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You definitely don't need a personal website, blog, or even github for most jobs. If you're cold-applying to jobs online, and you don't have a linkedIn it will be seen as a red fla…

The product page linked at the top of the article boasts about voice encryption as a feature, but that's still very much illegal on ham radio bands in the US, right? Or is it just …

IDK they're like $19 these days and that's without even knowing if they'll officially list the Vision Pro as a supported device yet or not! https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MM6F3…

solo.io | Senior Backend Software Engineer | Boston, MA (Cambridge), or fully remote (NA) | Full-time Solo is an application networking company working with open source, cloud nati…

I think "bad people" is relative here though. The incentive structure is entirely misaligned. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments here, agents' best strategy for the highest pos…

Ok but you could replace the "Sending notifications about new listings in real time" duty by subscribing to zillow/redfin etc with specific filters... for free. It's hard to make t…

The problem in this particular case is that the sensor may be confidently telling you there's something in the way, but in reality it's just a plastic bag. Hard braking at 70mph on…

The issue is that the number displayed on the dash can be toggled between "% battery remaining" or "miles remaining". The "Miles remaining" is actually "EPA rated miles x % battery…

I always disliked Irish (and languages, in general) in school. However, now that I'm over a decade out of college I find it to be one of the few subjects I wish I'd paid more atten…

One use case I'm psyched about for this - shared virtual whiteboarding for remote workers. No traditional apps have been able to reproduce the feeling of being in the room with a s…

+1 for BetterSnapTool. I've had it for years, one of the first things I install on any new Mac. It's always "just worked" for me, zero issues.

I would 100% watch the Kitboga of ssh attacks, is that something that exists today? The closest I've seen so far is password purgatory - https://www.troyhunt.com/sending-spammers-t…

solo.io | Software Engineer | Boston, MA (Cambridge), or fully remote | Full-time Solo is an application networking company working with open source, cloud native technologies. If …

Why not both? They don't have to be mutually exclusive! For example - I'd be in favor of abolishing the current H1-B lottery in favor of taking in the first 85,000* applicants with…

I was going to say that FANG companies don't make up a very large proportion of H1-B visas and that the majority go to Infosys, Tata, Cognizant and the like... But I just looked it…

As of May 2023 there are[0] over 300,000 tech job listings open and unfilled across the country. There are an additional 65,000 H1B visas available each year to applicants with bac…

In reality the bar to clear this requirement is quite low. E.g. "We put an ad in the (physical) local newspaper one time for this job, with every single esoteric skill this individ…

solo.io | Software Engineer | Boston, MA (Cambridge), or fully remote | Full-time Solo is an application networking company working with open source, cloud native technologies. If …

I don't think the problem is the subscription model exactly. If I'm paying $15 / mo for netflix, it's very clear that my $15 gets me one month of access, to whatever's available in…

The problem is that your accounts with these businesses can accrue innate value over time. If you have spent 4 figures on buying video games on steam, and then want to dispute a fr…

solo.io | Software Engineers | Boston, MA (Cambridge), or fully remote | Full-time Solo is an application networking company working with open source, cloud native technologies. If…

The author touches on why it matters in the article - either you have to restrict hiring to folks who are already rust experts (much smaller hiring pool, also usually meaning highe…

You have to remember though that coding interviews != production code. Taken to the extreme, are you also adding logging, metrics, performance benchmarks, etc? TDD is great if you …