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I was only there in 2022, but at that point there were in fact three or more monorepos (forked roughly based on toolchain - go and scala in one, primarily Ruby in the one detailed …

I just killed Reddit off my home screen after a decade of usage because of a totally different bullshit growth hacking thing - they have started injecting their “recommended” subre…

Yeah; my product team will get wildly different priorities over the course of a month as execs spin plates, PMs and managers scramble around, and we nail down what our next round o…

This is very on point. We have platform and product in entirely different reporting structures that meet just below Sundar; this leads to hysterically different cultures. My team i…

My old gig was at Lawerence Livermore (home of Edward teller); there’s a photo of the sedan test with a few lab engineers posed next to it in the building that they interview new c…

Timezones. It’s hard enough scheduling meetings across multiple timezones (and boy are there a lot of meetings in FAANG), but going more than +/- 6 is a huge pain (I meet with east…

There are a variety of European climate agencies; depending on what country you live in / are interested in being in, there's: - UK: Met Office https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-u…

It’s L4 as of like a year ago; also going up to L5 no longer has promo committee per-se, but instead is a PA meeting between leads who hash it out, and the manager is much more inv…

Yeah, but one of the main roles of pretty much every government is regulating what is sold in their markets. (Were this a less autocratic regime,I would have said "governments are …

It's actually a reference to the USB-C ecosystem for the laptop line; Marco and his cohosts on the Accidental Tech Podcast have burned a lot of time griping about the state of conn…

The front-end interviews at Google are about half algorithms and half details about how web front-ends should work, be structured, web technology problems, browser performance, etc…

Almost definitely not the case at Google presently. 80-90% of the fridge space is dedicated to non-soda beverages (flavored seltzers, cold brew coffee, iced teas), and the chips + …

When ordering at a restaurant, yes.

As an owner of a car with ACC and lane keeping, I frequently get to experience the always fun sensation of my car accelerating full bore at a turn. My understanding is that Tesla a…

As an additional piece of anecdata, I was also thoroughly underwhelmed by my offer (software engineer) at Tesla; they either maliciously or incompetently tried to get me to take an…

I can report that the climate scientists I knew mostly worked on macs (laptops, largely; a variety had trash-can Mac Pros as well). Fairly sizable motivator was the Unix CLI; they …

On the bandwidth end, both Android and iOS do use incremental updates ([1], [2]); if the changes are something that you would be releasing eventually anyway, you're not wasting any…

> ... no need to make a NASA pen As is frequently trotted out whenever someone reaches for this analogy, http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp (tl;dr: pencils aren't g…

For those in one of the covered regions[1], Kaiser Permanente is largely not-evil. You have to go through your GP to get referrals to specialists, but it's a series of mostly consi…

Also, they controlled for language and the effect was still present.

I had a phone screen with a start up in the middle of my last job hunt where they let me know they were in the middle of porting their entire frontend to React + Redux, while rewri…

Grover Norquist is also the basis of one of my personal engineering mantras: "I don't want to abolish dependencies. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into …

Presumably a reference to the long history of the symbol prior to its appropriation by the Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

Top left: Table ____ Bottom left: NRW Bug: He who sends ____ (wrong?) data Top right: Kitchie Boo Boo Bug: He who ____ around errors in relays Bottom right: He who brings good data…