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bitecodeon Twitter now asks some fired workers to please come back

It was publicly traded, with Vanguard, Morgan Stanley and Black Rock owning the largest holdings.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/28/who-owned-twitter-before-elon...

bitecodeon Do you hate the Google's Chrome shortened address bar?

I did try moving over to Firefox a few months ago but the lack of custom keyword-based search engines was a deal-breaker for me, and I'm back with Chrome.

bitecodeon Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop

> "A laptop with exactly zero compromises"

I mean the size, weight, awkwardness and small trackpad all seem like compromises to me. I'd suspect the battery life too. And some of the screens aren't placed in the most practical of locations.

That said it's a pretty impressive prototype.

bitecodeon Sumo Logic S-1

I've used it for some projects alongside Splunk and ELK/Kibana for others. They're all effective at the scales we've thrown at them, but I find Splunk more intuitive to use, and IMO the query language is better documented.

bitecodeon Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s

Is there a generic reference for what these levels denote? I work in software but not at a FAANG, and haven't seen them used before.

Edit: I've now found levels.fyi - these are Google's internal progression levels.