chaosphere2112

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by chaosphere2112 2y ago
I was only there in 2022, but at that point there were in fact three or more monorepos (forked roughly based on toolchain - go and scala in one, primarily Ruby in the one detailed here, and there was one for the client stripe api libs that
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by chaosphere2112 3y ago
I just killed Reddit off my home screen after a decade of usage because of a totally different bullshit growth hacking thing - they have started injecting their “recommended” subreddits into my swipe stream. I have thumbs downed every singl
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by chaosphere2112 5y ago
Yeah; my product team will get wildly different priorities over the course of a month as execs spin plates, PMs and managers scramble around, and we nail down what our next round of experimentation will involve. On top of that, relying on
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by chaosphere2112 5y ago
This is very on point. We have platform and product in entirely different reporting structures that meet just below Sundar; this leads to hysterically different cultures. My team is trying to straddle the product/platform divide right
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by chaosphere2112 6y ago
My old gig was at Lawerence Livermore (home of Edward teller); there’s a photo of the sedan test with a few lab engineers posed next to it in the building that they interview new comp sci hires in. One of the senior engineers I was on an in
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by chaosphere2112 6y ago
Timezones. It’s hard enough scheduling meetings across multiple timezones (and boy are there a lot of meetings in FAANG), but going more than +/- 6 is a huge pain (I meet with east asia and europe on a fairly regular basis).
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by chaosphere2112 7y ago
There are a variety of European climate agencies; depending on what country you live in / are interested in being in, there's: - UK: Met Office https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/careers/vacancies ) -
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by chaosphere2112 8y ago
It’s L4 as of like a year ago; also going up to L5 no longer has promo committee per-se, but instead is a PA meeting between leads who hash it out, and the manager is much more involved.
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by chaosphere2112 8y ago
Yeah, but one of the main roles of pretty much every government is regulating what is sold in their markets. (Were this a less autocratic regime,I would have said "governments are just people", but I take your point on the governm
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by chaosphere2112 8y ago
It's actually a reference to the USB-C ecosystem for the laptop line; Marco and his cohosts on the Accidental Tech Podcast have burned a lot of time griping about the state of connecting things to a laptop. Not so much time on the head
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by chaosphere2112 8y ago
The front-end interviews at Google are about half algorithms and half details about how web front-ends should work, be structured, web technology problems, browser performance, etc. It's an entirely different interview track from Gener
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by chaosphere2112 8y ago
Almost definitely not the case at Google presently. 80-90% of the fridge space is dedicated to non-soda beverages (flavored seltzers, cold brew coffee, iced teas), and the chips + candy are hidden out of sight in the snack areas.
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by chaosphere2112 8y ago
When ordering at a restaurant, yes.
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by chaosphere2112 8y ago
As an owner of a car with ACC and lane keeping, I frequently get to experience the always fun sensation of my car accelerating full bore at a turn. My understanding is that Tesla actually made the two systems talk to each other, which is de
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
As an additional piece of anecdata, I was also thoroughly underwhelmed by my offer (software engineer) at Tesla; they either maliciously or incompetently tried to get me to take an offer at new grad rates, and when I laughed the first offer
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
I can report that the climate scientists I knew mostly worked on macs (laptops, largely; a variety had trash-can Mac Pros as well). Fairly sizable motivator was the Unix CLI; they all had come up working on supercomputers with C/TC She
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
On the bandwidth end, both Android and iOS do use incremental updates ([1], [2]); if the changes are something that you would be releasing eventually anyway, you're not wasting any bandwidth, and are instead loadbalancing it over multi
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
> ... no need to make a NASA pen As is frequently trotted out whenever someone reaches for this analogy, http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp (tl;dr: pencils aren't great in space, another co
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
For those in one of the covered regions[1], Kaiser Permanente is largely not-evil. You have to go through your GP to get referrals to specialists, but it's a series of mostly consistent "I have X problem" "Try Y" &q
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
Also, they controlled for language and the effect was still present.
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
I had a phone screen with a start up in the middle of my last job hunt where they let me know they were in the middle of porting their entire frontend to React + Redux, while rewriting their backend. I was "unable to find time" to
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
Grover Norquist is also the basis of one of my personal engineering mantras: "I don't want to abolish dependencies. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
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by chaosphere2112 9y ago
Presumably a reference to the long history of the symbol prior to its appropriation by the Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
Top left: Table ____ Bottom left: NRW Bug: He who sends ____ (wrong?) data Top right: Kitchie Boo Boo Bug: He who ____ around errors in relays Bottom right: He who brings good data
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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
>> Safety - they'll be safer. Period. > No. I don't think so. Not in the foreseeable future at least.. According to the NHTSA[1], they already are. >>* It's a natural extension for cos like uber - how else can
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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
He was a director, so a lot of his job was coordinating the entire development tools team. He fit in some amount of development during the day, and did a lot of nights and weekends (or at least that's what I've been gathering from
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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
I homebrew as well, and this always floats around as something I'd like to do. Then I picture hauling 55 pound grain sacks up a catwalk and dumping them into the grain mill, for a mid-to-low margin business. Sigh.
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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
On LAN, this is basically how Symantec Ghost works; it multicasts the image over UDP, and each client figures out what they missed. Those chunks get retransmitted at the end.
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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
My old strategy for this involved a cronjob to update my host file every five minutes, so I could edit the file and read for a few minutes when I legitimately was waiting on something to compile, but would get yanked away from the browser b

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