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by ablatt89 2y ago
I believe CDPush still has some latency involved which would be slower than reading raw config data from a DB.
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by ablatt89 2y ago
In addition to the benefits above, by storing storing config in version control is 2 party control, presubmit linting, and easy rollbacks. I suppose the trade off is slower rollouts of config and some delay time in pushing out a config but
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by ablatt89 3y ago
PIPs are used as tools to lay people off or get revenge often. It's not meant to be an actual "performance improvement plan." There's many stories of people hitting all requirements within the PIP to still not hit "
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by ablatt89 3y ago
Any problems where the configuration space is large, and you want to find some optimal configurations to the problem, would in theory benefit since you can directly map the configurations into the entangled qubits. Entangled qubits give you
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Once something is released, there's general access given for that particular software/hw but it still needs to be requested. In a weird way, it creates some internal excitement on "secret" releases but obviously makes de
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Funny enough, this is a system design question asked in many interviews: https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-modern-system-desi... https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/system-
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by ablatt89 4y ago
I think it's a good concept but I think this quote isn't fully accurate: "Such reasoning implies that money is the only reason why people would do something, which is not true. Science can have its own value, because people w
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by ablatt89 4y ago
If QMs generate a large amount of solutions and these solutions just need to be checked and verified for correctness, it seems more of a statistical mechanical system, where you a large distribution of outcomes may have specific solution, b
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Would TCI recommend they lay off their own staff or reduce their staff salaries due to such abysmal returns also? Lol.
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Communism isn't better; you replace elites with another set elites who control power and those who can produce goods and value have zero incentive to produce. Communism has been tried regardless if people come up with hypothetical gove
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Uh, their reputation took a huge hit with the mass layoffs. If there was over-hiring, that's a reflection of the higher ups who didn't evaluate the economy, demand, etc... Yet most higher ups are still there, without any announcem
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by ablatt89 4y ago
You keep worming your way, distorting your initial statement. You initially stated the following: > Though engineering at FAANG in general is overrated. Know plenty of underperforming people at my company that ended up there. All you nee
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Publish or perish produces such low quality papers. Perhaps there should be a journal for interesting tidbits as opposed to blown out papers, similar to scientific blogs. But I recall in academia, teaching was also underrated and many profe
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Don't be pedantic, that was absolutely the intent of Arthur's post. Re-read it. He clearly insults FAAANG engineers as incompetent, then follows with FAANG engineers are just average in intelligence and grind. You're being di
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by ablatt89 4y ago
That logic is not sound. If there's some selection criteria to select engineers from the general populace S, and a subset engineers who make it past S are average, that doesn't mea the end distribution of IQs (you're the one
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by ablatt89 4y ago
There's definitely testing but it's not at the level that it should be. That is, there's presubmit and postsubmit testing, but who is triaging the results? In addition, how often do we see people design tests to pass instead
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Why is the defensiveness "unpleasant" when you're the one calling engineers incompetent because they work for FAANG? I quote you: > In fact, most Google engineers taken out of Google are fucking useless, because they'
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Good idea, thanks :-)
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Good engineers relative to what? You're conflating averages within a company, to averages in general to software engineers in the market. And you're basing this on the failures of a product without using some baseline. I agree tha
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by ablatt89 4y ago
A lot of these issues are quality issues but Google outsources QA and testing. Apple hires people from retail to do manual QA and testing. Automation is often not good enough since coverage is slow and triaging of results is long and tediou
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by ablatt89 4y ago
I think you're insulting anyone who has worked for FAANG as someone who is not a good engineer, has an average IQ, and only got into the position via grinding. That's pretty disingenuous and not an honest assessment of the talent
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Reminds me of the Star Trek episode about nanites self-replicating.
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by ablatt89 4y ago
10x engineers unfortunately seem to never make it up the management chain, as they are threats to management and management just wants them to output things. Ironically 10x engineers can do architecting, project planning, and run sprints wi
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by ablatt89 4y ago
What atoms are they using to entangle to create a qubit? How exactly are they entangling these qubits, and re-entangling them post-measurement? I can't find specifics on the quantum CPU architecture in terms of the actual atoms used fo
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Perhaps an example of how the dopamine rush people get from being clever on Twitter, getting likes and adoration, can also be their downfall.
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Probably useful for straight girls more than guys tbh: COUNT(ROWS(person.gender == Male and person.orientation == Straight)) == 0
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by ablatt89 4y ago
Agreed here, there's so much scope and specialization in a large company, it takes time to make impact that often goes beyond 1-2 years. I recall in my last FAANG at Apple, the opportunities for high impact projects are often left up f
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by ablatt89 4y ago
I think the things you listed are reasonable expectations to make someone happy for any job, but it's not what the original article seems to get at. At least from my perspective, he's dismissing software engineering as a fruitful
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by ablatt89 4y ago
He's also dissing engineering as a rat race, as if we're all idiots and morons for adhering to some 9-5 job, and he, a software engineer at a "top bank" can see the light while all of us are just plebs. Yea, you're
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by ablatt89 4y ago
It's a rat race if you never enjoyed software engineering and computer science from the start, and joined due to the growing SWE hype in the 2010s. Most people in the world have to work 40+ hours a week, and on weekends. It's kin

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