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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I don’t see the point in releasing new iPhones every year (besides making more money, ofc). I mean, if I buy a 1000 EUR phone today, I’m not planning on replacing it the next year (or in 3 years or so). So, as a person who has an iPhone alr
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I really hate perfect pictures with high resolution of people. You can distinguish all the little imperfections of their faces. Also, any digital picture that I take with the phone is never ever viewed again nor printed. I wouldn’t pay 600
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
What I have experienced is that engineers without a degree learn in their free time the “fun” stuff: Golang, K8s, assembly, hacking, frameworks, sql, etc. They usually don’t learn things like context-free grammars, logic, mutexes, the kind
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
You mean like HN? Afaik, HN doesn’t have separate people for the frontend and the backend. And yet HN is the best place for hackers.
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Backend is riskier. If you mess up the frontend, revert and redeploy. Easy. If you mess up the backend (data corruption, data removal, data leaking, etc.) you are in hell.
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
There’s a difference between writing olap and oltp sql queries. Hell, in the industry we even have a dedicated role for people who, among other things, write olap queries: data analysts. I’m assuming here that we are talking about writing c
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I think it’s hard to do refactorings in the context of a product-oriented team that works in sprints of 2 weeks. I have two options: a) either I make the rewrite 5 times in a row… but that would take a lot of time, so management won’t buy i
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
> Hiring managers and recruiter match buzzwords in your CV So? You put those buzzwords in your CV. What’s difficult about that? You feel like being dishonest? If so, again, just explain in the next stage of the interview (with real engin
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
C’mon. HR doesn’t have a clue of what they’re asking for. Anyone with a little of experience in the IT industry knows that: 1. You’ll need to put whatever is needed in your CV to pass through HR 2. You can explain yourself to the actual tec
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I don’t buy it. As software developers we learn technologies for breakfast. We learn them, and then we forget them. We recollect the wisdom gained and apply it in our next gig using a different technology. It works for mobile development, f
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
It’s not just that. With a WFH policy I can work for companies in Munich living in a town in northern Germany. That’s the big deal of remote work for me. Being limited to the companies that are located in the same city you live is a huge do
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Sounds realistic to me, except the expected salary range. 200K-250K USD in Europe as simple individual contributor is extremely unlikely. If we are talking about a very senior engineer (more than 15 years of software engineering is experien
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I usually prefer a Google Doc shared among the team to work on a given problem or feature instead of the so popular Miro. Diagrams are nice, yes, I agree, but they are not a substitute for actual text. Engineers think that because they draw
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I made a similar switch a year ago. I bought the 16 inch M1 pro (32GB ram). My usage is similar to yours (but I don’t do Neural networks) and I couldn’t be happier. I imagine the M2 would be even better.
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
That mocking is tautological is true. However it helps to know that the “wiring” of your code “works” if you’re using a non-statically typed programming language like JS or Python. Unfortunately for the countless of junior engineers I have
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Anyone surprised about the setup? Most of the people seem to be using nice chairs (good) but they are using laptops placed directly on top of their desks. So there is no “flat” line between their eyes and their screens. Check out their neck
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
My take: if you submit code without the approval of your peers, and that code causes a noticeable issue in production… well, everyone will think “if only they have added me as a reviewer we wouldn’t have this issue!”. Sure thing, the bug co
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
It’s all about taste. Some engineers have it, some do not. And yes, taste is subjective, but the Mona Lisa is the Mona Lisa regardless of how many people don’t like it. The most important thing about code is probably its correctness… but t
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
> Forcing design reviews just slows people down Sure, but the price is worth it. If we have a design session before you start coding, it definitely will make the feature go “late” by an amount of time proportional to the design session…
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I have a couple of dummy email addresses with gmail and hotmail. I don’t care too much about them (nor if I receive spam). I use them for reddit or hn, for example. I log in a couple of times per year to check what’s in my mailbox. I do own
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I guess this applies to places like the US. In Europe, a master’s degree costs the same as a BS (close to nothing).
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Maybe it’s just that I’m no longer in my 20s (or that I have only worked for european companies) but I do not work extra hours. If the project is going to “fail” because we are not willing to do crunch time (spoiler: the project is not goin
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
That’s still possible nowadays with yandex.com (perhaps not the first link, but definitely the first page)
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
I think the problem is that eng. managers have not much control regarding how many meetings they have (and at what time they are scheduled). Being meetings the big chunk if their day to day work, that restricts the amount of freedom eng. ma
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
> I've met plenty of engineers who seem to believe that everyone else's non technical role is easy. In my experience it’s like that (I’m talking about engineers vs eng. managers). Another significant difference is the amount of
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
In my experience engineers have more “free time” than eng. managers. As a senior engineer I have not many meetings per week, and the tasks I need to accomplish I can arrange time for them the best way that fits me. So, on Monday I could wor
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
If the company is transparent enough, sometimes that makes it up if they don’t provide enough documentation for whatever process they may have. Most often than not, the following is enough for me to get up and running in any company without
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Sounds interesting, but It’s a shame that they only hire you if you’re willing to relocate to Sweden.
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
So, all revolutionary Apple products have one thing in common: they are easy to use and work out of the box without further expansions/extras from their version 1.0 on. Ipod: it just works. No need to swap AA batteries any more. MBP: l
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Doesn’t look very comfortable to wear for people that use glasses (50% of the population)

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