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Disclaimer work at AWS. > Postgres was a "it exists" database back in the early 2000's. If we're really nitpicking it's not saying Postgres is the most popular database since the e…

Disclaimer work at AWS. I'm still trying to understand the scaling story better. When we say serverless it mentions automatically scaling when it detects some sense of resource pre…

Disclaimer work in AWS. > Rebuilding a cluster from the last-known-good backup should not take that long It's not even clear if that's the right thing to do as a service provider. …

Sure, but isn't this more about risk tolerance at this point and how much your customers care about? Where the responsibility should be on customer's end. Running on EBS/RDS doesn'…

OOC how are you going about learning more about webassembly?

Disclaimer work in Amazon. That at least doesn't work at all in my situation. I'm based in Seattle and I collaborate regularly with folks in probably 3-4 other geographic locations…

Disclaimer: work at AWS For the record I'd prefer a work environment that's closer to maybe 1-2 times a month in the office. > Most developers are self learners (that's how most pe…

Really? Doping and Lance Armstrong is the first thing that comes to mind. Although I guess we could argue he wasn't competing anymore

Data point of one and all that, but I got a decent bump in base and have been with the company for more than a few years. I assume that's true for almost everyone else based off th…

Data point of one and all but I chatted with a Meta recruiter a month ago and asked specifically about the hiring freeze that was on-going at the time. They mentioned they were sti…

On the off chance there are more regulatory requirements to accept this sort of business and they don't want to build out the support necessary to do so? Maybe there's different ri…

Really? If I execute a script that DDoS someone, presumably it should not be treated as "speech" as if it is a protected right. That's such a hilariously slippery slope since you c…

Do you mind expanding why as an end-user paying in cryptocurrencies is easier than signing up for a credit card and paying with that? To sign up for a credit card (in USA), I just …

The median family income in US appears to be 84,000 in 2020 [0] if that helps. [0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N

Aren't all sales at that level disclosed publicly, well in advanced/regulated?

> As for "erosion of freedom in the last 10 years in China ... the Chinese people don't view it that way Really? My girlfriend and her friends would strongly disagree with that sta…

Do you have an issue with the polling methodology they used in the survey? Source on it being an online poll?

The article links to another article [0] with the following quote: require that employers disclose a salary range "from the lowest to the highest salary the employer in good faith …

IIRC my parents IKEA dining table is solid wood and we've been using it 20+ years.

Disclaimer work at Amazon. Do you mind expanding on this a little bit on what position you were applying for? I think it's perfectly reasonable if someone has 15 years of experienc…

If the code review is routine, the approval will be quick and straight forward. There's barely any friction in my experience. I'd like to believe I'm competent, doesn't mean I'm in…

I guess to some extent it's about some aspect notion of "fairness". Another concern would be if their poor performance spills over into my own role and that prevents me from pursui…

What do you think about sports leagues and the fact that the major ones in US have unions for their players? (low supply, high demand)

I didn't realize we were suppose to sign social contracts, must've missed that memo.