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Yeah, you can't talk about the deterioration of Google without talking about the deterioration of the culture at Google. I didn't like working at AWS for the most part, but I have …

The best workaround (imho) is just using virtual cards. My Venture X allows me to create a virtual card on the spot restricted to that merchant where I can also enter an optional l…

As a Google engineer, it's really saddening to see the Welchism completely taking over Google. There are more than enough examples showing focusing on bottomline to increase shareh…

This books isn't about that at all. It's more about how our brains work and how we can use it to make our code better (read: easier to understand). If anything, the book tells the …

This was one of the best books I've ever read. I'll actually go ahead and say this is probably the only book I can confidently say that every professional programmer* should read. …

It indeed is hard, and a good code search platform makes life so much easier. If I ever leave Google, the internal code search is for sure going to be the thing I miss the most. It…

I'm torn about this. I've been in FAANG for a while now, and while I do think I'd be more successful/happier at a smaller company (and I actually was), I don't think "smaller" tech…

I hope they change the binary name since "jj" is a common binding for vim users :)

I'm still reading this book, but so far it's been one of the few books I'd recommend to anyone. I try to be as stoic as possible, but contents of this book has managed to actually …

Kudos for being so open -- after seeing numerous "incidents" at AWS and GCE I can say that two rules always hold with respect to observability: - You don't have enough. - You have …

I'm not surprised a bit given how hostile Twitch has become to users. Completely irrelevant ads, ads playing at worst times (who the hell thought it'd be a good idea to show an ad …

I don't know if it's the tool honestly. I've recently switched teams and I'm in the process of getting java readability. The whole experience so far has been much worse than gettin…

probably for developers' sanity :)

This^. OP is basically just filtering for people who have experience building hash tables.

Any alternatives you'd recommend? I'm not happy with Notion at all, but I haven't been able to find a good alternative for my own personal use: - Sync across all devices - Hierarch…

Apologies if it came as rude or hateful, that wasn't my intention. Funny thing is I'm a C++ programmer myself right now as I mentioned :) Even if we decide to "deprecate" C++ today…

It _looks_ easier because it lets you do anything you want. C++ makes you feel like you're going faster, but then you spend two weeks debugging a weird memory issue. I come from fu…

As someone who has been writing C++ at Google, this exactly. Despite all the tooling, guidelines and "internal magic", C++ is still an abomination. And no it has nothing to do with…

Huh, citation? :) I'm not saying you're wrong, but as a GCP engineer I have never seen us (well, my org) implementing something because of "AWS or Azure has it".

UO kind of shaped my life. The first piece of code I ever wrote was creating a bow with my name on it. It felt like magic and it was so exciting that I never stopped coding since t…

I do and I love it! (except it stopped working on Safari and Firefox for some reason)

This is a good place to remind that _never ever_ buy a Tesla. I was a huge fanboy and I do love my car, but their customer support and service centers are absolutely horrendous. It…

This is Google sharpening its focus ;)

Not quite. If you pass the hiring committee, you have one year to find a team. So it's more like your interview result is good for a year. After you match with a team you get the a…