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Google phone interview long time ago. Can’t remember what I said or did wrong, but realised I wouldn’t get a call back when the guy asked: ”do you know what a set is?”

My 2c is to try the funky ideas to get a foothold/differentiator I think your implicit intuition that indie gamers are keen to explore more titles than they currently (reasonably) …

Is this region dependent? In us-east I can’t get them to approve a quota for GPU instance families (G,P) for anything more than 4 CPUs. At one point they rejected my request citing…

Take risks, say yes to all opportunities, try to fail often. I don't mean risks in the sense of things that put you physically or mentally in harm's way, but trying ideas, learning…

I agree, esp with ML models being where they are. For people writing blogs/articles it’s a similar problem - how do you stand out against the noise? Honestly I don’t have answers b…

A beautiful book, written in the "The Little..." series' question and answer format. A challenging topic but just about as accessible as I can think anyone can make it. Warmly reco…

I have an MSc in CS so biased, but I think on balance it's worth it, if only because you'll be confronted with subjects outside your comfort zone. Even if you don't "like" them the…

With your very limited runway I'd get another offer with another employer first. That immediately strengthens your negotiation position with your current employer, even if you have…

https://research.google/pubs/pub43146/

"We have a time every morning when the team gets together and reviews all of the code and designs that were developed the previous day." That seems much better than the mandatory c…

It’s getting harder and harder in practice because of the huge mountain of accidental complexity programming needs dealing with. I remember writing a very small single user OS for …

Two things stood out to me: 1. So many caveats and excuses before raising some valid criticisms! People in the cryptocurrency space sure seem easily offended. 2. Most of the articl…

I quit and am pursuing my own interests with the nest egg I’ve built up over the years (am also mid 40s). It’s been incredibly invigorating to finally be able to think for myself a…

Interesting idea. Seems pretty comprehensive too: https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade/wiki/Step-list Where do you draw the line between updating OS and global tools and code repo…

I didn't, but plenty of friends and family did in the hype cycle. Initially I was just kinda too lazy, then started to see some red flags. Unsuccessfully trying to convince friends…

That reminds me of when I was working in finance - an equity analyst came over to the developer aisle and started asking questions like "what is COBOL? what is Visual Studio?" beca…

As others have said, this is all for SEO - quick "content marketing". With the advance of AI this is only going to get worse. There's a whole cottage industry of companies that gen…

I am obviously biased as one of the maintainers, but this is exactly the kind of thing we built Meadowrun for! See https://meadowrun.io It takes your local code and environment (we…

Improving https://meadowrun.io by reducing startup time for EC2 jobs - Linux distro makes a lot of difference, Clear Linux starts very quickly compared to Ubuntu. Discussing market…

This GitHub Copilot thing is pretty polarizing. According to one of the expert papers they sollicited, it's unlikely MSFT/GitHub is breaking any copyright laws. What they're doing …

"As an Atlassian founder, I would like to make money, so that I can sell and never look at a Jira ticket again" tag, estimate, assign, add to epic, put on next sprint

Very nice, and well done on building an active community around it. I like the integration with the cached data, makes it feel like a build system :) We were unaware of ploomber un…

Paper has been removed?