angarg12

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by angarg12 1mo ago
Funnily enough this very morning I asked an LLM to implement an algorithm for an NP-hard problem (a variation of the knapsack problem). I gave it 2 directives: * Do not implement an np solution trying to get the perfect score. Implement a f
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by angarg12 2mo ago
Mostly yes. But there were also some take home assignments, some culture fit loops, and many ML rounds, since I was applying for an ML role.
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by angarg12 2mo ago
My last job search 2 years ago took me 9 months of grinding while working full time at Big Tech and +15 years of experience. After loops with ~30 companies I ended up with about 6 offers. The offers were all over the shop. Some places downl
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by angarg12 2mo ago
I got a Bachelor, Master, and PhD in Computer Science, with a total of 11 years of education. It's the biggest waste of time of my entire life. As I progress in my professional career I'm more convinced that pretty much everything
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by angarg12 4mo ago
> This exact thing is what software developers have been begging for since the beginning of the profession: Receiving a detailed outline of the problem and what the end result should look like. > This is often the part that slows down
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by angarg12 8mo ago
This sounds like surface level wisdom if you are in your earlier career. I see several problems with this advice, but here is the most obvious one: this only works if you want to become a manager. It used to be the case that the only way fo
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by angarg12 9mo ago
As a european living in the US, the idea there is a market at all is laughable. I tried to get price quotes for treatments several time just to get a "well, it's hard to say" or "it's very complicated".
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by angarg12 9mo ago
I love the concept of luck surface area. Worth a read https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...
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by angarg12 11mo ago
I'm hispanic and my two last names are Garcia Garcia. That is two last names that just happen to be the same. When I moved to the US I could have dropped one or hyphenate them. I decided to keep it as-is, and use "Garcia Garcia&qu
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by angarg12 1y ago
I left my home country over 10 years ago, and ever since I've travelled back once every 1 or 2 years. Since 4-5 years ago I started to notice these betting houses cropping up where my family and friends live. They are impossible to mis
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by angarg12 1y ago
The argument that the article uses to critique AI coding is that coding is not the bottleneck, instead the testing and validation of ideas is. This is a first-degree smart argument. It presents a seemingly non-obvious idea that makes sense
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by angarg12 1y ago
We drove from Seattle to SF and back on a Model 3, and I would say there were only a couple of situations where I wish we could keep driving instead of recharging. Otherwise almost all breaks for charging aligned with breaks to go to the to
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by angarg12 1y ago
I also thought this was a pretty silly way of bringing up range anxiety. It's like a dealership selling you a gas car with an empty tank. Obviously the very first thing you would do is to refill it before driving home.
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by angarg12 1y ago
This isn't discussed enough. One argument I've heard is that "this only applies to people who break the law". One thing to consider is how easy is to make minor mistakes that technically count as an infraction. When acti
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by angarg12 1y ago
It's worse than that, it assumes that where you want to be in 5 years won't change during that time. My experience is that our needs and wants change over time, and they are shaped by our actions. Overcommiting to a future that we
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by angarg12 1y ago
I live in the pacific northwest and have 1 week of PTO coming up. I wanted to maybe rent a cabin and chill with my family for a few days. Browsing Airbnb the cheapest options available in my area are tents and RVs for 200-300 USD a night, a
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by angarg12 1y ago
> In technology, AI is currently the new big hype. Before AI, it was "The Cloud", which unfortunately has still not settled, but are now also being interwoven with AI. Cloud computing is a multi-billion dollar industry and it u
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by angarg12 1y ago
So I joined this company as a lead of a team of 4 developers. I found a medium size Java codebase with not a single test. Instead of unit tests, we had a list of scenarios, and at the end of each sprint a QA guy would manually go through ea
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by angarg12 2y ago
> Don’t get a job. All advice is circumstantial, and this one seems particularly painted by OP circumstances. When I got my first job, I was living paycheck to paycheck and partially supporting my family. I can't imagine how could I
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by angarg12 2y ago
> the color coding program was completely misguided because it assumed that we didn’t know what healthy food was. I challenged the nutritionist to an experiment: Make two plates of food, go into the restaurant at lunch time, and ask peo
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by angarg12 2y ago
People keep evaluating LLMs on essentially zero-shotting a perfect solution to a coding problem. Once we use tools to easily iterate on code (e.g. generate, compile, test, use outcome to refine prompt) we will turbocharge LLMs coding abilit
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by angarg12 2y ago
I've met a breed of career min-maxers adjacent to Julius that I have a hard time describing. Picture this: you join a new team with a senior engineer, call him Pete. Pete wrote the initial version of a new product, and you joined the t
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by angarg12 2y ago
This is what happens when you make your work most of your identity. At the end of the day work won't love you back. Managers will come and go. Projects will start and end. Colleagues will join and leave. For most of us work is an impor
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by angarg12 2y ago
> Remember, these technologies already have a track record. The world can and should evaluate them, and the people building them, based on their results and their effects, not solely on their supposed potential. But that's not how t
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by angarg12 2y ago
Hard disagree. The system I'm talking about is the largest scale system I've worked with (millions of QPS, thousands of servers). We built it in such a way that we were able to rewrite entire parts of our stack easily and relative
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by angarg12 2y ago
> even further toward infrastructure, the slower and more thoughtfully you should move. These things often have far less rapidly changing requirements I used to think that, until I worked on my first large scale system, infra heavy. It t
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by angarg12 2y ago
Not buying it. Sure, culture is everyone's responsibility. But the share is not the same. Doesn't it seem obvious that a VP has dramatically more impact on culture that a poor junior engineer? The same execs who allowed overhiring
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by angarg12 2y ago
Is it the case though? I mean, it's extremely convenient for leadership to say that of course it isn't the fault, it's the fault of new employees and WFH. But let's assume that it is true, and that the newer employees ar
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by angarg12 2y ago
As another example of how whack the job market is, recently I wrapped a year-long job hunt. When I tally my offers, I got offers from mid-level to Staff, and the highest offer was 2.5x higher than the lowest one. The fact that different com
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by angarg12 2y ago
Not an answer, just wanted to say that regardless of the outcome you are doing well. A few years back I was doing 70k GBP in Cambridge (expensive as fuck) in my mid 30s. I could only imagine pulling +100k in a LCOL in my 20s. Congrats.

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