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onboarding impacts retention, new hire productivity and manager satisfaction. The article outlines the common practice and milestones of new joiners’ onboarding journey.
- First day: provide all required access, informal chat and introduction
- First week: introduce product/documentation/customer/career path, scheduled feedback, check in at the end of the week.
- First 30 days: development standards, start on small contribution tasks.
- First 60 days: considered long-term responsibilities to new hires, continue to recognize wins and make sure new hires have all the relevant information and support…
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Playing games with an attacker: how I messed with someone trying to breach the CryptoWall tracker
The author tells a story of how he tries to uncover the attacker through fake websites, fake SQL dump and Tor exit nodes
Never a dill moment: Exploiting machine learning pickle files
The PM(Pickle Machine) contains two opcodes that can execute arbitrary Python code outside of the PM, pushing the result onto the PM’s stack: GLOBALand REDUCE.
GLOBAL is used to import a Python module or class, and REDUCE is used to apply a set of arguments to a callable, typically previously imported through…
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How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability.
Talks about different concerns and solutions when moving from single to multi-device infrastructure
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- The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed!
- Continuous Integration and Deployment for Machine Learning Online Serving and Models
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- gum. Git multiple user config manager (javascript)
- zws. zero-width space URL shortener
- Ojoy. image super resolution
- open source commercial video games
For Fun
- NVIDIA Canvas. Turn your sketch into a detailed illustration
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- An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
- Basic of Unix Philosophy. how to design a small but capable operating system with a clean service interface.
Tutorials
- Deep JavaScript
- https://github.com/karpathy/cryptos. A step by step guide and implementation on how bitcoin works using python
- Guide | Bitcoin Design. A fantastic application design journey on how to design a bitcoin app
- http://len.falken.ink/misc/epub.txt. How to build a vanilla epub book
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- althttpd. A simple webserver from C. The authors covers the design choice and security thinking went behind written this server
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Key SRE indicators:
- SREs mitigate present and future incidents (responsibility and accountability for a service’s reliability
- SREs actively regulate service reliability (reliability goals and feedback signals are fundamental for both motivating SRE work and influencing the prioritization of development work.
- SREs engage early and comprehensively (SREs should be empowered to make tomorrow better than today)
- SREs automate anything repetitive
The author distinguishes OLAP and OLTP by
OLTP (online transactional processing): using a database to run your business
OLAP (online analytical processing)…
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- Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs. A proposal to stop using CAPTCHAs. The users could potentially be wasting 500years in total to image CAPTCHAs every day.
- Starlink review: broadband dreams fall to earth. The author records the Installation and operation of StarLink. Conclude that the service is usable but with a very bad user experience.
- Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory.
Tutorials
- The Definitive Data Scientist Environment Setup. A preliminary set-up of your data science workflow for people entering the field.
Tools
- yapf. A consistent style python formatter
- jupyter-tabnine. An AI auto code completion plugin for jupyter notebook
- pulumi. Multi-cloud, multi-language Infrastructure as code SDK
For Fun
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- Contrastive Representation Learning. aim to learn embedding space where similar sample pairs stay close together while dissimilar are far apart. Practically very helpful for model performance.
- How Does Google Sheets work?.
- How Facebook deals with PCIe faults to keep our data centers running reliably
- How a Jenkins Job Broke our Jenkins UI. A story from Slack about how they troubleshoot their production jenkins issue
- What we learned from an iOS app OOMs incident. A story from Slack about how they troubleshoot their IOS app issue
- You can’t sacrifice partition tolerance. Theoretical understanding of CAP theory. The fundamental is when experiencing…
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- My (Seemingly) Random Walk to Netflix. Exploration means to seek out new options so that you can learn more about the possibilities, whereas exploitation means to focus on the best option(s) that you have discovered thus far. Tells a story about how one’s career journey can be seemly a random work and how this experience helps the person developed.
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- Setting up ghost in raspberry pi for free. How to host a public accessible website from raspberry pi in home network through Cloudflare tunnel
