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As an engineer I meet one of these people with the the just-feed-me mindset once in a while (luckily not too often). They are never very good at their job, because they lack perhap…

Parts that I enjoyed particularly: > "It's too bad someone is building a resort hotel so close to your house," I said. "That's my new house," he said. > I wanted to publicly thank …

considering my experience with their product, it's probably the best they could do in a realistic timeframe.

I worked at a big tech for many years and my team never managed to get Scrum working properly. Every year my team commits a delivering certain product/features at a very specific d…

You are right that it's just sales language, but people, tech folks in particular, don't have to like it and it's nothing wrong to voice their complaints. In fact it would be quite…

been there done that. deleted tiktok from my phone and reinstalled multiple times too

FB to me today is mostly a modern phonebook rather than real content platform. TikTok's power lies in how much they encourage creators to develop new and fun contents. Every other …

I think the overall point of this article is that SE is a subject that is best learnt by doing, not that engineers do not need to work with end product in mind. So the title is sli…

one can argue that redundancies is part of a working system, in fact most large distributed systems are designed with redundancies.

I come from a JVM/Python background, so not familiar with JS ecosystem at all. How do people decide what to use when there are 5 most popular libraries/frameworks in each category.…

It's quite common in the cloud industry to trade hardware for shorter development cycle these days too. I think that's because there is still very high growth in the sector and com…

FANG employee here. Same.

Exactly. It can take decades and all the time you have to build the next Google or Tesla and that's in the case that it all works out. There are other things to pursue in life and …

echoing the common opinion, this is a great article at both practical and theoretical levels. The discussion on cash flow is insightful but the summary about the flaws of first pri…

I'm a bit confused about this article because it first states that Xi personally halted the IPO and then says "It was unclear whether Xi or another government official was the firs…

As someone who has spent a fair amount of time working with AWS. I appreciate how approachable this tutorial is, as the official docs are usually way more arcane.

"Water! Water! Water! Loo! Loo! Loo!" I need to use the loo every time I remember this.

"who owns england?" and then show Scotland too. how typical.