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SWE in HFT. formerly Google, OkCupid & Mozilla. I build platforms.

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Better UX would have helped adoption and would have led to Google keeping the RSS button

The most obvious people to have improved that UX is the browser... aka Google. The way that XML rendered was controlled by the browser. This all sounds like Google apologism.

We live in different worlds.

The Jira I'm familiar with may be extremely powerful, but fast it certainly is not. I also rarely need that power which comes with non-trivial complexity.

Feral cats, as much as I love a house cat, can almost be thought of as an invasive species.

They absolutely decimate song birds populations.

I don't think dart is a problem, but your timelines are very off.

Dart was a JavaScript alternative that was started back in 2011. It's evolved a lot since then but in no way was it created for Flutter.

(I worked physically adjacent to the Flutter team for a couple years)

Buck2 Unboxing 3 years ago

I've been exploring buck2 for work a lot recently. We're considering switching to either it or Bazel.

It'll be an incredibly risky decision to go with buck2 today, but it's so darn zippy in comparison to Bazel it's hard to not at least give it a real try.

My impression so far has been it's pretty robust in it's core, but anything that FB doesn't use is in a mediocre state. It's yet to be seen how willing they'll be to take PRs that are explicitly for community usage.

Everyone else here is not agreeing with you, but having just come back from our India office and dealing a little bit with compensation adjustment, I totally agree with you.

Our Indian teams are making really good money these days, and if we don't pay them as such they bounce to another company.

What Is Anglish? 3 years ago

Before anyone gets too worried, the Anglish community in my (limited) experience has been incredibly anti-racism/Nazi/etc.

They are just a bunch of linguistics nerds who are having fun imagining what English would have been without a Norman invasion.

In the same spirit, I'd recommend checking out the Uncleftish Beholding. Although I think it predates the modern Anglish community, it's an attempt to describe Quantum Mechanics with Latin/French derived words.

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/docs/uncleftish_beh...

Spinning disk are fine for some workloads. However, I've definitely seen teams engineering around slower spinning discs. NVMe isn't egregiously expensive, and if teams are needing to spend too much work and time thinking about disk speed it probably cheaper in the long run to switch.

I go out several times a week now and have a friend group outside of work too. That's a different experience than what the GP is talking about.

My friends don't share my work context, nor do I want to have them hear about it endlessly. Getting a drink with friendly coworkers is a good way to have a conversation with that shared context.

Slack the messaging app was actually the pivot off of an unsuccessful MMORPG. They were writing it for their own internal use. Motivations were somewhat different than you are envisioning.

I don't think people are complaining about writing code, I think they are complaining about the time involved with take homes (just having done a couple I can empathize with) and whiteboard codings "high stress nature".

I've also had interviews which just talk about work I've done before. Most industries only need that, and I'm coming around to those being the more valuable questions.