl 4y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, this is based largely on the results of mock interviews. The author says that interviewing.io "has hosted and collected feedback from over 100K technical interviews, split between mock inter
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by skwirl 4y ago
As someone who has a MS in CS (I did a combined BS/MS program) and who interviews lots of people, I don't think a MS in CS has much value as a credential (if any). If you enjoy taking classes and get a lot out of them, that'
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by skwirl 5y ago
I'm not the person you are replying to, but I would definitely interpret that negatively. First of all, I'm not going to take your word for it on the details. I don't know you and everyone convicted of a a crime insists the
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by skwirl 5y ago
It's also possible that a lot of people who say they like working from home actually just like not being exposed to COVID. You seem to think there's no rational reason anyone would want to work in person.
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by skwirl 5y ago
GitLab has its share of downtime. I don't use GitHub regularly so I can't really compare the two, but you will occasionally have a few hours where GitLab is down. Maybe 2 or 3 times per year?
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by skwirl 5y ago
I never said macro price changes were driven by desirability changes - my point was almost exactly the opposite: The macro price is irrelevant. The top 5% of homes for sale will never be available to 50% of buyers. Price differences at a
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by skwirl 5y ago
A house that's $2m today is that expensive because it's a highly desirable home, much more desirable than the vast majority of homes out there - probably in the top 5%. You can never make such homes reachable for the majority of
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by skwirl 5y ago
>Always makes me wonder how many dysfunctional companies are out there letting deadbeat remote employees collect paychecks and do as little work as possible because nobody cares enough to press the issue. Probably the vast majority of co
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by skwirl 5y ago
Completely agree. My DSLR is mostly gathering dust these days - the things I bought it for that phones could not do well at the time were primarily landscapes, low-light photography, and wildlife. My current phone has a wide angle lens th
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by skwirl 5y ago
I feel like I already articulated why I think Rust is not the best choice for most of what we do and you ignored it in order to write a snide response. Can we please keep HN from devolving into Twitter?
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by skwirl 5y ago
I am very nervous about Rust. My team recently started on a Rust project because we had a need to build something that would compile to WebAssembly. Without getting into too much detail, the WebAssembly runtimes for memory managed language
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by skwirl 5y ago
User data shouldn't be processed at all. You never know where there will be a vulnerability. So you turn off logging so you have no idea what pages your customers are now requesting (phew!) but you can still be vulnerable to SQL inje
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by skwirl 5y ago
Yeah, there are "global" services which are actually secretly us-east-1 services as that is the region they use for internal data storage and orchestration. I can't launch instances with OpsWorks (not a very widely used serv
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by skwirl 5y ago
Subarus still have physical controls, so I'm confused by your first sentence. They also include a touch-screen infotainment system, but it doesn't really replace any physical controls (except maybe favorite radio station buttons?
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by skwirl 5y ago
But if there's no evidence of something, the best you can say is that you don't know. And it's possible that the dominant orientation is just an accident, in which case they wouldn't even have a "reason" to do
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by skwirl 5y ago
Also what the federal government says. You can still experiment with and build an encrypted mesh network, but you need different licenses to do so.
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by skwirl 5y ago
That's a false choice, though. I can avoid both sugar and aspartame.
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by skwirl 5y ago
I was going to post something longer, but I think I'll keep it short and charitable: you are clearly not a hiring manager.
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by skwirl 5y ago
Kind of a meta comment here, but HN is way more pro-full time remote work than the people I speak to in my day to day life. I'm definitely glad that we'll have increased flexibility in the future with hybrid set-ups, but I am loo
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by skwirl 6y ago
If free will is a fiction, how can you pass judgement on "us" for punishing people? If free will is a fiction then what good is saying things like "if we do X we are no better than people who do Y" when nobody has any c
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by skwirl 6y ago
I can't say that the "health of CBDs" has come up in my company's discussions over the future of remote work. And I'm not sure why the company would care. We don't own any real estate. We lease our office sp
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by skwirl 6y ago
These scales are both arbitrary. Celsius is super useful if you are concerned with phase transitions of water in the presence of a gas at 101,325 Pa of pressure - it's hard to do much better, really. But what if we wanted to design a
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by skwirl 6y ago
>Exceptions cause problems in other ways (especially when they are allowed to escape up the stack), business logic shouldn't be handling FileNotFoundException that was thrown 6 layers away. So instead all 6 layers should have to kno
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by skwirl 6y ago
It is most obviously a joke.

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