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If you look at the reaction to this and the Tailscale post it becomes clear its not about this being a marketing scheme. Cynicism has made its way through HN unless you are one of …

Yes but one subtle point. Exactly once processing is not possible in these frameworks, they assume execution is idempotent which means at least once. Now, any system I’ve seen desi…

This might help https://youtu.be/6KGYCU_INVI?si=1Ds8Rez8vNbZAyV5 , it has more to do with your perception, expectations, and the story you tell yourself rather than an actual state…

The real answer is the unsatisfying but true “my shit doesn’t stink but yours sure does”

Sounds like you have some beef to pick, not sure why you feel the need to discredit this person you don’t even know.

It’s pretty easy to change jobs on an H-1B if you are high skill. I love hearing folks, who aren’t on an H-1B, tell me things like this. Or that I’m paid less when I’m paid more. I…

This is my problem with design documents. If your stakeholders already have enough trust that they ask you to go build it without writing a doc, then what value does writing a desi…

Mortality is not meant to be cured. Quality of life on the other hand..

Upvotes for you. I have also worked a ton of odd jobs out of necessity. Many doing things that would frankly disgust most people, or people would say is a worker’s right violation,…

I worked at Facebook and the amount of ex-FBers, especially OGs, speaking out against them on LinkedIn is staggering. I’ve debated doing a livestream of reading this book from star…

The effect on society and the human psyche when political discussions are stripped away from forums is chilling. Internet forums and IRC channels, in their peak, welcomed discussio…

I was hoping for stronger rationale than this. This is not a React-specific problem.

I did not do any OKRs on an infrastructure team. Qualitative results were just as valued, and we had the quantitative knobs to dial when needed thanks to excellent internal tooling…

Some people don't want to hear this, but it is 100% true.

Or you know, go chat with the tool maintainers because they want people using them for impact.

It is a judgemental piece because the writer is putting a value judgement on people who use LLMs to code and those who don't. Its right after the piece you quoted. > please don’t t…

Let’s not pretend it’s just PMs. I’ve worked with PMs who fought against shipping fast but ultimately an engineering manager or engineer comes in and forces a fast ship.

With the right analysis I can show how your outage increased your business value.

I would bet more in a company who figured out the last 20% in a specific city than a company stuck on the first 80% generally.

This, short-term decisions win money in the short-term but businesses are always talking about retention and retention is most durable with a good product.

Mac and Linux run EDRs in userspace without an issue. No one here has an excuse or no choice.

This unfortunately seems like the status quo in the modern age. It is worse in online discourse when you can type a message and put the phone down to forget about it. There are lit…

Bash runs almost anywhere but many of the tools you need for bash, external binaries, are not ubiquitous or have subtle differences between versions and OSes. But Python stdlib is …

Apple doesn’t pay consumer prices for their own chips.