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I'm the manager for the team that owns our code host integrations. You're correct that we support non-git code hosts via a conversion to git. We're currently exploring what it mean…

All of our Sourcegraph docs are public, including our architecture overviews and a myriad other docs linked from there. https://docs.sourcegraph.com/dev/background-information/arch…

My biggest endorsement of Sourcegraph is that on Sunday nights I look forward to getting back to it on Monday morning to work with my amazing team and solve hard problems. I strugg…

I'm an EM at Sourcegraph and happy to chat with anybody who thinks they might be interested in helping us grow. We're stacked top to bottom with high quality people that truly care…

I don't know if this really qualifies as TL;DR, but they seem to have captured the high-level points: https://www.freshworks.com/freshsales-crm/sdr-sales-developm...

I recently finished reading the book Never Split the Difference and I would highly recommend it. It's a slightly different take on the traditional negotiation tropes we've all hear…

Giving a plug to https://truelayer.com/ . They have a great team and they're making a big push to bring PSD2 compliant banking integrations to Europe. I haven't heard of many other…

This is tangentially related to something I've been struggling with for the last year. I began getting into photography about a year and as an attempt to surround myself with inspi…

I know Amazon gets a generally bad rap around HN, but my organization at least pays for all SDEs to attend one conference a year. While not everybody takes advantage of it, those t…

You do realize the way most services get into AWS is that they're first built in the retail side of Amazon (without any thought towards AWS) and then once people realize it's effec…

I was just going to mention this exact same observation from my visit to Japan in October. I stayed in an Airbnb north of Shibuya and morning and night we saw little kids walking t…

I can't disagree. I love Gitlab but it would be hard to take a > 50% pay cut if I were to work there. That being said, I have full confidence in Gitlab and know they'll continue to…

A lot of people ask why Instagram took off and get a lot of different answers; I think that's the beauty of it. I wasn't much of an Instagram user for a long time until I started g…

It's the standard in vim.

This is tangentially related (and wholly anecdotal), but one thing I've noticed is that when dealing with other engineers or managers, it's often very easy to tell who has kids and…

Yikes. That's a pretty heady classification of myself and my coworkers. The funniest part about your response, though, is that you said we'd "do anything for whatever else Amazon h…

I have two questions: 1) What's the problem that's being solved? 2) And what's a good answer? I'm genuinely curious because I've never considered Markdown anything more than a way …

Soylent (or more particularly Coffiest) has been perfect for filling the 3pm spot at work when I'm both tired and hungry. I used to head out for a $5 coffee and stay hungry, but no…

I feel you. I'm not a huge fan of the X-T10 if I'm honest (I think it's a decent camera, but not one I would personally get). Fuji is definitely targeting a certain segment and man…

Great timing for this post! I'm an unabashed Fuji fan and have been scouring the used market for a new lens or two. It really is incredible what Fuji has managed to do in a couple …

That Rainier picture is incredible!

Two comments: 1. The original photos are beautiful. What equipment are you using? We're extremely spoiled here in the PNW! 2. Have you considered printing any of the Primitive form…

Ah. This reminds me of a great story in Amazon of a conference room booking email gone wrong. The email was inadvertently sent to the entire company, so that employees in Japan, Ch…

Or so Newt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America

A 100% increase in searches for "voter intimidation" in my city (Seattle) is interesting. I'd love additional context on who is searching for that (i.e. is it the intimidators or t…