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Everyone in this thread suggesting a “data leak” or “compromise” is totally missing the fact that this is how Apollo works. This is often times overlooked by Apollo customers thems…

Intel missed GPUs, missed ARM, missed ASICs, missed everything right under their nose for the last 15 years. This from Andy Grove's "Only the Paranoid Survive" company, a company t…

You're not wrong, this is the nth iteration of python tools that try to solve all the problems of what came before, including whatever the n-1th iteration introduced. That said, in…

uv for Python is a game changer, better than anything else out there and solves a lot of the core problems with pip/venv/poetry/pyenv (the list goes on).

> - Execs truly believe that culture and productivity are better in office (i.e., what they actually say in their announcements) I think this is the reason, but its more nuanced th…

The government also supports bombing the living fuck out of people on the other side of the world. Similarly, someone throwing 100m in the market does not unless they are taxed to …

Am I correct in understanding how firms like Jane Street work? They are a market maker - they run an exchange where buyers and sellers can transact. They can arbitrage these trades…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor'easter

Citation needed. The paper specifically says: > Dietary risk factors (diet high in red meat, low in fruits, high in sodium and low in milk, etc), alcohol consumption and tobacco us…

I moved to NYC from SF about 4 years ago. I’ve faced a lot of culture shock and I’m not sure I’d recommend it. I don’t think NYC has what it takes to become an innovation hub, the …

1. Set an aggressive (but achievable) revenue goal for your first year. If you're having trouble figuring out what that might be, I suggest 500k ARR, because that will put you on a…

The role of a CTO at a startup (at any size company, but at a startup especially) can be very amorphous and depends on the needs of the business. Sure, a lot of the time the CTO is…

I'm hugely disappointed with OpenTelemetry. In my experience, its an over-engineered mess and the out-of-the-box experience is super user hostile. What it purports to be is so far …

You have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. But that doesn't equate to 'do everything you possibly can to achieve exponential growth'.

I've put a lot of time into Airflow and feel similarly that it's a huge pain and a risk to rely on it. I've replaced it with Temporal ( https://temporal.io/ ) and while I don't hav…

Is there a phrase for when someone proposes something utterly ridiculous and impossible, so that they can morally grandstand and be sanctimonious when it inevitably doesn't happen?…

Bound to be controversial hot take: serverless is the boring architecture you were looking for in the first place

This doesn't qualify as a scam in my book.

In a past life I spent a lot of time developing for iOS, and the one incredibly sore spots in terms of documentation was the build process. Particularly, what are all the things I …

You should sign what your trusted legal representation recommends you sign. Many of these situations are more nuanced than an internet blogger looking for clicks is going to make t…

Which gems do you most commonly use?

One of my favorite examples recently is Frank Slootman (sales/operations/general management background) taking over as CEO for Snowflake, over Bob Muglia (developer/technical produ…