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Wehad a junior engineer do some research on a handful of different solutions for a technical design and present the team, he came up with a 27-page document with 70+ references(2/3…

I feel the same way, if all one is doing is feeding stuff into AI without doing any actual work themselves, just include your prompt and workflow into how you got AI to spit this c…

He doubled down on his opinion by sharing a sequence of posts from a X account that denounces "woke activism" in the software industry and open source projects. He criticised the p…

I also left my home country about a decade ago. I was already expecting a lot of gambling site ads, they took over the soccer tournament sponsorships almost completely anyway. But …

Multiple parties that eventually devolve into a two-party system, for decades it was PT-PSDB until PSDB imploded, now it's PT vs whatever the right/center coalesces into(MDB for de…

Interestingly, I've spotted a few places in Portugal already accepting Pix as a form of payment, catering to a large demographic of Brazilian immigrants and tourists.

Varies by country, but yeah, in general Credit Card options in Europe are pretty bad, here's my research on options in Spain: Sabadell: No fees no perks for CC Bankinter: No fees n…

Which confused me, as someone from Belo Horizonte who started uni just around that time. As far as I knew, Google was generally known one of the highest paying companies by far bac…

Having worked on presentation software, it's more complicated than what it looks like in its surface. First, considering the base/generic case, you can't really beat Powerpoint, Ke…

Or in other words, "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

Sounds like every startup ecosystem

What seemed quite common for me was(working in European startups): Company gets investment from american investors, investors either recommend synergy with products or bring some t…

Nitpicking your comment but that's not Olympic archery, olympic archery doesn't include compound bows, only recurve bows(also the Olympics specifically uses 70m distance only).

Chrome is core to Google's business so it's worth it advertising, they also advertise the Pixel phone a lot in high-end places in global cities because they need to gain market sha…

Because it's easy money(and as others said, to stay employable). If someone created a framework yesterday there are few experts, and they won't judge experts by years of experience…

Spain salaries can be ridiculous, there has certainly been a boom and some startups are paying well for senior roles as competition heats up, but I consistently get recruiters ping…

> The people at the end of the line who are flipping NFTs do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models or payment mechanics, but they care about where the money is. Thi…

Assuming you can objectively measure someone like this, either by LoC or delivery times, this is the wrong way to approach any project. Having a 10x engineer(or even worse, a 500x …

Not OP but I worked in Sweden for about 9 months before moving on, here's my take: Maybe related to the local culture, AFAICT Swedes in general avoid conflict and whenever I questi…

I picked up a lot of conversational english because the TV Show Friends was on pretty much during the entire afternoon when I was a teenager and I would spend most of my time after…

I always thought about this, but not about Coca-Cola, since people actually need to want to buy it to acquire it, but Visa and Mastercard have huge advertising budgets, notably for…

It also had a competitiveness to it by using a points system in photos, it was quite clever and it rated photos based on a wide set of criteria, including pose, framing, you'd get …

Not sure what it's like these days but back when I starting university Google had just acquired a local company and setup their first Latin America office in my hometown(Belo Horiz…

I think it's Google Podcasts, barely any efforts on features for the app, seems like they just made it because there needed to be a podcast app, Keep, while not given much attentio…

Worst one I can think of is ConvertKit's rebrand that was so bad they went back on it(kept the new logo, but reverted the name change because it had some religious meaning), then a…