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I believe CDPush still has some latency involved which would be slower than reading raw config data from a DB.

In addition to the benefits above, by storing storing config in version control is 2 party control, presubmit linting, and easy rollbacks. I suppose the trade off is slower rollout…

PIPs are used as tools to lay people off or get revenge often. It's not meant to be an actual "performance improvement plan." There's many stories of people hitting all requirement…

Any problems where the configuration space is large, and you want to find some optimal configurations to the problem, would in theory benefit since you can directly map the configu…

Once something is released, there's general access given for that particular software/hw but it still needs to be requested. In a weird way, it creates some internal excitement on …

Funny enough, this is a system design question asked in many interviews: https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-modern-system-desi... https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-ques…

I think it's a good concept but I think this quote isn't fully accurate: "Such reasoning implies that money is the only reason why people would do something, which is not true. Sci…

If QMs generate a large amount of solutions and these solutions just need to be checked and verified for correctness, it seems more of a statistical mechanical system, where you a …

Would TCI recommend they lay off their own staff or reduce their staff salaries due to such abysmal returns also? Lol.

Communism isn't better; you replace elites with another set elites who control power and those who can produce goods and value have zero incentive to produce. Communism has been tr…

Uh, their reputation took a huge hit with the mass layoffs. If there was over-hiring, that's a reflection of the higher ups who didn't evaluate the economy, demand, etc... Yet most…

You keep worming your way, distorting your initial statement. You initially stated the following: > Though engineering at FAANG in general is overrated. Know plenty of underperform…

Publish or perish produces such low quality papers. Perhaps there should be a journal for interesting tidbits as opposed to blown out papers, similar to scientific blogs. But I rec…

Don't be pedantic, that was absolutely the intent of Arthur's post. Re-read it. He clearly insults FAAANG engineers as incompetent, then follows with FAANG engineers are just avera…

That logic is not sound. If there's some selection criteria to select engineers from the general populace S, and a subset engineers who make it past S are average, that doesn't mea…

There's definitely testing but it's not at the level that it should be. That is, there's presubmit and postsubmit testing, but who is triaging the results? In addition, how often d…

Why is the defensiveness "unpleasant" when you're the one calling engineers incompetent because they work for FAANG? I quote you: > In fact, most Google engineers taken out of Goog…

Good idea, thanks :-)

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Good engineers relative to what? You're conflating averages within a company, to averages in general to software engineers in the market. And you're basing this on the failures of …

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A lot of these issues are quality issues but Google outsources QA and testing. Apple hires people from retail to do manual QA and testing. Automation is often not good enough since…

I think you're insulting anyone who has worked for FAANG as someone who is not a good engineer, has an average IQ, and only got into the position via grinding. That's pretty dising…

Reminds me of the Star Trek episode about nanites self-replicating.