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Deploying new code which relies on a non-backward-compatible database changes - how do you update the application and the database without any downtime? What tools and processes do…

I have 6+ years of experience as a data scientist and ML engineer. I'm interested in the software engineering or quantitative developer roles in hedge funds, trading firms and inve…

Good news is that a year in consulting isn't long enough to look like a detriment. Bad news is that the job market is crap right now. > Is anyone aware of any firms that do formal-…

It's not as big of a leap from using Google or Stackoverflow as it might seem on the surface.

> Today I got technical feedback on an assessment (making a gRPC server in Rust) Did you interview at Helsing? Pretty sure that their test was something like this.

I don't understand why Python gets shit for being a slow language when it's slow but no credit for being fast when it's fast just because "it's not really Python". If I write Pytho…

psql is good but how do you manage long multi line queries and saved collections of queries to reuse? or connections to multiple databases?

It's not a good UI, at least not on Mac. It's kind of clunky, confusing and slow. I don't know if there are many better free alternatives though.

Diet of coca-cola, sweets and dry humor.

Why do you? I don’t understand your logic.

5. Be part of a new team.

Your ethics are leading you to believe this. For other people it doesn’t make sense at all that a computer program should have rights. It makes even less sense to people who know w…

> At some point, they will get some basic rights I don't know how to express how deeply stupid this sounds while still being polite and constructive.

I genuinely think that this whole argument is a waste of time. What matters is whether the outputs are useful and the outputs don't change based on whether you call it "thought", "…

Seems like a very bad reason to switch. Data engineering is different (and much worse than SWE in my opinion), and it's not like you're certain that you can avoid LC interviews if …

One of the things that has changed is typing - you can and should type check your Python code with tools like mypy or pyright. Even better if you use a strict mode for mypy which f…

You should transition to a forum that only you can read.

Aaand I've had a long series of "Something went wrong" errors in the couple of hours since I wrote the comment above.

For me it works but is very slow.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Patrick Boyle posted an interview on this topic with the author of the article just an hour ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb5kngSrrsw

So have job openings overall like you can see from the graph in the article. I don't see a reason to single out AI.

What's your point, that I shouldn't criticise him because he has a wikipedia page? A bad article is bad regardless of what the author has achieved during his career as a whole.

So what is the Oxide hiring process? > Interviews shouldn’t necessarily take one form; interviewers should feel free to take a variety of styles and approaches I guess we still don…

You have an edge in the job market for things you've done before. When you jump into a new language/domain, you're at a disadvantage - it's the exact opposite of having an edge. Do…