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I think there's an element of this which really breaks down to the type system being the part of formal verification that we've figured out how to do during the course of implement…

The details people gloss over when throwing SOC 2 or whatever other audit costs around are the complexity of the system being audited, the chosen criteria to audit (AICPA defines 5…

The real takeaway for projects and companies should be that someone having historically behaved in a logical and responsible way doesn’t guarantee that they’ll continue to do that …

I’m one of those people. Wore watches regularly through my mid 20s, completely fell out of the habit as I spent more years working from home and my routine around “getting ready fo…

The concept of "tool building" is one of the areas my team has spent the most time coaching our less-technical employees on since widespread LLM rollout in our company. Developers …

Honestly whipping up a lexer/parser and a REPL is one of my favorite ways to learn a new language. You can cover a lot of ground in a "real" language by just doing the frontend imp…

Whats implied there is that the "human touch" will become a luxury. I have a hard time seeing a future where retail doesn't bifurcate even further into ultra low margin, happy-path…

Even in a relatively open organization where conversations and work are public/discoverable by default, there's still a huuuge difference between the level of curiosity required to…

Corporate software in general is often chosen based on the value returned simply being "good enough" most of the time, because the actual product being purchased is good controls f…

Manufacturers themselves generally don't want to sell directly to consumers: consumers are fickle and need support and have questions and sometimes want refunds or returns and if y…

I think its at least as much of a working environment preference. Once I became experienced enough to have opinions about things like my editor and terminal emulator... suddenly th…

High-protein everything is riding the wave of GLP-1 popularity right now. Doctors are begging people on that class of drugs to chase protein targets more similar to what might have…

I don't have many regrets about having spent my career in (relatively) tiny companies by comparison, but it sure does sound fun to be on the other side for this kind of thing - the…

My debit card is a direct line to my primary bank account. If something goes wrong there and an attacker gains access, my cash is simply gone. Yes, the bank will perform an investi…

I've personally had a decent amount of luck with trying to reframe this sort of sentiment from "being useful" to "having purpose". Right now, yes, its true that a lot of my day to …

Its less about torrents being the delivery mechanism and more about bringing data from a potentially unknown source, under potentially unknown licensing, and distributed for a pote…

The thing about trademarks is that, if you want to prevent other people from using them, you generally have to still be using it yourself and be able/willing to justify to a court …

I have no insider knowledge here but it doesn't seem outlandish to think that the negotiations would go a little differently for an established product vs a brand new one. Goldman …

Game mode being latency-optimized really is the saving grace in a market segment where the big brands try to keep hardware cost as cheap as possible. Sure, you _could_ have a game …

I think there's some real sample bias in that definition of "the community" though, because people who are passionate Ruby programmers giving conference talks, running meetups, etc…

Shorter lifetimes means more renewal events, which means more individual occasions in which LE (or whatever other cert authority) simply must be available before sites start fallin…

"Internal" is a blurry boundary, though - you pick integer sequence numbers and then years on an API gets bolted on to your purely internal database and now your system is vulnerab…

There are examples of the warehouse-based model working, but they clearly require both density _and_ mindshare. Its not clear Kroger had either based on the other comments in here.…

Its hard to have good enough requirements gathering and documentation and product design practices to let an engineer really wrap their head around a problem well enough to come up…