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Sourcegraph engineer here. I'd be interested to know what you were searching for and what your expectation for top result was. We already do things like boost class name matches hi…

There is also plz.review which more closely mirrors gerrit (ui flow, keyboard driven, etc). Plus I found the cli more pleasing to use than graphites. But glad there are finally opt…

- Mark Brooker :: https://brooker.co.za/blog long time lead engineer @ AWS blogging technical info on distributed systems - Chris Wellons :: https://nullprogram.com/ lots of intere…

Also surprised by all these articles. But your point made me realise that most people didn't do accounting in high school like I did (also a South African). I wonder what some othe…

This is tricky but when you reframe it it's clear the heuristic you mention is the correct one. The value of a test is giving signal to a developer that the code they wrote is corr…

Capturing is very simple since it is just plain text. For example here is a guide which uses siri on iOS to capture voice notes to your org-mode inbox: https://orgmode-exocortex.co…

FB is company D or E. FB you could have a linux laptop though, and could install linux on the mac. Not officially supported, but lots of people installed linux.

I was an h1b holder working in Silicon Valley. My wife not being able to work was the main reason why we left after 2 years. Kind of silly to go through that whole song and dance o…

We (I work at Sourcegraph) actually started off with a similar model to kythe: https://srclib.org/ This project existed before kythe was published, but was based on the ideas talke…

I can understand the "daily standup" being very useful to you as the manager. I'm interested if the engineers find it useful though. Personally, in both remote and local contexts I…

10K+ concurrent requests to a single server sounds like a server that is mostly shuffling bits around. I assume the 150 concurrent is more realistic for a frontend server which act…

An improvement I'd make to this is not sending the current directory to docker, but rather a directory containing just the binary. That way you don't send a massive context to dock…