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I’m also fine with git, and have used mercurial and p4 before. I think simplicity is better in this case. I do think with more and more generated code inflating the codebase with high velocity, we need to find a better way to merge conflicts.

I was entertaining an offer from Discord and also stumbled upon the founder’s former company debacle. The platform vision pitched to me in the interview seemed similar and seeing as how he started to implement spyware I decided to bail.

You’re probably correct (I’m 30 and don’t have a policy) but I can’t think of any financial instrument that would guarantee skilled nursing ($4-8k/month in MCoL) for 10-20 years. No one in the bottom 90% of American earners can afford that drawdown even if they saved considerably.

I’m not particularly sympathetic to retirement home narratives that paint each person as a lonely, incompetent senior wasting away. I witnessed first hand how my mother spent her adulthood partying instead of providing and now it’s become a critical issue for our family to provide for her. Ultimately I don’t expect my children (or staff-journalist) to project pity on me for my circumstances.

I run a weekly route with MealsOnWheels and deliver food/perform wellness checks to many people whom are homebound. There are much worse fates for seniors than a community home with social programs and meal service.

I think it is everyone’s duty to buy long-term care insurance (perhaps the government should provide this, as we will all need it). I also believe you must provide for the retirement you expect.

Wait until you hear about Gummy Bears.

I quite frankly will just read the code. Go generally discourages abstractions so any code you jump into is fairly straightforward (compared to a hierarchy of abstract classes, dependency injected implementations, nested pattern matching with destructuring etc etc).

Regarding your IDE issues- I’ve found the new wave of copilot/cursor behavior to be the culprit. Sometimes I just disable it and use the agent if I want it to do something. But it’ll completely fail to suggest an auto complete for a method that absolutely exists.

I really disagree. I think hentai is a flimsy wrapper around child fetishization and needs to be heavily regulated. I think having rape or torture simulators are extremely harmful in multiple ways.

Really would prefer the government outlaw these things but I don’t mind companies protecting themselves from liability.

Usually this is the “leads the function but we’re not going let them into the c-suite”. The head of engineering gets usurped by the outside cto hire and put out to pasture.

The use was audited and is now being investigated. The claims were for various local and federal investigations. ICE also contains HSI, the second largest federal law enforcement agency, which prior to their recent mandate has been tasked to solve sex trafficking, import fraud etc. SF has multiple large inter-agency task forces that run multi-year long investigations into all types of crimes. HSI is part of those investigations. Querying flock to establish a suspect’s presence during the commission of a crime seems like it’s within the bounds of reasonable use.

Yeah people fail to provide examples but continue to be doomers about how easy it is.

Absolutely agree. I think the tactics and strategy are to blame here but ultimately I don’t think the administration is doing anything illegal. All cases I’ve seen where there was an alleged violation of due process were simply accelerated asylum denials with immediate deportation orders. I’m sure there have been some though, but I know local police, HSI and ERO folks that really don’t want to arrest non-criminal laborers yet are just following orders from the admin. I would be highly suspicious of any conspiracy that federal law enforcement agents are committing illegal arrests.

If it were up to me, I’d be pursuing some type of visa reform for permanent laborers that grants amnesty for those here with American citizen family members (i.e. birthright kids) as of a certain date. I’d make the asylum process occur outside of the country, signing agreements with the originating countries like Guatemala, Honduras to provide housing and food for asylum seekers while they pursue a claim.

I always like to frame it this way: ask someone what a reasonable response would be if they flew to Paris and then decided they didn’t want to leave. What is the French government allowed to do in their moral framework to enforce their immigration laws.

People don’t have a great answer. The asylum process actually works- it just turns out that many, many cases aren’t valid and it was abused to gain entry once we allowed asylum seekers to remain in country.

Why is this better than the other one?

Aside: I learned the Sep Axis Theorem in school and often use it for interviews when asked about interesting algorithms. It's simple enough that you can explain it to non-technical folks. "If I have a flashlight and two objects, I can tell you if they're intersected by shining the light on it". Then you can explain the dot product of the faces, early-exit behavior and MTV.

I actually modified SpiceDB to inject a groupcache and Redis cache implementation. My PoC was trying to build a leopard index that could materialize tuples into Redis and then serve them via the dispatch API. I found it easier to just use the aforementioned cache interface and have it delegate to Redis.

I’ve worked at half of these places and they’re all doing yaml massaging and grpc sculpting. Not much more than basic KTLO with some regularly scheduled feature work and reliability heroics.

I have been paying about (premium lost from rolling puts) 1k/month for the last 4 months to short Tesla. I made about 12k on the last dip so I’m profitable but I’m just waiting for the bubble to burst. Today I doubled down when it went up, hoping to one day see it fail.

Senior+ eng roles at Netflix, Stripe, Discord, Figma, Reddit

Senior+ eng roles at Netflix, Stripe, Discord, Figma, Reddit

I’ve been making over $500k a year since 2020 working fully remote; everyone I know with 7+ YOE at big tech or unicorns is also making 500k TC which often appreciates to ~700k+ with the current market.

We’re just writing dumb gRPC services that use Postgres. I work probably 30 hours a week and still get awards, bonuses etc.

I agree with this take. People tend to frame college loans as predatory but the majority of the forgiveness was federal loans.

There are already amnesty programs for teachers, social workers, etc. The solution to bail out individuals for their investments is not good policy.

I don’t think they’re as beholden as you think. If those companies went down, a balkanization of tech would probably emerge, with regional preferences. Probably would spur innovation and consumers would quickly adapt.

A middle ground: announce that Discord is insecure and you’ve found a zero-day. Perhaps a trusted 3rd party exists that can attest publicly (Mitre?) after you show a demo.

Then customers are aware, Discord is pressured to act/shamed, and then you proceed with your private disclosure with a window.

I've got two toddlers and still manage to get outside for a run everyday. Used the Bob stroller when they were younger, now they ride bikes and I jog with them. When my son wouldn't sleep through the night for his first year (pre-walking), I'd set him in a play pen and run on the treadmill nearby.

The solution is just-in-time access controls, context-aware authorization for things like database access (i.e. given a justification with an approval workflow, the employee can access a user X for 2 hours). These are the guard rails against a rogue employee, by introducing friction.

I rolled out these level of controls at a big company and got push back from the sales team -- they needed access to generate leads. do demos on the spot, etc. Was a hard fight and I lost.

That is clearly the logical conclusion.

I always tell this cautionary tale when talking to friends turned founders. I was going to a 1-1 with a Director (Bob) in a FANG company. As I was walking to his desk, another Director and a Senior Director (Gus) called out to him that the meeting was starting and he should join -- he asked me to come along and tell him my thoughts.

It was a sales call with a 2-person tech company building some tools in the cloud native space. They were super eager, walking through the product. My manager put the phone on mute and asked "So what are we trying to do here" to the other directors. They replied "We just want to kick the tires to figure out how they built it, we're not going to buy". They let these guys pitch for 20 minutes, periodically asking questions and then muting to mock them. My manager nudged me to ask something, since I ran a similar initiative internally. I asked how they would handle a gnarly case we had and they didn't have a solution yet, but could come up with one (super eager, wanted the deal).

At the end of the call, Gus un-muted the phone and said "This looks great but I'm having a hard time following the demo. Can you fly out and show us in person?". The sellers paused and then started asking when the other was free etc, one was going on vacation but could "make it work" to come out the next week. Gus replied "Great, see you next week".

I left that meeting realizing they were all psychopaths. Notably, Gus had the charism of Gus Fring from Breaking Bad.

Sounds like a very expensive legal gambit.

The post spends too much time speculating about how CVE is mismanaged without providing anything beyond their unmet expectations. Pointing to VulnCon attendance as an act of betrayal seems pretty reductive.

Didn’t make it through the rest, it was too hyperbolic and opinionated without substance.

Those weren’t riders throwing them in, they were vandals who made a game out of it for social credit.