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by mkl95 3y ago
The site's layout is all over the place. I haven't used Twitter for a while, but I don't remember it being that confusing.
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by mkl95 3y ago
I dislike these generalizations. There are pros and cons to both approaches. Engineers who have used the same tool for a long time will often fail to admit there may be better tools out there to solve a specific problem.
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I'm always amazed when I find out a basic app is some corporation's flagship product. Ironically, it seems to be a mostly American phenomenon.
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by mkl95 3y ago
Take my comment with a grain of salt because I have never worked for Amazon and I don't have any relationship with the company. Since these are Amazon employees, I would expect them to experience the downsides of being a consultant, su
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by mkl95 3y ago
Don't Meta maintain their own fork?
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by mkl95 3y ago
You will get a lot of replies focused on scraping. Which is exactly what Google do for a living. It's in their best interest to be the only company obtaining that valuable data.
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by mkl95 3y ago
The thought that a bunch of people will trust this tool and make some terrible decisions is unsettling. On the other hand it could be pretty powerful if you know what you are doing.
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by mkl95 3y ago
I love this site. I first browsed it ~15 years ago and it has barely changed ever since. It's a good example of how far a simple design can get you if your data model is good.
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by mkl95 3y ago
I decline non big tech interviews that involve some kind of "system design". I've worked with so-called staff engineers who designed systems with textbook antipatterns (I literally studied them). This idea that you need to re
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by mkl95 3y ago
I wonder how much Fortune 500 companies would tank as a result, considering they generate a large chunk of the world's GDP.
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by mkl95 3y ago
> Can both the government and the economic system fail in the United States to such an extent that all existing companies on the stock exchange become valueless with no prospects of any future business? Perhaps. Stock market != economy.
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by mkl95 3y ago
> They are were never going to be a unicorn and they will die trying. Reddit are valued at ~5bn, which makes them a full-blown unicorn. But in 2023 the gap between a unicorn and an IPO-ready company can be huge.
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by mkl95 3y ago
I would say this is the best solution. I live in another EU country where ISPs also block it via DNS.
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by mkl95 3y ago
> New unverified accounts to 300/day This rate limit may stop the most extreme scrapers, but it won't come close to stopping moderately large operations. AFAIK nothing is stopping you from creating as many accounts as you want,
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by mkl95 3y ago
> Every time you run an SQL query, it grabs all the data stored in the neighboring tabs' titles, concatenates it, unzips it, and loads it into an in-memory sqlite database Last time I checked, Firefox stored bookmarks in a SQLite db
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by mkl95 3y ago
Usually you don't get a raise because you deserve it, you get it because the company believes keeping you will result in a more positive financial outcome in the next few quarters than replacing you. Plenty of companies give their engi
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by mkl95 3y ago
> Write software, 1.5 year later update CV with fancy buzzwords you used, change job for better comp and repeat. Who cares how did the design mature? That's on their employer for offering subpar comp. They could have offered that em
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by mkl95 3y ago
Twitter has now endured Instagram levels of enshittification. It has been a crappy product since the mid 2010s, but at least it was minimally usable back then.
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by mkl95 3y ago
Intermittent fasting helps me roughly estimate how much I'm eating, which I would say is enough accuracy for most people.
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by mkl95 3y ago
Recently, I was approached by the biggest non-big-tech company I've ever talked to. They are a big EU startup and they have raised 1bn+ in the last few years. So I had a look at their Glassdoor reviews. Apparently they are extremely ch
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by mkl95 3y ago
> I wanted to browse some pictures of Ollie anonymously on Instagram today, but to my dismay, Instagram would force me to login 5 seconds after navigating to Ollie’s Instagram page. Unless I’m part of an A/B test, you can give this
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by mkl95 3y ago
> What does it mean to be greater than the sum of your parts? In my experience it's mostly automation and observability. Delegating as much stuff as possible on tools as opposed to humans, empowering the latter to fix things.
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At least you got an assignment. On a few of my last attempts I have been rejected earlier on with little feedback. I sometimes get some generic stuff about YoE, meaning some Principal engineer at a FAANG also applied.
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iPlayer is usually VPN-friendly.
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I would love that my kids applied code to automate stuff and solve complex problems. Would I want them to become software engineers? I wouldn't, because they would most likely end up working on some SaaS product or something equally st
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by mkl95 3y ago
Twilio are still doing better than their competition. To name an example, MessageBird laid off 30% of their workforce in late 2022 vs Twilio's 17% in early 2023, and they are known to be an absolute clusterfuck, which is not something
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by mkl95 3y ago
I recently added a couple of constants to some project. One of my teammates said it wasn't a good idea, because we could have hundreds of similar constants eventually. Those constants represent the markets supported by that app. By the
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I like the idea. I will call it HackingNews.
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Until 2021 or so, even a really crappy startup could raise 8 digits with relative ease. Then all of a sudden those investors realized that the economy was bad enough that those companies may never make it big enough to justify the investmen
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> instead of banking the surplus (i.e. moving on immediately to your next task), you spend it relaxing and screwing off because, whew, you just earned a small vacation by busting shit out in an hour that you thought would take all day. I

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