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onewland | 1 year ago | on: Software Engineer Pay Heatmap Across the US

I think it's certainly incorrect (having known lots of people on both sides of that number, there are far far more below). Another comment thread suggested that startup equity is being taken at face value, which might justify the number but is totally ridiculous

onewland | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)

Sentry.io (http://sentry.io) | Senior Software Engineer, Storage | ONSITE (San Francisco or Seattle, 3:2) | Full-time

Sentry.io builds a suite of application monitoring tools that developers love. The Search and Storage team builds out high-volume ingestion (hundreds of thousands of records per second) for our near-real-time event and metric storage built on top of the columnar data store ClickHouse. We’re looking for a seasoned engineer who has dealt with high-volume, production-traffic serving systems who’s searching for a new challenge.

The vast majority of our work is source-available; come take a look at what our team is working on at https://github.com/getsentry/snuba. Note that this position does have an on-call component.

E-mail me, the hiring manager, at [email protected] to learn more. Official job req: https://sentry.io/careers/5046170/

onewland | 5 years ago | on: Metal for IntelliJ Platform

not sure what you mean by "apps" but I am talking back-end mostly

onewland | 5 years ago | on: Metal for IntelliJ Platform

I've worked at Apple and hundreds if not thousands of their devs use Java

onewland | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

Don't know how you define popular but I'm pretty sure Eaze (weed delivery service) is all React Native.

onewland | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I find a meaningful software engineering job?

Protos = protobuf messages?

Curious what that joke means

onewland | 8 years ago | on: Lift Weights, Eat More Protein, Especially If You’re Over 40

If you have the budget, hire a personal trainer for 1-2 hours/week. It's not cheap, but having to make the appointment or lose the money you spent is a huge motivator. They'll probably work you harder than you would work alone as well as enforce good form. I got started lifting weights this way.

Then you'll be motivated to work out on your own to save money.

onewland | 8 years ago | on: Startup Ideas

Smart Pipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

onewland | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?

Not an employee, but I'm pretty sure that the interview is the same for all engineering roles, unless you're very senior/specialized. I doubt that your interviewers will even know that you're up for a ML position specifically.

onewland | 9 years ago | on: Uber takes its self-driving cars off the road after one flipped over in Arizona

I'd consider that bet on non-1:1 odds. You could submit a more strict version of it as a category on PredictIt.

onewland | 9 years ago | on: The Tenacity of Tech Recruiters

I think the point the parent was trying to make is that responding to a recruiter isn't likely to get you ANY job, because they don't understand the job reqs they're recruiting for nor the people they're trying to place.

onewland | 9 years ago | on: Disney Considers Offer for Twitter

They put sponsored tweets (tailored to individuals) in the timeline.

onewland | 10 years ago | on: Free food and misery: the life of a techie

If you work as an engineer in the US you're probably an "exempt" employee by status, meaning that your employer doesn't have to compensate you for extra time. If you're sufficiently underpaid as an engineer that you're non-exempt, then you should be paid 1.5x for any time beyond 9-5/40 hours, or you should get to trade in those unscheduled hours to work less on following days.

EDIT: Realized I didn't address the question of whether it is "standard". I've heard that DevOps engineers have a bit of a compensation consideration (maybe $10-20k/year in the Bay Area where I live) for the on-call nature of their jobs, but I am sure that they are mostly paid enough to be exempt employees. This is totally anecdotal/second-hand and it would not surprise me if their pay is at parity or even worse than other software engineers.

onewland | 10 years ago | on: Dear GitHub

I happen to be an acquaintance of Rachel Myers, and while she does do not-for-profit stuff outside of work, do you have some evidence that she's a "social impact employee" there? It's not obvious on her Twitter/Github profiles.

I don't want to assume any motive to your comment, but I think it would be a cause for concern if the world at large assumes that women/minorities are hired strictly for their "social impact".

onewland | 11 years ago | on: Why Every Language Needs Its Underscore

For Java, I think Google Guava or Apache Commons are more of the de facto standard library enhancements than the one linked in the article.

onewland | 13 years ago | on: Survival of the Wrongest

This is the Columbia Journalism Review. It's not saying science is stupid, it's saying that reporters are too quick to publish study results, when not enough research has been done on the subject topic.

onewland | 13 years ago | on: A new kind of checking account. No overdraft fees. No worries.

Nope, almost all machines support 8 digits.

onewland | 13 years ago | on: Why a Computer Science Degree Matters

Very often state machines are the best representation for domain objects which have a life cycle. If you have a lot of user submitted content shared among other users, a common set of states could be:

"new", "approved-by-other-user", "verified-by-admin", "hidden", "promoted".

I agree that at the HTTP level you shouldn't be using FSMs.

onewland | 13 years ago | on: Why founders shouldn't be the developers

I'm guessing there's a flag to get that printout, mind sharing?

onewland | 13 years ago | on: Drop Root Privileges in Node.js after Binding to Port 80

[This response is a guess, and very generalized]

You probably won't handle every HTTP edge case as well as nginx defaults, and you don't really need the control at that level to implement a functional, high performance web app.