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Of course they're dumb, they are IBM now.


People hiring as well as applicants need to start rejecting these hiring strategies. Noone can determine whether or not someone will be a good member of their team by their answer to the Skyline problem.


Proton mail doing a little advertising of their own through a blog post. lol


I enjoy using Postgres's Network Data Types. I'm sure it wasn't that hard to implement them, but the ease of use is undeniable.


What is suggested in the article will never fly with the capitalism crowd (USA). It is too easy to point at it and say "equality of outcome".

I used to be like this myself until I saw with my own eyes the cronyism at play in hiring and compensation.

The day I stopped believing that SV is or could be a meritocracy was a sad one indeed.


Is it me or did Go fail its original mission to replace systems languages (c/c++), but then somehow achieved victory by loads of Python devs embracing it as a far more performant runtime for their code?

Whichever way it is, as a lisper I just find the language tedious and ceremonial, and its csp implementation lacking.


I feel like Go is more similar to another Java or C# in the role that it fills in enterprises.


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