wreath

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by wreath 5y ago
He already said where he lives in the comment.
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by wreath 5y ago
But thats the same as Germany, no? You still have to pay for health insurance when you quit your job, so thats something to take into consideration before you resign, not only in USA.
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by wreath 5y ago
There is no way for us to know and I didn't say that w/o Google or other Big Tech we wouldn't be have these candies as someone described. Rather that we should acknowledge the role they played in distributing the tech they di
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by wreath 5y ago
English speaking jobs are mostly in startups and that's the same as what OP seems to be running away from. Otherwise, he would have to learn a new language and all that jazz of moving to another country.
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by wreath 5y ago
But also those US companies brought this tech they bought to the masses. To say they were built by others anyway reduced the role big tech played here same way a naive developer thinks a company’s success is just because of code he wrote.
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by wreath 5y ago
I sometimes wonder if software developers who share these sentiments are often disappointed by the way things work in the industry because they expected to be coding/interacting with machines and toys the whole working time but in real
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by wreath 5y ago
If by diverse you mean characteristics such as ethnicity or gender/sex for example, then you're right. The value it (may) add doesn't justify optimizing my hiring pipeline for to increase their representation in my organizati
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by wreath 5y ago
Only entitled people would be fine with a job that they got knowing it was due to their skin color, gender or other properties not related to their professional skills.
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by wreath 5y ago
Any recommendation for these classic books you mentioned?
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by wreath 5y ago
Maybe in Europe it is different? There is still a coding part, but is somewhat relevant to the job position (build an API that does xyz etc)
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by wreath 5y ago
Ah awesome! Well I don't know what kind of project you're working on, but I like over engineering my pet projects for learning purposes and found it quite fun!
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Ask HN: Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews improve your skills?
137 points by wreath 5y ago|186 comments
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by wreath 5y ago
They are a great predictor of actual job environment though (the test, not its results)
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by wreath 5y ago
You can deploy the project you just finished to AWS/Google Cloud. That can involve learning Terraform/Pulumi, Ansible, AWS specific technology, setting up CI/CD. Maybe you can write a tool that hammers your API and see how yo
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by wreath 5y ago
We do indeed have better social benefits. But are they really benefits for a SWE in 2021? The social benefits in Europe are great for people with low-mid salaries but as an SWE, I'd rather take a US salary with less social benefits tha
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by wreath 5y ago
I agree that coding is the core skill of software engineering, no question about that. What I don't agree with is when we make it as a deciding factor in interviews for mid and senior levels. At such stage, I'd assume someone who
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by wreath 5y ago
No and that's not the point. The point is knowing the application of that algorithm or the other. But I also never had the need for its application, maybe I had and missed it :)
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by wreath 5y ago
Do you think k8s is over engineered or it's suited for complex use cases and people misusing it?
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by wreath 5y ago
There is a lot more to software engineering than solving algorithmic problems in a vacuum with little resemblance to real life engineering.
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by wreath 5y ago
If you're a male and feeling tired all the time, go check your testosterone level. I spent most of 2020 feeling exhausted before midday and unable to do anything. I checked it at the end of the year and it was on the low end. Since the
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by wreath 5y ago
This doesn't sound foreign to me. Node projects rely on a lot of dependencies (and so does their dependencies) so there is a lot of moving parts and it's prone to break.
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by wreath 5y ago
> [...] as well as to our shared goals of Diversity and Inclusion. Does this apply to people working in Engineering? are you incentivized to have goals that have impact on D&I?
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by wreath 5y ago
Not OP but what I think they struggled with is fixing warnings. JS projects are like a poorly built house, things are constantly deteriorating and need constant maintenance.
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by wreath 5y ago
Any suggestions? Especially for places with more tech entourage? Thanks!
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by wreath 5y ago
> rather than a fantasy world where devices and the internet doesn't exist. The fantasy world is also the one that the likes of Facebook want to lead us to.
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Ask HN: Did you quit tech job and come back? how is it on the other side
4 points by wreath 5y ago|0 comments
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by wreath 5y ago
In the course of say a quarter or two I work on average 5-7 hours a day. Some weeks there is more work to be done than others depending on the phase of the project at hand. I tend to not start too many things at the same time (start working
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by wreath 5y ago
Can you please elaborate on the reading-and-writing-first culture?
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by wreath 5y ago
He became a billionaire not because his salary is now $1B. His net worth is
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by wreath 5y ago
Even freedom of speech became associated with "right wing" political views..

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