playing_colours

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by playing_colours 2y ago
As a Staff and higher engineer you may be paid on the level of EM or Director. So switching the career track as an engineer beyond senior in most cases will not lead to salary increase. Second argument is the assumption that switching to ma
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by playing_colours 2y ago
Can you share any example of non-fiction literature with beauty and humanity? Thanks!
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by playing_colours 2y ago
Have you tried autoimmune protocol diet? Anecdotally, but it may help.
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by playing_colours 3y ago
I was lucky to have a few friends sharing my passion for metal. Anyway there were quite a lot of magazines about metal music. They really helped me to discover new styles, bands, and releases. Oh how I enjoyed reading the reviews of the new
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by playing_colours 3y ago
If you have motivation and time, find a niche, a project you are interested to dig into. Spend a month on learning about it, write some code. Then contact OSS contributors working in that area, show interest to learn and contribute. It may
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by playing_colours 3y ago
Did you roll out your own implementation of Outbox pattern? It is an important pattern to address potential data inconsistencies, but I did not see yet a good scalable implementation of it.
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Product Management in the internal platform teams
1 points by playing_colours 3y ago|0 comments
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by playing_colours 3y ago
Apart from the patterns that are obviously good or bad by definition, most of the patterns and architecture decisions have their pros and cons, and the focus is on understanding, discussing those tradeoffs, and going with tradeoffs that a t
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by playing_colours 3y ago
What sources for learning do you use?
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by playing_colours 3y ago
It is true for Copenhagen, but I wonder how it feels to families living in rural areas.
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by playing_colours 3y ago
I think it is a matter of culture. I personally would prefer a straightforward approach, and I think many of my German colleagues, but I think my British colleagues would prefer that indirect way of communications.
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by playing_colours 3y ago
In Germany we have probation period of 6 months that helps both sides to decide if they want to continue employment. Can you please explain the causation between easiness of firing / hiring and high salaries?
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How to become structured and clear in communications
2 points by playing_colours 3y ago|4 comments
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by playing_colours 3y ago
My grandpa worked as an engineer at one of the freezer-warehouses where they also produced ice-cream. It was end of 80s - mid 90s in USSR. He brought a lot of it home, and my fridge was always filled with 1-3 sorts of it. Sweet childhood t
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by playing_colours 3y ago
How do you find them?
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by playing_colours 3y ago
Very interesting to learn a bit about Berlin’s culture scene. Do you write in German or English?
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by playing_colours 3y ago
German language. I live in Germany for quite a while, but only recently decided to invest in the language properly. Now I am about B2. My goal is at least to get to the level where I can properly work in a managerial position at a German-sp
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by playing_colours 4y ago
There is a good short story “Progeny” by Philip Dick about AI raising human children ;)
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by playing_colours 4y ago
They probably mixed target and launch coordinates when they programmed the missiles.
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by playing_colours 4y ago
>> Do you think it's practically possible to learn everything without any structure, discipline? You can learn something superficial without any structure and discipline, but structure and discipline are essential for progress in
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Getting into Compiler Engineering
2 points by playing_colours 4y ago|0 comments
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by playing_colours 4y ago
A few months ago I had a pleasant technical interview with Snowflake. First, the interviewer was very supportive and cooperative, it felt almost like a friendly talk between two colleagues. He did not try to outsmart me or catch on some tri
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by playing_colours 4y ago
I read the advice you quoted in Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb.
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by playing_colours 4y ago
“Deutschland” historically meant “the territory where German-speaking people live”, not a country. The name comes from early Middle Ages when the concept of a national country was not established yet. The idea of Deutschland as a country e
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by playing_colours 4y ago
Germany is a "Bundesstaat" (or "Staat"). The name for its constituents is "Bundesland" (or "Land"). I do not think it is a correct example.
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by playing_colours 4y ago
Can you please elaborate on “render, don’t template”?
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by playing_colours 4y ago
I live nearby, and my son absolutely loves riding their trains on weekends. They have two types of railways: regular children’s railways, and something I would call micro-trains that operate within smaller boundaries. The whole facility see
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by playing_colours 4y ago
Spring planning, backlog grooming, etc. are not the examples I would use if I wanted to support the opinion that leetcode is not a real programming. (I definitely agree that some knowledge of algorithms and data structures can be very benef
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by playing_colours 4y ago
Can anyone recommend a good source (book, articles) to learn Java Bytecode?
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by playing_colours 4y ago
Lockhart “Measurement” https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674284388 Mathematics is about curiosity, exploration and imagination, asking questions, and looking for answers.

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