lightbendover

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by lightbendover 3y ago
Scala was the only time in the past decade I actually enjoyed programming, but it wasn’t a great idea to use for our relative large team as the amount of expression allowed comes at the expense of subjecting others to your mental model of h
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Majority of users will not know about the new subreddit and simply be annoyed that the subreddit they visited for years is suddenly missing.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
I’ve seen FAANG managers with atrocious 360 reviews have their entire teams quit (the company) and hit director 5 years later. It usually takes breaking a law or total role/team/project/program/org elimination to oust a
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by lightbendover 3y ago
I’m sorry, but that comment is absurd. MOST people can make it to L7 in their mid 40s? Most people can’t even get in the door at entry-level trying their very hardest, hard-stop-period.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Tail call optimization is “supported” by the JVM and is of course language dependent as it is performed at compile time. For instance, Scalia does support it. Would be great if the JVM itself supported it so it wasn’t dependent on compile
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Sounds like a decision that could only be made by a company that believes their API will change often (or is for whatever reason worried about 0Ds) and without enough engineering headroom to handle versioning and translation layers correctl
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by lightbendover 3y ago
I’m not tracking. You can perform all that monitoring and more without pretending to be a software update.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
I’ve been through both horror (endless 100 hour weeks) and bliss (just attending meetings and not really stressing about much of anything) in that range. It’s highly variable.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Having spent 11MM annually on infra to effectively (though obviously not efficiently despite a very favorable ROI) generate reports for <1000 customers, that sounds like a bargain.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Databases were not part of my CS curriculum until I took an elective web development course at the very end. People struggled. I had been doing hobbyist web development since I was quite young so the whole class was a breeze for me, but I
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by lightbendover 3y ago
> Every org I've ever worked at has had 6 figure monthly cloud bill, and the 6 figure monthly payroll bill related to teams working with cloud infrastructure There was a point not too long ago when I managed a 6 engineer team respon
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Any time I use a Google product, I know I'm in a bubble.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
The last thing anyone should ever want from a search engine is different results from the next person over.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
This is well-aligned with why I am soon leaving my moderately high six figures to work on my own thing for a while completely unpaid. Success to me is building something great and that is something that no longer can be accomplished at a F
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by lightbendover 3y ago
But that would make the arrows go down so you know they'll never do that.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Probably because they were caught with their pants down and only have early prototypes of generative AI models.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
As companies reduce their tech expenditure, there will be plenty of excess capacity to collocate and properly connect by high-speed switches. There is also a lot of research (not sure it by Amazon as well) going into better distributes mod
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by lightbendover 3y ago
I will only be impressed when I see Amazon use it to correct all of their category and brand mappings for products. It has been a travesty since inception for a company purportedly data-driven.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Both the author's and your run-times pretty plainly illustrate everything wrong with BigO.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris... isn't too far removed from some of what I've seen in big tech, especially architecture-wise. Certainly less costly absurdity.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
> the billion dollar mistake Eh, a billion dollars isn't too bad.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
State actors assuredly are (in addition to e.g. LLaMa); the cost of pysops, especially social engineering, will be reduced to pennies on the dollar.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
If I was Ubisoft or EA, I would invest in trash-talking bots and then allow, out of the goodness of my heart, players to pay-to-mute. If I was Ubisoft or EA.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Stop assuming malice of someone who willfully misled investors, her own employees, and even consumers who thought they were getting medical analysis? I'm all for second chances, but she expunged all of hers during her time at Theranos
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by lightbendover 3y ago
All of those things can be done through other mechanisms without distracting engineers with a dog and pony show.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
I don't think I would trust any system that focuses purely on modelling the real world.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Demo meetings that matter, now that's an anti-pattern if I've ever heard one. Only UI work makes for a snazzy demo, anything else will bore stakeholders to tears (and you of course need stakeholders if the meeting matters). The
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Likely not much and assuredly wrong, I just wanted to ground my argument with numbers that came from people who presumably did more research than I was willing to do for an HN post.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Only scarce since it's an easy distributed problem to solve compared to IO.
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by lightbendover 3y ago
Truth is, and this applies to all companies regardless of size, is that you don't have to be first, best, biggest, fastest, or most well-known in order to win market share that out-paces your investment. The AI pie is going to be very

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