Who? I can only think of Nero who sought only to "simply do harm." This is such a reductive way to cast people
Amazing read, and glad she could write this into history. It's amazing to me that Half-Life's status of immortality has more or less been preserved even today.
Damn, I love this. Information is dense and clustered, edges are sharp and it all feels so _human_. I can't stand the uncanny valley, fake minimalism lots-of-whitespace flat design bullshit that has taken over the web.…
The degree of singular outrage this guy produces is something else. It's like a switch flips in peoples' brains and they go through a two-minutes (or maybe two hours in this article's case) hate session when they…
An interesting Tweet where somebody approximates Eight Sleep sales/subs counts: https://twitter.com/laurenbalik/status/1727385607041667430
In your article, your points about managing stateful data operations vs stateless tools is right on point. It's the eternal and ever-repeating argument that has to be made in every data shop I've ever been in when…
I indeed was a former “MAANG bro”, but this is sentiment gleaned from both a cohort of former coworkers who had stints there, along with general Flexporter attitude on Blind (which, for its imperfections and…
Lines up with the sentiment about Flexport being a tech retirement home
I agree. The open source flavor of dbt Core is very well-designed and almost as complete as you would want it, but any competition is good competition
And it's not like they don't understand the importance of mods' free labor to keep subreddits clean of filth and users visiting/contributing. I know somebody who worked there years ago, and it was understood that they…
Had a similar experience, but with the much more tame marijuana. It was a 6-hour long panic attack for me. Similar to the author of this, I read for years of how "the only way it could ever harm you is if you were…
The Substack throttling was not false. It was throttled before the decision was reversed
I got jobs at my current and last workplace through a recruiter reaching out to me through LinkedIn. I'm not necessarily exceptional in my skills and experience, and I don't even have a profile picture. But for…
This comment is perfect and elicited the long-buried inner rage I used to feel towards a former staff in an old company. I should not have had to navigate a staff engineer’s mind minefield like my BPD ex. Additionally,…
Observation/mini rant: unfortunately the data industry is both very susceptible to fads and hype, and does not have widespread standardization or a generally-accepted set of best practices. The subset of data…
One of the patron saints of 90's electronic music. God, this makes me sad. Rest in peace
This sounds similar to Flexport's CTO situation (he came from Amazon) and attempted microservice-ification of everything. Except it sounds like they weren't even able to get wheels up and are still floundering after…
I left about a year ago, but the universality of tools and stack was not a thing in the ~3 years I was there. Retail and AWS are split and use different stacks. Additionally, the company was in a drawn out multi-year…
Not quite the same as an entirely ex-Blizzard staffed group of people, but Riot Games and League of Legends as well. Tom Cadwell[0] was there from the very beginning of League's life and has had considerable influence…
"join my webring" was something of a meme before memes were a thing
Bringing another life into this world is maybe one of the worst ways a person would try to solve depression
Any article about Amazon is guaranteed to inspire a grave post like this from a former employee. And as a former employee, I agree with the sentiment in nearly all of them.
The lifting-and-dropping process from transactional stores into analytics stores is usually the first step in analytics data pipelines. This appears to fulfill that initial ingestion step specifically for Google…
A shame, feel bad for Kyle and his family. I don't think the Navy or SEAL command should be at fault for this, though. Kyle made the decision to take the drug, and he did so (presumably) illicitly and in secret. The…
Blind is interesting. I'm grateful for the insights into total compensation it granted me, and Blind combined with a managerial stint gave me a very solid feel for both industry and company-specific bands. I also got…
Who? I can only think of Nero who sought only to "simply do harm." This is such a reductive way to cast people
Amazing read, and glad she could write this into history. It's amazing to me that Half-Life's status of immortality has more or less been preserved even today.
Damn, I love this. Information is dense and clustered, edges are sharp and it all feels so _human_. I can't stand the uncanny valley, fake minimalism lots-of-whitespace flat design bullshit that has taken over the web.…
The degree of singular outrage this guy produces is something else. It's like a switch flips in peoples' brains and they go through a two-minutes (or maybe two hours in this article's case) hate session when they…
An interesting Tweet where somebody approximates Eight Sleep sales/subs counts: https://twitter.com/laurenbalik/status/1727385607041667430
In your article, your points about managing stateful data operations vs stateless tools is right on point. It's the eternal and ever-repeating argument that has to be made in every data shop I've ever been in when…
I indeed was a former “MAANG bro”, but this is sentiment gleaned from both a cohort of former coworkers who had stints there, along with general Flexporter attitude on Blind (which, for its imperfections and…
Lines up with the sentiment about Flexport being a tech retirement home
I agree. The open source flavor of dbt Core is very well-designed and almost as complete as you would want it, but any competition is good competition
And it's not like they don't understand the importance of mods' free labor to keep subreddits clean of filth and users visiting/contributing. I know somebody who worked there years ago, and it was understood that they…
Had a similar experience, but with the much more tame marijuana. It was a 6-hour long panic attack for me. Similar to the author of this, I read for years of how "the only way it could ever harm you is if you were…
The Substack throttling was not false. It was throttled before the decision was reversed
I got jobs at my current and last workplace through a recruiter reaching out to me through LinkedIn. I'm not necessarily exceptional in my skills and experience, and I don't even have a profile picture. But for…
This comment is perfect and elicited the long-buried inner rage I used to feel towards a former staff in an old company. I should not have had to navigate a staff engineer’s mind minefield like my BPD ex. Additionally,…
Observation/mini rant: unfortunately the data industry is both very susceptible to fads and hype, and does not have widespread standardization or a generally-accepted set of best practices. The subset of data…
One of the patron saints of 90's electronic music. God, this makes me sad. Rest in peace
This sounds similar to Flexport's CTO situation (he came from Amazon) and attempted microservice-ification of everything. Except it sounds like they weren't even able to get wheels up and are still floundering after…
I left about a year ago, but the universality of tools and stack was not a thing in the ~3 years I was there. Retail and AWS are split and use different stacks. Additionally, the company was in a drawn out multi-year…
Not quite the same as an entirely ex-Blizzard staffed group of people, but Riot Games and League of Legends as well. Tom Cadwell[0] was there from the very beginning of League's life and has had considerable influence…
"join my webring" was something of a meme before memes were a thing
Bringing another life into this world is maybe one of the worst ways a person would try to solve depression
Any article about Amazon is guaranteed to inspire a grave post like this from a former employee. And as a former employee, I agree with the sentiment in nearly all of them.
The lifting-and-dropping process from transactional stores into analytics stores is usually the first step in analytics data pipelines. This appears to fulfill that initial ingestion step specifically for Google…
A shame, feel bad for Kyle and his family. I don't think the Navy or SEAL command should be at fault for this, though. Kyle made the decision to take the drug, and he did so (presumably) illicitly and in secret. The…
Blind is interesting. I'm grateful for the insights into total compensation it granted me, and Blind combined with a managerial stint gave me a very solid feel for both industry and company-specific bands. I also got…