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Couldn't agree more that we're offloading too much of our thinking. It's a genuine problem that keeps me up at night, or would, if I slept, which — for reasons entirely unrelated t…

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Rookie numbers.

QKD can be sold today. The quantum computers are not quite large enough to search at an `n` such that O(n)` is not viable but `O(sqrt(n))` is, that's where there's money to be made…

I was wondering if someone was going to ask. It's the most bizzare aspect of code reviews at Google. And "Readability" doesn't mean you are good at a language, it means you are goo…

Everyone at Google has imposter syndrome. If you don't, this is how they make sure you get it.

Just another Jeff Dean optimizing out unneeded code story.

If I ever do this I'll blame tech recruiters who don't care what time zone I live in. However things have been quite a bit better in that regard lately... :(

It's not about the stag show anymore, it's about the midway games that spew out tickets. A literal children's casino.

The bug is never the interesting part. The follow on questions are where the data is. How did you find it? How did you fix it? What made it memorable? Did it change the way you cod…

> "what's the favorite bug you've ever fixed?" I use a variant, "What's the most memorable bug you've fixed?" - and I use it as an indicator of maturity to distinguish L3 SwE from …

Clearly? What distinguishes them from beanie babies or used concert ticket stubs?

Memegen has been toxic for way more than two years. Even before they gave the holiday bonus devices to school children.

The lack of any discussion of NFTs also indicates this is a dated paper.

Your describing the outcomes of the old "perf" performance review system. Cultural issues like that are hard, but not impossible, to change. GRAD changes things, but as long as pro…

Cosmic rays are more common than you think. Google's early infrastructure was impacted by a supernova (because their nodes were so cheap). But something like NOTAM can handle these…

Was the file in ASCII when it should have been in EBCDIC?

Commerce clause.

> Lose your key? Lose the ability to sell your house forever. House deeds won't be simple NFTs, there will have to be other parties that can move the deed to handle things like for…

Forced arbitration is bad for employees, based on empirical evidence * It has a chilling effect: less disputes are filed * employees prevail less often * when employees do win the …

Less of an interview and more of an informal team-matching coffee chat. They all have access to your co-workers and body of work, so no need to haze you with leetcode again.

Yes, we should focus on surveillance capitalism instead. Perfectly legal. If you want to talk about actively making the world worse look at most web2 "algorithms" and how the push …

Is this really a fallout that the poorest families are more than five times more likely to do their own taxes instead of hiring a tax professional? Most audits are to account for s…

Becoming a market maker, liquidity pools, yield farming, flash loans (short term borrowing of lots of money)

I can't see how they can get away from it not being theft. No durable argument could be made in court they thought it was there to take, there is no way they didn't know it was som…