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by smilekzs 5y ago
I concur, and add my 2 cents on why "Use FreeRTOS and ship the product" actually works in the real world (i.e. paid job), from the perspective of a part-time firmware engineer. Obviously none of this applies if you are just having
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by smilekzs 5y ago
For me at least, Poetry [1] automates the process almost on par with npm, cargo, etc. [1]: https://python-poetry.org/
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by smilekzs 5y ago
After all these years, I still find myself preferring NF-patched Consolas to newer code fonts. It has a pleasantly "unoffensive" look that tends to not divert my attention to the font itself --- can't take this quality for gr
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by smilekzs 5y ago
I would even go one step further and suggest the title be editorialized with the word "unintentionally" added.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
My rephrase of a key take-away point: As long as the underlying incentives remain misaligned, individual policy changes aimed to disrupt the competition landscape across the board would inevitably play the whack-a-mole game.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Until recently, renter rights in big Chinese cities have been miserable. Even though this had been artificial, it provided enough incentive / premium to tip the scales towards buying, even at unrealistic leverage.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Somehow reminded me of "Getting in the room, and stay there". https://staffeng.com/guides/getting-in-the-room Funny, because someone with a similar role from my workplace just recently left for roughly the sa
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by smilekzs 5y ago
They need to get sued and lose simply by repeating what they did with IE4.0. Alongside Apple with the Apple Tax.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
> I do not understand how you can lowball or downlevel people at scale A common tactics is to enforce YoE requirements aggressively --- basically the jokes along the lines of "10 YoE w/ k8s". These days they do it less bla
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Something along the lines of what was described in this article has recently been forced upon my team. You could imagine how that turned out. Hint: not very differently from the outcomes in the article...
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by smilekzs 5y ago
This might not be truly universal, but by and large coding interviews can be and has been made more or less a standardized test, whiteboard or online collab (e.g. HackerRank, CoderPad, ...) alike. Like any standardized test, you can practic
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by smilekzs 5y ago
> whether the person managed to tick all the boxes that the interviewer (or whoever wrote the test) considers important Exactly, and "API design" is one of the MANY boxes expected to be ticked early on. Just watch one of these
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Yet one common trick they pull on experienced hires is to force them into a lower "level". While low-balling is an industry-wide practice, they have clearly taken it to the next level (ahem) by abusing the equivalence relationship
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Even if we accept CS101-styled timed coding questions as a necessary evil to weed out the fakers, having recently been on the receiving end of some of the "system design" questions recently, I must say it's a really really ba
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by smilekzs 5y ago
FWIW, the quoted article is from Japan.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
The Greater Seattle area has plenty of "park-n-ride" areas with huge parking lots. For 2 months after taking a new job in Downtown Seattle, I simply drove to a park-n-ride in Bellevue and took the bus to work. The bus was slow but
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Yeah but after each "validation round", the stock option grant for new hires becomes 0.1x before the validation. Kinda sucks to join right after Series A, get a tiny % (say less than 0.1%) of the company even after 4 years of grin
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Valid point, although pedestrian safety is mostly discussed in the low-to-mid-speed regime (<= 45 MPH), while tire noise (at least according to my own observation) dominates in the high speed regime (>= 65 MPH). There might be some ov
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by smilekzs 5y ago
My opinion is that long-haul trucking is pretty much the only application where Hydrogen propulsion could make sense: Refueling infra only needs to cover truck stops (much more geographically consolidated compared to passenger cars). Autono
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by smilekzs 5y ago
A relatively friendly jab: at one point if you search "emacs" you could see an ad along the lines of (forgot the exact wording): escape meta alt ctrl shift AAARGGHHHH.... try VIM.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Drive.AI, before they went defunkt, had LED billboards not unlike what you described. It was a gimmick that didn't take off in the rest of the industry due to the universal presence of a safety driver.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
No it's not. Source: actual ADV engineer
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by smilekzs 5y ago
There are other ways to build the infrastructure without the current (IMHO exploitative) tax system in the US, especially given how both income and services are taxed. I find it unfair to discredit the authors based on essentially a lighthe
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Turo prices have also gone significantly up...
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Simply put, the ask-bid spread on barely-used and/or CPO cars are huge (read: they buy really low and sell really high). Dealers make a lot of money this way.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
^ I really hope people offering honestly useful workarounds feel welcome here...
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Devil's Advocate: If the consensus holds that staying internal is that much better than switching jobs, to the point that it makes no sense to take the risk, then you, being known to your employer to be interested in making a move, are
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by smilekzs 5y ago
I disagree. First of all, a well-designed Git GUI (examples below) exposes the git's underlying data model to you; in contrast, the CLI obscures it until something breaks and you're forced into it without context. Git operates on
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by smilekzs 5y ago
I personally use "incoming" and "past" instead --- indicating the closest one in the future/past.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
4/6 For every case, I picked the one I feel subjectively the best. Interestingly, I still prefer the 128k version from the "Tom’s Diner" example, even after knowing the "correct answer". This is amusing because acco

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