winter-day

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by winter-day 2y ago
The current CTO of a publicly traded company had my entire engineering team rewrite an <anonymized internal tool>. Mind you, the current generation of the <anonymized internal tool> is completely fine, and in fact a massive impr
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by winter-day 2y ago
if you don't think FAANGs (and most companies) participate in "exploitative business" you should find out how your iphone was made (hint: lots of exploited workers).
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by winter-day 2y ago
while I agree with the sentiment, as an Indian, I hope this doesn't happen in India. countries which typically do this mechanical turk-like work typically don't raise themselves out of poverty (esp. Philippines, Indonesia, etc.).
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by winter-day 2y ago
Most things in america are paid ads in disguise: these posts, blogs by mckinsey/bcg/big 4 accounting firms, news is often a paid ad/agenda in disguise. You're honestly better off spending time with your family and develo
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by winter-day 2y ago
I'm an extremely strong believer that the sun has consciousness. I think there exists quantum processes that causes consciousness and that suns, gravitons, etc. all have it. I likely won't be alive to ever find out, but if someone
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by winter-day 2y ago
As a parent, I'm equally ashamed. We're probably moving our family to europe/dubai in the next decade. The quality of my wife and my education abroad was substantially better than what we've experienced in "blue rib
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by winter-day 2y ago
The sankey diagrams here are interesting, and a trend I haven't experienced, but have seen mentioned on /r/cscareerquestions quite frequently. As a Cal grad, cold applications have always worked for me, but it seems OP and n
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by winter-day 3y ago
fun fact for the older HN community: The CSU system has a distance learning system (esp. SJSU), if you're interested in learning something new for fun - it's a great resource. I've used it over the last couple of years and am
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by winter-day 3y ago
I honestly cannot understand why crypto exists - and i'm repulsed by everyone I know in that field who works at companies like solano, etc.
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by winter-day 3y ago
Congrats! My career has also revolved around PDF generation (once for federal compliance at large companies, second for scrubbing data from PDFs for HIPAA compliance and then generating a new pdf based on the scrubbed data). I think I'
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by winter-day 3y ago
we should have Brian Johnson reporting back to us shortly
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by winter-day 3y ago
joined a friend's startup that went through TechStars NYC. We both lost a lot of respect for each other, and I'm happy I didn't commit to staying on longer. The product is vaporware, propped up because their parents have good
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by winter-day 3y ago
I worked at twilio when they were a series B company and Jeff personally did the on boardings. I think it was the only company I've worked at where I felt that every engineer was a super star. I've followed their career since then