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amalfra··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
> Because that's how engineered systems work, right? If they're fine under light stress, they're fine under heavier stress.

Isn't this wrong? I thought engineered systems meant something designed with limits.

amalfra··on Software Delivery Guide
A guide to material on martinfowler.com about software delivery and devops.
amalfra··on The fake Twitter account of “Marina Ovsyannikova”
Social media and Twitter is general is filled with fake accounts and trends. It's almost like bombarded with fake accounts these days. This is the case at least here in India.
amalfra··on Vijayanagara – The Last Emperors of South India [audio]
A survey of Kerala history by Sreedhara Menon is a renowned book about the state of Kerala
amalfra··on Ask HN: for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?
Have the right pedigree and brand in resume is what all it matters in my experience for getting interviews easily. And all these with interview skills and having good profile itself would make interview round go really well and for people to even consider you worthy. From my experience here in India all these right credentials matter really more than Github and all these hacker type things.
amalfra··on China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
As far as I understand it's applicable to all platforms be it chineese, western or even indian. These days these internet platforms are a lot used for spreading political propaganda. Simplest example is ones like quora, reddit etc. It's these days filled with right wing(from all nations) accounts spreading propaganda. The amount of reach they have in these platforms and the amount of control they have to suppress opinions is massive. I was astonished that there was an answer justifying european colonisations and when a comment was made how it was not great for colonised and how the colonisers as a whole benefited a lot form these actions immediately the comment was reported and removed. These platforms are all owned for spreading each other's political propoganda in the information warfare that's there. It's not exclusive to chineese but as you said since government control over companies are more there it's thousands times worse; but it's not exclusive to chineese it is for platforms from west too.
amalfra··on In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis
and I don't want to pick ads but since you are not speaking the truth about the ground reality I would like you to check: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/613566647/. It clearly mentions "B Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college" as the qualification required. I don't understand why it's so difficult to open eyes and see the reality, a good college degree has a lot of value in India.
amalfra··on In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis
https://www.hackerrank.com/jobs/search?location=bangalore_ar... - there is not even single job in bangalore area listed there. First of all, if you don't have a degree from good college it's very difficult to even get an initial round interview. My point is you won't even get an interview call unless you are from top college. It's the ground reality. I am speaking from experience of seeing many with tier 1 degree getting interviews while people from bad colleges having hard time even getting an interview despite having better github and projects to showcase. In reality getting a tier 1 college degree matters most than anything else no matter how much you argue. It has got to do with the quality of engineering education in low tier colleges and so being from a low tier college is a label of being incompetent. Tier 1 college graduates on the other hand get better opportunities, have more alumni connections working in top companies, are already certified to be smart and hence get opportunities.
amalfra··on In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis
Almost all jobs of good software engineering companies these days have a top college degree as a requirement in their job ads. If you have been in the job market you would know the fact that it's the degree that matters most. Companies prefer to even give an interview only if you have a degree from top-tier college. Whether we like it or not it's the fact that here we need a degree from top college to get good opportunities and job.
amalfra··on My offer numbers from big companies
I think having a tier 1 college degree matters the most even in getting an interview, atleast here in India. This is from my experience of seeing increasing job posts having tier 1 college degree as requirement and colleagues I know having good college degree having no difficulty in getting interviews(github code, portfolio etc really doesn't matter)
amalfra··on If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools
This issue is most particularly in India. Here most tech companies even post job ads which specify tier 1 college degree as requirement
amalfra··on Show HN: A Go package to execute shell commands in specified order
Thanks for pointing it out. Won't quoting the command in the package's function call itself work, for eg:

outs := oexec.Series("/usr/bin/osascript -e 'say 5'")

I think even when running command in shell prompt arguments with space are supposed to be escaped with quotes

amalfra··on Tech Jobs without a Degree
Atleast here in India a degree from a top tier engineering college matters the most
amalfra··on Whiteboard Interviews
Seriously people think whiteboard interviews are reason for diversity? I think the much bigger reason for diversity issue is that companies are reluctant to even interview if you don't have a brand name associated with your profile(a tier 1 college degree or previous exp at top tech firms). There are lots of job postings these days which state tier 1 college degree as requirement. I am from India and here the situation is if you are not from a tier 1 college you are a moron and designated to do low quality cheap work. It may not be the case in other areas like the valley, but here it seems the filter for participating in the interview has more to do with diversity than how interview is conducted.
amalfra··on Ask HN: Junior devs, what frustrates you the most at the recruitment process?
Companies that give opportunities to some one just because he got a degree from premier institution
amalfra··on Show HN: MongoDb widget for Dashing
yeah :(. There is a fork https://github.com/Smashing/smashing
amalfra··on [WIP] Docker Hub in Your CLI
I have an initial version for people to give feedback now, which supports querying repos and tags. So, posted a new 'Show HN' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12751086
amalfra··on Vibe for Firefox (like Rapportive)
I tried it and look promising. Great work team Vibe.