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I heard the average tenure for an SDE at amazon is something like 9 months. The culture is so repulsive that if you're good you leave soon and convert that big name on your CV to s…

The h1bs at Amazon were some of the most abysmal software developers I've seen in my life

A significant amount of modern academia would dissolve if this was applied

I use conductor with git worktrees and will literally have 10 or 20 running at a time getting pinged as they finish stuff for me to review, mostly getting rid of small ticket and d…

It's like saying we won't use compilers because it puts all the people who would manually create punch cards out of a job

Every time I read about someone's woes with git I have no idea how people run into certain scenarios or what people are even talking about, it reads like "if you've ever tried to u…

Nice! I love it when a language introduces new syntax for things that weren't remotely difficult in the first place!

Instead of founding this institute and spending however much they did on it they should have just protected DeepMind and not allowed it to have been sold to Google

Because a project manager somewhere can make a metric go up and get a promotion by doing it

This move makes sense for Firefox adoption, as Chrome has AI features built in now such as Lens

It's in use in customer facing apps, Prime Video is built with React

React is in use in many heavily used frontends at Amazon, maybe not the retail site But there's no inherent reason React couldn't be used for a page that basically shows pictures o…