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by ngc248 3y ago
>>> current company culture of nurturing new products left and right just to kill them off after 3-5 years? This predates Sundar's stint. Reader was only the first one, but this culture of killing products is in Google's
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by ngc248 3y ago
Yep, everyone is replaceable. 2 weeks should be enough. What's the use in staying more? Anyone who wants to get KT by then should be able to get it.
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by ngc248 4y ago
DynamoDB is amazing when you know all the access patterns for your data and the access patterns are not liable to change much. The performance it gives in such a case is superlative to just about anything else. But if you have changing acce
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by ngc248 4y ago
Pedro Domingo's CSEP 546 course for the fundamentals https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPQEx-31JXgtDaC6-3Hx...
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by ngc248 4y ago
I call them 100x engineers, since they create 100x more work for others
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> I think one way to look at it is... The underdog Indians managing to rub shoulders with the likes of NASA and ESA at a fraction of the latter's budget, How are you getting this through the cartoon? All the cartoon shows is
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by ngc248 4y ago
Maybe there is a specific amount of wealth beyond which the rich start having more children
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by ngc248 4y ago
True ... we live in a post-consequences world. All repercussions/consequences are gated thru multiple considerations.
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by ngc248 4y ago
But isn't this the case with everything? I feel there is a necessary level of complexity to everything. Things can't be made simpler beyond a level.
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by ngc248 4y ago
k8s is good, I don't get the hate against k8s.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> People were appalled by the Twitter firings, but seriously, how many people does it take to run old, established, (micro)blogging platform? You underestimate the amount of people it takes. There are so many things to do, dev, S
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by ngc248 4y ago
These are enterprise products ... pricing on call
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> What's up with freaking programmers of all the people in the world thinking they're in a position to give far-reaching life like this? As if programmers are not people. All Programmers are not rich and privileged, the
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by ngc248 4y ago
OP is not saying Only standardized tests are relevant, what he is saying is after your education, SATs are the level playing field which you can prepare for, the preparation is within the student's control. Otherwise its all fuzzy and
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by ngc248 4y ago
Using ChatGPT to get stock tips or stock predictions and then trade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPjWfZm5jZk Extremely low value scammy content
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by ngc248 4y ago
I feel its because there are so many different tribes/groups, each fighting for power with others. The old tribalism never went away, its just reflected in the government now.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Exactly, every single time, the goals (in our company they are called Bold goals) are irrelevant after a quarter. The only time it mattered was in a company and that too for only 6 months, where we had monthly SMART goals. At the end of 6 m
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Microsoft to cap daily Bing AI queries to stop the bot delivering daft responses(theregister.com)
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by ngc248 4y ago
Its almost the same everywhere. 90/10 rule, 80% incompetent and 10% somewhat competent
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by ngc248 4y ago
I took it as a double entendre. We took advantage of the WFH policy and the company also took advantage of us, coz more work got done, since we had nowhere to go.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Also in this agile scrum world no one seems to care about technical feats or technical acumen. Its all about closing JIRA stories. Somehow Agile just grinds out all the fun out of coding making coding feel dreary and robotic.
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by ngc248 4y ago
haha their managers' job is just redefining expectations of what is required.
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by ngc248 4y ago
All this means is getting promoted and sustaining progress on the tech track is very difficult. Compared to that I feel promotion on the management track is easier, all you need to do is get more people under you.
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by ngc248 4y ago
At the beginning of my career, I had faced the same issue. This was at a casino gaming company. During the first year I was the top performer, but due to the GFC (2008) i got peanuts. The next year, the director got his old report as a mana
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> I see way more misery in American cities than I ever seen here. The grass is always greener on the other side. Even Japan has misery, but due to their cultural norms you are not supposed to show that publicly, you are just supp
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by ngc248 4y ago
Size of population, homogeneity etc are factors which explain the difference. The city of Bangalore is bigger and more populous than Singapore.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Wasn't paywalled for me and I am visiting from the outside the US. Maybe they think you will pay for the article :)
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by ngc248 4y ago
I love these old magazines. Byte, Omni, Computer Gaming World, Oh Boy's life. Magazines used to be so amazing, until they got hijacked by ads. The ads earlier were actually helpful, But post 2000s the ads were well just a nuisance.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>> here are a lot of nice things in life that work because most people aren’t assholes True, when people look at regulations and rules and wonder why its the way it is, its mostly because of all the assholes.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> but they also had a big hardware business that became Agilent. They spun-off the hardware testing business as Agilent. The servers, networking and storage business stayed with HP until 2015 when the split happened. After the s

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