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I think we haven't really seen the effects of tourism to places. - Before airbnb there was some balance in these places: people had regular professions (plumbers, builders, bakers,…

That's true, but at least all these places were kept unharmed and less touristic before airbnb. Each island's tourism was almost limited around hotels and established rental houses…

It's not about xenophobia, more like fear that the greek landscape we know won't be like this in the future. But greeks are not xenophobic, i would say the opposite. They seem to j…

Same in Greece, the countryside and even the islands are dying or declining. Everyone is moving to Athens or nearby big cities. Even most greek islands have become huge only-summer…

You need to run them in review loops, this is the only way to reduce or eliminate these issues.

It’s also funny because we seem to trust and select doctors by google reviews and assume they have a valid diploma and license to consult us for our lives, but we have to grill som…

I hope they won't chop gpt-4o-mini soon because it's fast and accurate for API usage.

Funny thing is that i had a negative experience helping someone who was laid off. I reached out, offered help, provided excellent reference for them, covid hit and hiring froze for…

I understand this for a dry candidate pool. I have been there as a hiring manager, you need some signal with take home or live interviewing. But on the rare opportunity that you fi…

Why put the blame only on candidates? Interviewers are equally bad to interviewees. I have been to both sides of the table and can guarantee that 80% of interviewers would not be f…

Companies keep ignoring the historical interview point. I have been to a few occasions when companies needed the exact thing i built in the past (e.g. migration to clickhouse), but…

I don’t trust vag for anything after the diesel scandal. I prefer any other brand than this.

That's a typical modern SaaS issue that all departments have to keep building just to appear busy and "meet goals". Product managers to find the new shiny features, designers to de…

I am not commenting on the interview effort-salary ratio, but the fact that credentials and experience mean nothing to the tech industry, also comparing to the rest of professions.…

I trust they were really competent, but it's a bit depressing that these competent people will need to go through the leetcode rituals and 5-10 interviews to get a new job at Meta,…

Of course it's not right. Let's be honest, our profession is in the era where software engineer = factory worker, and the worst part is that we have been playing music chairs right…

I checked pg_repack a while ago but some issues are a bit concerning to apply in production. Did you face any issues?

Let’s hope ai hacks mailboxes and google meet, and eventually replace c suite and managers as well. We might get more ‘reasoned’ and deterministic engineering roadmaps or financial…

TBH the product team in whatsapp needs to find some way to be meaningful. What could justify being a head of product or product manager in a chat app? New emojis? Gif support? New …

Author here, happy to discuss any of the points mentioned in the blog post.

Do they have a status page?

Congratz to neon team (i like what they built), but i don’t see the value or relation to databricks. I hope neon will continue as a standalone product, otherwise we lose a solid po…