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You have to have access to far more than $250k to be willing to blow that creating a startup. I may give my kids $250k for a house to live in. I do not have enough for them to yolo…

Unfortunately were I live... The sports clubs were bought out by private equity and charge large fees. The local park is rented to the same private sports teams 7 days a week. The …

The cuts include workers in senior director and vice president roles, as well as managers, product developers, product managers, program managers, software developers, site reliabi…

The schools studied in that paper are free, or close to free. Not $50,000 per anum And I don't think OP was suggesting it's the quality of education that affects outcomes in attend…

Yeah, I think the first mistake is thinking 'large software project' is specific enough to have any good advice at all. Large software projects could include AAA console videogame,…

A fine time to cancel Larabee properly and get serious about specialized GPU hardware five years earlier.

The grocery bagger on a zero hour contract needs to be able to survive when not given 40 hours. Also the 5% unemployed people in a 'full employment' economy need to be able to surv…

Have you seen how much money we are shoveling into 'AI'

Boeing has consistently underperformed the market massively since the MD merger. Making maybe 3% after inflation

Monorepo very often means bazel for tooling (rbe and caching tests) and that means one WORKSPACE with common versions of libs. Monorepo also means a team 'vetting' new thirdparty l…

Related video about releasing games on linux, i.e. dlopen() all the things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeMPCSqQ-34

in this context 'your boss' is usually a level or two above your direct manager on org chart Take it as the most senior person you can get regular face time with, this also needs t…

More like the willfully blind engineers, disingenuously claim to believe that absurd bullshit. There's not a lot genuine left in that company.

Should managers exist? We got along better before all these managers arrived, could ship huge projects with 100 people and one ceo. And the ceo wrote code and didn't do any of the …

Then when you need to buy a house you have to leave. Net migration to London from the rest of England and Wales is only positive for those aged 20 to 27 There's plenty of great exp…

Me too. At least i can be wrong in private that way.

This sounds far more real to me than the original post. All the technical issues in the world don't bother me unduly, it really is the managers who make you hate work. Money wise t…

I believe the conclusion is correct in 2025, but the article in a way just perpetuates the 'misinformation', making it seem like finding if your code will compile to a dynamic bran…

"it will almost certainly double in value in 7 years" implies 10% is an almost certain long term return. It is not. 10 years is a common rule of thumb to double your investment, th…

I see an over-reliance on automated tests recently. Often suggesting just passing the CI tests is enough to approve a change. In ancient code it's just as important to limit the bl…

It's also important to realize claim denial isn't the same for all customers. When I was classed as an executive at a large blue chip company, my claims were approved quickly and e…

That game already exists. Intel and Amd had an odd relationship for years when Intel needed Amd so they could claim that competition existed. Cross licensing instruction sets and t…

They are referring to the liz truss budget.

100% this; unfortunately also often seeing junior devs called staff after job hopping for 3 or 4 years never really learning anything. Junior job titles are nearly as much of a mes…

"Instead of using typical supercomputer networking solutions like Infiniband, Tesla chose to adapt Ethernet to their needs with a modified transport layer." So, they need to compar…