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>>> cases where the people overseeing the expenditure of funds were completely unfit to estimate the value of work being produced [...] It's also that a lot of bureaucracy is lies …

I can't give specific feedback, but the company I work at evaluated HackerRank for our hiring process (analytics, data science, data engineering). We ended up using Coderpad though…

"2. We provide a voice for the technical working teams." This doesn't correspond to my experience. In my experience McKinsey consultants prefer not to talk to lower-level minions -…

I'm fine with GitHub in general, but I find browsing repositories extremely slow. And I don't remember it always being like that. See my comment here for what I mean: https://news.…

Thanks for your insightful reply! > they're not trying to win over users; they're trying to extract money from them. Fair enough. But was there ever an attempt to extract money and…

> - Devs are not working in isolation Bugs (e.g. the YouTube Shorts one) or performance (GitHub) are the dev's responsibility, aren't they? (correct me if I'm wrong, I have no idea…

> For Github, are you sure it's even a frontend thing? Well where do we draw the line here? I'm not even talking about diffs etc.: Just browsing through a repo and looking at singl…

This is somewhat provoking title, but I can't get my head around it: Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft et. al. claim to hire only tech's top talent. They often still put some medioc…

I thought I was the only one bothered by that! I'd love to use my private iPad with my work Macbook. And at least in my case preventing that definitely won't increase iPad sales: M…

That's true. With dbt (=SQL+Jinja-Templating in an opionated framework) a large SQL codebase actually becomes maintainable. If in any way possible I'll usually load my raw data in …

I always try getting into frontend frameworks but it's just overwhelming. For WebDev there are a trillion frameworks which you need to append with another framework as the each fra…

I never really got Bayesian statistics to be honest. - When sample size grows, frequentist and bayesian (if the prior is not too restrictive) point estimates seem to converge to ea…

The author measures the Dunning Kruger effect on his random data exactly because he assumes it when generating his random data. By modelling skill and perceived skill as uniform dr…

I generally like GCP, however their sales and customer support just aren't any good. And some services like Vertex AI are extremely buggy while it's hard to actually report these b…