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The Highlanders are testing vehicles: https://zoox.com/journal/autonomous-zoox-testing-vehicle

You don't make breaking changes. You provide the new API and the old API at the same time, and absorb the additional complexity as the library owner. Best case scenario everyone mi…

Because they make more money using their servers for their own products than they would renting them to other people. Meta has an operating margin of 41% AFTER they burn a ton on R…

That's not universally true. The sewer system in my town was overbuilt in anticipation of a development that fell through. That's why sewer / water bonds are typically up for vote …

Huh? You have to pay property taxes now and those could end up being too high for subsequent generations to afford. That happens all the time and is a common reason why property ge…

Threads is already GDPR compliant, that's not the only regulation the EU has made that covers these kinds of apps.

I would heavily consider this type of system once build times become a major pain point. That often happens somewhere around 20-50 people working in one codebase. So I think this i…

IMO one of the nice things about Buck or Bazel is that once you learn it, switching languages doesn't require you to learn a completely new tool. Obviously the cost of learning it …

It's honestly hard to measure at the scale of Meta. Just making everything compatible with Bazel would be a non-trivial undertaking. Also that seems an interesting thing an indepen…

At the time that FB started writing Buck, Bazel was not open source. I believe it did exist as Blaze internally at Google before FB started writing Buck. Facebook open sourced Buck…

There are fewer forced sellers now that remote work is more common.

I don't think they balked, they failed.

At Meta many engineers tried management and then went back to being an individual contributor. I'm not sure of the exact numbers but it was a very common career path. It did build …

A question to answer: is the enjoyment coming from actually being the machinist, or is it coming from assembling something you designed? The answer could be either. But if you just…

The grinding discs shatter. Wear a full face shield.

I do not think the outcome is only Uber / Lyft but with AI, but if that is the outcome I still think it would be a win. Today supply of Uber / Lyft in my area at off hours is spott…

How many software engineering projects are CRUD apps or yet another ETL pipeline?

For many years my "big question" has been "why do software engineering projects fail at a disproportionally higher rate than other engineering fields?" Though I have to say the oth…

I'm not at all interested in finance / stock picking but found this to be one of the best walkthroughs of an ML system end-to-end that I've ever read. I'm not in the field of ML bu…

As an owner of a vacation home and a large donor to homeless charities: this is completely divorced from the reality on the ground. It's a false dichotomy proposed as a way to bloc…

FB is pretty much on V1 of its GraphQL API with tens of thousands of engineers editing it for over a decade. Every single query is its own version, that's the point. If you want to…

It shifts the complexity to the server side. The additional logic you are describing currently lives on the client, where it's harder to update and likely duplicative across platfo…

Every company I've worked for in the last 10 years had multiple apps across several platforms, each with many versions, all running in production at once. Even if you only care abo…