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by upupupandaway 3y ago
There are very few pieces of software I have most respect for than Excel. It powers entire industries, from Finance to Science to Big Tech, is stable as hell, backward compatible, and won't stop innovating. And now you can run Python o
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Ask HN: What do you expect from a great VP of Engineering?
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
> You can't underscale part of your app with a monolith. Your pipe has to be big enough for all of it. Not necessarily. I owned one of Amazon’s most traffic-heavy services (3 million TPS). It was a monolith with roughly 20 APIs, all
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
I lived five years in HK, leaving in 2022. It was over around 2019, when the protests hit. It is quite impressive how the Chinese government was able to single-handedly remove all character from one of the world's most vibrant, interes
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
Google asked me the same thing.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
How does your pipeline work with an app that requires many other services to work?
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
What kind of experience do you have to be able to credibly provide this service? Must be a lot!
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
This reads quite funny: “god damn it, one of my projects was successful, so it ruined the fun”
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
I have about $120 in streaming subscriptions (wife, daughter). Lat week I wanted to watch Korean movie “Sleep”, which I then found and rented from both Google and Apple. Turns out that neither had subtitles in English. So I refunded both an
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
But they don’t have the show or movie you want, then you have to sign up somewhere else.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
I call your payroll software and raise you working on device drivers for Nokia’s Symbian OS phones.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
That's Brazil for you. Source: I'm one.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
This made me remember the amazing “parable of the languages” that had XML as the main antagonist of the story. We need an AI update for this one. https://burningbird.net/the-parable-of-the-languages/
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
Saw this firsthand when I worked at Nokia. It was consensus building taken to extreme levels, resulting in having 7 different UI toolkits and 4 developer platforms. Absolute hell, but very polite and conflict-free.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
Agreed. When I worked at a big tech company (let's say top 3) one person suggested the creation of a race-based committee (no whites allowed) that would receive complaints about any org members' personal social media - if they s
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
Maybe because being a minority is way more powerful than being a majority in today's big tech companies. And I speak this as a non-white minority.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
At Microsoft I was specifically told to not phone-screen female candidates -> they were to go straight to the loops. Additionally, one SDE (woman, non-white, former military) verbally abused another SDE (also a woman) during a customer c
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
In my 20 years in this market I found you can replace most TPMs with nothing.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
It's a much larger layoff. My friend's three VPs (heh) were all laid off in Fitbit. Entire orgs were wiped there.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
In my country Delphi was the most popular dev environment by a mile. It was really bizarre, with most of the world going for VB 5 and we in Delphi. It always seemed to me like a fantastic environment but for some reason it only took off in
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
Anybody in charge of making purchase decisions for Enterprise SaaS and going for a full-Broadcom stack should be fired.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
Good article, I can relate to it. Just this morning I was thinking, while interviewing an SDE 2 candidate: "how did we ever get here?". By "here" I mean in a situation where it seems that software developers after 3-4 ye
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
How good is this guy? It's just awe-inspiring.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
He’s trying very very hard to claim some credit in this. Probably had none.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
I am really surprised by people thinking this guy did anything to get sama back. He was probably not even in the room.
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
In a different thread I commented how surprised I was that Emmett Shear accepted the job of interim CEO, to some criticism that my opinion was “silly”. This is why he should have stayed miles away from this whole mess. There was no winnin
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
Did Mira also get fired?
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
A challenge he can't win, brought in by people 90% of the company hates, and with the four most influential people in the company either gone or having turned on the board does not sound like a "challenge" but more like a &qu
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
I find it absolutely fascinating that Emmett accepted this position. He can game all scenarios and there is no way that he can come out ahead on any of them. One would expect an experienced Silicon Valley CEO to make this calculus and reali
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by upupupandaway 3y ago
I am a former L7 SDM at Amazon. Just last year I had to contend with not one, but three teams doing the same thing. The faster one won with a half-baked solution that caused multiple Sev-1s. My original comment was half in jest; the actual

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