jakevoytko

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by jakevoytko 1y ago
Cash flow is another facet of paying off your mortgage early, and I think it’s underrated. Eliminating thousands of dollars from your monthly expenses dramatically increases your flexibility. Since most people have “cash / reserve fund
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
On top of that, the software world has changed dramatically since Bazel was first released. In practice, a git hash and a compile command for a command runner are more than enough for almost everyone. What has changed in the past ~15 years?
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
ChatGPT typically has two nines of availability, it's down regularly.
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
I mostly found TLM a disservice to people who reported to TLMs. They didn't have to earn a promotion as both an engineer and a manager at the same time, so many optimized for their own engineering promotion and any managing they did wa
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
It doesn’t pick your prompt, just evaluates your response. AFAIK it doesn’t suggest other prompts
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
It's optional and doesn't generate responses for you, instead just nudging you in better directions. So it's certainly not generating a bunch of indistinguishable profiles. Quite the opposite, it gives people a second chance
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
I work for Hinge, the dating app. We use them for our "prompt feedback" feature, where the LLM gives constructive feedback on how to improve your prompts if it judges them as low-effort or clichéd.
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
I was literally just comparing my Twitter and Bluesky feeds. The only discussions worth reading were on Bluesky. It's a shame. Twitter used to be the undefeated king of breaking news.
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
I asked an ex-Bloomberg coder this question once after he told me he used floating points to represent currency all the time, and his response was along the lines of “unless you have blindingly-obvious problems like doing operations on near
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
I have a light touch. I think it comes from the foundation of having confidence in what I write. My three goals are to be entertaining, to be educational, and to stand by everything that I write. I don't have any emotional stake in bei
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
If one gets any traction (like 10 upvotes or more), I wait a month or so. I know the site values pacing out content from the same source. If something was on the front page in the past week, I don’t post it. This eliminates probably 80-90%
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
I am writing a newsletter, https://www.clientserver.dev . It started with the writing prompt “what if someone tried to make Money Stuff for software engineering?” My time is constrained since I have a kid, and I’m still iterating
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
It was a little sad to watch him get radicalized in real time. I really enjoyed reading his blog before this started to happen. But then a few publications started quoting blog posts of his out of context as rage bait -- I remember he was p
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
I did hem and haw over whether it was appropriate, but I eventually went with it because it felt in line with the first 2 sentences of the Wikipedia page defining the phrase as "Malicious compliance (also known as malicious obedience)
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Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room(clientserver.dev)
375 points by jakevoytko 1y ago|367 comments
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
It's kinda always been this way (I just turned to dust thinking about this, but I've been posting to it for like 18 years), but it's worse now. r/programming is the only subreddit I regularly visit where there are a bunc
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by jakevoytko 1y ago
For my newsletter[0], I just reached 231 subscribers in 5 months. Getting to this point has involved posting to as many channels as possible (without wearing out my welcome in any of them) My first 40 subscribers came from direct friends an
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How did Google's illegal ad monopoly work?(clientserver.dev)
13 points by jakevoytko 1y ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
Bazel runs into the problem that it expects to have the complete well-defined understanding of the inputs and outputs for your project. This might have made sense when Blaze was first designed and projects were done in languages with compil
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
I am writing a newsletter, https://www.clientserver.dev , which started with the writing prompt “what if someone tried to make Money Stuff for software engineering?” I’m still iterating on the format a bit, but I just crossed 100
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I may do that next month if I can remember enough of the details!
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
The fatal error volume was so overwhelming that we didn't have any option but understanding the problem in perfect detail so that we could fix it if the problem was on our side, or avoid it if it was caused by something like our compil
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
Hi, author here! At my job before Google I had to debug these kinds of bugs for our mobile robotics / computer vision stack, but I found them fun so they didn't feel "hard" per se. The most time-consuming one took a mont
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
Author here! I debugged a fair number of those when I was a systems engineer in soft real time robotics systems, but none of them felt as bad in retrospect because you're just reading up on the system and mulling over it and eventually
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War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged(clientserver.dev)
462 points by jakevoytko 2y ago|188 comments
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Allow candidates to use LLMs in job interviews(clientserver.dev)
2 points by jakevoytko 2y ago|1 comments
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Citigroup and Extreme Overpayments(clientserver.dev)
1 points by jakevoytko 2y ago|0 comments
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I fixed my skill issue with Cursor(clientserver.dev)
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
Yes, I have the misfortune of needing to use Looker on a daily basis.
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
When I was at Google, our team kept RUM metrics for a bunch of common user actions. We had a zero regression policy and a common part of coding a new feature was running benchmarks to show that performance didn't regress. We also had a

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