bironran

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by bironran 2mo ago
Anecdotal: A long time ago, in my 20's, I found out it's easy for me to think in two streams as long as they operated in different languages. I could talk to my colleagues in Hebrew and answer emails in English at the same time.
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by bironran 3mo ago
This is perfectly encapsulated in xkcd's "Standards" strip [ https://xkcd.com/927/ ].
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by bironran 3mo ago
Similar when you climb up the technical path as well, beyond staff engineer. It gets lonely, not many peers, not part of a team, you have to be careful about what you say and to whom as your words carry a lot of significance.
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by bironran 4mo ago
GCP has it's own share of issues. ... I was writing a long vent about GCP but the mix of issues we had, just in the last few weeks, was too identifying and I don't want to sour an already tremulous relationship, as much as I'
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by bironran 5mo ago
It’s a slop alright. But it also missed the next mainstream iteration which is Java virtual threads / Goroutines. Those do away with coloring by attacking the root of the problem: that OS threads are expensive. Sure, it comes with its
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by bironran 11mo ago
Yet... deploy on two clouds and you'll get tax payers scream at you for "wasting money" preparing for a black swan event. Can't have both, either reliability or lower cost.
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by bironran 11mo ago
It's missing the January 19, 2038, the unix epoch end. Only 12 years and a bit from now. Very much in our time.
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by bironran 11mo ago
I bet "I'm a lot of people". That's the point of the post. We exist, we contribute, some of us are critical. We just don't chase fame, don't care about (much) about recognition (beyond peer I guess) and have in
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by bironran 11mo ago
Heh. That's me. The "no presence" part. About the 10x part, ask my colleagues. I want to believe I'm doing some good work but who knows. But the no presence... I've got a kid, a house, a mortgage. I've been in
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by bironran 1y ago
To me that's a complete circle back to lessons learned from neural networks - I long suspected we'd be heading that way again with transformers being a computational step rather than the whole thing.
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by bironran 1y ago
That! It took me a while to start. My education of graph theory wasn't much better than your average college grad. But I found that fascinating and started reading. I was also very lucky to have had two great mentors - my TL and the pr
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by bironran 1y ago
I oversimplified. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390701
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by bironran 1y ago
The product was a CMDB, with great tech and terrible marketing.
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by bironran 1y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390701
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by bironran 1y ago
I oversimplified. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390701
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by bironran 1y ago
That was about 20 years ago. Not much translates to today's world. I was in the algorithms team working on a CMDB product. Great tech, terrible marketing. These days it's very different, mostly large-ish distributed systems.
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by bironran 1y ago
kindaaaa.... I oversimplified the problem :). Really it was about generating an isomporhic-ish view, based on some user defined rules, of an existing graph, itself generated by a subgraph isomorphism by a query language. Think a computer ne
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by bironran 1y ago
I despise leetcode interviews. These days, with coding LLMs, I see them as even less relevant than they were before. Yet, you ask someone "how do you build an efficient LFU" and get blank stares (I just LOVE the memcache solution
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by bironran 1y ago
One of my best commits was removing about 60K lines of code, a whole "server" (it was early 2000's) with that had to hold all of its state in memory and replacing them with about 5k of logic that was lightweight enough to pig
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by bironran 1y ago
This (and all the rest) are true. But why isn’t every repeated alarm on (phone, calendar) equipped with “skip N nexts”?
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by bironran 1y ago
Piggybacking on this, I just want an alarm that I could tell “not tomorrow please, I’m off work. But keep the schedule otherwise, ok?” Apparently that’s touch to ask in 2025.
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by bironran 1y ago
A cursory glance at "setAccessible" usage reveals popular libraries such as serializers like gson and jaxb, class manipulation and generation like cglib, aspectj and even jdk.internal.reflect, testing frameworks and libraries incl
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by bironran 2y ago
I'm so happy (well... I'm something. happy is somewhat hard to come by these days) that I helped a fellow widower. We're in this alone, but together. My personal view is to hide nothing, NOTHING, from my daughter. The tears,
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by bironran 2y ago
"How is this our life?" I asked that question so many times (for reference, see my comment on Jake's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163619 ). I asked it of my late wife. I asked it of my therap
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by bironran 2y ago
"Explains Git so often, probably dreams in commit messages" "So passionate about system design, probably tries to optimize their grocery shopping with distributed algorithms" Both are so true! And on a more serious note,
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by bironran 2y ago
That happened to me too. Then I switched writing in "notes" and eventually switched to https://dayone.me/ which has a webapp as well as mobile app, so it's easy for me to write on any device. It was less dish
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by bironran 2y ago
Forgot to add: Journaling helped me a lot. I favored writing this as "letters" / "texts" to my wife. As if she's here, just telling her about my day, feelings, emotions, what our kid did, what happened around u
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by bironran 2y ago
Lost my wife about 1.5 years ago. It was expected and unexpected at the same time. Long metastatic cancer treatment that ended all of the sudden, in a few weeks of unconsciousness ("coma") with an auto immune brain disease, likely
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by bironran 2y ago
Cannot be complete without a reference to Wat [ https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat ]
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by bironran 2y ago
This looks really great, but I wish there was a setting for "SAT level English". That could've really helped me improve my own vocabulary. Also "used in a sentence" so I could actually type something in a sentence.

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