As a tech worker with little knowledge about china, the most interesting section for me starts at "A summer storm" where he talks about why/how the government is cracking down on big consumer tech.
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uyt commented on 2021 Letter danwang.co/2021-letter/... · Posted by u/jger15
uyt commented on Pytudes: Python programs for perfecting particular programming skills github.com/norvig/pytudes... · Posted by u/Tomte
Seems like he didn't have time to finish Advent of Code this year. I was looking forward to seeing his code for some of the puzzles I struggled with!
While there are plenty of other solutions and discussions in the megathreads for each day: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/wiki/solution_megathre...
It is mostly dominated by competitive programmers who value speed over readability. When it comes to presenting a solution, Peter Norvig's style, clarity and craftsmanship is unmatched.
uyt commented on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer software.rajivprab.com/20... · Posted by u/ingve
> If you’re still a student or open to attending grad school, do everything you can to gain admission into a top-5 Master’s program
I think you are over-estimating the impact of a "top 5" master's program vs an average master's program. I had a very similar trajectory to you and went to an average master's program.
The major difference between you and me is that I never wanted to work for a Google, Amazon, or Hedge Fund and wanted to work at smaller companies. Salary suffered because of my reluctance to even compete for those jobs.
> The biggest boost in my career earnings came when I transitioned from a Computer Hardware engineer to a Software Engineer
I also disagree with this. The biggest boost in your career earnings came from working at (1) financial companies and (2) working at FAANG. I don't think you have enough data to say that your area of focus is what to lead to this, and I personally think it is wrong. Maybe it opened doors for you however
Beware that many masters programs from top schools are degree mills and the undergrads who went there know this and actively loathe them (based on their experience sharing classes with them). At least for my particular school. I remember helping out with resume screening at a job fair and we would sort everyone who went to that masters program to the bottom of the pile. A handful of them turned out to be good candidates on second pass, but it sucks that they probably would've had a better chance just leaving off their masters.
uyt commented on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer software.rajivprab.com/20... · Posted by u/ingve
What proportion that must have been compared to the base! Even if it was 60% the base is still mind blowing.
uyt commented on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer software.rajivprab.com/20... · Posted by u/ingve
I think people who are graduating now will have a hard time replicating this. My cohort (now in our early 30s, cs majors from a top school) were incredibly lucky because we were in a permanent bull run so as long as we were invested in almost any tech stock, we did well. Almost all of us hit one million mark before early 2020 and that became 2 million at the end of 2021.
I would love for this to continue forever but can it really? For example the author (and my friends) are in similar situation where their compensation are now in the ~500k range but that number is based on the stock value at the time of offer. It is now essentially double that. So we're in a situation where your everyday senior FAANG engineers are locked in a golden handcuff unless they are offered million dollar packages to jump ship.
We're in weird times.
uyt commented on OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration obsproject.com/blog/obs-a... · Posted by u/haunter
Streamlabs was using the name, "OBS" (Streamlabs OBS aka SLOBS) in their fork of OBS and it led a bunch of people to believe that Streamlabs == OBS.
On OBS github, contributors asked SLOBS to stop doing that, and Streamlabs declined.
Streamer community outrage ensued via Twitter. Large exodus of SLOBS users to OBS. Streamlabs publicly apologized a few days later, and renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio.
>renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio
Ah that is a good outcome. I pessimistically thought this post was implying that OBS decided to "collaborate" by relenting to huge wads of money and giving up their name. Which would've been a huge shame to open source software. Glad stuff worked out.
uyt commented on Ask HN: What do you consider the best (long) reads of the year? · Posted by u/kappuchino
I recently read https://www.propublica.org/article/muscular-dystrophy-patien... because a random comment mentioned it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468831
uyt commented on Pixel prevented me from calling 911 old.reddit.com/r/GooglePi... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Since I don't use Find My Phone often enough, my Pixel 3 helpfully decided to remove location permissions from it. Would've been in for a surprise the next time I lose my phone had I not caught the notification.
> Kernel developers obsess about speed and performance. The Linux kernel is built using -mregparm=3, which is sometimes called fastcall.
I've never messed with calling convention for the sake of performance before so I found this bit interesting. I found more info about it at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#Borlan...
Does anyone have benchmarks? Assuming I don't care about ABI stability, what's the fastest calling convention?