It seems the only ones benefiting are the partners in these companies - who actually try to create that startup narrative and get the compensation in return.
If a group within a large company tries to advertise as startup, it's a big red flag.
One should join a company like Microsoft to learn and see how things are done in a mature place and to have good work life balance with reasonable pay - then if you want take that knowledge and experience with you outside to a startup if you want.
You might be to harsh on yourself and what you have accomplished. Six years at Google is a great achievement in itself. Have you considered impostor syndrome?
Maybe do a side gig and build something that you find interesting, could be a game for kids, a dating app, a music app,...
I have never had a MacBook before and due to changing jobs recently, I'm forced to use one now.
Its good, I also like the keyboard. The click sound is awesome and I like the thinness of the keys! Maybe I'm different, or maybe complainers are just very loud.
Personally, I still bought a Surface Laptop though, but I don't understand all the complaining and ranting about the MBP keyboard.
Its not unheard of. My friend had cops called on him by neighbors because kids where playing "unattended" by themselves in the front yard! This caused lots of trouble for the family, incl. potentially loosing custody - its insane!
It's amazing how they can get away with this, while at the same time not allowing others to scrape their sites. The actual content creators probably see significantly less traffic because of this - without ever knowing what the actual traffic could have been... there should be some kind of pay it forward/revenue sharing that Google should do. But that would be not being evil.
Microsoft is all about telemetry to improve its products, and it's a slippery slope and some of the instances pointed out here are way beyond what one would consider useful (for feature developmemt) telemetry. This might cost Microsoft a few billion.
C++ is a write only language. Too many complex features that are used in ways that only the author of the code understands at the time of writing - or thinks of understanding at the time of writing even.
Vuln is a common abbreviation in the security space - although, I dont appreciate parts of the sentence structure and how things are written in the article in general. Its difficult to read.
You are assuming that there are test specifications - in many organizations thorough testing before shipping is a thing of the past. A/B and testing in production is the new norm unfortunately. That's probably part of the problem. Since the users are the product being tested it makes even sense.
This is another example of Facebook valuing its own privacy, while at the same time continuing to disregard the privacy needs for its users. I always gave them the benefit of the doubt, but it's getting ridiculous.