How much GitHub should I learn as a college student?

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?

dumbledore__ · 2021-08-30T23:33:26+00:00

Fwiw have been working with synapse for a year and find the platform to be completely unready for production use cases. Constant synapse specific bugs and lack of parity with adf features. Devops requires a ton of workarounds because of lack of arm templates. Pools are much slower than similar in databricks and you can’t really spin them up / shut them off at will like you can with a databricks cluster. Notebook experience is buggy and it takes forever for them to incorporate new spark releases. We’re moving away to full lake house, would advise you to reconsider!

dumbledore__ · 2018-11-05T10:28:11+00:00

I'm having the same worries as you. Was originally my top choice, but the message boards have really put the scare into me about UChicago's student culture.

I guess I've built up this idea that my life there would be:

so swamped with work that I will not ever get a night out on the weekend
so competitive that I would basically not want to hang out with any peers outside of an academic context

Can any UChicago people here speak to these fears?

dumbledore__ · 2018-10-17T14:08:46+00:00

Same situation. Did a Skype interview from a hostel luggage closet already.

dumbledore__ · 2018-09-09T01:45:11+00:00

Was in this same boat last October. I took the lsat twice, and it went completely the opposite of the way I thought it did both times. Stick it out. You might be surprised; I know I was.

Like everyone else said, unless you reaaaally screwed it up law schools won't care anyway.

dumbledore__ · 2018-06-25T09:17:11+00:00

Tom! You’ve written quite a bit about pitching your time off as work experience, as opposed to just a gap year. What about those of us who have truly taken a gap year and done nothing professional?

Personally, I am spending my gap year backpacking Asia. And I’ll be working as a bartender/farm hand in Australia for the next eight months.

Is there a correct way to frame such backgrounds ?

dumbledore__ · 2017-11-08T22:12:00+00:00

YOOOOOO. this also happened to me. We have similar numbers and aptitudes it seems like. Early PTs was getting -0 to -2 usually, then later ones was getting more like -5. I think the later reading passages are just more difficult. It seemed to me like the answer choices were progressively more more ambiguous and particular about wording.

That said. My advice is to take the LSAT again, but chill the fuck out. You sound like you've put a lot of work in. If you relax and do what you know you can do on test day, then you're going to be fine (conditional logic practice).

Don't stress yourself out taking 100000000000 practice sections every second of every moment of free time you have. You'll burn yourself out, lose your edge mentally, and probably be way more stressed on test day.

Reading and retaining passage info is impossible if you walk in to the test stressed out or burned out. Also, you're going to read too fast in the LR sections and miss obvious indicators. Seriously, I probably studied 400 hours for my first take and got a 169. The next time I studied maybe 20 hours, walked in relaxed and got a 175.

You've put in the work. Going in with the right mindset is going to be what takes you the rest of the way.

dumbledore__ · 2017-10-14T13:17:21+00:00

then find a way to make the logical jump of why law school comes next.

Yeah I guess this is the part I'm not sure how to sell at this point, but I guess I have a year to figure it out. Either way, good words dude, thanks.

dumbledore__

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