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by ctvo 4y ago
> But real estate costs have made this approach untenable, so something has to give. I need a citation here. Big tech was so large and profitable the last decade that thinking it’s real estate costs that led them to open office spaces an
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I think you're misunderstanding my point here so I'll be clear: I think you and those truckloads of people you're referencing may be overestimating your technical prowess. If you were truly capable of the feats you claimed, s
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by ctvo 4y ago
I see. If only you could be left alone to unleash your brilliance with your friends, you could make a trillion dollar company. Unfortunately it looks like no one believes you / believes in you enough to help you with this.
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> Give me 10 motivated, aligned high-quality people, 5 years, and all of us room to focus, and I'll build you a better Google, almost guaranteed. Including Arabic, a11y, spam filtering, and all the other messy stuff. This is 60 mill
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by ctvo 4y ago
> The tech industry is going to take a while to recover from the current economic shocks How did you come to this conclusion? The doubling of headcount in 2020 and 2021 in a year didn’t signal that this can turn on a dime in either direc
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I wouldn’t call it communism to say a business person who made a bad deal by overpaying 3x the price for something is incompetent.
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Before we get even more convoluted reasons as to why this is all part of Elon Musk's grand strategy and how business classes in the future will pour over every detail to understand the brilliance, can I suggest a simple explanation: El
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> This is long overdue and the pain is a result of accumulated managerial debt. The pain is the result of Elon Musk overpaying 3x for a company he didn't want to buy and aggressively cost cutting to lower expenses. 1 billion a year
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by ctvo 4y ago
You think there’s a difference between 10 years and 15 years? Get better at interviewing. The years of experience you put on your resume isn’t what’s losing you the job. “Too senior but willing to work for just senior rates” certainly isn’t
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> Yes, this is what people really need to be worried about. Ah yes, the what if I’m really not only ineffective, but a net negative on my company and they find out anxiety.
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The technical challenges are solved. It's not an interesting discussion to cheer for your favorite tech stack. What's interesting is what value Twitter gives and what could a new platform target? For me, there's a slice of Tw
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What a fabulous time for security researchers. Hello IT? This is Bob from Tesla here. I require full access to audit data and source code per Mr. Musk’s request. You hadn’t heard? That’s because Mr. Musk fired your boss this morning now add
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by ctvo 4y ago
Given 24-48 hours in a gigantic tech company’s code base made up of dozens of teams and hundreds (thousands?) of logical services? No, I couldn’t tell you the “quality” of the code. Someone who doesn’t understand engineering at that scale w
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> We need to question every current assumption about work. The system is currently in a malleable state, but that won't last. More questioning assumptions, means more experiments, means more developments. These are weasel words. I&#
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> Members of each guild would be experts in their field and be available to help other members with their work. So much complexity hidden in a single sentence. How? Who attests to the expertise? What's the incentive / mechanism
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by ctvo 4y ago
Kotlin has one of the poorer LSP implementations out of the popular JVM languages. Last I tried it was buggy, and slow. Developers are pushed into using JetBrains products directly or indirectly (Android Studios) I suspect leaving the wider
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> There is just such a disconnect with reality here I am having a hard time thinking the author has done any actual technical recruiting. I disagree. I've hired (and like to think I'm part of this group) folks that can comforta
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I haven’t forgotten either. The CEO bullied someone weaker because they thought they could get away with it. Why would you join a “community” of learners led by someone like that?
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> Amazon is far from well paid for this sort of position. It's one of the key factors why Amazon SDEs tend to bail out after 2 or 3 years. They are smart enough to not bother with high stress, low-paying jobs . https://ww
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by ctvo 4y ago
> It’s just a sweat shop. Amazon engineer salaries are in the 90th+ percentile in the tech industry -- let's not bother comparing them to the typical American's income. They have almost unlimited mobility in their industry: Th
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A paid service where tens of hundreds of people search for publicly available code snippets and send them to you? I believe they call that outsourcing in some circles.
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- Time it took to learn the skills to write a scalable service that can handle 100K events per second: 3 years - Time it took to write that API on localhost: 4 days - Time it took to learn Terraform and some AWS services, to create the API
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Their marketing is mostly Elon Musk. He uses Twitter for this and it has cost him / them quite a bit. From fines by the SEC, to potentially 45 billion USD for the purchase of the platform.
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by ctvo 4y ago
> At its best, Stadia was better than its competitors and almost magical in how it fulfilled the promise of going from zero to in-game in one second. I was an early adopter of Stadia. I swapped to GeForce Now because it supported higher
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by ctvo 4y ago
The fidgeting over todo list managers, optimizing for what? A theoretical 5% improvement in productivity from worst to best? It’s so undifferentiated. I’ve always thought people who do things do it. People who won’t will look for every reas
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Montreal was also home to MindGeek, the tech company that owns the largest pornographic sites in the world. They still have offices, but moved HQ.
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Applicable also to the engineer's total compensation. There are trade-offs.
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> I am truly astonished at this level of ineptitude by Amazon. I would imagine many HN users could create a tool that would flag duplicated books uploaded maliciously. You should make it and sell it to Amazon and other online publishers.
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Internal tooling is a mess at most companies I've worked at. At a certain scale it's worth the savings to standardize, improve, and reduce the shared friction costs. Stripe, as it has scaled, has ran into challenges and invests in
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> - JS is notably missing from the list of languages supported on the front page. But I see mentions of a Spidermonkey.wasm in the blog post. Is running JS on top of wasmtime in production a realistic prospect today? If so, where can I r

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