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It seems exceedingly unlikely that the current Pro plan costs will hold for the next two years. The subsidization train is going to end eventually.

Engaged != listened to.

It had a very 90s/early-2000s tech blog feel to it. Only thing missing was his custom Gentoo build.

Good riddance.

$10k is such an insanely small amount of money (compared to SWE salaries) for someone at a big tech company to risk their job for.

This was the first example that popped to mind: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs... Not having Google accounts isn't the end of the world, but given the…

This. People tend not to realize how sprawling enterprise software stacks tend to be, how many implicit dependencies have to be untangled, etc. Even simple things can take years an…

All my feedback has been covered by others, so just +1 on “this is awesome, he (and you) should be proud!” Looking forward to seeing his internship projects in a decade or so.

I don’t click on HN articles expecting to cry, but here we are.

Pretty soon the apes in charge are going to be using this study to demand that the chimps return to the office 5 days per week.

There are 330 million of us, too. The vast majority can be reasonable people and that still leaves millions of batshit crazy Americans out there to write about. Edit: typo

Pascal was the language that AP Computer Science was taught in in the mid-90s when I took it. We used Turbo Pascal 6.0 for DOS, and I have fond memories. I think I'd still prefer C…

Chinese grammar only really seems like English in the beginning. It diverges fairly aggressively from intermediate onwards.

Does your employer pay you for hours or output? I'm a salaried employee, I get paid for output, not the time it takes to produce. I think if anything you're stealing from yourself,…

Sorry I thought that was too obvious to warrant an /s but I suppose not.

Thorough code review is why we as an industry stopped shipping bugs.

I interviewed with them in 2022 and was offered a position, but decided not to take it and pursue another opportunity elsewhere. At the time it was remote and I was told that "tech…

I was fully expecting this to be an article showing how Kafka-esque the American health insurance system is.

To be fair only about half of US ACH traffic flows through the Fed (the other half goes through the Clearing House Payments Company), but the Fed is very much involved (and a criti…

I’m sure Facebook could too (their disaster recovery planning and drills were always top notch) but I’m glad I won’t be oncall if it ever happens :-D

Makes sense to me. I remember several lunch conversations at FB about whether or not we even could restart the site with totally cold caches. I’m sure it was possible but it wouldn…

I use GPT-3.5 for a lot of terminology lookup, and it's generally pretty great. "In the context of [field I'm ramping up in], what does X mean, and how is it different than Y" -- i…

Is not "hello world programs without I/O" basically measuring the startup time of the language's runtime? Not that that's not important, but given that Rust and Go are the only two…