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by artyom 1y ago
> Am I suggesting Mozilla entirely pivot to this business model overnight? Of course not. [...] Run an experiment... But Google can see it happening and pull support overnight. Mozilla cornered itself into this situation, any official ef
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by artyom 1y ago
This tenfold. The premise, the setting, the checklist, the whole thing sounds like torture to me. Life isn't that monochromatic, I'd rather be doing ANYTHING else.
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by artyom 1y ago
I was at Amazon but wasn't part of Alexa. I remember taking a look at their code. It was an endless spaghetti of if statements. The top one started like this if(tenant == "spotify") { ... and everything else was downhi
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by artyom 1y ago
I don't disagree. Of course you've got to set some direction to big brains but -- we're talking about two different species that coincidentally share the "manager" title here.
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by artyom 1y ago
I had the same experience. The interview process was super long and nowhere near completion, got through a few phases, got rejected with no explanation in the middle of it. The "psychometric assessments" were specially dumb and I
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by artyom 1y ago
This reads as one of the many engineering marvel stories (e.g. Bell Labs, Xerox) where revolutionary technology is created by a combination of (a) clever engineers with enough "free" time, and (b) no clueless managers around.
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by artyom 1y ago
I mostly agree with the original comment. Most of the western world is anti-family, with rare exceptions (e.g. Finland) with policies that nobody is willing to imitate. And even with great child-raising policies, Finland has a fertility rat
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by artyom 1y ago
Your work in a large tech company is done when your manager (or a manager two levels above) gets promoted. Then the cycle starts again.
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by artyom 1y ago
I agree but it was always like that. Also there isn't any incentive anymore in growing juniors if they're going to immediately take the next better offer that comes around when they know enough, and you have such thing being offer
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by artyom 2y ago
Most grounded and realistic take on the AI hype I've read recently.
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by artyom 2y ago
Every single project mentioned in the article is to some extent either open source and/or community driven. So nobody considered HTTP/3 interesting enough to rush and add support for it very quickly. It'll get there, but fast
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by artyom 2y ago
I'd love to get a credible historical source saying that the conflict for that territory started around 1982 and before that there were just UK nationals casually settling there because... the weather was nice? I'll be waiting her
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by artyom 2y ago
Because of the law? In most western countries (including the UK), military personnel has reduced rights because of their status of having the monopoly of violence. For instance, the aren't allowed to unionize or go on strike. I can&#
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by artyom 2y ago
You proved my point. Argentina is full of people, as a multicultural country, including descendants of its natives (as long as you call "natives" to the first group of people ever that settled in a territory). A planted and subsid
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by artyom 2y ago
This is data provided by the UK government itself: the Falklands have a little above 3500 people, with about half of it being military and government personnel, and the rest being their families. So calling them "people living there&qu
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by artyom 2y ago
Why don't they just bury and undersea cable from the closest mainland? 300 miles from the coast doesn't sound like much for that kind of project. Oh wait.
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by artyom 2y ago
It's definitely a ballpark estimate, but "boring email threads" are 99% of LKML. There's an average of 1000 messages per day, we get news of a drama-fueled thread like, three times on a bad year? My ballpark estimate is
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by artyom 2y ago
> the legal system only punishes general public. In more general terms, the legal system punishes what can be made a profit or an example when punishing. Also, I don't think the legal system itself wants to get too much into "b
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by artyom 2y ago
I agree, engaging in further conversation would be futile.
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by artyom 2y ago
Seriously. And I say this because apparently every comment on this thread has to be on either side, with no actions being considered counterbalance whatsoever. So given that I have to pick a side, yep, seriously.
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by artyom 2y ago
Except you have no authority to call that out, and we're not forced by law to agree with you. In my opinion Linus was never abusive or disrespectful - just blunt and direct. Unfortunately, there seems to exist people (like me) that wou
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by artyom 2y ago
Yep, that happened. "Forced to apologize" essentially describes it. A quick sweep through recent messages in LKML shows that there's a healthy return to form for him, maybe with less curse words, but as succinct and impactful
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by artyom 2y ago
> an uncommon failure of leadership for Torvalds Exactly the point. IMHO the one and only thing that made Linux successful as a project is Linus' strong leadership - which has been criticized ad-nauseam over the years; yet it&#x27
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by artyom 2y ago
The number of engineers I've met that realized only too late that, by definition, floats and doubles are absolutely *not good* to deal with money is unbelievable. At this point it should be universal knowledge, but it isn't.
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by artyom 2y ago
In my experience a lot of hiring in those big or publicly traded companies is to "build the structure to get promoted". When you're big, investors and banks and auditors don't like flat structures with a lot of individua
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by artyom 2y ago
Very much the same. Visual representations are just a translation of whatever happens within the brain to be able to articulate it somehow to other people. I think that's the beauty of it, though. It's never really there, even the
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by artyom 2y ago
Agreed. I was expecting a technical justification on why they're not the same. After all the buzzwords and empty statements, I'm now more than convinced that they are.
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by artyom 2y ago
In my experience using dating apps, they are "soft prostitution" rings for people that don't earn that well (both sides). No matter how you gamify the swipes, or how users fake their profiles to appear interesting or desirabl
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by artyom 2y ago
I didn't know the guy but he clearly knows what he's doing, it's unbelievably entertaining to read the details of achieving an impossible task with the most underpowered tool possible.
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by artyom 2y ago
This is what's happening in my org, talented people was leaving consistently (5-6/month), things are currently maintained with skeleton crews -- the ones that are maintained, the rest are accidents waiting to happen. Quality inert

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