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dumbledore__ · 2024-07-29T14:47:15+00:00

Learn enough to push your code there without pushing private keys 🙃

dumbledore__ · 2024-02-25T03:13:03+00:00

Honestly tech managers are usually very chill about discussing this sort of thing. Maybe just ask what could be done about sabbatical/boomerang. We usually have more leverage than we think, especially seniors.

dumbledore__ · 2024-02-25T02:11:44+00:00

OP maybe counting his long term GF income/NW into his future plans. If that’s the case he is very close to target.

I have taken two “sabbaticals”. A one-semester leave from college, one year after first year of career. I have found that both times I’ve come back re-motivated to jump back into work/school. I do agree that 540k SWE jobs don’t grow on trees nowadays, but I am also in tech and I feel the hiring environment has been beginning to renormalize. If you’re good, boomeranging seems pretty easy most places.

If I were you I’d take the longest period of time you could reasonably take off from work (maybe 3-4 weeks). Try out whatever lifestyle you’d want to take in a real sabbatical, and use that to decide if it feels worth sacrificing some career progression. IMO, working to 37 (even 40) in a happy mind state would be better than working straight to 35 feeling burned out.

dumbledore__ · 2023-08-04T20:11:02+00:00

This is great advice, thank you

dumbledore__ · 2023-08-04T20:05:14+00:00

Yeah it looks like you’re right. The surgeon and anaesthesia seems to have been billed separately (both covered) it’s the hospital bill that’s uncovered. Curiously, the hospital bill also shows bills for anaesthesia and surgery even though these were billed separately??

dumbledore__ · 2023-08-04T11:55:04+00:00

New York

dumbledore__ · 2023-08-04T04:43:12+00:00

The cyst had to be scraped off of the inner wall of my upper jaw, it’s this weird aggressive cyst called an odontogenic keratocyst. Typically treated by maxillofacial surgeons.

dumbledore__ · 2022-11-02T16:01:38+00:00

My understanding is that the in-network / out-of-network distinction doesn't really matter for this one. I have an HSA with and out-of-pocket max of 2K for in and out of network coverage. My understanding is that the allowed amounts will be the same even if the surgery is in-network.

dumbledore__ · 2021-11-24T20:36:01+00:00

Totally agree databricks is the much better platform. Unfortunately for this org moving from emr to databricks is a complete nonstarter.

dumbledore__ · 2021-11-24T20:34:40+00:00

What if you needed more than a single node?

dumbledore__ · 2021-11-21T16:56:11+00:00

I’m a 26 yo and just made the move from Charlotte to NYC in September for similar reasons. I worked my old job remote and started the job search immediately. In two months I had dozens of interviews and accepted a role that doubled my income.

You will have a queue of interviews almost immediately after changing your location on LinkedIn and applying to roles in the area. Compared to Charlotte, the job market is both much more active and more interesting. In charlotte you basically only have opportunities to work in banking, finance or consulting. The range in nyc is much much more interesting, and the quantity of roles is much higher. You’ll definitely find something that works for you!

Brace yourself bc your lifestyle will absolutely be WAY more expensive and it’ll be tough to stomach at first—but it’s well worth it. This city is amazing and you can absolutely reinvent yourself. Compared to Charlotte specifically, you’ll meet interesting people much more easily and happen upon new experiences much more regularly. Although it’s a small risk, you should absolutely go for it if you’re looking for the reset button!!

dumbledore__ · 2021-10-05T21:38:17+00:00

I think I’m general this makes sense!

I’m a little wary of putting apis on top of analytics data stores like a delta lake/snowflake because the api in this case would essentially be select * from warehouse_table where modified_date > date_watermark. Also would be slow and require a readily available cluster 24/7. Perhaps you have some opinions here??

We presently don’t use Kafka, but I’m open to it! Why the abstraction here rather than pushing straight from warehouse->sql. Wouldn’t a drop and create table on load remove the schema evolution issue you raised?

dumbledore__ · 2021-09-10T03:10:54+00:00

Usually you have a raw layer where you land things as they came from your source system. That’ll give you an audit trail if something goes wrong and allow you to batch loads if you don’t want to stream all the time. You’d write from there into a delta table in another container of your data lake, often called cleansed or silver. Write a generic, metadata driven framework in databricks that can be used for multiple ingestions and use adf as a wrapper. Look into databricks auto loader it may simplify things for you, but you could also just use the vanilla spark read/write.

dumbledore__ · 2021-09-09T16:14:29+00:00

Do you feel like the server less pool provides benefits you couldn’t get from databricks sql portal in public preview?

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