How are you integrating bazel and nix?
My assumption is that bazel is running in an environment created by nix, so I wonder what you mean by 'deeply integrated'.
My assumption is that bazel is running in an environment created by nix, so I wonder what you mean by 'deeply integrated'.
When I was at FB there were dozens if not hundreds of serious hackers working on this sort of thing, and they were fucking good at their jobs, but technology usually moves forward with time and this setup smokes where FB was at in 2018. I don’t know what they’re up to now, I bet it’s good.
I take it you have departed quite a bit from https://github.com/tweag/rules_nixpkgs ? Are you generating BUILD.bazel files for nixpkgs, or are you doing that by hand?
I want to build my own company, but I want it to have this kind of tooling, that I don’t fully understand yet.
Sounds really interesting, would love to see it used more.
As for getting the big company job, it’s a weird time over like the last two months and the next two months, but this will soon pass.
Everyone hates leetcode interviews. I hated being interviewed in that format, and I hated interviewing in that format. It is what it is. It’s a test like the SAT or LSAT or GMAT or anything, arguably not as hard. It’s basically nothing to do with the job at the lower seniorities. I think people would be less psyched out about it if they viewed it the same as cramming for any other test. A high score on the LSAT doesn’t make you a good lawyer, it’s a loose proxy metric at best, and you game it by studying.
By virtue of a) hanging out on HN and b) hanging out in a thread about Nix you’re clearly curious and paying attention, so go get that marquee job, and take the experience with you when you start your venture! I’ll be rooting for your success!