melozo

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by melozo 29d ago
All of this to try and learn something new
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by melozo 2mo ago
I think you’re underrating the sheer amount of iteration that occurs. SaaS has requirements and then implementation- it’s a product that has a target it hits. Yes, churn happens, but the point is you’re working to a specific goal. Games and
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by melozo 3mo ago
Huh? Open source is a quality of the software, not specific to the hardware used to run the model. The demand is that model weights are openly available for anyone to run and fine tune without restriction. Has nothing to do with the hardwar
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by melozo 3mo ago
I worked at Amazon and I do think that more than anything we were overhired with little meaningful work. A lot of compliance goal chasing. Not that it’s performative to the top brass, but the work was very little and not usually very techni
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by melozo 5mo ago
Yeah I’m struggling to understand why the same header field would be used for git options in the first place. Why ever allow users to modify that specific header?
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by melozo 7mo ago
Ironically Square isn’t good at anything in particular. Square fails to have a good point of sale (Toast wins) and fails for online store fronts (Shopify wins). Square is in a position where they spread themselves thin and aren’t at the top
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by melozo 9mo ago
I’m not sure how controversial this is - but 100% code coverage is almost always a waste of time, paid both immediately and long term, for certain languages. Go, for example, requires explicit error handling, but the way errors are handled
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by melozo 11mo ago
You’re right about that. I guess what I mean is, how long will people be enthusiastic about AWS and its ability to innovate. But AWS undeniably has some really strong product offerings - it’s just that their pace of innovation has slowed. T
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by melozo 11mo ago
Sure, but it’s not reasonable that internal collaboration platforms built for ticketing engineers about outages doesn’t work during the outage. That would be something worth making multi-region at a minimum.
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by melozo 11mo ago
Even internal Amazon tooling is impacted greatly - including the internal ticketing platform which is making collaboration impossible during the outage. Amazon is incapable of building multi-region services internally. The Amazon retail sit
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by melozo 2y ago
I worked at <large tech company everyone hates> and we had this exact architecture. The senior engineer (who went to Stanford and was proud of it) designed this system. I had long arguments with him about how this system wouldn't