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by wikibob 5y ago
What’s the TC for a senior engineer?
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by wikibob 5y ago
There’s no DM’s on HackerNews. Please add an email address in your profile under the About box.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Sun City is absolutely not an appropriate tool for modeling societal policy. One of the original authors, Will Wright, gave an interview many years ago expressing his horror when he found out that city planners were doing precisely what you
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by wikibob 5y ago
I see a lot of I think statements in your post, and no empirical data. What specific issues are you suggesting result from giving cash over food stamps? Are you familiar with the absolutely byzantine rules imposed by many states on food sta
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by wikibob 5y ago
Strong disagree on the leetcode bar. Any FAANG will still give you algorithm questions in interviews, even at a Staff level.
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by wikibob 5y ago
No. It was entirely for esthetics.
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by wikibob 5y ago
1 to 1.5 years.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Sometimes to reach a goal we want in life, we have to do things we find unpleasant. It is what it is. There’s a time to change the world, and a time to just put in the work. Software interviews are a pretty low on the list of impactful thin
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by wikibob 5y ago
You hit leetcode until you can do mediums in 20 minutes.
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by wikibob 5y ago
A company not providing all devices necessary to do your job is a huge blaring red flag. When there are legal issues, any device that has ever had company data on it is fair game for legal discovery. This means if you’ve used your personal
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by wikibob 5y ago
I strongly disagree. Software engineering has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. Choosing a non-mainstream uses an innovation token on something that does not contribute business value. That’s a huge red flag. Software engineering
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by wikibob 5y ago
No
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by wikibob 5y ago
Terraform CDK is very very far behind AWS SDK. There’s essentially no Level 2 constructs.
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by wikibob 5y ago
I think calling it serverless perfectly captures the operational semantics. Your target market will understand. Ignore the HackerNews naysayers who are stuck in the past.
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by wikibob 5y ago
There is a reason for this. In most municipalities, there aren’t nearly enough fires to keep a fire department busy. So fire departments also are often first responders for medical incidents.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Citation and credentials needed. The author obtained first party data backing up what he wrote. You present nothing.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Addition: Message Brokers: - Amazon SNS (for pub) + SQS (for sub)
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by wikibob 5y ago
Eeros. Nothing else is even in the same tier of software quality. See the Reddit.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Leetcode and get a job at a tier 1 tech company. If you want it enough to put in the time, it is possible.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Fun project! Belkin has a dongle to turn Apple AirPlay 2 into 3.5mm or optical. https://www.belkin.com/us/speakers-headphones/speakers/sound...
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by wikibob 5y ago
Are you following the work on sparse high resolution histograms in both Prometheus and OpenTelemetry? It's coming together and will be available soon. What this means is that you won't have to compromise and pick histogram bucket
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by wikibob 5y ago
Do you work at my company? This is literally rampant. Nobody understands.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Dump raw CloudFormation and switch to the CDK. The developer experience is vastly better.
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by wikibob 5y ago
This is exactly what I want. A modern Wordpress. But with strict guide rails and simplicity. Does such a thing exist? I’ve seen ghost but it’s quite expensive for personal use.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Are you talking a spend of over a million a month? You need a private pricing agreement. Call the duckbill group. https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ No affiliation.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Check out this comprehensive explanation from TailScale.io, a wireguard VPN startup, on how they use Zanzibar https://tailscale.com/blog/rbac-like-it-was-meant-to-be/ And see also this talk explaining the Zanzibar
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by wikibob 5y ago
Followup, he left in 2020: Some terrific analysis of the tech culture at Grab and in Asia. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/saying-goodbye-to-the-best-gi...
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by wikibob 5y ago
Can you elaborate on the benefits you have experienced from the masters degree? The more specific the better. I often hear that CS Masters aren’t worth it financially because it’s not going to particularly get you any job you can’t get with
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by wikibob 5y ago
Prions are not affected by disinfectant
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by wikibob 5y ago
I think this is a perfect example of why it is necessary to effectively communicate the relative tradeoffs and costs of option A and B when someone asks you to do something. And to also also questions to dig into what they are really trying

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