izgzhen

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by izgzhen 4y ago
While senior engineers don’t make NFL wages, the executives do (including some former senior engineers). Would it be fair to compare execs to NFL player instead? (While engineers are those work behind the scene to support the game)
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by izgzhen 5y ago
It is mostly Java now. Backend ones are migrated to C++
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by izgzhen 5y ago
YT is migrating more and more low-level infra to Google wide support now. But many core “middleware” infra is still maintained in-house.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Golang doesn’t have a proper generics support at its beginning. It is too late now.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Typically publicly traded companies have trading window limitations for its employees, and one purpose is to avoid insider trading risks. But that works for “normal engineer”. Executives who have more privileged info might need to consult t
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Both options work, but you have to choose one style depending on the stage and type of the startup. If you are founding a new coffee shop, or a trading company, probably you should spend more time working on the actual problem. But if you a
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by izgzhen 5y ago
There is no need to "respect" the process, but just to be more thoughtful: > What's not in a Linux inode? > My answer was: Lots of things...dinosaurs, the moon... You can answer that you want more clarification, or even
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by izgzhen 5y ago
The content on/recommended by TikTok has two main interesting characteristics as I observed: - Being very "personally relevant": It doesn't only recommend generally popular stuff. It can be very quick at picking up some
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Not to dismiss this course since I never tried it, but my personal experience is that I procrastinate a lot when I don’t enjoy my work, have a lot of FUD around the project, or simply not passionate about the profession. On the contrary, wh
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Can’t agree more. Chinese branch of KFC/McDonalds not only has many delicious specials you can’t find outside China, even the basic fried chicken is much more juicy and flavorful. I can only find similar fried chicken in some very nich
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by izgzhen 5y ago
That is a valid use case despite being small and incremental. I think it will still be helpful to some people.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
The easy part is the copy-paste-from-SO part ;)
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by izgzhen 5y ago
It doesn’t calm to solve the bottleneck either. On the contrary, it clearly states that its mission is to solve the easy parts better so developers can focus better on the true challenging engineering problems as you mentioned.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
> Apple announced that FaceTime is going to be available on the web so users can call in from Android devices and Windows PCs From the article.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Or “next week’s Friday”
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Indeed most CS graduates will forget the content after the exams, but after the process of working through the courses, they are much faster in picking up the knowledge when needed later in their career (and they are also more confident and
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by izgzhen 5y ago
I agree. Why buying a company if you don’t want to make any change? Investment firms make profits by buying low and selling high, and it is hard to sell higher than the purchase price if things are kept the way it is.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
FWIW EDUs typically use an external service like https://www.barracudacentral.org/rbl
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Speaking from personal experiences on non-dedicated IP plans on both SendGrid and SES, SES is much better in deliverability of transactional emails, esp. when sent to .edu domains. I felt like SES is more careful in vetting their customer
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Google is still relevant because it controls Android and Chrome. Baidu never gets lucky in building that and be a dominant player. This makes it very passive in the mobile internet market competition.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
https://www.bytedance.com/en/news/60a526af053cc102d640c061 the letter itself
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by izgzhen 5y ago
I think we should not follow the mindset of doing X things to get promotion. The most important thing is to know the whys behind promotion, and combine that thinking with what you want out of life. Think top down, as if you are running this
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by izgzhen 5y ago
I don’t want to dismiss the author’s point. But here is a related point: Choosing what tool to communicate is a social decision, not a personal one. You can’t prove the tool X is more effective way to communicate by just using it yourself.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Despite all the funny ideas, I am happy to see that people are actively thinking about some radical changes in how a tech company office should look like in future. Some ideas won’t work, but some will stay.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
One important thing about typical config language is that they are much simpler to do static analysis upon than full fledged PL. Static analysis, even just simple parsing, is a quite common need when you need to migrate or take statistics o
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Yes and no. If Rust got a much larger adaption, then there will be many more people learning it then Rust skill is hardly a special thing. If not, a less-adapted language will never pay you with the top market rate since it is not used by m
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by izgzhen 5y ago
One issue is that if you take a top CS program grad with “proper” academic training and even some internships, they still need to look up references or take a quick review to remembers the things in this list. What really made them competen
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by izgzhen 5y ago
A related question I always had is why many vegan people are pushing so hard for a substitute product just to simulate the flavor of flesh —- many Asian food like Tofu are vegan and natural. Why not embracing and inventing more types of n
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by izgzhen 5y ago
I think their strategy is to launch fully driverless taxi service in a restricted region and then gradually expand, depending on the acceptance and improvement of the system. Comparatively, Tesla wants its autonomous driving feature to be u
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by izgzhen 5y ago
That is not considered high impact by the research community ;)

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