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Who? I can only think of Nero who sought only to "simply do harm." This is such a reductive way to cast people

Amazing read, and glad she could write this into history. It's amazing to me that Half-Life's status of immortality has more or less been preserved even today.

Damn, I love this. Information is dense and clustered, edges are sharp and it all feels so _human_. I can't stand the uncanny valley, fake minimalism lots-of-whitespace flat design…

The degree of singular outrage this guy produces is something else. It's like a switch flips in peoples' brains and they go through a two-minutes (or maybe two hours in this articl…

An interesting Tweet where somebody approximates Eight Sleep sales/subs counts: https://twitter.com/laurenbalik/status/1727385607041667430

In your article, your points about managing stateful data operations vs stateless tools is right on point. It's the eternal and ever-repeating argument that has to be made in every…

I indeed was a former “MAANG bro”, but this is sentiment gleaned from both a cohort of former coworkers who had stints there, along with general Flexporter attitude on Blind (which…

Lines up with the sentiment about Flexport being a tech retirement home

I agree. The open source flavor of dbt Core is very well-designed and almost as complete as you would want it, but any competition is good competition

And it's not like they don't understand the importance of mods' free labor to keep subreddits clean of filth and users visiting/contributing. I know somebody who worked there years…

Had a similar experience, but with the much more tame marijuana. It was a 6-hour long panic attack for me. Similar to the author of this, I read for years of how "the only way it c…

The Substack throttling was not false. It was throttled before the decision was reversed

Twitch is probably at peak "enshittification." Disastrous business decisions, from both the degradation of the product in the name of profits, as well as the questionable way it ha…

I got jobs at my current and last workplace through a recruiter reaching out to me through LinkedIn. I'm not necessarily exceptional in my skills and experience, and I don't even h…

This comment is perfect and elicited the long-buried inner rage I used to feel towards a former staff in an old company. I should not have had to navigate a staff engineer’s mind m…

Observation/mini rant: unfortunately the data industry is both very susceptible to fads and hype, and does not have widespread standardization or a generally-accepted set of best p…

One of the patron saints of 90's electronic music. God, this makes me sad. Rest in peace

This sounds similar to Flexport's CTO situation (he came from Amazon) and attempted microservice-ification of everything. Except it sounds like they weren't even able to get wheels…

I left about a year ago, but the universality of tools and stack was not a thing in the ~3 years I was there. Retail and AWS are split and use different stacks. Additionally, the c…

Not quite the same as an entirely ex-Blizzard staffed group of people, but Riot Games and League of Legends as well. Tom Cadwell[0] was there from the very beginning of League's li…

"join my webring" was something of a meme before memes were a thing

Bringing another life into this world is maybe one of the worst ways a person would try to solve depression

Any article about Amazon is guaranteed to inspire a grave post like this from a former employee. And as a former employee, I agree with the sentiment in nearly all of them.

The lifting-and-dropping process from transactional stores into analytics stores is usually the first step in analytics data pipelines. This appears to fulfill that initial ingesti…