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Yeah, I way overperformed on this test because it was multiple choice. There were 11 words I didn't know at all, and another 8 where I was uncertain to varying degrees. My score of…

> when I have my 2 programmers in office I'd like to think that you see "my 2 programmers" as "my team" but I've come to expect phrasing like "when we have our 2 programmers in off…

Indeed, passkeys would seem to represent a step forward from single-device to single-account.

What bothers me about the rest of this thread is not that "grunts" are seen as fallible, but that management is implicitly infallible. Blaming everything on the "grunts" is irrespo…

You’d think from this thread that the messes inevitably originate from ”grunts” wandering off the reservation. In my experience the source has often been “innovation” imposed from …

For what it's worth, I'm actually a senior IC who's cleaned up plenty of messes over decades and who enjoys migrating legacy systems. In my experience, it's the management-level ar…

> they are usually right. This message encapsulates why so many software jobs are terrible. Put your heart and soul into doing your best, earnestly combat NIH and pursue meaningful…

Github has made multiple decisions which, whatever the rationale, damage trust in them as an identity authority and make it more difficult to believe that a Github account represen…

Web search engines claim fair use for snippets, and MS claims fair use for Copilot. However, a web search engine result page is only an aggregate of the excerpted pages, and it ref…

I've always heard about technical debt at AWS, with thousand line functions everyone is terrified to touch, demotivated employees doing whatever it takes to close tickets without d…

> I'd wager price, convenience (fast shipping, etc.), size, and design matter far more to a buyer. That's true until having been poisoned suddenly matters more. But laissez-faire a…

Amazon has a long history of selling hazardous, poisonous goods on its website: https://www.insider.com/amazon-selling-toxic-toys-lead-poiso... > Amazon has been selling thousands …

Like prosecuting Facebook for colluding in the sale of stolen property?

> I am loathe to recommend the use of Facebook for anything, but [...] It's at least better than doing nothing Is it? A central theme of the article is how Facebook is facilitating…

> Ideally, this article would hopefully help de-platform this seller off of Facebook, but we aren't holding our breath on that one. Facebook is basically terrible about this, and t…

This safety risk applies to anything else you buy on Amazon. Not just pottery, but all dinnerware. Not just dinnerware, but also items like children's toys. If you can't trust the …

A punitive culture of "accountability" naturally leads to finger pointing and evasion.

This fits with everything I've heard about terrible code quality at Amazon and engineers working ridiculous hours to close tickets any way they can. Amazon as a corporate entity se…

Google is Kafka at scale. All of the other characters in The Trial besides Josef K have been optimized away and replaced with silicon. The key insight that made it possible? That r…

Yes, you're right. I guess I couldn't let go of the idea that an an appeals process should be scalable for paying customers. I still believe that.

That's one option. Another would be that you need to pay for your service on a monthly basis. Some way that for a user to have faith in the appeals process and purchase peace of mi…