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Why an end-of-the alphabet last name could skew your grades(hechingerreport.org)
3 points by ayberk 2y ago|0 comments
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by ayberk 2y ago
Yeah, you can't talk about the deterioration of Google without talking about the deterioration of the culture at Google. I didn't like working at AWS for the most part, but I have never seen Google-level dysfunction there. There w
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by ayberk 2y ago
The best workaround (imho) is just using virtual cards. My Venture X allows me to create a virtual card on the spot restricted to that merchant where I can also enter an optional lock date. If I want to try something, I just create a new ca
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by ayberk 2y ago
As a Google engineer, it's really saddening to see the Welchism completely taking over Google. There are more than enough examples showing focusing on bottomline to increase shareholder value doesn't work in the long run, but it&#
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by ayberk 2y ago
This books isn't about that at all. It's more about how our brains work and how we can use it to make our code better (read: easier to understand). If anything, the book tells the exact opposite: you can write your code so that it
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by ayberk 2y ago
This was one of the best books I've ever read. I'll actually go ahead and say this is probably the only book I can confidently say that every professional programmer* should read. You know how sometimes you can "smell" s
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by ayberk 2y ago
It indeed is hard, and a good code search platform makes life so much easier. If I ever leave Google, the internal code search is for sure going to be the thing I miss the most. It's so well integrated into how everything else works (b
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by ayberk 3y ago
I'm torn about this. I've been in FAANG for a while now, and while I do think I'd be more successful/happier at a smaller company (and I actually was), I don't think "smaller" tech is necessarily going to
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by ayberk 3y ago
I hope they change the binary name since "jj" is a common <ESC> binding for vim users :)
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by ayberk 3y ago
I'm still reading this book, but so far it's been one of the few books I'd recommend to anyone. I try to be as stoic as possible, but contents of this book has managed to actually anger me. It makes it so clear that how much
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by ayberk 3y ago
Kudos for being so open -- after seeing numerous "incidents" at AWS and GCE I can say that two rules always hold with respect to observability: - You don't have enough. - You have too much. Usually either something will be mi
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by ayberk 3y ago
I'm not surprised a bit given how hostile Twitch has become to users. Completely irrelevant ads, ads playing at worst times (who the hell thought it'd be a good idea to show an ad before the actual stream??), apps abandoned(at lea
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by ayberk 3y ago
I don't know if it's the tool honestly. I've recently switched teams and I'm in the process of getting java readability. The whole experience so far has been much worse than getting my C++ readability. I even get "n
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by ayberk 3y ago
probably for developers' sanity :)
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by ayberk 4y ago
This^. OP is basically just filtering for people who have experience building hash tables.
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by ayberk 4y ago
Any alternatives you'd recommend? I'm not happy with Notion at all, but I haven't been able to find a good alternative for my own personal use: - Sync across all devices - Hierarchical notes - Note-level sharing for collabora
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by ayberk 4y ago
Apologies if it came as rude or hateful, that wasn't my intention. Funny thing is I'm a C++ programmer myself right now as I mentioned :) Even if we decide to "deprecate" C++ today, Google alone would have large enough C
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by ayberk 4y ago
It _looks_ easier because it lets you do anything you want. C++ makes you feel like you're going faster, but then you spend two weeks debugging a weird memory issue. I come from functional programming background, so I'm all for ta
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by ayberk 4y ago
As someone who has been writing C++ at Google, this exactly. Despite all the tooling, guidelines and "internal magic", C++ is still an abomination. And no it has nothing to do with memory management, I actually do like C. I love h
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by ayberk 4y ago
Huh, citation? :) I'm not saying you're wrong, but as a GCP engineer I have never seen us (well, my org) implementing something because of "AWS or Azure has it".
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by ayberk 4y ago
UO kind of shaped my life. The first piece of code I ever wrote was creating a bow with my name on it. It felt like magic and it was so exciting that I never stopped coding since then. After two degrees, moving to a whole another continent,
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by ayberk 4y ago
I do and I love it! (except it stopped working on Safari and Firefox for some reason)
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by ayberk 4y ago
This is a good place to remind that _never ever_ buy a Tesla. I was a huge fanboy and I do love my car, but their customer support and service centers are absolutely horrendous. It's all great when nothing is wrong, but things eventual
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by ayberk 4y ago
This is Google sharpening its focus ;)
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by ayberk 4y ago
Not quite. If you pass the hiring committee, you have one year to find a team. So it's more like your interview result is good for a year. After you match with a team you get the actual offer and it has the usual deadlines. Hiring proc
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by ayberk 4y ago
I have, but nothing stood out. I even tried Firefox Profiler (which is pretty good btw, kudos to the team), and it looks like DOM processing and renderer both spend a lot of CPU. But alas I'm not a frontend developer and have no incent
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by ayberk 4y ago
I try to use Safari as much as possible, but I need something that works on Windows as well.
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by ayberk 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, but I have both and some more. I wish there were an easy way to drill down on what exactly is consuming power.
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by ayberk 4y ago
I am not sure what's wrong, but I've been underwhelmed with my 14" MBP's battery life. I was super excited to get one for work solely because of all the buzz about battery life. But here I'm getting 5 hours or so. F
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by ayberk 4y ago
This definitely doesn't apply to developer tools in general (and sometimes also to infrastructure). Anyone who had the "pleasure" of using Amazon's internal tools can talk about how "Make it work ASAP" attitude

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