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Slightly off topic. I really like the step by step animation they have on the site. Can anyone tell me how I can build something like that. I'm learning WebGL and Three.js, not sure if that's what its uses.

Coming from my own experience interviewing at Google. This problem is seems relatively simple to what I have been asked in coding interviews.

I have faced this in a coding interview(not at google). The coding question was so simple that I spent talking about different scenarios and edge cases that I was slower than expected. The interviewer said that, I have completed the most challenging part and its only a basic if statement. THAT'S IT! And I was like "This can't just be this?. There is a trick or I been getting ask a trick question here". As a candidate who has personally faced this an interview, preparing for FAANG interview sets the coding questions bar so high that even simple questions need to be analyzed over and over because as per a candidate this can't be that easy, right?!

+1 for LFS. I have learned so much for it and just about linux in general.

I was really impressed by how simple it is to increase quota on AWS. It was just simple elastic IP quota increase and few things related to VPC quotas. I haven't used Google cloud as much, so I can't comment on it.

If you don't mind me asking, what quota increase was rejected?

A year ago I worked on an analytics project and uses NodeJS as the backend. It has been really good so far and we are happy with the performance we get.

I have been using Tile for more than 2 years and I think its time to switch and try out AirTag. I had some issues with Tile but has worked OK so far. Looking at the pictures it does look about the same size, maybe a bit smaller. I do like lot of app features. And as a Iphone user it will be good integration. Also, user replaceable battery is huge plus. Looking forward to checking it out.

Currently I have a postgres/timescaledb running on EC2 in VPC which has no internet access. I do VPN tunnel to access private local subnet and have security group settings that allows my and 1 more machine access only. I usually have a jump server that I use, but I don't want to keep my ssh keys on the server or leave it behind.

I can't thank you enough! I wanted to learn Go and wanted something like this. I really like the chapter structure, it really easy to follow and progress.

"sizeof((void )1)"

"- this will break the minds of everybody who ever sees that expression."

It indeed broke my mind!

wow! As mainly a Java engineer. This is an alien language to me.

Good question. It seems I lack speed implementing an optimal solution. During my initial FAANG interviews, I have had gone totally blank on my thought process and code. After few interviews, I don't actually dive in coding. I spend at least 10minutes about the problem and explain how it can be solved. I have realized that the interviewer is not looking an optimal solution at first. However, they're not satisfied with till the optimal code solution actually works.

I did something similar last year after getting rejected by FAANGs and few more other tech companies.

- Google rejected 3 times.

- Facebook 2 times.

- Amazon(AWS) 1 times.

- Adobe 1 Times.

- Twitter, Github, stripe and others won't even consider me good enough for an interview.

- Dozens others companies, who do FAANG style interviewing.

I fear rejections, no matter how much I "try" to act normal. I was looking forward to working on some new projects and with talented team members, I never got that opportunity and its heart breaking. I been working on solving leetcode problems. But sometimes can't even solve Easy problems and its just so demotivating. Specially, when I get an automated rejection response without any additional feedback.

I have realized that maybe I'm not a rockstar coder that can come up with high performance code. I'm ok, I can figure shit out! and I think that's fine.

BTW actual feedback from an technical interview,

"I would encourage XXX to use some coding challenge practice websites to become comfortable with producing quick working code segments which would help him feel comfortable and produce code quickly in future interviews."

Unbelievable!

I haven't cleared a single technical interview after applying to FAANG companies in last 5 years. I'm currently employed and I have been working for than 8 years. I'm good at what I do. I might not the greatest programmer but I can come up with a approach to solve a problem.

My past experiences have been terrible, not a single person who interviewed me wanted to know what I worked on or what I have achieved or how I solved a given problem. Few introductory questions and jump into coding questions. Some of them are medium and few of them were hard. But at most I was able to find a way to solve(not completely code a solution).

It seems lot easier when you are in college and are surround by students who are practicing coding interviews. You can talk, discuss and gain more experience. I don't know how I can do that, when I'm busy maintaining and coding for my current job. Its just so demotivating.

>Being good at telling your manager the right information at the right time ..

My take away is letting your manager anything at RIGHT TIME! This is always been my concern. I always let my manager know good or bad things at the right time. What can go wrong and how can we recover is always been a concern.

This is inspirational and your hard work paid off!

Congrats Dalia!

Nicely done! I have been trying to learn Threejs and WebGL. I was really impressed with the github globe[1] and wanted to do something like that for my company.

[1]https://github.com/home

On a side note. It always nice to see them include stuff like, Internal networking and Hardware specs of server. It shows you how much scalable they are or how they deal with large amount of data. I always enjoy reading them.

Thank you SO for being open and listing the best practices. It seems like even few security best practices makes it harder for hackers to get in to your system.

I have database connecting strings and password as ENV variables. But I still don't know what is the best practice. Lets say someone gets access to the server, they can still read the ENV vars, right? It definitely prevents from accidently checking in your code git repo. But still . Does anyone has good recommendation for storing credentials like database passwords in a way secured way.

That's what I was wondering. Its shows all green. EDIT: Finally some update. https://status.slack.com/2021-01/9ecc1bc75347b6d1

Discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632048

That's great! Happy New Year

Wishing you all a Happy New Year! I have learned so much from you all, thank you!

Stripe is my favorite startups ever. I have been following them for sometime now and I have learned lot about APIs and documentation. I have said this earlier and never fail to mention that their API documentation is really really good. Also, their website and product launch pages are just beautiful. Wish I was that talented. My sincere thanks to stripe engineering team, I have learned lot from you.

I'm still confused about this? Why everyone is calling it death of CentOS?

select * from trips where tip_amount > 500 ORDER By tip_amount DESC

65 rows in 80.31s Execute:80.16s Network:144ms Total:80.31s

Is this the fastest? Or having a <5ms would have a huge impact?

From the the reddit link[1]

Sorry, I'm just curious.

It says MySQL 8 and Elasticsearch 7.8. I don't have much experience in elasticsearch, I wanted to know how does elasticsearch makes it faster? Is it like an extension that makes it faster? Or Elasticsearch has its own data store that consumes data from the database and magically makes it faster?

Thanks.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/how_a_s...

Nice article. I really liked MeteorJS and thought it had lot of potential. Sad to see it didn't make to 20 projects in 2020.

> If you don't live in NY or CA, those extra $600 a week can go very far

True. My girlfriend lost her job March. She is unemployed since then. We are not based in NY or CA. She has mentioned this to me several times that how much more she has in savings now. With all this time and some extra cash, I have asked her learn coding. She is working on her app idea.

For some reason this query is taking too long to execute. Not sure if I missed something.

Congrats! I'm still waiting for it. No idea when I will get my EAD. Been almost 9 years in US.