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So silly that it's exactly what happened during the Great Depression.

More like companies are reducing scope to focus on key profit centers or initiatives, making product managers and designers easy targets for layoffs.

The vast majority of questions around quality that end up surfacing in code reviews can be much more easily settled by commonly shared tooling that enforces organizational style and security practices. Leaving "best practice" up to the code review stage just ends up allowing senior engineers to demand code that they themselves would write, not what's best for an organization.

Agreed. Too many "senior engineers" fail to recognize when they are simply venting their territorialism by nitpicking in code reviews. The role of a good manager is to restrain these tendencies.

Strange time to do an acquihire given that Netlify just had a round of layoffs.

The statement doesn't say how much Gatsby was acquired for. Hope that Gatsby equity holders weren't bought out at a steep discount, given the current macro situation.

I'm sympathetic to all those who lost their jobs, but I'm a bit baffled that 400 people were working on this. Can someone enlighten me as to why so much headcount was required by this project?

No, my parents were immigrants and I have multiple relatives who came to the United States as children and gained residency.

How did you go from 9 to working age without getting residency in the US or another country?

I'm curious about htmx, but all of the HTML mini-syntax very similar in aesthetic to Angular 1.0, which was pretty quickly supplanted by React. What excites people about htmx? Do people like the mini-syntax but dislike the ceremony of state management?

Not very convincing when "git gud" is the common response to Rust's exuberance towards needless complexity in use cases that it doesn't fit well in (like CRUD applications)

Rust advocates want us to believe that Rust can effectively replace all of the use cases of those languages, so it's totally fair to group them.

I'm glad we're here. More and more organizations are going to have serious buyers regret after being sold a bad bag of goods by all of the Rust hype.

Recruiters are salespeople. Toxic positivity, undue flattery, etc are all part of their toolbox. It's ultimately on the candidate to perform due diligence on the organization, like with any product.

Their CEO compensation is mostly equity, which has dropped like a stone in the past year.

This list is an aggregation of public layoff lists where people voluntarily signed up, plus people who sign up through us.

You should be actively getting the consent of these people on these lists. They consented to have their info in lists created and shared by colleagues, not as part of your service.

Bonds are back. TIPS bonds are now yielding around 2% real (not nominal). Treasury bills/notes are yielding above 4% nominal across much of the yield curve.

I'd disagree that it's a good time to buy now, as prices are still high. But if prices start to decline substantially it will be a good opportunity, as you can refinance a high rate mortgage during low rate periods (like many people did in the last few years)

A substantial chunk of the tech industry are speculative zombie companies that are built on the edifice of zero interest.

Funny that this whole hooks mess could have probably been better resolved with investment in developing optimization patches for v8 rather than attempting to "fix" React

Exciting stuff! Phabricator was one of the better project/dev management systems I've interacted with and I'm glad to see developer energy behind maintaining and improving it!

I would choose Zig because Zig has a much more approachable learning curve and Zig code is eminently legible compared to Rust code and it's overly complex type system.

Nothing will improve as long as the Python powers insist on packaging being an exercise for the community.

Cigarette smoking has been declining for decades and will be continue to dive as boomers die out. All of the anti cigarette campaigning has been effective.

Reminds me about how yall had "no idea" that you had banned benchmarking. Remarkable how much leaders can not know about their company's operations!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468771

Pypy is mostly written in a restricted dialect of Python (rpython), not pure python. They're substantively different.

The credit card companies strongly push merchants to adopt EMV chips by shifting liability for chargebacks onto merchants who are still using magstripes. I don't think I've seen a non-chip capable terminal in the last year.

The sharing of service contracts and their shared dependencies is a difficult problem to solve by itself. There's companies trying to make money off of the problem (buf). Monorepos solve the problem out of the box.

The Twitter discussion mentions this:

We can forcefully preempt virtual threads at any safepoint poll point

What is a "safepoint poll point"? A sleep call?

They predicted COVID in 2008?? Why didn't they warn anyone?

(it isn't the same deck)