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Productivity compared to which time in the past? If we compare productivity today compared to say 1960/1950 then we have definitely improved. We can manufacture at speed & scale. W…

> patent offices will generate adversarial AI review examiners What if someone patents these examiners first? :)

Oreo is actually an imitation (a successful one) . The original product was called Hydrox [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox (Hydrox is really a not a good name for a sn…

My bad. I based on the tweet from the author himself [1] May be he meant to use "invert binary tree" as a representative example of questions that typically asked. [1] https://twit…

The key question imo is: Was he still subjected to same interview process where he has to prove his coding skills inspite of being prominent open-source contributor? As for L5 leve…

Actually there both cases happen: 1. Team matching before hiring commitee [1] 2. Hiring committee approved but rejected because no team matched [2] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Pro…

There are two modes of hiring: 1. General purpose: Typical FANG like where hire first and then do team matching later 2. Targeted hiring: Companies want specific people and they tr…

The rate of consumption is way greater than rate at which new/creative/interesting content can be created. With improvement in tech (e.g internet speeds) and new accessibility node…

I think the rate of change in tech & culture (and therefore the attitudes) in last 50-70 years is way more than our societies can cope-up with. It almost feels like things are in s…

> That North Korea would be the prime suspect in a case of cyber-crime might to some be a surprise. Really? This is actually well-known (atleast amongst security agencies) [1][2] […

> Don’t start a company Next tweet: "Today is the best time ever to start a company. You might fail, you might succeed, it’s a crazy ride either way, and you’ll learn and grow more…

One thing which has helped me is to listen to a podcast or any audio of your favorite topic while lying down. Initially your mind will try to remain attentive but after 20 min or s…

One factor I think is span of control. If the director you mentioned starts getting project statuses from 15+ teams then the director might not scale. The director will not be able…

Anecdote (which serves as a reverse example i.e. senior asking a question): We were having a regular status call and since the meeting finished early there was a general chit-chat …

> I don't feel like the guy who does a plan which must be blindly followed by others When I became PE, my boss said that if you have to successful then you need to get teams listen…

zstandard continues to amazes me. Compared to zlib (level=4 I think) it seems to have best of both worlds (good speed & comparable compression ratio).

BonziBuddy ... oh boy! you took me to early 2000s. I remember it installing out of a CD shipped with a IT magazine.

From an employee p.o.v it should not. But the reality is that lot of companies open offices in certain countries because they can afford to pay less than US and while extracting th…

US (Nashville), Software Engineer III => $121,005 India (Bangalore), Software Engineer III => $121,005 Am I reading this right? Does cost of living in Bangalore same as Nashville? …

I think WFH choice is a spectrum. At one end its "I will work remote only" and the other end its "I want to be physically present in office". And then there are in between like 80%…

This reminds me of "How To Legally Own Another Person" [1] by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [1] https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...

In last 50 years or so, the rate of change in tech > the rate the human civilization can cope. This is more pronounced after early 90s. With the inventions like printing-press, ele…