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Anecdotal: A long time ago, in my 20's, I found out it's easy for me to think in two streams as long as they operated in different languages. I could talk to my colleagues in Hebre…

This is perfectly encapsulated in xkcd's "Standards" strip [ https://xkcd.com/927/ ].

Similar when you climb up the technical path as well, beyond staff engineer. It gets lonely, not many peers, not part of a team, you have to be careful about what you say and to wh…

GCP has it's own share of issues. ... I was writing a long vent about GCP but the mix of issues we had, just in the last few weeks, was too identifying and I don't want to sour an …

It’s a slop alright. But it also missed the next mainstream iteration which is Java virtual threads / Goroutines. Those do away with coloring by attacking the root of the problem: …

Yet... deploy on two clouds and you'll get tax payers scream at you for "wasting money" preparing for a black swan event. Can't have both, either reliability or lower cost.

It's missing the January 19, 2038, the unix epoch end. Only 12 years and a bit from now. Very much in our time.

I bet "I'm a lot of people". That's the point of the post. We exist, we contribute, some of us are critical. We just don't chase fame, don't care about (much) about recognition (be…

Heh. That's me. The "no presence" part. About the 10x part, ask my colleagues. I want to believe I'm doing some good work but who knows. But the no presence... I've got a kid, a ho…

To me that's a complete circle back to lessons learned from neural networks - I long suspected we'd be heading that way again with transformers being a computational step rather th…

That! It took me a while to start. My education of graph theory wasn't much better than your average college grad. But I found that fascinating and started reading. I was also very…

I oversimplified. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390701

The product was a CMDB, with great tech and terrible marketing.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390701

I oversimplified. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390701

That was about 20 years ago. Not much translates to today's world. I was in the algorithms team working on a CMDB product. Great tech, terrible marketing. These days it's very diff…

kindaaaa.... I oversimplified the problem :). Really it was about generating an isomporhic-ish view, based on some user defined rules, of an existing graph, itself generated by a s…

I despise leetcode interviews. These days, with coding LLMs, I see them as even less relevant than they were before. Yet, you ask someone "how do you build an efficient LFU" and ge…

One of my best commits was removing about 60K lines of code, a whole "server" (it was early 2000's) with that had to hold all of its state in memory and replacing them with about 5…

This (and all the rest) are true. But why isn’t every repeated alarm on (phone, calendar) equipped with “skip N nexts”?

Piggybacking on this, I just want an alarm that I could tell “not tomorrow please, I’m off work. But keep the schedule otherwise, ok?” Apparently that’s touch to ask in 2025.

A cursory glance at "setAccessible" usage reveals popular libraries such as serializers like gson and jaxb, class manipulation and generation like cglib, aspectj and even jdk.inter…

I'm so happy (well... I'm something. happy is somewhat hard to come by these days) that I helped a fellow widower. We're in this alone, but together. My personal view is to hide no…

"How is this our life?" I asked that question so many times (for reference, see my comment on Jake's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163619 ). I asked it of my late w…