rawrfml

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by rawrfml 3y ago
This is so anecdotal but I remember taking a Lyft from Noe Valley to Taraval earlier this year and the ride went through (I'm zooming into Google Maps for the neighbourhood names) Miraloma and surrounding areas. Basically the neighbour
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by rawrfml 4y ago
His internal badge (ie. goodbye) post. This is definitely not in the article. Edit: The article has a link to some other paywalled link that may contain the full contents of the note. I don't have a subscription so I can't tell bu
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by rawrfml 4y ago
Hm, the number of teams that work on these distributed systems is smaller than I think you believe exists at Meta, though I suppose it depends on the type of system being built. Even the internal post on this topic links to a note from last
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by rawrfml 5y ago
I like the product/infra distinction quite a bit more than frontend/backend. This is basically how Facebook describes its engineers - product engineers who typically work in the "product" repo and works on UI as well as
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by rawrfml 5y ago
I'll give my perspective which I think is very different than the rest of the HN crowd here in the comments. I think this mainly stems from the fact that I'm probably much younger than a lot of the folks here. I do a lot of random
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by rawrfml 6y ago
Just a concrete example. Back when I worked for Square, lunch used to be $x. This was reimbursed on your paycheck and thus subject to income tax.
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by rawrfml 7y ago
Is that so; it's been a while since I've taken my engineering ethics courses so I'm a little fuzzy on the details. Thanks for letting me know.
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by rawrfml 7y ago
IIRC there's no limitations on who you work under provided they are licensed; P.Eng license is a not tied to any specific discipline. If I complete my engineer-in-training (4 years professional industry experience under the supervision
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by rawrfml 7y ago
Just throwing some info out there since I graduated from this exact program. We may graduate with an engineering degree, but we technically cannot use the word engineer in our title (in Canada) until we get our accreditations, which require
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by rawrfml 7y ago
I did a lot of travelling in Europe earlier in the year, and had McDonald's in a lot of different cities in different countries. What really helped were the automatic digital kiosks that you can just order from (without talking to a ca