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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Every company gives refresher grants. If you only got 1 grant over 4 years, then the company doesn't care about retaining you.
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
A modern classic Tinder opener too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/u4u9ke/giraffe_line...
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
I remember this too, from our 4th-grade "G&T" math teacher telling us the story. Although I use the formula so rarely that I don't keep it memorized, whenever it does come up, I think back to that day in class and that mo
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but it's a perverse incentive from the company's point of view. By the time the employee has gotten to the stage of getting actual offers from other companies, they've already gone
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Well yes, the whole email will be more likely to get routed automatically to spam.
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Heh, yeah I typically just don't respond to the initial "hi" slack. After a few minutes at most, they always follow up with the actual question.
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Almost there: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-10-27-pull-request-merge-...
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
For those interested in the subject, the latest Dave Eggers novel (_The Every_) is a really entertaining take on it. Starts out as amusing Silicon Valley satire about the absurdity of the tech giants, and gets very 1984 by the end.
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Control-flow components like "<For>"... because you couldn't stand just writing "for" or "if" like a caveman and had to invent a custom DSL for it.
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Feels like the "senior IC" role described in this article corresponds mainly to today's "3-5 years of experience 'senior' engineer" roles. The reality that I've seen and experienced is that advancing
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Partnered with the guy from this recent story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30120762 ("Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken") Scammers all around
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
> The responsible team does a thorough review, and in a bout of self-flagellation proposes a long list of extra processes that add steps and checks essentially amounting to “don’t trust anyone to commit anything right ever.” If that list
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
It feels like there's a vocal segment of HN users who would be totally fine with that. "Just give me a list of tasks that need doing and let me check in code. Why do managers always want to talk about career progression" etc
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
If it _had_ lead paint. Could have been scraped and repainted later.
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Sure, I'm not saying it doesn't happen or that there's no reason to do it, I just think that in practical terms the much more widespread attack surface area would be interaction between one of these and common application ser
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Nice. Link to the whitepaper: https://bahruz.me/papers/ccs2021treqs.pdf I only skimmed very quickly to look for which server setups they found new vulnerabilities for, and it looked like they tested a 2D matrix of popu
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Other way around. The Black Mirror episode was inspired by the early experiments with quadrupedal robots, especially those first terrifying Boston Dynamics videos. Like the one where the dude viciously kicks over the Big Dog and it relentle
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How Mixpanel got its startup groove back(techcrunch.com)
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Make sure the features you're working on can get committed to the main branch in small, incremental units. Dark deploys/feature flags help avoid big long-lived branches that go stale and have to be kept in sync with main. So in yo
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
> If you ever get the chance to see one live, go. It's overwhelming. This is an important aspect of classical music (like any other music) that's easily missed. Even the finest recordings don't capture anything like the fe
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Setting a reasonable limit closes off a potential DoS vector. That's why our security team had us add a limit. (Sure, in practice rate limiting should also be in place, defense in depth.)
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
I dunno, as someone with a lot of antique furnishings in a 19th-century house, I'd say that there's quite a bit of ongoing maintenance to prevent the march of time and usual wear and tear from grinding everything to dust!
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Most of the restaurants I've been to the QR code takes you to a PDF of the menu as found on the restaurant's website. There's no auth and no way to track anything beyond I guess how many times people opened the menu file. Res
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Yeah, these days I try to avoid writing any HCL and instead feed Terraform with JSON generated via jsonnet (which we were already using to generate k8s YAML). Much better templating and language features while still remaining declarative, a
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
Yeah, a coworker convinced me to install Citizen and after a week or two I had to block its notifications. It was very consistent in keeping a distracting baseline volume going, regardless of the severity of the incidents. For a little whil
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by tdumitrescu 5y ago
When I bought a 250K€ apartment in the Netherlands, my total cash outlay (down payment plus costs) was around 40K€. Anecdotal point supporting those pointing out that owning a 450K€ home in Europe is indeed still within reach for someone sa
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
Agreed with everyone else here that it's great that you've recognized areas of improvement for yourself. That's an important step, and in your position I would validate by chatting with your coworkers about it. Every time a c
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
Yes, and repeated practice at performing _in front of an audience_ will gradually reduce that anxiety for most people. Getting to that state where you can be up in front of a lot of people and just enjoying yourself making music is a wonder
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
I've worked with a number of people who land in "the middle" IMO. These are application security engineers hired to staff the security teams at companies building normal b2b or b2c products. Their job is a mix of hands-on fix
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
I don't think people are purposely trying to mislead, I think they're just connecting the dots with whatever low-quality sources are available to them: old Tech Crunch articles, press releases, company blog posts, remarks from cow

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