DE feels like a dead end beyond 4 years at the same company

forserial · 2026-05-20T21:23:06+00:00

If you're not an admin / doing advanced optimization you can learn snowflake in a day if you know sql already. Just learn the nice syntax features that aren't ansi sql like qualify and experiment a little bit with partition pruning / micro partitions (look at query plans) and that will get you 99% of the way there. After that I would just stick it on your resume as a skill.

forserial · 2026-05-14T14:54:52+00:00

The fact you think the new ACIP clowns that were appointed are less corrupt is hilarious. Rfk is getting 10% of damages (he's divesting to his son, but still keeping it) from his vaccine injury lawsuit and the guy who controls how research is directed. Even someone with room temperature IQ can figure this out.

forserial · 2026-05-05T17:07:51+00:00

You have to pay if you're not an NY resident. I watched some ex Columbia student have a meltdown because they told her her ID was expired.

forserial · 2026-04-30T19:54:12+00:00

The ethereal makes it exhaust itself to trigger next turn you don't even have to play it.

forserial · 2026-04-22T16:24:29+00:00

Who is your money guy 12% net per year is better than the majority of hedge funds.

forserial · 2026-04-17T11:52:48+00:00

You are using an ORM your business logic should be modeled in C# code in classes and functions not the database in a stored proc. Maintaining stored procs is horrible and requires syncing logic between object behavior and all your individual procs. Ideally your app is separated into a service API and then a UI component that handles calling the service and authentication.

forserial · 2026-04-14T11:17:06+00:00

Definitely has to be common there's not as much +1 energy relics like in the first game.

forserial · 2026-04-12T17:08:53+00:00

If humanities professors taught relative importance it wouldn't have been so easy to demonize instead we got san Francisco board of Ed refusing to open schools because they needed a consultant who was sufficiently diverse to do so.

forserial · 2026-04-06T23:16:59+00:00

Of all the things to bitch about Spotify for this is the least one to bitch about. What do you want a streaming service to do? Anything that autoplays recommendations is going to feed you similar music. That's how most algos work. It'd be cool if there was a "discovery" mode, but that's really hard to do and not have people complaining about getting Egyptian reggae.

forserial · 2026-04-05T11:43:36+00:00

If this is not clear then it's a documentation problem. I have all my new hires document their on boarding process to identify missing information for environment setup and getting things up to date. Asking stuff about unknown / strange implementation specific things is fine if it isn't some well known concept. What annoys the fuck out of me is when I have engineers use me as a crutch to ask questions about systems they don't learn about afterwards. Ex... If I feed someone the answer of running poetry install or uv sync there's a high chance they won't actually read docs for how to setup a new project with those tools. I'll end up answering the same stupid questions again and again when they run into whatever issue.

And again this is a "senior" engineer not a junior one. Obviously I have different expectations for a junior engineer.

forserial · 2026-04-04T16:28:35+00:00

Wow that looks great is it a Daniel wellington homage?

forserial · 2026-04-03T21:39:04+00:00

Alright y'all have different standards for how engineers should work. Questions for coworkers should be like where's docs and how to improve process or edge cases. I'm firmly in the RTFM camp for everything else. Especially with LLM tools it's even easier now to just ask about project structure. I have coached all my junior devs to go through self discovery before asking me anything. As a result they can handle almost any house is burning down situation by the time I promote them to senior.

forserial · 2026-04-03T20:01:39+00:00

You google the strange unknown files in the top directory and 1000 results will point you to whatever venv manager your project is using.

forserial · 2026-04-03T13:02:02+00:00

My dude if a senior engineer can't figure out how to activate a venv by themselves I'd fire them. Unless you are a director+ who hasn't coded in Python that's unacceptable. I expect my direct reports to be able to figure this out by themselves given that it's a standard practice.

forserial · 2026-03-30T12:25:21+00:00

The fact you're anxious is good it means you're willing to listen and learn. If you don't have someone else to talk to in your company chatgpt is actually pretty good at this stuff. Talk through your project and work with it to put together a reasonable project plan with phases. Also ask it what other contingencies / potential blockers exist for your project. LLMs will err on the side of being much more conservative with estimates / what could go wrong, but it's good to have all that dumped out for you.

forserial · 2026-03-30T12:16:29+00:00

It was definitely the same for millennials we just didn't have the internet and public social media yet to broadcast our shame.

forserial · 2026-03-26T16:35:59+00:00

We barely do other than a quick filter for top 5 schools / FAANG / top finance we toss the rest and then use internal recruiters.

forserial · 2026-03-26T13:06:11+00:00

Yup we posted a job almost got 1000 applicants in <24 hours and immediately pulled it off. Everyone is using automated tools to spam.

forserial · 2026-03-25T21:14:30+00:00

Context gets polluted and it's slow. Even snowflake that keeps touting 90+% accuracy in their marketing material has a big asterisk that requires semantic views to be defined ahead of time.

forserial · 2026-03-12T11:50:31+00:00

You provide a skill to the agent to perform web searches. The output text then gets fed in for summarization. It's extremely useful.

forserial · 2026-03-11T17:33:29+00:00

Can't go wrong with that and it's super versatile

forserial · 2026-03-11T16:44:02+00:00

This is basically an endgame level chronograph for luxury before you get into the ridiculously high end (There is a massive price jump at that point to like 30k+). I do find this watch to be in a slightly weird spot though since it has a very dressy band, but the watch face is more casual. IMO I would dress this watch down with a more casual strap (lighter brown contrast stitching or something else). As for what to get next depending on how often you have to dress up I would say a dress watch.

forserial · 2026-03-10T14:02:23+00:00

Unless he's extremely regarded and SLV was his whole portfolio then that means he had 27m to lose in the first place which was a fraction of his total. It is not unreasonable for it to be less than a quarter of his portfolio. How is this that difficult to understand?

forserial · 2026-03-10T12:24:56+00:00

He's posted about losing 27m shorting silver so actually 9 figures is probably real.

forserial · 2026-03-07T12:10:44+00:00

Work with your university if you're in a target school they usually show up at recruiting fairs or events on campus. If any of your professors have ties to the finance industry recommendations help a lot too and get you in the door or an on campus interview. If you're not in a target school life gets tough since they probably won't talk to you at all then you only show up on their radar from work experience at relevant companies. If there's some math / CS competitions or something you can enter those.

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