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The job posted here and on the actual careers page seem different? You also mentioned remote when none of the four available jobs are remote.

How do you justify this assertion of yours? I would contend that the most efficient method is written down and shared widely in a doc. Otherwise, everyone is relying on their memor…

Wow, that's a great way to look at the issue. Thanks for the perspective.

Haha, I definitely think you've figured me out. I also tell people that I'm probably too cynical about tech to be a founder.

After many years of working hard, my wife and I finally decided to have a kid recently. I am looking forward to spending a lot more time with her, while working just a 9-5. However…

There's a lot of discussions on coding agents - and best practices for building a good coding agent. How are folks building devops agents that debug production outages? Any useful …

This is pretty similar to how korean dramas work with ten-twenty hour long episodes per show. The majority of shows wrap up in one season.

How are messaging apps still getting these valuations when Telegram, signal, Whatsapp and lime chat exist?

I have 10+ years of high-performance C++ development for distributed systems/databases/operating systems but have zero experience with web/app development. I wanted to try my hand …

How exactly did they obtain a monopoly on content? They don't name most content creators sign exclusivity agreements.

Where do you usually go? I have done a lot of snowshoeing in the Midwest but a bit scared of going alone into the mountains now that I'm here in Utah.

Folks who build/use distributed databases, what are some good examples of query profiling infra/UI for understanding where time was spent in query execution?

I recently moved to Salt Lake City, Utah as a remote worker. I have heard about the tech scene here but I'm not sure how to find it given that I have no friends here. I looked on M…

I am thinking about moving to a fully remote role in my current team at one of the FAANG companies. I have been in my current team for 3 years and I have a good rapport with my col…

A friend of mine asked me for some advice regarding her son, who recently graduated high school and will be going to a good university seeking to major in Computer Science. Her son…

Your approach is called hash join in databases. Not sure about the diffing research though.

Selling co-working spaces during startup bubbles.

I understand. No hurries. Your tool does seem very intriguing though :)

I sent you a mail three days ago about this with the subject line 'Testing chess website?'. I am hoping you will get back to me.

I am currently doing research on a new abstraction for files. For usecases, I am looking for applications that create/manage a lot of files (perhaps temporary files). I know that s…