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by gregdoesit 16d ago
I used to pay attention to Ed Zitron, exactly because he seemed to be someone who did the research, and looked at numbers. Until one day, I realized that seems to only look at numbers as long as it serves his agenda. When it doesn't,
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Interviewing in the Age of AI(dein.fr)
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Node.js blocks PR from dev because he used Claude Code to create it(github.com)
9 points by gregdoesit 6mo ago|4 comments
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It's time to move your docs in the repo(dein.fr)
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Adobe to pay $75M to settle US lawsuit over hard-to-cancel subscriptions(dexerto.com)
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by gregdoesit 9mo ago
Interestingly, stagnation started around 2014 (in the number of questions asked no longer rising,) and a visible decline started in 2020 [1]: two years before ChatGPT launched! It’s an interesting question if the decline would have happened
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by gregdoesit 9mo ago
> The unhelpful feedback was a consistent push to dumb down the book (which I don't think is particularly complex but I do like to leave things for the reader to try) to appease a broader audience and to mellow out my personal voice
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A startup in Mongolia translated my book(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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OpenAI acquires Statsig(theverge.com)
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'How come I can't breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis(simonwillison.net)
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by gregdoesit 1y ago
You might be amused to hear that the only exception for Section 174 is software developers working at oil and gas companies! From the legislation: “ Section 174(c)(2) provides that the required Â§ 174 method does not apply to any expenditu
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by gregdoesit 1y ago
Either Klarna is really good at pulling strings to get media coverage, or mainstream media does not fact checking themselves. About a year ago, the company was everywhere in the media when its CEO announced that it created an AI bot that is
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You Can't Outrun AI in Tech Interviews, So We Designed Around It(annajmcdougall.medium.com)
5 points by gregdoesit 1y ago|8 comments
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by gregdoesit 1y ago
If you think the issue of devs using fake identities is a problem limited to the Fortune 500: I talked with a 6-person startup who very nearly hired a person who could have been from anywhere else than they claimed, including North Korea.
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The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel(techcrunch.com)
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by gregdoesit 2y ago
The most bizarre OpsGenie story was how in 2022, this tool was down for 2 weeks for hundreds of unlucky companies that were Atlassian customers. This was at a time when JIRA had an outage impacting a small percentage of their customer base
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Investigating systems that fail (2020)(google.github.io)
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by gregdoesit 2y ago
Author of the article - and analyzed the likely impact of Section 174 in detail a year back [1], in Jan 2024, when it became clear that it was not being reversed like most assumed it would be. I originally didn’t mention this because S174 i
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Why my audiobook is everywhere except on Audible(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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by gregdoesit 2y ago
As someone who was a paid customer of Quartr: they do not offer the ability to look or search actual filings at the $20/month plan. Full text search starts from $500/month, and is an annual contract (so $6,000/month.) Pricing
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The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser(theverge.com)
10 points by gregdoesit 2y ago|5 comments
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The failed promise of Domain Driven Design(no-kill-switch.ghost.io)
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by gregdoesit 2y ago
I’m one of the paying Kagi customer who wants to make Kagi my default iOS search engine, but cannot. It’s maddening that even though I paid for both my iPhone / iPad and for Kagi, Apple for some reason makes it impossible for me to mak
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Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again(lucvandonkersgoed.com)
197 points by gregdoesit 2y ago|136 comments
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Generative AI Is Not Going to Build Your Engineering Team for You(stackoverflow.blog)
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"I try not to think about competitors too much"(twitter.com)
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How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
For anyone interested in reading full chapters of the book (all are relatively short!), here are three full ones [1], shared with the permission of the author (Kent Beck) and publisher (O’Reilly). [1] https://newsletter.pragmatic
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
The Netherlands is arguably one that heavily embraces the 4-day workweek. In this country, employees can request a shorter work week (4 days) for proportionality less wages (so eg for 4 days get 80% of wages). More than 80% of working moms
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
I've been using Kagi as my default search engine for about 2 months now. I love it, and feel so far that it's well worth the $108 per year: just by not having to spend mental energy to scroll through the first several sponsored re

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