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I moved away from a gmail address that was that old, dating back to the invitation-only days. It had become more spam than not, mostly other people who share my initials not knowin…

There's so much happening in this space, but I still haven't seen what would be the killer feature for me: dual-mode operation in IDE and CLI. In a project where I already have a l…

> I don't think those would change often I think this is where our contexts may differ, and so we end up with different tradeoffs and choices :) The services running on our dev ser…

> Isn't this a matter of not reusing old VMs after a `git pull/checkout`, though? Yes, but forcing people to rebase is disruptive. Master moves several times per minute for us, so …

Yes, but this still "freezes" the VM when the user creates it, and I've got no tools to force the software running in it to be updated. It's important that boxes can be updated, no…

> I’d anticipate you would be equally as able to ssh to VMs on dev laptops. That’s definitely a prerequisite for making this work in the same way as you’re currently doing. Our lap…

> So the devs don’t have the ability to ssh to your cloud instances and change config? They do, but I can see those changes if I'm helping debug, and more importantly, we can set u…

> I’m referring to running everything inside a single VM that you would have total access to. It could have telemetry, you’d know versions etc. I wonder if there’s some confusion a…

Some important differences from 2019: * Code is off of laptops and lives entirely on the dev server in many (but not all) cases. This has opened up a lot of use cases where devs ca…

I work on this at Stripe. There's a lot of reasons: * Local dev has laptop-based state that is hard to keep in sync for everyone. Broken laptops are _really hard_ to debug as oppos…

> How do you make them interested in your company in the first place? Triplebyte did not really have a cost-effective solution for that They absolutely did! It was getting companie…

> survival of the species is not aligned with the survival of an individual The unit of survival is not the individual or the species, but the gene. Genes maximize their survival b…

From working at a CLEC (competing local exchange carrier) in the 90's: This mindset goes back to the AT&T antitrust breakup. It was decided that phone companies would not be allowe…

I hadn't heard this statistic: > since a small minority of human drivers cause the vast majority of incidents It's tough to find anything relevant on DDG or google, they come up wi…

Or perhaps "ourorobos" :)

> So there is some precedent that courts do look at the "utility" or "sufficiently transformative" aspect when weighing copyright infringement. Curiously, from the article, copyrig…

I was consulting in 08-10, the last tough time. Anecdotally, it was ~fine, but you need to be okay dealing with more chaos in your life. Your budget comes out of different pools of…

Is there equivalent empirical data from real programmers? That is to say, you have code prompts here, let Copilot fill in the gaps, and rate that code. Is there a study that uses t…

I've given hundreds of interviews, and here's some that have gotten real-talk answers out of me (both good and bad): * What's one thing you'd change about ? * Tell me about the las…

The private insurance companies have gotten out of the flood insurance game long ago, leaving the government-backed US flood insurance program as the only game in town. And it's go…

Not a googler, but they posted an update in 2017 with some more information: https://testing.googleblog.com/2017/04/where-do-our-flaky-te...

At the very least, sigs need to be in blocks so they can be lazy and not require that all constants in any sig be loaded at require time. It was a design decision that all type ann…

The sigs are implemented as blocks. We had them as hashes for a while, but it meant that code in all sigs was loaded as the code was loaded, even if runtime typechecking was disabl…

Ruby itself has zero changes from sorbet, so all sorbet syntax has to be valid Ruby. `sig` is implemented as a library. In this case, your example is not valid syntax, which violat…

Training to pre-select criteria before viewing candidates is well supported as a mitigation by literature such as: https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/uhlmann_et_2005.... F…