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miscaccount··on Preferring throwaway code over design docs
A design doc would help narrow down the number of prototypes to 2 to 3 in all the available options. This is especially useful if you are exploring adding something completely new.

Though i feel that showing is better than telling, when new people onboard they have a easier time understanding via a design doc than code.

miscaccount··on Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California
not really, many of the states does not use last name and many take up their fathers name as last name. It also varies from state to state, so the probability of you identifying another person caste from their last name is very small.

With many people taking different names that are modern from parents ,its really hard to know .

miscaccount··on Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California
this was dismissed for lack of any evidence.

https://theprint.in/opinion/dismissal-of-cisco-case-proves-e...

miscaccount··on I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
you generally apply to several jobs across several companies even with referral.

based on my experience its > 5 mins most of the time.

miscaccount··on Go 1.22 Inlining Overhaul
profile guided optimization https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/profile-guided-o...
miscaccount··on AWS’s anti-competitive move hidden in plain sight
i think you mis remembered . its 2cents per gb across az https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfe...
miscaccount··on Wells Fargo clients report missing deposits as bank works on fix
capitol one , ally
miscaccount··on Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
apple pulled this on facebook in the name of privacy.

now they have ads and VR pulled away from facebook

miscaccount··on Modules, not microservices
the middle management especially half cooked engineers who drank the cool aid and became managers are hard to reason with.

They want to be both the architect and the manager and anything you say would be over ruled and since they are the boss its hard to ignore them.

This service is a monolith because it has 10K code and it needs to be broken up.The product is at MVP and its rock solid on Java Spring and it hardly crashes. We are never going to lose data based on the design choices we made. None of that matters.

We need zero down time upgrade, when we had zero customers.

miscaccount··on DoorDash lays off 1250 employees
In USA, if you are on h1b you cannot claim unemployment since your work visa is restricted.

So even though h1b folks pay into the system they cannot claim unemployment.

miscaccount··on H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs
Visas/green cards are given to people and not countries

The people waiting in the employment green card lines are evaluated on the same set of criteria . Their ability to perform a particular task for their employer.

miscaccount··on H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs
> The US didn't invite them

i have to disagree with you on this.

USA did invite them here and provided a dual intent visa(H1b).

Every H1b visa holder did go to embassy and got interviewed by US Visa officer.

so USA very well knew the people who were invited to work in USA can become a US citizen eventually.

miscaccount··on H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs
I agree with you that immigration is a privilege not a right.

However it's not good for a nation to discriminate people from certain countries worse than they treat people from rest of the world.

No system is perfect, and we go through iterations of refining the laws/solutions.

What most people are calling out is this discrimination in a peaceful manner and asking for a change.

Without people asking for change, nothing would have changed in history. The entire labor rights and freedom from slavery were as a result of people asking for a change and to be treated equally on the same set of standards.

American culture(as i understand) is based on concept that anyone can raise up and become successful based on ones own merit. The current legal immigration system for Indians fails to provide it.

And people are currently pointing out the flaw in the system.

miscaccount··on Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year
i think its FOMO

No one wants to lose market share because they are too late.

Everyone keeps telling about android and Iphone and how blackberry, nokia and windows lost

miscaccount··on H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs
many are choosing not to come. The US student visa has been on decline especially from india and china.

What about people who are already here for decades ?

Some don't understand the complexity of the system and think their case will be different

miscaccount··on H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs
though i agree with you overall, right now the system is totally not working for indians and to a some extend chinese.

The current wait time for indians is over 100 years whereas all other countries get their green card in a couple of years(after green card sponsorship).

This makes the system crushing the Indians who have roots for more than decades.

For people who would say , you should have seen it coming , recently the demand from other countries are too high that wait time for indians are in decades at minimum

miscaccount··on Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?
Maybe Procera or sandvine
miscaccount··on What not to say to someone who has just been laid off
that would be immigration fraud and can be a serious offence.

the paper work for getting a H1b or any immigration visa is like 100+ pages at minimum.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/two-santa-clara-county-...

just one of the many example.

miscaccount··on What not to say to someone who has just been laid off
As someone who is also impacted by recent layoff and on H1B i feel like a headless chicken trying to figure out what to do.

Everyone expects to do several round of interview and also if you are not in leetcode mode its hard.

One of my best prospect company, announced a lay off too :(

Having said that load of people have helped me in referring to their company and doing everything to help.

Be empathic to the people who are laid off and also this country needs immigration reform.

Having no clear target on when i will get a green card (maybe 10, 20 or even 100) its making me reconsider my decision to stay here a lot.

i am just ramblings on immigration and i know only Indians are suffering the most compared to others.

miscaccount··on Taking a Break
> . I've been really struggling as a new parent with how to manage parent responsibilities, my job, and still make time for my own goals

To the author, parenting is hard, really really hard especially when they are young. Though it may look like other are able to handle things. trust me they are going through the same problems as you are . So take it easy on you and give yourself a big pat in the back for what you have so far done as a parent.

Trust me you are doing great and looking back you would cherish all that you have done.

\from a parent of 2 young kids.

miscaccount··on Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars, Fault-Tolerant Design
Well technically their system was up and running . Except that they did not have data to work on. /s
miscaccount··on Software engineering changed my life
Right now there is shortage of qualified software engineers in India and many companies are finding it harder to hire in India.

Also the cost in India is also increasing and running your operations remote is not simple.

miscaccount··on One Tag to Rule Them All: Introducing the New Google Tag
i thought google tags was like apple tags :P and opened the page to read about this new hardware .
miscaccount··on Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
From my experience, making downgrade of a single component will not be easier with K8 unless you design for it.

Also from my experience, people will start complaining as soon as the new deployment with k8 start failing and they have to fix it.

But its a good opportunity to make the transition to more stable architecture.

My suggestion is to take it slow and do changes one system at a time. Start with stateless application with less risky deployment and as you learn move others.

miscaccount··on Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
The number of interviewers who even read resume, let alone a blog is very minimal. Even if they read it , i doubt people would be asked the same questions as one who has no blog.

So in my opinion the return of investment in terms of hiring is close to zero. However it can be a great tool to document your journey or learning and how much one has evolved.

miscaccount··on The collapse of complex software
Well probably you have never met management that is keyword drive. We need 100 percent scalable system with zero downtime upgrade and support thousand customers update. Current number of customers : 0 Number of customers in pipeline: 0
miscaccount··on Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow?
have you looked into squash commit merge.

Basically you do the same workflow as you are doing now, just squash it to a single commit so that wherever is your last commit stays.

if needed you can go to your branch for history

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5308816/how-can-i-merge-...

miscaccount··on Poll: Why are people leaving their jobs?
And the executive compensation, is available to every employee. The age where management claim to have no money , internally giving huge bonus to themselves cannot be pulled anymore.
miscaccount··on Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
Most people freeze on interviews and its normal entirely.

Also, most problems are not solved in the 45 minutes and in day to day coding , we generally have a minimum of day to think on the problem and solve it without people looking over our shoulder, google or ask someone :)

miscaccount··on DoorDash will require all employees to deliver goods
how would a data engineer call it testing the platform. The delivery is nowhere near his job description. It could be kind of reasoned for an app or web developer. Also what about the OPS team. Its is most likely not in his job description that was submitted to USCIS.

Also even if its was in job description, on H1b it would be considered an additional job and might need an additional H1b filling. Any active income will need to filed by the employer

This is my understanding.

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