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> Usually this isn’t necessary and its better to just return the error unwrapped. This is a terrible advice. Wrapping is extremely helpful in providing additional context for the e…

I believe the idea is that 'panic' is considered something fatal. If it happens, the application should die unless you have a strong reason for it not to. If you can recover e.g. b…

> There's a reason why most FAANGs developed their own packages management and deployment system and keep using them. They are simpler, less bloated, easier to debug. Most FAANGs d…

It doesn't work like this. If there is a hiring freeze in place, it means that internal headcounts are also limited. The "desperate team elsewhere" must have money to pay for the n…

It is not harder, it is different. They just ask more system topics, while focusing less on coding. There is, however, a catch. If you get hired as a SRE-SWE, you can easily switch…

Counterpoint: I have a HomePod mini in one of my rooms and it reacts easily to any mention of Siri in other rooms. So I am actually impressed with how good it is in reacting.

iCloud and Google storage plans are overpriced? I have always thought they are cheap storage plans. 50GB of iCloud costs $0.99 per month. 2TB costs $10 which is similar to other so…

+1 on this. Homebrew is so smooth to use that I never felt like I am missing something compared to Linux package managers.

I'm certainly far from finding excuses for Google, but I have strong doubts when reading stories like this. I wonder how is this possible? If you check their support packages at ht…

What finance jobs? The only companies in software engineering paying more than FAANG are trading companies like Jane Street. And AFAIK they have harder interview loops than Google.…

As engineers, we all know that there are different circumstances. Sometimes they are technical, sometimes political. I would say we should always assume goodwill, unless proven wro…

Calling Uber just "a taxi app" is IMHO like calling Facebook just a website. Sure, that's what the end user gets, but there is plenty of engineering involved such as maps service (…

Interestingly, this is not some random app, but something that has been featured in Wired: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/turn-handful-phones-speaker-sy... This is their webpage: ht…

Umm... This is a US-based job, right? As someone based in Europe, I find it absolutely shocking you have been requested to work ahead of your start date. This is not even eligible …

Well….. it should be clear by now that this is not just about “resetting a password”. The instructions at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204106 provide quite a lot of options to…

@OP Since the machine is new, I wonder if you talked to Apple support on the phone? Did they tell you to visit the service in person? Also, out of curiosity, how can you have multi…

Just casually wondering here... how do you evaluate the voice assistants to claim that Alexa is improving, Google Assistant is getting worse and Siri is terrible? I used all three …

I don't see this mentioned by other commenters so let me provide another perspective. Namely, I think OP is doing it wrong. OP claims to have done 400+ LC problems over a couple of…

My bet is that K8s will not only be worth learning in 2022, but also easily beyond. It is now a common infrastructure component of projects I participated in (some always used it, …

Works perfectly fine for me. Safari 15.1 on Monterey. Same on iPad with iOS 15.

Precisely this. If the management is willing to put an unexperienced person at the steering wheel of the company's IT infrastructure, it is a clear red flag. This is not to depreci…

Comments like this make me wonder if people really expect engineers to be fired because of an outage? I do not work at Google, but none of my workplaces would fire engineers becaus…

I think "Effective Java, 3rd edition" is a good book to have a look at. It is not entirely up to date but covers Java 8 features which are a must. In general, I'd heavily recommend…