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angrais··on The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
Are you paid a fair market rate for your geographical location in India?

(i.e., are other local companies offering worse or better benefits?)

angrais··on On being a PhD student of Robert Harper
You've made a lot of claims. I don't use F# of MLs, so why for you are they a step forward?
angrais··on How Claude Shannon helped kick-start machine learning
What's it feel like to be dead?
angrais··on The Rise of Performative Work
I have a question for you!

How do you secure additional SWE jobs? Are they FTE roles? How's the recruitment process work?

For example, you may be asked "So froaway, why are you leaving company X?" During an interview or such.

Likewise, how do you promote yourself? Surely you can't have all four roles on your CV given the overlap? So do you choose the most relevant for the upcoming new job?

angrais··on Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters
Can you outline the issues you've had?

I have used it with 15GB sized images without problems. (Size due to machine learning related image)

angrais··on Choose-Your-Own-Adventure AI Dungeon Games
I'm wondering how everyone else felt browsing this website, and using links in particular?

For me, on mobile, they open (I assume) inside an iframe or such, which is counter to how standard links work. This made it really frustrating for me to use. The content seems interesting overall, but I gave up due to how links work. Ridiculous, I know.

angrais··on Poll: How much time on average do you exercise in a week?
Regarding belly gains - my guess: you had a higher basal metabolic rate (BMR) during your last role given it was more physical. You have since reduced physical activity (exercise) and continued eating the same amount (or more). All the while your BMR is decreasing, and so you have gained weight, which for you is stored on your belly.
angrais··on Don't Waste the Good Days
Why did you raise your younger sister until she was 18? Did she go off to university?

You can also party and fuck around in your 30s. It's different than 20s of course, but still great!

Also, I'd try to refrain from comparing yourself go the "normal" life. You've clearly had a unique journey (beyond "normal" might be in TV shows), and I am certain you've learnt a lot through it.

You're clearly a legend for looking after your family in the way that you did. I am sure your brother's and sisters will appreciate it in the future if they've not made it clear already.

angrais··on Once poor, always poor?
>> All you need to do to make a million quid in the UK is get a 75th percentile job and save half of it. After a few decades you are now a millionaire. I mean, everyone can't do it, but it's not some unfathomable task.

I agree that it is possible, but it is sadly an impossible task for most. That's my point above: for those who have wealth it is easy to grow it. It takes money to make money.

My other point was that those who have a billion started with millions.

angrais··on Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech
How do you reconcile that your peers likely earn more than you, and perhaps then, you were underpaid for your (negotiation) skills of the same position?
angrais··on Once poor, always poor?
Yes, but the point is that they started with wealth. Multiplying 1 mil to 1 billion is more reasonable possible than 1k to 1 mil.

Simply because if you've such wealth already you're most likely in a position to take risks, etc.

angrais··on Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
>> Right now I’m stuck on an aspect of Django. Django is a Python module. When I want to add another module to modify how Django behaves I need to override in my code. It’s all too complicated to imagine for me. Example, adding wiki pages to django by adding django-wiki module, then adding tags to the wiki pages by adding danio-tagulous. I know this is some kind of class override, but I just can’t imagine it.

Can you expand on what you're trying to achieve? It sounds like it's a mixture of frontend and backend in Django?

>> Also, How to think through adding API data to your project? Like swagger.

Tell us more what you mean. What's your end goal?

angrais··on Ask HN: What is your preferred/most commonly used stack and why?
What type of systems are you building where hashtables are good enough?

Can you provide examples of a range of apps you've worked on with this stack?

angrais··on The Futurama Theorem
This is the most ridiculous blog post I have ever read. The diagrams .. oh the diagrams.

Thanks very much for sharing it!

angrais··on Bet on It: 37% of Desks Will Be Empty
Do you really believe that 95% of office jobs will become remote?

Also, isn't the inverse also as likely, i e., if 60% are remote and the job is more challenging for managers, then they'll find opportunities to replace the 60%?

angrais··on Getting a Computer Science PhD in the USA
Most universities in the United Kingdom do not require a master's to do a PhD.
angrais··on Ask HN: What kind of electronics would you stockpile for doomsday?
Time for what? That's my point of the above question: why?
angrais··on Ask HN: What kind of electronics would you stockpile for doomsday?
An curious: _why_ are you doing this?
angrais··on Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent
There's also some very high paying software engineering roles in the UK, such as machine learning engineers. Of course, the salary varies from the north to the south quite a bit.

Nevertheless, you can get 100k just out of uni in an ML role! Especially if it's following a PhD.

angrais··on Jog: Print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory
Have you tried Peco [1] in the past? Seems similar. I'd be curious to hear what people's experiences are of both technologies.

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

angrais··on In-demand tech skills are the last thing to look for in IT hires
Let's play a game. Imagine you're s senior dev and interviewing another Dev today. They do well technically, but write comments in their codebase that critique your decisions (such as choice of tool, questions asked, framework used, etc). What's your thoughts on this person?

I'd not say jerk, but I would think they're not taking the process seriously. A technical test certainly isn't a place to make jokes as you don't know how they'll be perceived. Play it safe.

Anyway, your third paragraph ... It reads to me like you're passing blame on others rather than reflecting and acknowledging your choices. For example, " since one of my parents ...". No. _your_ social skills and decisions are yours. Likewise, you blame past narcissists you've worked for for not having good role models? You should know right from wrong, and making such comments during an interview is wrong.

angrais··on Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion?
What would make it hell for you?
angrais··on Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
I see. That's much clearer, thanks.

Although the point of documenting PTO is both useful for you (to quantify days off as you may be taking much less than you thought!) and the company (was behead meant to be in work today?! What if there's a fire alarm and headcount is needed?)

Congrats on the promotion and raises! I agree that ideally working hard should lead to those outcomes.

angrais··on Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
I'm quite confused at your response. Why are you so proud to give a company all your time, including nights and weekends, and for no additional costs?

Then when asked to take PTO you asked for money instead of holiday, despite working nights and weekends?

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angrais··on The first webcam was invented to keep an eye on a coffee pot
Do you mean UK? As the article (and first webcam) was Cambridge, UK?
angrais··on Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)
What do you mean by transition? Like where the snow meets the mountain?
angrais··on 25% of students age 16-32 take Adderall 1-7 times per week, not prescribed
Could you not skip those with prescriptions to the stimulants (Adderall, etc) to reduce sample space? Then your method would work well in theory. Of course, in practice, who wants to take a drug test? Certainly not before an exam! It would be chaotic
angrais··on The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
Given your emphasis on lead, do you have any recommendations for books or blogs to provide insight into how to be such a good leader?
angrais··on Citation File Format
Why not simply cite the original creators? Then if major features changed amongst versions then the key contributors?

Original creators (whose idea the software is) should be first author.

angrais··on U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate
I'm very confused about your overall response.

You can very much respect the local culture while smashing out and cultural practices. For example, key to culture is language and so promoting local language is important. Likewise, the treatment of women in some middle East countries is oppressive and so promoting inclusion as an alternative (preferred) cultural norm is ideal. Same with child marriage.

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