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Right, so you're saying that Tesla is a company that would never do anything to increase the share price, besides trying to increase profits?

Probably there are more Python users out there than combined users of all lisp-like languages, which I guess would mean people are less scared of white-space significance than s-expressions :)

"Hype" is a common way for "modern" companies to drive up share price, see TSLA for a good example of that. Greenwashing is another, not as common approach.

> they're desktop app is electron

AFAIK, it's not actually Electron, but their own tooling using Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). Also AFAIK, they came up with their solution for this before Electron was even a thing (so before Atom the code editor, which Electron came from).

Spotify is a public for-profit company with shareholders, the purpose of their organization is not to make profit so they can redistribute it, but to increase the share value as much as possible in order for the shareholders to benefit. Sometimes that means that they need to increase profits, but not always, there are other ways to increase the share value besides profits.

Funnily enough, you're basically describing Bluesky/AT Proto: https://atproto.com/guides/overview

> They integrated in-repo configuration, self-hosted runners, composable workflow definitions, a robust API, and container building and registries for the first time in a CI tool.

Out of those, I think only "composable workflow definitions" would be one of the features that other CI platforms didn't have, before GitLab even existed as a project. You might want to re-read the history and features of build platforms before GitLab.

> Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.

But not impossible, and there are a lot of examples of things being built (or destroyed for that matter) in perfect secrecy involving groups larger than 10 people.

> I was not satisfied with my regular bittorrent client, and was wondering how much work would it be to create a new one from scratch, and it got where it is, starting from bencode protocol implemenation, then peer protocol, etc, etc.

That's pretty cool :) Usually people just pull in libraries for all those things, so pretty nice you didn't, makes for more interesting code when you're building stuff just for fun!

Of the parts you've built, which one would you say was the trickiest part?

It is really fun (sad) to see this, I've seen it so many times myself too. You show how something would be with s-expressions, compared to something, and all they can focus on is how many parenthesis there are. But when you sit down and count, they're the same amount as the code was when it wasn't s-expressions, just in different locations. And when you remove the parenthesis, they can kind of understand the code, kind of.

> GitLab absolutely innovated many hard parts of CI/CD as a platform-native piece

As someone who only used GitLabs CI briefly when it initially launched, what hard parts did they innovate on exactly?

As far as I could tell, it's a run-of-the-mill CI/CD platform, for better or worse, but nothing I'd call "innovative".

But again, maybe since the first time I tried it when it launched, it has changed, and I missed something really cool they did.

Here you can find the latest public code: http://arclanguage.org/

But I don't think there has been any public updates since that release (edit: updates from YC. There is a community-led project that continues to improve the codebase after that release)

Just as a note: TeamCity originally launched around 2005 sometime, so it's coming up to be 20 years old soon. I think TeamCity Professional, when self-hosting, has been free since always.

This is such an annoying approach for Google to force people to using Chrome... I get that they're not testing stuff on Firefox, so much is obvious. But there are so many times things don't work properly in Firefox (YouTube loading slower, lag in Gmail, Drive having weird UI<>backend synchronization bugs) at a first glance, but as soon as you set the user-agent to Chrome, things just magically work perfectly fine, and all issues disappear.

Someone should really be doing a deep dive into this issue, because it's been going on for a long time, and is clearly anti-competitive. My guess is that they're really good at hiding this/making it look accidental rather than on purpose.

I feel the same about you, so probably that's OK, people try to live the life they want to live, and that's alright :)

> How many years are you going to have to save up to retire at $240k/year vs $80k/year, do you think? Would you rather grind 10 months a year until you're too old to do anything but sit around and watch TV, or would you rather grind 12 months a year for 5-10 years and then do whatever you want for the rest of your life?

This is the mindset difference I'm telling you about. The rest of us don't want to "grind" at all, never. Not now, not later.

We want a work/life balance that allows us to do whatever we want to do when we retire, but now. Spend time with family, enjoy hobbies or whatever, but not wait until retirement to do so.

This is how many of my friends already live, as they've chosen jobs that allow them a balance in life, without any "grind" or "hacking" or whatever you want to call it.

Since you avoided the question, I'm guessing I was spot on :)

And I'd guarantee you that someone who worked five years for a average German company definitely has incurred less mental stress than someone working one year for Amazon, on average.

But I also recognize that it's hard to see the difference between the two cultures if you only have the experience of one of them, and the "hard working pays off" system is so heavily ingrained.

I'm guessing you're a US-native then? Where this salary/work obsession seems a lot stronger than around here (South-West Europe).

My impression is that you work in order to do what you really want later, while we tend to focus on getting a job that pays enough to survive + bit more, but still allows us to do the things we want now, rather than later at/around retirement.

Insert story about The Businessman and The Fisherman

> This is a discussion about worker pay. Salary is the metric.

Disagree, the discussion is about much more than just a metric of salaries. Even if you consider the discussion to only be about salary, doesn't it matter how much of that salary you have to spend on things like health insurance VS other places? As that'd eat from your salary (or not).

There are multiple alternatives you can already use as an alternative, like ripgrep. What are you proposing, switching out the command `grep` for another utility?

Sounds like that could introduce a ton of breakage, for little value. People who want a faster grep will use a different thing, while people who use grep can continue to use it. Sounds like an ideal situation already.

No? I've seen it work countless of times, employees either getting fired and the PIP is cited as the reason why, or the PIP process is so toiling on the employee that they quit by themselves.

Seems to work exactly for the purpose it was created, to force out employees one way or another.

I don't think there is any value in just comparing salaries across countries, but I'm sure you already know this. Make it more interesting by add in life expectancy or something else, salary is just a number that doesn't matter much unless you start including other numbers too.

> I mean, it depends on what you need. If someone quit without notice, I’d still be a referral for them if they were good.

But wouldn't you claim that this is not a very common view to hold about the process of quitting, in the US? I've lost count how many times I've heard managers/executives being pissed off because an employee left without a two week notice, and they treat that happening as some sort of failure, instead of just a normal thing.

If you instead move laterally and look at other "modern" countries, instead of temporally, it's easy to see how the working class and more is getting exploited in the US.

Well, it seems what the interviewed person is saying is that "Day X I didn't have the money in my bank account. I waited for Day Y, and now I have \"couple hundred thousand dollars\" in my bank account", which sounds like it didn't happen over 2 years and 4 vesting occasions. But maybe it's just worded weird.

Yes, basically. I disagree strongly with that Kissinger was anything of a balanced man, and I think it took too long for him to die, the world would have been a better place without him, and so on.

But I still think it's valuable for people who don't share that view, to make their own opinions public, as we all get richer by having multiple and sometimes opposing views out there.

> you can basically deploy stuff to your own Xbox by just signing few things online

Is this true? I've been wanting to be able to develop my own console stuff for a long time, but the hoops have seemed insurmountable so far. Can I really deploy my own stuff to Xbox without having to pay huge fees and have calls with a sales team?

For publishing to some store, that's fine, but just for development I just wanna be able to get a build running without too much red tape, otherwise it's not fun and therefore not worth it.

That's like a cultural quirk they have over there, where even though it's not stipulated by law, people need to stay at the place they're leaving for two weeks, no matter what, otherwise the optics are really bad, for whatever reason. But it only works one way, if you get fired you usually get fired immediately, no two weeks to find something else.

In my mind, it just looks like employees have been getting the short stick for so long that they don't even know what fair working conditions look like anymore.

So the person interviewed is lying then, you claim? Inflating the number?

> I got to the point where they offered me a job, and I was going to quit. But I had a huge stock investment coming up. So there was no way I was going to rock the boat in any way, shape, or form just trying to get to this date.

> If you walked away during the Pivot or anytime before you had your investment before it was there for you, you would lose it all. And I'm not talking a little bit of money. I'm talking: I had a couple hundred thousand dollars coming to me.

> I played along, and I'm good at playing along when I have to be. So then the money is in my account. That next day, I called my manager and I told them I was resigning.

And what Claude reviewed it, said OK and validated it?