This and the Meta post seem too crazy to be true... Feels uncomfortable that these are the daily lives of sine tech workers compared to my relatively 'relaxed' (but lower paying) tech job.
Can't believe this was a hobby for me and my dad during primary school and now understanding how computers work led me to my current full time job to put food on the table for my own children.
Amazing, I wonder what their interview process is like, probably whiteboarding a next-gen LLM in WASM, meanwhile, their entire website goes down with us-east-1... I mean.
I don’t think it’s a wordplay with the r-word, but rather a reference to the famous Shakespeare quote: “Hoist with his own petard”. It’s become an English proverb. (A petard is a smallish bomb)
Archived here so we can compare 10 years from now: https://archive.is/CplcH
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