stormbeard

> Internal restructuring of the company may even take you from working on backend web apis to distributed databases.

This isn’t true. I’ve worked in multiple FAANG companies’ infrastructure orgs, including distributed kv stores, as a SWE. Anybody joining those kinds of teams are either specialists, very junior, or already had some kind of experience in the domain before joining.

Recruiters that say stuff like “we want strong generalists… blah blah” are not the people who are sourcing candidates for these deep systems roles. It looks a lot like the ML roles.

How do you know if these LLMs are stating facts instead of hallucinating? Also, where would these things learn about new topics?

There's not much context here that explains why this is noteworthy. Arena allocation by itself isn't anything to write home about- is anyone able to explain why this is special?

They won’t be able to enforce it effectively, IMO. It’ll be similar to the US laws against exporting cryptography software.

Sign in to what? Jellyfin doesn’t have an org behind it to even make an account with. It’s all hosted on your server.

This sounds a bit like you want Factorio or Satisfactory.

This can't be the reason- lots of datastores let you customize the compression scheme of various subsets of data.

Care to share some examples for the people who don’t share your opinion?

What about infrastructure teams? Not all work is product work.

My photographed documents go on Google Photos and I can just use the image search. I pay for it and don’t really care if Google sees it all- I get what I need.

As an AWS employee, you’re under too much artificial deadline pressure to address technical debt like this… let alone engineer a service properly in the first place.

You can just play classic and go back to the good old days.

Don’t you feel the need to set down roots of some kind? I would want a regular group of friends to see, a relationship, community… Doing something like this seems like it would prevent any kind of close relationships.

What did the teachers even DO to be heroes? It's not like they tried to turn these kids' lives around or something. They didn't even to the bare minimum of their jobs...

They basically just showed up to work and rubber-stamped everyone on to the next grade. Tell me what about this makes them heroes.

Let's say there's a software tech lead and they've been code reviewing patches from a junior software engineer at your company. There are no tests, no CI to validate it, and it probably doesn't even compile... That tech lead approves that patch and that junior engineer deploys the code, taking down your site. Who is at fault here?

The tech lead. Sure, the system is broken to have even allowed this situation to occur, but the tech lead failed everybody by approving those patches.

This kid may have been absent and neglecting their studies, but the school kept promoting them to the next grade and didn't even attempt to take corrective actions by contacting the parent. They failed to do THEIR job and allowed for it to get to this point.

From my experience, people say "Modern C++" to mean C++11 and newer. That was a real turning point and when I started to see that phrase used.

I was going to say this exact same thing. Their executors are also more widely adopted and worth mentioning: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Exe...

This is replacing a 1-hour phone screen with a 6-hour project. You're still going to rule out a bunch of good people who will refuse to spend that much time on a first-round interview.

I understand the frustration with recruiters, but this is ridiculous. The vast majority of people are not vindictive enough to change professions to recruiting just so they can torture candidates. Don’t add to the toxicity of the internet with this nonsense...

I've done my fair share of algorithmic hoop-jumping and have worked at a few of these companies over the last 10 years. I'm not convinced that the people performing these interviews are able to tell how a candidate's brain works at all in 45 minutes.

At some point it's all just signaling and wild guesses.

Then you're just indirectly donating money, no? What you described is just proxying the donation through an engineer.

Care to elaborate on what _you_ believe it's about?

Specifically, what would you suggest applying this skill-set to?

People forget that Youtube is a _business_. The reason they maintain all of those servers and network machinery is to serve ads, otherwise why would they provide that service for free?

You're not really making a point here. If you think they are wrong, then tell us why you think this. Shooting down the comment and providing no real input is unproductive.

Mature projects make sure to depend on "well maintained" projects for this reason. However, in general dependencies don't just spontaneously break. If you're serious about the project and have to upgrade due to security vulnerabilities, you typically rely on stable branches whose purpose is to prevent breakages like the ones you're worried about.

I used to love this game, but stopped playing once I heard about Satisfactory. It just takes things to a different level.

If everyone strictly used words based on what is “correct” English, the language would never evolve and we’d still be speaking Chaucer’s English.

Yeah, that’s not a bad idea and it’s why I’m such a fanboy of interviewing.io and that whole platform. I don’t think it’s that hard to come up with new interview questions and screen through an anonymous platform.

I just think there’s not enough pressure on these companies to rework how they do interviews, since nobody believes that they’d actually get higher quality candidates.

What about something like Kerbal Space Program? Orbital mechanics can get pretty dry, but a game like that can allow us to “play” with concepts and build intuition that we would otherwise have to do problem sets ad nauseum.