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I know this happened with Angular 1, but I am curious why I never hear this sentiment for GoLang which people seem nuts for. Is it because Google is responsible for maintaining the actual UI Widgets in this case?

I don't mean to sound like a blind witness fanboy, but I think teaching something effectively does require some mastery of the subject.

I also don't think it is hyperbolic say he doesn't have basic debugging skills. What qualifies as basic debugging skills? Like he isn't capable of using a debugger and introspecting code? He can't use a print statement and look at code? Debugging an E2E bottleneck is not trivial.

Yes, I agree with that, but I guess I thought we were discussing more of the engineering culture. I think at both places the biggest factor is your specific manager team, but that the average team at Google is more relaxed and enjoyable with higher QOL.

Ben Awad is pretty knowledgable in graphql. He is one of the most solid youtube tutorial guys on it.

Amazon and Google, which I have found to be similar in a lot of respects. Personally I prefer Amazon's versionsets to the monorepo at Google.

Curious why you think Amazon is so different from the other FNG+?

I've spent the first five years of my career at two FANGs, and I think the grass is greener in terms of amazing tech. Maybe I've been unlucky, but so much of my time is fighting with the enormous weight of the infrastructure to do anything. Builds, deployments, running tests, getting support from internal teams, using internal frameworks are all so stressful and unsatisfying to me. Not to mention I've never even sniffed any fun javascript framework or python work. It's been 99% Java.

Don't get me wrong--I've been lucky enough to work with and learn from some incredibly brilliant people, the work pays insanely well and lifted me from the bottom quintile to the top, and I don't have to worry about VC funding running out. But I also feel10% of the flow that I do when I'm at home cobbling together a javascript or python whatever. I understand that it isn't fair to compare my toy apps with the insane size of these companies, but still, I don't think your decision was that terrible in terms of just tech. Shoot, there are acquaintances who joined bitcoin startups when we graduated in 2015 and those people are probably worth a few million right now.

I wonder if there is anyone here who works at a unicorn and can tell me if Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, etc are a happier medium?

Yes, but at that point it is too late, right? I'm not defending the business practice--I just don't think many consumers consider that kind of exceptional possibility when they make purchases.

This strikes me as very idealistic.

They are selling more than double the amount of stuff they were 5 years ago, and are over half of US ecommerece. You might care about getting a fake charger, but 90% of people don't give a crap if it's 30% cheaper than the real thing and magically appears at their house the next day.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/revenu...

I think AWS and retail/AFT are basically two different companies. I don't think what happens in one reflects on or affects the other, at all.

accessing an API? I question how ethical what he did is, but I don't see how it is illegal. I think it's a lot like scraping, which LinkedIn failed to sue people for.

Does anyone think AR has the potential to do in the next decade what phones did in this last one?

Is Kotlin Native any good?

I don't understand why it's a moral imperative that people not take advantage of the VC funding subsidy? The VCs are wealthy interests looking to find a 10-20-100x exit at the end of this. I don't care if the Saudi Royal family places an enormous bet on automation over the next 10 years. Why is it for the best that all the people who use Uber not have that? I just don't understanding cheering that one of the few subsidies that is tricking down is being phased out, and I disagree with the suggestion that any of this is driving toward the end of paying drivers more.

Are you really trying to say that the utility of a free map of the entire world that includes street level views of the entire developed world is negated because it has too many sponsored pins?

Alright lol

According to this ride, Ubers are perfectly safe for 99.99% of their 1+ billion rides. I feel like 58 auto fatalities and 9 murders out of 1.3 billion trips is even way lower than the rate in the public.