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by pm90 1y ago
This. Its not really friendship (although sometimes it does turn into that too!) but a human connections. Understanding that the people that you’re working with are humans with hobbies, families and other interests makes it much more enjoya
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by pm90 1y ago
> There are around 140 species of wild potato in South America, growing from Mexico in the north all the way down to Argentina and Chile in the south. Super nit, but do authors think Mexico is in South America?
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by pm90 1y ago
Perhaps. But if you’re in the US your job is likely providing your primary income + health insurance + identity. Your compensation likely includes equity in the company if you’re in tech. So its in the collective interest to make the compan
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by pm90 1y ago
There is absolutely no reason to believe that this is the only way to write “world class” software. I have bo reason to doubt that this worked for Mr. Carmack. And sometimes when there are product deadlines or production issues, it absolute
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by pm90 1y ago
Slightly meta, but I find its a good sign that we're back to designing and blogging about in-house data storage systems/ Query engines again. There was an explosion of these in the 2010's which seemed to slow down/refocu
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by pm90 1y ago
No its not. Investigators will try to obtain data willingly unless they are made to believe that the party is not acting in good faith.
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by pm90 1y ago
> Tesla fans need to do a quick exercise in empathy right now. The way they are discussing this case, such as claiming the plaintiffs are just looking for a payout, is truly appalling. > You should put yourself in the family’s shoes.
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by pm90 1y ago
Almost certainly not AI, just more users going from hosted windows solutions to azure + office upsell (eg with Teams). Microsoft pretty much dominates the non Apple Desktop ecosystem and is used heavily by healthcare, defense and manufactur
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by pm90 1y ago
In less than 10 years the entire US automotive industry is gonna go bust. I just… can’t understand how anyone can look at the progress being made by BYD/Huawei and not be compelled to completely reorient the American economy to build&#
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by pm90 1y ago
Extremely disturbing to see the US Press go the same way as the Indian Press did under Modi.
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by pm90 1y ago
I think the amount of turmoil around these deals is giving more weight to the possibility that we’re in a massive bubble thats quite divorced from any kind of fundamentals. Sooner or later the bubbles gonna burst.
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by pm90 1y ago
Its a combination of factors. The end of ZIRP made raising money more expensive and the tax change made hiring Software Engineers more expensive. Small businesses faced existential challenges and cut back, so now there was less demand from
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by pm90 1y ago
According to reports, the comp packages were in the hundreds of millions of dollars. I doubt anyone but execs are making that kind of money at OpenAI; its the sort of money you hope from a successful exit after years of efforts. I don’t bla
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by pm90 1y ago
Within my (admittedly limited) social circle of engineers/developers there is consensus that working at Facebook is pretty taboo. I’ve personally asked recruiters to not bother.
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by pm90 1y ago
Yes Capitalism is an amazing thing
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by pm90 1y ago
Could be. It also could be that they feel comfortable raising money in the public markets for expansion, and to reward/retain their organization. We don’t really know if they tried doing a databricks or a stripe and raise billions in t
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by pm90 1y ago
From the adobe disaster to this. I am glad Adobe didn’t snuff them out. Cheers and congrats to … fig-mates? : )
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by pm90 1y ago
> Here, the market demands you come dressed in a tuxedo, not the jeans and blazer that passed for formal back home. Your packaging, your experience, your digital presence – everything needs to exude a level of sophistication that would s
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by pm90 1y ago
While genetics might play a small role for very specific reasons (eg a society thats prone to sickle cell disease will likely live shorter), there’s no such difference in large, diversified populations like US/Europe.
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by pm90 1y ago
I get the feeling that Universal Healthcare (medicare for all) would probably level the difference? What else is responsible for the almost 4yr difference with e.g. France? Is it diet? Is the air/water worse in the US?
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by pm90 1y ago
yaml is just not maintainable if you’re managing lots of apps for eg a midsize company or larger. Upgrades become manual/painful.
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by pm90 1y ago
Hard disagree with replacing yaml with HCL. Developers find HCL very confusing. It can be hard to read. Does it support imports now? Errors can be confusing to debug. Why not use protobuf, or similar interface definition languages? Then let
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by pm90 1y ago
Its oddly fascinating that Microsoft has managed to survive for so long with ancient/bad tools for software engineering. Almost like “life finds a way” but for software dev. From the outside it seems like they are doing better now afte
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by pm90 1y ago
Pretty sure all the Big Banks use call centers and manage to avoid this.
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by pm90 1y ago
Disagree. Change can start with anyone. Often its inspiring to see someone buckle the trend and “be real”.
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by pm90 1y ago
You can be honest about why your previous employer wasn’t the right fit without burning bridges. I really dislike all of this “reading between the lines” aren’t Americans supposed to be direct?
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by pm90 1y ago
Tech only started attracting real attention starting in 2008 when finance imploded. I remember very well that nerds/geeks were still considered weird outcasts back then. After the financial meltdown, tech really exploded and offered a
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by pm90 1y ago
i mean yeah if you’re in SF caltrain is super convenient, so its fine. Getting from oakland to south bay without a car was hell though. This line would make it so much better. Plus: Oakland is actually building homes for people while SF rem
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by pm90 1y ago
This isn’t how anything works. Both India and Pakistan depend on imported military hardware. Every time they’ve fought each other they’ve been embargoed. So every kind of engagement has an implicit timer before the military literally runs o
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by pm90 1y ago
I wouldn’t be so sure. It is easy for the tit-tat to spiral out of control. Any kind of military skirmish is very concerning… we should stop the fighting while we still can.

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