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by abadger9 4y ago
That's interesting to hear, I didn't know Rails was a growing community. I haven't gone to public tech talks in sf in a while (3 years before covid), so wouldn't have as updated pulse on the market. Fwiw, the best advice
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by abadger9 4y ago
I started my career in RoR and regret doing so - I really had no idea what was going on, found a gem for everything, and understood very little about performance tuning other than some nuances about ActiveRecord. I wish I started with React
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by abadger9 4y ago
Thank YOU! I have literally been looking for something like this to try to build a rocksdb-like project for fun. I've been waiting to pull the trigger on YC's code crafters ( https://codecrafters.io/ ) which have yo
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by abadger9 4y ago
Thanks, I am - after reading this article also ordered "Jarrow Formulas" probiotic with this MB40 strain.
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by abadger9 4y ago
That's crazy, I was actually diagnosed with this about 3 days ago - it's living on my skin and I went to the doctor because an area of my skin was visibly red and smelling "fleshy" according to the doctor. Currently on a
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by abadger9 4y ago
I have a (currently inactive) consulting company that was clearing 40% above my senior software engineering salary in the sf bay area. Eventually the stress of getting a company's treasury dept's to pay on time to cover my contrac
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by abadger9 4y ago
Most DevOps technologies and teams are unnecessary. Things like app.logz.io, Prometheus, and Grafana provide no value. In fact I wish I could lay off the majority of our infra team @ every company i've worked, but I don't have tha
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by abadger9 4y ago
There was a phrase in the recent Netflix show "Recruit" - everything in America tastes like sugar and everyone's struggling. Having lived in Finland, SE Asia, and Calfornia it's completely true. We mask our real issues a
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by abadger9 4y ago
https://lite.markee.io/?utm_source=startups.fyi I've been learning video streaming tech for the last year (ffmpeg, webrtc, all the great videos available of SF Video Technology - https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by abadger9 4y ago
My mentor worked at JPL - he was a BS, MS, PhD from MIT - he got out of there so quick (i believe less than 2 years). He said the pace of work was so slow, he didn't feel like anything got done in his entire time there.
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by abadger9 4y ago
I'll say something I wish someone told me in my 20's: most leadership/upper management is poor. I've worked at FAANGs, a unicorn, and currently @ a company that recently IPO'd. Most people in product leadership neit
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Tell HN: These Are Tough Times
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by abadger9 4y ago
yep this was my ratio as well
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by abadger9 4y ago
I've been to finland a few times, it's crazy to see people play slots at the front/back of the grocery story at 1 pm.
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by abadger9 4y ago
yeah, looked up the old email thread. It seemed like a nice deal - if anyone is interested Bay Systems Consulting, Inc. contracts with Nasa Ames Research Center. Hope it helps someone out.
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by abadger9 4y ago
I'm surprised more people haven't brought up NASA? I was offered 180k/yr salary in 2020 doing fullstack development. While the offer was brought through a recruiting agency, I believe it was a full time position as a NASA Emp
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by abadger9 4y ago
the problem I have with this is that I'm a lead in a team of 12 engineers + 1 manager + 2 pm. There's too much bloat and everyone knows it, but the moment I make a succinct argument to the effectiveness of our pm, the director of
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by abadger9 4y ago
my wife and I absolutely hated 1899, but we also hated midnight mass as well - it's possible these types of series aren't our pallet but I wouldn't invest too much time with 1899.
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by abadger9 4y ago
> and comes out behind in the end. As someone in the tri community in vc funded silicon valley, I haven't heard of a better alternative to strava? would genuinely be interested in trying something better but all my running clubs sti
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by abadger9 4y ago
This is one company i've always wanted to work for- my mother is a CTO of a company in the same space/different aspect of the pipeline so I knew this company was going to do well when it entered the YC batch, but I've never e
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by abadger9 4y ago
I've checked out your profile and uplause, it looks like you're also making an onlyfans for india? Not sure what the value add is.
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by abadger9 4y ago
Coincidentally, I was thinking about this about a week ago. If you look at my post history my career traces a pre-ipo FAANG where everyone knew how to spin up a service and connect it to the internet (think bootstrapping 101). I had a thoug
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by abadger9 4y ago
This happened to my grandmother! I frankly never believed it because we're taught one cannot go into remission, but one day in her 60s she no longer had to manager her diabetes.
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by abadger9 4y ago
I'm not laid off but actively looking to change after spending a couple of years at my current employer. Despite being a staff engineer, managing 12 engineers, and having a solid revenue stream tied to my current team - I've mostl
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by abadger9 4y ago
This is a problem as old as time. Over a decade ago I saw startups from Stanford trying to tackle this. This is not an expert perspective, but I believe the market is too small to really make it worth while. As alluded to, people in their 3
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by abadger9 4y ago
I used to know jeffiel personally and let me tell you he is the sweetest person. He was incredibly humble when twilio became a darling in the sf-sv scene and (imo) he steered twilio to IPO effectively and quickly. Being a PoC, i'm disa
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by abadger9 4y ago
As someone who works in this space, ^ this. I would say don't overthink any component, use common crawl ( https://commoncrawl.org/ ) to build your initial index, use a pagerank implementation that's been thoroughly
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by abadger9 4y ago
I've wished at least 2 dozen times over the last decade that the nordics had better research universities. I spent a portion of my life in Finland and the quality of life is so much better there, I would say it's probably unattain
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by abadger9 4y ago
I've used Java my entire career and i'm fortunate for it. I appreciate how readable the code is (unlike my experience with Erlang, Haskell, etc), typically i don't have foundational issues in the web framework (once again had
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by abadger9 4y ago
I almost joined fivetran as a staff engineer, I had a terrible experience in the hiring pipeline - the manager i spoke with was convinced he was sounding clever by asking someone with 10 years of experience the difference between a java has

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