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by sharpy 2y ago
Or different departments pushing responsibility to each other... I had a break in. Thieves took my check books, and tried to cash one in at a payday loan place at a neighbouring city. The payday place called me, and of course, I told them n
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by sharpy 3y ago
When I was at AWS, towards later part of my tenure, DynamoDB was mandated for control plane. To be fair, it worked, and worked well, but there were times when I wished I could use something else instead.
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by sharpy 3y ago
Haha. We called those "promotion driven architecture". I mean if you just shove the whole thing into a monolith, no matter how appropriate, how is this going to serve as a technical artifact supporting promotion?
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by sharpy 4y ago
Haha.. As much as I disliked it, if someone offered me that much money to use it, sure, I would do so with a grin.
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by sharpy 4y ago
My employer has been achieving decent (around 15%) cost savings on most services we migrate to ARM on AWS. Not all though. Some of our services we had to revert to x64 because it didn't perform as well on ARM.
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by sharpy 4y ago
I had a break in at my house a few months ago, and one of the items they took was my passport wallet with an airtag in it. So I could see where they were. However, the address located was a multi-unit building, and the find my device was un
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by sharpy 4y ago
I currently work for a non-FAANG company, and it's my second time doing so. Comp has been competitive in both cases. In fact, my current job pays more than is normal for FAANG (but only due to stock appreciation - 3x in the last 2 year
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by sharpy 4y ago
Yep. True. But amortized over the expected lifetime of the aircraft, it will still be orders of magnitude cheaper.
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by sharpy 4y ago
Because even USA doesn't have unlimited money. A B-21 can carry a lot of cheap precision weapons. Eg. JDAM costs like $25k each, compared to many millions each target would require with missiles.
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by sharpy 4y ago
I had a similiar experience. After what felt like a long journey, and then receiving an offer that was less than my then base pay, I refuse to talk to companies that won't give me a pay range.
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by sharpy 4y ago
As someone who has worked within AWS, and also used AWS as a customer at multiple companies, I totally understand that sentiment. But I wouldn't want to solve some of the problems myself, rather than using their services.
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by sharpy 4y ago
True. But while avoiding vendor lock in is a worthy goal, it does have its costs - as in you are now on the hook for duplicating various functionalities that may not work as well together. For example, let's take a simple producer&#x2F
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by sharpy 4y ago
It's the form 1040 that forces me to use TurboTax. In any given year, I have hundreds of entries...
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by sharpy 4y ago
I would love to use one of the free products. Unfortunately, for me, TurboTax is the only one I've tried that will import all of my brokerages... Seems small price to pay. And they always get me with the "Audit defense"... I
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by sharpy 4y ago
Recently worked on migrating a number of services (largely CPU bound) to Graviton 2. It was a bit of hit and mess. For some services, it worked great. Very negligible hit to performance, and since equivalent Graviton2 instances cost 20% les
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by sharpy 5y ago
True. Between continued pandemic, inflation, and Russia… well, call me an optimistic fool. One who still has a few decades to wait it out.
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by sharpy 5y ago
Yep. Companies make offers based on dollar figures. Typically the average price of first month is what is used to determine how many shares they will grant for RSU. So now is a good time to change jobs! Assuming things ever go back to norma
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by sharpy 5y ago
Amazon's pay adjustment was long overdue, and not driven by inflation. The base pay has been capped for so long, and the comp model made an assumption (a historically generous one) about stock performance that hasn't held true for
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by sharpy 5y ago
Got 9% bump in base, and RSU top ups - wasn't expecting any RSU, given our stock performance (yes, even with the market turmoil, it's up a lot since I joined). Biggest effective raise I have gotten without leaving for another comp
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by sharpy 5y ago
Yes. I had an old cellphone account that kept getting charged after my credit card expired. Had to go in person to cancel, as I have long since forgotten my online account password.
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by sharpy 5y ago
Sometimes, it works if you set your VPN to a server in California, because of a law requiring services to offer a means to cancel it online, if the customer signed up online. [1] Also whenever I have the option to do so, I sign up for subsc
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by sharpy 5y ago
My team is mostly in office, but we do have people in 2 other time zones. Communication happens mostly in slack (even for people in the office - because it would be too loud otherwise - open plan office, gggrr), but also to include people
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by sharpy 5y ago
When USSR fell in late 1991, yes, Ukraine did have 4th largest military in the world, and 3rd largest nuclear arsenal. But that is such a long time ago. Just look at what happened in 2014 when Crimea got annexed. Afghanistan is also very di
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by sharpy 5y ago
Haha. At some companies, they made the interviews tougher for internal candidates... Amazon used to require full loop, but last time I changed jobs there (I no longer wok there), all it took was conversations with some senior engineers, and
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by sharpy 5y ago
I think we underestimate how much this matters to Russia. They might indeed feel there is an existential threat to them (the elites, not Russia the country), if they let the countries on their periphery join EU/NATO, and become democra
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by sharpy 5y ago
Worked for a company that used Splunk... I was told to log less. That was real strange coming from Amazon, where I was told to log anything and everything... And often, without the logs, it would have been impossible to determine root cause
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by sharpy 5y ago
For me, it's the Olympus PEN-F. Not the most ergonomic camera, but there is something special about it.
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by sharpy 5y ago
As someone who has gone through the immigration process, I can affirm that once you are no longer beholden to your employer for work authorization, more opportunities are available, and that leads to significantly larger salaries. I am sure
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by sharpy 5y ago
A advantage to having standard interview questions. Plus the questions we ask lend themselves to extensions (also predefined) so you can still see how they reason about and solve those. And given that our interviewers are familiar with them
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by sharpy 5y ago
Disclaimer: Former AWS engineer, never worked on IAM directly. AWS is divided into multiple partitions. For the vast majority of users, there is one partition - the regular commercial - other partitions being China, GovCloud, etc. Within ea

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