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by posharma 3y ago
I found the blogs written by Jay Alammar to be much more informative and complete. It appears that companies are rehashing and compressing the same content to advertise their products.
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by posharma 3y ago
May be I'm old, but I love long form content and twitter took that away. People write long tweet threads instead of thinking things through and writing it in long form. This gives rise to tons of twitter thread collapsing tools/st
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by posharma 3y ago
That doesn’t make him a good, responsible CEO.
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by posharma 3y ago
I know this is going to be controversial, but I think it has to be said. Jack ruined Twitter first [1] (by over-hiring and then selling it to Elon) and now it's Block's turn. He still made billions, while thousands got laid off an
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Ask HN: Best way to learn Rust for an experienced C++ dev
4 points by posharma 4y ago|1 comments
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by posharma 4y ago
And they pay well like FAANG? Examples?
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by posharma 4y ago
I don't know if you work in FAANG or no, but most FAANG interviews just don't work this way. So, as much as I like this style, it's just 1 company and definitely not the norm. The rest of us are stuck with design Uber, Whatsa
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by posharma 4y ago
Seriously, in this day and age, why are we still stuck with C? There are battle tested container libraries in C++ for e.g.
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by posharma 4y ago
I don't think it attempts to. There are always more than one way to learn the same thing.
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by posharma 4y ago
How credible is this news source?
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by posharma 4y ago
Hahha. Sure.
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by posharma 4y ago
There were a lot of other good things going that masked these. The recent "PR botch ups" are creating more damage. The most famous e.g. is reacting to ChatGPT's hype and rushing to do a demo and then messing it up. It wasn&#x
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by posharma 4y ago
Internally Google might be just fine, but optics are equally important in this industry. Before Sundar took over Google never went through bad PR. It's just an observation, not a dig at Google's affairs.
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Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit(book.mixu.net)
71 points by posharma 4y ago|2 comments
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by posharma 4y ago
The author says meditation is the solution and describes the effects it had on him. However, I didn't quite get the why (even if I ignore the how) - why did it work for him and will it work the same way for others? Besides, meditation
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by posharma 4y ago
Care to elaborate how I violated the HN guidelines?
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by posharma 4y ago
* There's absolutely nothing we could do to influence YouTube's leadership changes. * There's very little you can do to influence changes in the product YouTube as well. * There's very little we know about the internals
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by posharma 4y ago
Curious why this is important enough to be on the front page. Even as a techie I don't find this news interesting, at least not HN front-page worthy. (Instead of down voting it would be nice to hear what others think as valid reasons).
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by posharma 4y ago
I love sqlite but can't hold myself from saying: another day, another sqlite post on HN :-)
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by posharma 4y ago
I'm not talking about promotions particularly.
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by posharma 4y ago
Exactly. IC career is not as sexy as HN makes it to be. People pursuing IC careers are doing it for personal reasons, definitely not for growth. Compared to management it takes an order of magnitude more time, influence and energy to get pr
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by posharma 4y ago
Meta expects you to have managed at least 40 ppl before considering them for a M2 role. M2s made $800k+. Why wouldn’t a manager not be motivated to grow his empire? How else do you think managers will grow to VPs? We discuss ideals here but
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by posharma 4y ago
Things are not as black and white as they seem. It's a spectrum - from people who detest mgmt to people who realize the value of it. You fall somewhere in the spectrum depending on your experience in the industry and depending on your
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by posharma 4y ago
We're going to reach a point where we might say the same thing about large language models. Fine tuned LMs (based off of their large parents) are going to be the bread and butter.
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by posharma 4y ago
I strongly recommend reading Tanya's book The Staff Engineer's Path ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61058107 ). I haven't read Larson's book ( https://www.goodreads.com&#x
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by posharma 4y ago
Yeah, exactly. May be I should’ve used the word trendy as some ppl take offense to the word fad for SQLite.
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by posharma 4y ago
SQLite is not a fad. It’s just that it never gained so much attention here before.
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by posharma 4y ago
There’s an industry wide fad (like ChatGPT) and then there’s a hacker news wide fad which is SQLite :-). Not sure how it all started. Last few months (or my be even an year) there has been an unprecedented number of SQLite posts. What gives
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by posharma 4y ago
OpenAI threatened to move? Do you've evidence to support this?
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by posharma 4y ago
May be because this paper was generated by ChatGPT :-)

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