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Today it’s AI thought leader, yesterday it was crypto hacker, before then it was big data engineer, and so on. It’s marketing. It works, otherwise people wouldn’t be doing it. Bull…

The same thing happened to us too. Fresh company account, banned right away. Two weeks later we get an automated email stating that our appeal was reviewed but they could do nothin…

The previous role of the current VP of Community for Stack Overflow was at Wikipedia. Did it work then? Will it work now? I found SO useful because I could find working answers in …

Why Rust?

It’s either documented or it’s not. When I modify code in a way that isn’t immediately obvious by looking at the code itself plus the immediate surroundings, I write a two-or three…

Yes nice but also very naive. Most developers do not have that level of ownership, nor know how their users interact with the software. Their job is precisely to complete tickets f…

It might be a new account for privacy reasons. Folks can choose whether to believe them or not. If the company is really doomed, we’ll know soon enough.

This unfortunately resonates with my experience. I used to attend GoLab, the event held in Florence, Italy. Over time, as the event gained in popularity, speakers shifted from deve…

I don’t get it. Is anyone forcing you to vibe code? If you don’t like vibe coding, don’t do it. The time you save when vibe coding is offset almost 1:1 by the time you need to veri…

I was under the impression mermaid is a wrapper around graphviz dot.

This is all very interesting, but is complete fiction for most readers. 99% of job seekers aren’t going to receive competing offers from multiple companies conveniently at the same…

In my experience many organisations do Agile even if they don’t call it that. Agile is just a series of sensible principles to get stuff done. The problems start when people mistak…

I don’t get how this “scheme” works. If I’m getting hired why am I supposed to pay them for anything?

Do you? I’m curious to see how many people reply “never”. If you do get AI cover letters, how does that affect the applicant?

I started to timidly poke my nose in the job market, anticipating a ship jumping within the next year or so. It strikes me that there’s a staggering amount of crypto jobs. Blockcha…

That’s not how you’d implement fibonacci in Go

They already lost, isn’t it obvious?

> Where gRPC needs improvement: Let’s just get out here and say what not enough people are saying—in a nutshell, gRPC has feature creep, bloat and is trying to solve too many probl…

You are right. Though when hiring remote, time zones might be an obstacle.

I’m admittedly lumping candidates who don’t reply at all with those who ghost the first interview. I view it as the same kind of behavior, as they quit the process early without an…

I’m seeing an increasing trend of job applicants who ghost the company after the first contact. For our latest job opening we received north of 300 applications of which a solid 15…

I recently spoke with a Googler friend (not an engineer) who told me that Go adoption within Google itself is quite limited. Is that actually the case? Beside the very team that ma…

Yes, we use go-gin for HTTP servers and middleware (really fast and easy to use) and gRPC+Protobuf for backend services with database access. For the frontend, we have one project …

This is probably a rhetorical question, anyway if the feeling of being less welcomed comes from how likely the devs are to accept random or poorly thought-out proposals, I don’t th…

Too bad I only have one upvote. You have an excellent point, and one I’ve been mulling over for some time now without being able to put into words. I’m definitely going to give it …