thelittlenag

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by thelittlenag 2mo ago
I really hate lighting in modern offices. If there was one thing that folks actively worked to improve I would choose lighting. Having lights with a broader spectrum would go a long way in reducing eye strain and general fatigue, while like
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by thelittlenag 3mo ago
Bummer the link is broken. I read via UnfitFootprint's link. This feels both like a good write-up, but an argument for why you often need to reach for multiple solutions when creating distributed system. Sure a fallback can have issues
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by thelittlenag 3mo ago
The only place where the work I did was performative was government contracting. Not technically waste, but certainly useless.
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by thelittlenag 3mo ago
Precisely! And this is true not just for managers but also higher-level ICs. Its ok for Senior and below to be team focused, but moving to the next level means broadening scope and that means talking with people, regularly!, outside your im
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by thelittlenag 4mo ago
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Remote: Yes (10+ years working remote) (or hybrid/on-site in Minneapolis or St Paul) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Scala, Java, Typescript (Effect TS), Python,
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by thelittlenag 5mo ago
And if you are that kind of person, why would you want to be an FDE? (Not rhetorical, btw, I'm literally interviewing for an FDE role tomorrow.)
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by thelittlenag 5mo ago
Same. I worked on an in-house product many years ago now where lineage and provenance were the entire point. Really cool to see this!
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by thelittlenag 5mo ago
I used to work for the company that owned and operated GovDeals. That was a really interesting experience. I remember one of their many companies host the listing for and processed the sale of an oil refinery (or something similar) just lik
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by thelittlenag 7mo ago
I don't really like this article. There isn't anything particularly noteworthy to noticing that some computations have outcomes that allow some form of recovery, and other outcomes do not. But there are some obvious follow up ques
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by thelittlenag 9mo ago
My father is a data point in this. He was a farmer all his life and ultimately it was Parkinson's that did him in. While we took some precautions, I have no doubt that the herbicides we used should have been handled more carefully.
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by thelittlenag 11mo ago
I've really liked interviews where I either present a personal project I've worked on, or get to interview someone about their own personal projects. It's just more fun. Their major complaint of the project approach is not ge
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by thelittlenag 11mo ago
I've now done probably close to 100 system design interviews. One of the main things I've looked for in candidates is their ability to identify, communicate, and discuss trade-offs. The next thing on my checklist is their ability
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by thelittlenag 1y ago
I'm old enough to recall when boost first came out, and when it matured into a very nice library. What's happened in the last 15 years that boost is no longer something I would want to reach for?
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by thelittlenag 1y ago
Jon has addressed this elsewhere, but the gist of the argument, as I understand it, is that he hasn't worked professionally in any other ecosystem or language. So leaving Scala is tantamount to abandoning his entirely professional expe
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by thelittlenag 1y ago
My comment here is a very narrow one. In general I agree with your sentiment and thoughts, so please don't misread me. There is one nit I need to pick, however. There is a subtle, but worthwhile, difference between "plausible&quot
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by thelittlenag 1y ago
I've really enjoyed Haidt's book, though its really a couple of different books in one. I need to read his other work. To your point about left and right, an interesting point I heard recently is that the left is coalition-driven
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by thelittlenag 1y ago
Send me a resume at mark.kegel@disney.com.
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by thelittlenag 1y ago
Disney | Senior Software Engineer | Onsite | Full-time | San Francisco, Santa Monica, Seattle, New York Disney (Video Player Engineering) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us deliver excellent streaming experiences for Hulu, Dis
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by thelittlenag 1y ago
That's an interesting anecdote. I grew up on a border town, but as a US Citizen often going up into Cananda. Without fail it was always the US border guards who were the jerks (I went to school with their kids!) and the Canadian guards
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by thelittlenag 2y ago
Be careful what you wish for!
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by thelittlenag 2y ago
What is the implication for high temperature superconductors? Does this mean that they can't exist?
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by thelittlenag 2y ago
I've been thinking similar thoughts recently since I've been exploring metaprogramming in Scala and how it can be extended to beyond the simplistic hygenic model it currently supports. What I recently realized is that while compil
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by thelittlenag 2y ago
The upsell on the pricing is ridiculous…
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
Huh. Guess I know what I’m doing at my next meetup.
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
Disney | Senior Software Engineer | New York, Seattle, Santa Monica, SF | Full-time My team is building the next generation of technology to manage and enhance the on-device playback experience for users of Disney+ and more. This product co
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
+1 on that!
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
And here what we need is a business co-founder who can help us crack the nut of getting traction. Sigh.
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
My wife was hired last year as a full time professor and leads her own lab. By far the largest pressure on new faculty is the ability to get money into her lab, and by extension the university since they take a very hefty cut (50-100%! btw
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
Was thinking exactly the same!
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
Scala's type system is about as expressive as it gets in mainstream languages. By virtue of running on the JVM it is GC'd and has Java/C#-like performance. And the ecosystem of Scala implemented libraries is huge.

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