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by jerglingu 1y ago
Who? I can only think of Nero who sought only to "simply do harm." This is such a reductive way to cast people
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by jerglingu 2y ago
Amazing read, and glad she could write this into history. It's amazing to me that Half-Life's status of immortality has more or less been preserved even today.
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by jerglingu 2y ago
Damn, I love this. Information is dense and clustered, edges are sharp and it all feels so _human_. I can't stand the uncanny valley, fake minimalism lots-of-whitespace flat design bullshit that has taken over the web. This feels good
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by jerglingu 3y ago
The degree of singular outrage this guy produces is something else. It's like a switch flips in peoples' brains and they go through a two-minutes (or maybe two hours in this article's case) hate session when they comment abou
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by jerglingu 3y ago
An interesting Tweet where somebody approximates Eight Sleep sales/subs counts: https://twitter.com/laurenbalik/status/1727385607041667430
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by jerglingu 3y ago
In your article, your points about managing stateful data operations vs stateless tools is right on point. It's the eternal and ever-repeating argument that has to be made in every data shop I've ever been in when inevitably a man
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by jerglingu 3y ago
I indeed was a former “MAANG bro”, but this is sentiment gleaned from both a cohort of former coworkers who had stints there, along with general Flexporter attitude on Blind (which, for its imperfections and distortions, gives pretty good s
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by jerglingu 3y ago
Lines up with the sentiment about Flexport being a tech retirement home
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by jerglingu 3y ago
I agree. The open source flavor of dbt Core is very well-designed and almost as complete as you would want it, but any competition is good competition
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by jerglingu 3y ago
And it's not like they don't understand the importance of mods' free labor to keep subreddits clean of filth and users visiting/contributing. I know somebody who worked there years ago, and it was understood that they ha
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by jerglingu 3y ago
Had a similar experience, but with the much more tame marijuana. It was a 6-hour long panic attack for me. Similar to the author of this, I read for years of how "the only way it could ever harm you is if you were crushed by 100 lbs of
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by jerglingu 3y ago
The Substack throttling was not false. It was throttled before the decision was reversed
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by jerglingu 3y ago
Twitch is probably at peak "enshittification." Disastrous business decisions, from both the degradation of the product in the name of profits, as well as the questionable way it has engaged with the growing discontent of streamers
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by jerglingu 3y ago
I got jobs at my current and last workplace through a recruiter reaching out to me through LinkedIn. I'm not necessarily exceptional in my skills and experience, and I don't even have a profile picture. But for recruiters, it is a
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by jerglingu 4y ago
This comment is perfect and elicited the long-buried inner rage I used to feel towards a former staff in an old company. I should not have had to navigate a staff engineer’s mind minefield like my BPD ex. Additionally, a person with that de
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by jerglingu 4y ago
Observation/mini rant: unfortunately the data industry is both very susceptible to fads and hype, and does not have widespread standardization or a generally-accepted set of best practices. The subset of data "influencers" wh
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by jerglingu 4y ago
One of the patron saints of 90's electronic music. God, this makes me sad. Rest in peace
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by jerglingu 4y ago
This sounds similar to Flexport's CTO situation (he came from Amazon) and attempted microservice-ification of everything. Except it sounds like they weren't even able to get wheels up and are still floundering after years of plann
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by jerglingu 4y ago
I left about a year ago, but the universality of tools and stack was not a thing in the ~3 years I was there. Retail and AWS are split and use different stacks. Additionally, the company was in a drawn out multi-year process of deprecating
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by jerglingu 4y ago
Not quite the same as an entirely ex-Blizzard staffed group of people, but Riot Games and League of Legends as well. Tom Cadwell[0] was there from the very beginning of League's life and has had considerable influence over the developm
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by jerglingu 4y ago
"join my webring" was something of a meme before memes were a thing
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by jerglingu 4y ago
Bringing another life into this world is maybe one of the worst ways a person would try to solve depression
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by jerglingu 4y ago
Any article about Amazon is guaranteed to inspire a grave post like this from a former employee. And as a former employee, I agree with the sentiment in nearly all of them.
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by jerglingu 4y ago
The lifting-and-dropping process from transactional stores into analytics stores is usually the first step in analytics data pipelines. This appears to fulfill that initial ingestion step specifically for Google BigQuery. A lot of times the
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by jerglingu 4y ago
A shame, feel bad for Kyle and his family. I don't think the Navy or SEAL command should be at fault for this, though. Kyle made the decision to take the drug, and he did so (presumably) illicitly and in secret. The nature of special o
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by jerglingu 4y ago
Blind is interesting. I'm grateful for the insights into total compensation it granted me, and Blind combined with a managerial stint gave me a very solid feel for both industry and company-specific bands. I also got notice of an impen
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by jerglingu 4y ago
Fivetran has been diligent the three years I was tucked away in FAANG analytics. When I emerged earlier this year back into the world of normal companies, I realized there was a sort of holy trinity of companies that has completely dominate
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by jerglingu 4y ago
I was generally aligned with you until I joined a very small SaaS startup recently. The cloud abstracts away so much which in turn frees up the attention span of those typically committed to infra setup and maintenance. Not to mention the p
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by jerglingu 4y ago
There may be no other sub-industry that desperately craves to abstract away as much complexity as possible
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by jerglingu 4y ago
Holy cow! This was an amazing watch and I can't wait to see the rest of them. Thank you so much for the recommendation

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