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by zaphar 5y ago
In the first scenario they only exercise if there is a sale which may or may not be on the horizon when the options plan is set up. It's a way of showing appreciation for employees since there is no guarantee after a sale that the reas
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by zaphar 5y ago
That very much depends on how twitter structured their options and the details of the contract for purchase. I've seen setups where all unvested options vest immediately with a purchase and I've seen setups where the options are g
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by zaphar 5y ago
You have not yet demonstrated that his interpretation is incorrect. The data won't change so you should be able to do so. This page is full of folks making data driven arguments to that effect and they probably do more to make your poi
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by zaphar 5y ago
I would argue that hate just like love is a choice you make. It isn't something outside of your control like infatuation or lust, no matter what the latest rom-com might portray on the screen. If this hypothesis is correct then splitti
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by zaphar 5y ago
This is really wise advice.
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If you can afford to invest in building/buying it then add rate limiting. With that in place the only person they can hurt are themselves when they go over the limits. It requires engineering and negotiation with other teams to roll ou
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by zaphar 5y ago
Can you get more elsewhere? I'm not familiar with the market in Canada so I don't have a frame of reference for comparison. But if you've been interviewing you should have an intuition for what you can expect. If your intervi
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by zaphar 5y ago
Every company I've ever worked at had roughly 50/50 amazing and terrible code. The larger a codebase at a company gets the more likely that there will be code in there that is _just_ good enough and no more. Polish and other eleme
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by zaphar 5y ago
Nope, everytime I've ever used an Antivirus they caused more problems than they prevented. After reports like Project Zero I just decided they weren't worth the risk.
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by zaphar 5y ago
The answer to this question depends very much on how quickly you need to get value out of an engineer after their start date. At a minimum regardless of stack familiarity they are going to have to get to know the existing codebase and envir
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by zaphar 5y ago
highlighting and underlining don't per-se cause you to learn. However they do have two useful properties. 1. The act of looking for and underlining or highlighting text helps you to focus on identifying core ideas or concepts in the te
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by zaphar 5y ago
Using a monorepo was a deliberate choice at Google. They modified their source control solution to support a monorepo every time it failed to scale sufficiently. If they had started with Git those same people would probably have modified Gi
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by zaphar 5y ago
I think you could get 99% of the value of an overlay as a simple fold or map over the result. Introducing the second argument feels very much like a workaround to allow you to avoid the infinite loop.
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by zaphar 5y ago
There is a reason disheartened veterans gravitate toward a project like Rust. We've seen a lot in our career and much of what we do when it comes to our own tools is automate the detection and elimination of causes of bugs where we can
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by zaphar 5y ago
the result infinite loop issue is easily the most confusing part of nix. It works because nix is a lazy functional language. But I'm not particularly sold on that laziness being useful since it leads to awkward hacks like the two argum
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by zaphar 5y ago
In a monorepo you usually only want to build portions of the codebase at any given time in your CI/CD. Most of the CI/CD tooling out there are accidentally hostile to this. As just one example it is often difficult to impossible t
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by zaphar 5y ago
I love the concept of monorepos. With the proper tooling and support I think they can be force multipliers for high functioning engineering organizations. However almost none of the publicly available tooling for CI/CD, IDEs, Source co
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by zaphar 5y ago
This is my daily driver for twitter. I would have stopped using Twitter a long time ago if this wasn't here.
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The strongest signal is just identifying whether they've built something before. You can find that in various different ways: * Do they have original work publicly available? (Github, Gitlab, ...) * In the interview can they talk in mo
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by zaphar 5y ago
If your developer actually has to touch prod to do operations work then there is a whole lot more that needs to be fixed than just developers not understanding operations.
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by zaphar 5y ago
This is fair. However, the question itself suggests OP is already questioning his employment there. I think it's fair to read between the lines a little bit and let him know that Oracle has a reputation that fit's what sounds like
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by zaphar 5y ago
I'm going to first answer this question ignoring the fact that you joined Oracle. I'll address my feelings about Oracle later. I would posit that in high functioning engineering organizations ever dev should get experience and in
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by zaphar 5y ago
I'm certainly one of those people who think git makes stupid mistakes a little too easy to do, so I'm on board with that definition.
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You have no idea.
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The core of Git isn't that complicated. A merkle tree backed by a content-addressable store. That's very much in the realm of possible within a week. It wasn't very easy to use in it's first iteration. All of the porcela
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by zaphar 5y ago
BP is not a US company nor is Rosneft. There is no reason the sale has to happen on an SEC controlled market. SEC rules do not necessarily apply here.
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by zaphar 5y ago
If I'm frying something I just use Lard. It's cheap and easily available. If I'm saute'ing something then I use Olive oil.
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by zaphar 5y ago
Anecdotally when someone is believed to be "Ahead of the curve" in nutrition science they are more likelty to be shown to have shot entirely off the road in a few years.
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by zaphar 5y ago
We do not have enough energy storage capability to rely completely on Solar and Wind yet. Both are intermittent producers so to get truly reliable power from them we need storage capacity. There are projects that promise to meet that need b
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by zaphar 5y ago
I've been using Twitter steadily practically since it launched. Twitter has different purposes for different people. I have 0 interest in gaining a following. I actively block and mute people. I filter out most retweets. I only follow

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