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When I joined Stripe in 2020, I was over the moon and felt like this is my dream job when I signed. It was border line toxic environment. So many new folks were getting hired and b…

What’s so special about US. Rest of the world is doing just fine right ? Why does someone need to survive on tips? Why can’t it be part of their base pay? What I hate about US tipp…

This was just a single raptor engine. I was quite amazed at how stable it’s thrust control was. Truly remarkable. SpaceX definitely keeps on making me think I’m doing jack shit wit…

It’s not about owning. It’s having trust in the device that it will do what it says it will. Buying from Apple there is generally a trust that the device meet’s Apple’s bar and has…

I was in the Windows org for a bit and this is one of the reasons why I quit Microsoft. I couldn’t live with myself that I am working on something that frustrates users by shoving …

For an analytics engine, this seems impressive. I wonder how it compares to memsql’s speed of querying. Also Mixpanel’s pricing page seems to employ some dark patterns. How much do…

It’s a money move. Ms sunk billions in Edge. With chredge bing ads makes profits. It will come installed in windows by default. If google’s killing ad block extensions, Microsoft w…

Slack is quite laggy in Firefox compared to chrome. It’s annoying enough to make me switch back to Chrome.

Robotics is hard because hardware is hard. Add software complexity to it and it grows to a monster. Rather than shutting down, i’d have hoped them to be acquired by someone else wi…

Anything to do with several possible answers and assessing how they lay out different solutions, their trade off and work towards a pragmatic and incremental solution.

Kids eat most of your time, that you’re too exhausted to do anything other than sleep. I’m pretty sleep deprived since our baby was born. Averaging about 6 hours of sleep a day, wi…

Yeah actively going against birth control is the dumbest thing a country can do. I’m talking about some US states that are still backward.

“I have no idea what I am doing but I like it!” Haha what a fun website.

That’s why I suggested a shallow copy

Using debuggers effectively takes skill. When I was younger I would ask other people “hey how does this work?” Now I just debug it and go deep on interesting function to see how de…

I worked on Browser devtools. The #1 used tool was console. Nothing beats being able to put some console.log and see its output. Console.warn is even better since it captures the s…

I beg to differ. SQLite is a very popular embedded database. There is inherent simplicity to just reading and writing flat files. Redis feels like that. It’s a simple data structur…

How does cuckoo hashing work for 80% load factor. It may be possible that you fill out both the positions and your eviction algorithm is then no longer constant time for worst case…

That $100/person isn’t spending by individual users. They are spent by companies advertising and paying for clicks. Guess how many times an average person clicks on an ad knowingly…

Kind of how Mixpanel used to sell single sign on security at an extra price and free users didn’t get it. Then they got hacked and shit blew up on their face. Safety and security a…