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I can't unsee those windscreen wipers :-/

This makes sense and here is slightly different perspective to this. The company I was at had this haloed culture of promotions and I saw people sat on a certain IC level for over …

Do we (or someone better informed) understand the impact of re-shoring ? In my mind, the reason (or the original intent) for off-shoring was to reduce costs to be able to sell more…

And yet, they won't like it if aspiring SDEs use AI to "assist" when interviewing :D Just yesterday had a coding interview (not any FAANG) and the interviewer wanted a screen share…

I think better to put that someone extra further up in the pipeline who knows how to prompt the LLM correctly so that it doesn't generate the fluff to begin with. Or get software e…

Honest question... would you rather not have the "peace and quiet" and go at it all on your own not having to go through the motions of a "real job" ? You bounce your ideas off som…

I celebrate the guy's entire catalog.

At companies where decimation is a given... IME 3 or variations of 3 predominantly are already in play. The most nefarious kind I saw was to use tenure capital towards influencing …

Maybe. Was attempting to end this cliffhanger on a positive note without judgement. He had the means so he paid off his mortgage, invested in another property, took care of college…

His TC/NW was sufficient enough for him to leave the toxicity behind and start living his life.

Note taking and Reading are my primary use cases. Goes without saying YMMV but it works for me. I had to hand down my iPad Pro 3rd Gen (the one with A12x Bionic chip) to my daughte…

Seems to have recovered now

Curious about the mechanics here — when you say the model was ‘trained on our code base’, was that an actual fine-tune of the weights (e.g. LoRA/adapter or full SFT), or more of a …

Why is this a struct and not an array of ints ?

> It doesn’t have to be nice or pretty EVEN if it’s NOT for you. > There’s a lot of “theatre” in planning, writing endless tickets and refining them for WEEKS before actually start…

The interesting phenomenon is the discovery of gamification of such metrics. I do see the value in breaking down larger chunks of work into logically smaller units of work and then…

In some parts of the industry number of CRs and revisions-per-cr is tracked as a performance metric. Many people learn to game this to make their "numbers" appear good i.e. high nu…

I wonder how these managers sleep at night. Anyways, people choose to do what they choose to do (me included). I simply wanted to understand how I should react and adapt (if I do e…

And I say "I don't get that..." . I think I am saying I should find a way to learn to do that while masking my discomfort in doing that. It will be stressful though.

That is undeniably true. The difference is that in this case I will walk in knowing very well that I need to budget time/money/energy into marketing. Was going through some YT vide…

I believe most of FAANGs are indeed like that ? (I was in the stack-ranking kind) So more likely it is a requirement after all ? I say it to be a requirement because definitely not…

Was in a FAANG recently but quit due to A) Likely burn out B) Have been wanting to try something out on my own as well This was the first time for me in a FAANG and noticed one new…

Is this downvoted because of the last line i.e. What's the purpose of RAW+jpg though? Seems rather redundant? Otherwise, it is wise to highlight that "delete after import" is not a…