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by 62951413 21d ago
$1M is a newly built condo in the East Bay with HOA >$800/month. Not even an 80 year old 1,300 sqft house in the same area.
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by 62951413 2mo ago
Pro: In the last ten years backend development has turned into AWS SDK-orientied programming mostly. Databricks-oriented in case of data engineering recently too. Between this and python/js popularity it is more of unskilled labor now.
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by 62951413 1y ago
https://inside.java/2024/05/23/dop-v1-1-introduction/
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by 62951413 1y ago
A typical Bay Area commute (e.g. to SJ or San Mateo/Redwood City) is 40+ miles one way. A typical weekend drive (e.g. to Half Moon Bay or Sonoma) is a 100-mile roundtrip.
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by 62951413 1y ago
20 miles to SF, 25 yoe (backend, data, basic frontend), been there done that and all I have got is this automated rejection email
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by 62951413 1y ago
Very few people want to re-create their production AWS MSK cluster from scratch. And that's the only way currently. MSK can usually upgrade Kafka brokers with minor performance degradation but not for this particular change.
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by 62951413 1y ago
If you have a use-case where you currently allocate ~1K threads mostly waiting on I/O switching to virtual threads is a one-liner ("Thread.ofVirtual()" instead of "Thread.ofPlatform()"). No more golang envy for sur
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by 62951413 1y ago
By the time you acquire enough experience to do it in 25+ years of lunches the job market starts showing less interest in you. But that's the only promising strategy in the LLM-dominated world I guess.
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by 62951413 1y ago
I learned about OOP from a Turbo Pascal v5.5 book circa 1993. Drawing triangles, squares, circles, all the good stuff. Turbo Vision library was a powerful demonstration of the power of OOP which made MSFT MFC look like a mess in comparison.
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by 62951413 1y ago
Not every SWE working in the Bay Area can afford a $1.5M house just to charge his car. Not to mention that the car would be twice as expensive (e.g. top Elantra 2025 trim at $30K vs Model 3 at $50K+).
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by 62951413 1y ago
In a galaxy far far away so called "J2EE application servers" used to be the reason JDK upgrades were not allowed. And that would probably be a real major update Java project. When I joined my current team (in a big honkin' c
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by 62951413 1y ago
You can ask them a single question to know the answer: do they have any cats/scalaz in their production code? Without their ilk Scala 10 years ago was the language Kotlin and Java are still trying to be. But from what I have observed i
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by 62951413 2y ago
Apache DataFusion Comet is a high-performance accelerator for Apache Spark, built on top of the powerful Apache DataFusion query engine: https://datafusion.apache.org/comet/user-guide/overview.html
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by 62951413 2y ago
You're unfortunately right. Every Scala codebase I have seen recently is essentially legacy. New services are not built with it anymore. Other than blaming SBT and the Haskel fans I'm not aware of a technical justification. But t
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by 62951413 2y ago
There's one book that discusses a few related questions from a very mainstream perspective: Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling ( https://www.manning.com/books/functional-and-reactive-domain... ). The emphasis h
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by 62951413 2y ago
I'm curious how one ends up with such ahistorical sequence. I'd expect it to be more aligned with the actual PL history. Mainstream PLs have had a fairly logical progression with each generation solving well understood problems fr
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by 62951413 2y ago
On the other hand, most LinkedIn jobs published last week (e.g. full time/hybrid in SF) seem to be much closer to 180K-200K.
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by 62951413 2y ago
While walking around look for a set of parallel bars/horizontal bar in a park near you. Typical exercises you could do with them both take little time and really load major muscles. Just hanging for a minute from a horizontal bar regul
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by 62951413 2y ago
Hyundai has Elantra with its 45+ MPG (with a regular ICE), distinctive exterior, advanced safety features (at least in Limited trim), and above average manufacturer warranty.
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by 62951413 2y ago
Ce n'est pas un Kafka: Kafka is a Protocol Apache Kafka is an aging open source project. It's time to accept that Kafka's protocol is what matters. ( https://materializedview.io/p/ce-nest-pas-un-kafka )
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by 62951413 2y ago
Anyone with a Java background will mention JCiP. But there's another book going deeper - "Art of Multiprocessor Programming" ( https://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Mauric... ).
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by 62951413 2y ago
AWS Fargate is popular among large companies in my experience. Some of them try to migrate from it to a unified k8s "platform" (i.e. frequently not pure k8s/EKS/helm but some kind of in-house layer built on top of it). I
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by 62951413 2y ago
You kind of can peek into parquet files with a tiny command line utility: https://github.com/manojkarthick/pqrs
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by 62951413 2y ago
The prolefeed explains that deep duckspeaking is doubleplusgood. Nothing to see here, citizen.
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by 62951413 2y ago
There are two pinnacles in a traditional CS program - building a compiler and a DBMS. They are umbrella topics that prepare you for building pretty much any kind of software. If you came to programming because you liked computers you'
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by 62951413 2y ago
Java < Kotlin < Scala Golang < Borgo < Rust
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by 62951413 2y ago
Let's talk about you growing older. The closer you're to 50 the more difficult it gets to find a new job. You get laid off in a major downsizing round. Your COBRA healthcare plan is $2K+/month which incidentally is comparable
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by 62951413 2y ago
CORBA, Avro RPC, Thrift RPC, gRPC, now this. In this industry each generation wants to re-invent IDL every decade. But anything is better then JSON over HTTP so why not this.
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by 62951413 2y ago
I remember using j.u.c in production back when it was still concurrent.jar. There were surprisingly many jobs in NYC/London circa 2006 if you had Core Java skills.
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by 62951413 2y ago
Core Java by Cay Horstmann ( https://horstmann.com/corejava/ ) is a well-structured and concise review of major features. Historically, the most interesting chapters were scattered across both volumes. So completely skip

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