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Years ago my team was tasked with greenfield dev of a cloud native app while the platform/infrastructure was also evolving. We worked nights and weekends to get it done on time onl…

Not quite what was asked but a few of the stories here reminded me of this. Years ago I was working on developing a new cloud native service. The particular microservice I was work…

Nobody becomes a billionaire off salary. Generally speaking, billionaires come to be billionaires because they created something that has value in the billions. Someone who has cre…

I see a lot of negativity here, and I do agree about the daily ping which I see you’re removing, which I think is a good move. As someone that has done cloud development at a giant…

A strange comment to leave on a social media site.

That’s a different problem. “Fix toxic environments that keep certain types of people out of an honest line of work” is a good problem to solve. That is not the same as “let’s incr…

As a fellow practitioner, I entirely agree. Actually, reading this article made something click for me regarding the oft discussed and denigrated “bias in AI” always brought up in …

This comment made me realize what my mentor did years ago. He would have the entire team list all possible solutions to a problem, including the obviously bad ones, then have us wh…

> running anything related to AI involves GPU instances This is not true. A _lot_ of AI applications use algorithms such as logistic regression or random forests and don’t need GPU…

Why is “get more women into STEM” a worthy goal in and of itself?

Watson is pretty racist himself, actually: https://www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18182530/james-watson-racist

No. If you have a 1% solution (to pick a number) and you add more 1% solution, it doesn’t become 2%.

I think IBM is one.

Indeed, often legal language is left as open to interpretation when new so that the manifestation of reality can polish it over time. This is a new venture; being imprecise about “…

I’m a senior software engineer and software architect at a tech giant that has been lucky to have the experience of launching a new product twice, operationally treating it as a we…

> Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce by approximately 250 people. These are individuals of exceptional professional and personal caliber who h…

What about the cost of operating an equivalent service in house?

The “better” devs work on creating the things that will provide business value in the future and that require more skill/expertise to create.

The goal of the shelter in place is to “flatten the curve” so that the medical system is not overloaded. According to that article, they believed that their medical system could ha…

See: Simpson’s paradox, where trends in subgroups, taken together, can indicate a different trend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

Because they sell a product that fits customers’ needs. The tech stack doesn’t matter.

Impressive effort. I’m sure you looked at it, so I’m curious why not use gRPC? To avoid HTTP?

This is in line with some observations I’ve made. If you notice, decades ago, superheroes were imbued with some sort of power and then study it and train diligently, eventually mas…

The IBM Watson STT service supports this: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/whos-speaking-speaker-diariza...

It’s a common abbreviation. I don’t know how you’ve worked in computing of any sort for decades without coming across it.