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by candybar 4y ago
Given the lack of details, my guess is that your role at those startups is wildly different from your role at the middle-sized company and also that these aren't necessarily comparable companies outside of size and age. 3 is also a st
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by candybar 4y ago
Startup work isn't necessarily more chaotic than established companies. Assuming we're talking about tech companies, working at a big company doesn't mean you have "clearly set requirements" and working at a startu
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by candybar 4y ago
Not sure if anyone doesn't get this but just in case this isn't clear, the entire point of the quote isn't that people can be neatly separated into A/B/C classes, but that lowering the hiring bar can lead to a slipp
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by candybar 4y ago
A lot of startups jobs are well-defined and have a pre-existing business strategy. In fact, in my experience, startups can even be much less fluid in this sense than big companies, because startups are funded for a much narrower mission ba
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by candybar 4y ago
On the whole, this is a fairly good write-up but this is just not right: > Being at a startup is hard in a way that is almost indescribable to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. Being at a startup as an employee isn't necessarily har
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by candybar 4y ago
This is just garden-variety narcissism (btw, not trying to accuse the author of anything, I think we all feel this way sometimes) telling you that when you made the right decision, you were right and even when you made the wrong decision, y
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by candybar 4y ago
I think your position is basically the same position that most people that advocate for monoliths (which btw is a bit of a strawman created by microservice architecture advocates in the first place) hold. People are objecting to service&#x
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by candybar 4y ago
Being able to scale to any specific amount of usage is never a reason to use microservices. Plenty of planet-scale services and apps are powered by monoliths. And you never run into any kind of ridiculous overengineering when you refactor
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by candybar 4y ago
Not sure what you're trying to get at here - from the standpoint of developers, Cloud Spanner is the opposite of a microservice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices > A microservice architecture – a var
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by candybar 4y ago
I think you're understating your point. Most of what the OP mentions are generally expected of senior engineers or even mid-level engineers, though circumstances may vary. > I don't like having to check on others to ensure the
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by candybar 4y ago
Looks like this was written almost 10 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20130506231540/http://eewz0z.pen... Makes more sense in that context - what made me question the authenticity of this account
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by candybar 4y ago
It claims to be a guest post, but it honestly reads very much like a fictional story carefully written to emphasize the importance of her books and services, while also maximizing engagement/outrage. The character doesn't seem su
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by candybar 4y ago
> scored way more league goals compared to Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The Brazilian league being third-rate, like some others have mentioned, isn't accurate, but it's also not comparable to today's La Liga and EPL, which
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by candybar 4y ago
> Santos was an above-average team before he arrived. Same as napoli with Maradona. They took average teams to new heights. Santos won Campeonato Paulista in 1955, the season before Pele's debut and also in 1956, when Pele debuted t
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by candybar 4y ago
This has nothing to do with worldviews. It's just that a statement like this: > If I were to make a list of my top-10 problems, corruption would be near the top. None of the cases I've seen involved money laundering. rather cl
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by candybar 4y ago
It's not that hard to infer that you know very little about the topic at hand, but you think you know, because reasons. Your comments remind me of the other time I had to engage with complete nonsense from someone who was oddly confid
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by candybar 4y ago
> Very little of the corruption I've seen involves bags of money. As I said, that's precisely because the world works the way it does, rather than the way you wish it did. The bottleneck for lots of otherwise extremely profita
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by candybar 4y ago
If you don't understand the connection between money laundering and corruption, you certainly do not have a very strong understanding of the problem of corruption. Also, good luck having "transparency measures" in a world wh
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by candybar 4y ago
Money laundering isn't a big problem for you right now precisely because the world works the way it does, rather than the way you wish it did. The relationship between money laundering and corruption is well-established and globally,
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by candybar 4y ago
Then payment processors either need to either 1) be able to determine with 100% certainty whether something is legal or 2) be given broad immunity with respect to customers' illegal activities as long as they weren't strictly awar
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by candybar 4y ago
> Active cooperation between the FBI and Twitter It's virtually impossible for the government to do its job without the private individuals and institutions "actively cooperating" with them. Nearly all interactions betwee
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by candybar 4y ago
It's actually not equivalent - we're seeing a lot of accuasations here that the FBI "coerced" Twitter or that the FBI requests were "partisan" - there's actually no evidence in these files for these claims
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by candybar 4y ago
> Well, the scandal here is the FBI were rolling in, giving Twitter a list of random bystanders with the expectation that they will be silenced. US Federal government agencies are specifically not supposed to do that. Which is substantia
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by candybar 4y ago
So the big scandal here isn't that the FBI is implicitly threatening Twitter in a way that raises 1st Amendment concerns, but rather that the FBI is using public funds to help a social media company do its job. This has nothing to do
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by candybar 4y ago
Are there any scenarios where it is acceptable for the President to threaten private companies to change their moderation policies to suit his needs? That's what Trump did repeatedly. There's a fundamental contradiction in the na
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by candybar 4y ago
This is what actual problematic coercion looks like: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/27/trump-t... To the extent that "informal coercion" could be problematic. This is pretty
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by candybar 4y ago
Republicans - and Trump specifically - have been directly threatening Twitter for years to try to get them to act in a way that benefits them and you think this "implied consequence for refusal" is some big issue?
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by candybar 4y ago
In that case, Republican politicians publicly complaining about social media moderation in threatening terms would be far more problematic than the FBI notifying Twitter of tweets that are in violation of their TOS. Yet I don't rememb
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by candybar 4y ago
Collusion implies coordinating on something illegal or worth hiding from the public - what exactly is the alleged wrongdoing? That Twitter had people that worked with both presidential campaigns to expedite the review of moderation request
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by candybar 4y ago
The 1st amendment doesn't come into play unless Twitter is being coerced by the government against their will. There's no legal prohibition against Twitter moderating their platform in a way that also pleases certain people assoc

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