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When I joined Stripe in 2020, I was over the moon and felt like this is my dream job when I signed.

It was border line toxic environment. So many new folks were getting hired and being shoe horned into random things.

My manager was new and a bit biased. Kinda racist who assumed white = smart, not so white = not so smart.

Both my grandfathers had passed from Covid after a few months. I was really depressed.

I felt suicidal sometimes. Left a few months after and never felt better.

Have no equity, but no amount of money is worth tolerating passive racism.

What’s so special about US. Rest of the world is doing just fine right ?

Why does someone need to survive on tips? Why can’t it be part of their base pay?

What I hate about US tipping is that tips are a 15% hidden tax. It’s expected out of you even though the service is terrible. People get legit mad if they don’t get their minimum 15% tip.

This was just a single raptor engine. I was quite amazed at how stable it’s thrust control was. Truly remarkable.

SpaceX definitely keeps on making me think I’m doing jack shit with my life.

Here are people prototyping and pushing frontiers in rocket technology, and all I do day in and out is pump out CRUD UIs.

It’s not about owning. It’s having trust in the device that it will do what it says it will. Buying from Apple there is generally a trust that the device meet’s Apple’s bar and hasn’t been tempered with.

I was in the Windows org for a bit and this is one of the reasons why I quit Microsoft. I couldn’t live with myself that I am working on something that frustrates users by shoving ads in their face.

Every time our tests ran the windows menu showed ads. Edge default home page showed ads. An OS was supposed to be on the users side and Windows wasn’t.

I quit and have been much happier. Although I work for a tracking company so may be I am a hypocrite. But my current employer has strong ethics when it comes to GDPR, DNT cookie, No cross domain tracking Yada yada.

For an analytics engine, this seems impressive. I wonder how it compares to memsql’s speed of querying.

Also Mixpanel’s pricing page seems to employ some dark patterns. How much does it really cost? So complicated.

Why not simply charge based on data and compute used. like GCP, AWS, & Azure billing?

It’s a money move. Ms sunk billions in Edge. With chredge bing ads makes profits. It will come installed in windows by default.

If google’s killing ad block extensions, Microsoft will most definitely follow suite.

Your only best bet is Firefox right now.

Chrome is a Trojan horse and Google most definitely doesn’t give a shit about your privacy.

Slack is quite laggy in Firefox compared to chrome. It’s annoying enough to make me switch back to Chrome.

Robotics is hard because hardware is hard. Add software complexity to it and it grows to a monster. Rather than shutting down, i’d have hoped them to be acquired by someone else with deeper funds.

Anything to do with several possible answers and assessing how they lay out different solutions, their trade off and work towards a pragmatic and incremental solution.

Kids eat most of your time, that you’re too exhausted to do anything other than sleep.

I’m pretty sleep deprived since our baby was born. Averaging about 6 hours of sleep a day, with interruptions every 2 hours.

Yeah actively going against birth control is the dumbest thing a country can do. I’m talking about some US states that are still backward.

“I have no idea what I am doing but I like it!”

Haha what a fun website.

That’s why I suggested a shallow copy

Using debuggers effectively takes skill. When I was younger I would ask other people “hey how does this work?” Now I just debug it and go deep on interesting function to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. It’s helped me pick up things pretty fast.

I worked on Browser devtools. The #1 used tool was console. Nothing beats being able to put some console.log and see its output. Console.warn is even better since it captures the stacktrace.

Logs give a timeline of change.

I had this idea of console.snap but never got around to it. The idea is that it would not only capture the stacktrace, but a shallow copy of scopes at every function. You can query the snap to see how a variable changed, or find what set of variables caused something else to change later on.

I feel like this is the holy grail of debugging. Smarter logs that you can reason with and do time travel analysis.

I never got around to doing it, but now working at an analytics company, I see it being very valuable as it saves so much guess work.

I beg to differ. SQLite is a very popular embedded database. There is inherent simplicity to just reading and writing flat files.

Redis feels like that. It’s a simple data structure server. Now if we could have those datastructurs sync with flatfiles with the same redis API, a lot of applications would become much simpler.

I’m not sure how big of an undertaking it is though.

I’m willing to bet, a fast general datasrtuctures database syncable to flat files would open up many possibilities.

How does cuckoo hashing work for 80% load factor. It may be possible that you fill out both the positions and your eviction algorithm is then no longer constant time for worst case.

AFAIK, cuckoo works best when load factor is less than 50%. Wikipedia seems to also agree with me.

That $100/person isn’t spending by individual users. They are spent by companies advertising and paying for clicks.

Guess how many times an average person clicks on an ad knowingly/unknowingly.

Kind of how Mixpanel used to sell single sign on security at an extra price and free users didn’t get it.

Then they got hacked and shit blew up on their face.

Safety and security aren’t add-ons. It seems that in the name of making a bit of $$$, Boeing cut corners and led to loss of life.