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mavelikara

3,678 karmajoined 17 лет назад
My name is Binil Thomas, and I live in Dublin, CA. I build product organizations for people to do their best work. Currently, I lead Engineering at Warmly (https://www.warmly.ai). Previously, I built and led EPD at Orum (https://www.orum.com) and spent ~10 years at AppDynamics.

Write to me at first name dot last name at google's email service.

Submissions

The principles of extreme fault tolerance

planetscale.com
3 points·by mavelikara·2 месяца назад·0 comments

My Thoughts on AI, Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey

blog.isquaredsoftware.com
1 points·by mavelikara·2 месяца назад·0 comments

The AI engineering stack we built internally – on the platform we ship

blog.cloudflare.com
12 points·by mavelikara·3 месяца назад·2 comments

The Diffusion Dilemma

arenamag.com
29 points·by mavelikara·11 месяцев назад·7 comments

Advanced Context Engineering for Agents [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by mavelikara·11 месяцев назад·0 comments

comments

mavelikara
·4 дня назад·discuss
> this is where software goes to die

The ones that IBM passed up on, yes.
mavelikara
·4 дня назад·discuss
Definitely, no.
mavelikara
·4 дня назад·discuss
+1 - one of my favorite songs of all time. Rod Stewart-esque than Stewart himself on this one.
mavelikara
·6 дней назад·discuss
You are asking the wrong person.
mavelikara
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> A law which will be used from the opposite side just as well, as soon as the power switches hands again.

This is the real test. If these changes are so bad, will someone campaign bare on overturning these? Will the “other side” change it?

If they don’t, you know that they also agreed with it - this handwringing now is just for show.
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Adding “this is my opinion” to every post would be tedious, rt? :-)
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
My understanding is that the EB green cards are for a job offer, and not the current job.

In practice, though, almost all employers file EB GC petitions for only their current employees, not future ones.
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Not the person you asked, but here are some real world examples: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/quint-co_community-spotlight-...

(One of the entries cited is something I worked on).
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Everything that can be expressed in TLA+ can’t be expressed in Quint. But everything useful for specifying programs, I believe, can be expressed in both languages.
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
I am guessing you were being snarky. Care to explain what about it you find about it objectionable?
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
> A real industry should be responsive to events of nature, or at least the market, not vibes.

Market is vibes! The price of something at a moment is, for example, what market participants collectively agree what the price of it should be.
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
> He wants to push it just because he lost a bragging contest.

That is an uncharitable interpretation, IMO.

The CFO heard of a novel technique used by his peers in other companies, and they reported good results. He wants to try it within his organization too. As an executive, he is paid to (among other things) keep abreast of such developments in the industry and ensure that the organization he is leading is not caught flat footed in the market.
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Polydactyly can be treated surgically! /s

Jokes aside, if in 15 years you have worked with only few good Indian engineers, you probably have not yet worked at places with high talent density. I could understand if you had said you have (a) worked with many low quality engineers from India, or (b) worked with far more low quality engineers from India than high quality ones. But if, in absolute numbers, you haven't come across many good engineers from India, I can only infer than you probably haven't worked with very good engineers across the board.
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
> This type of thing should come along with a reduction of allowed H-1bs.

H-1Bs also lose jobs in these layoffs, so there is an implicit reduction.
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
How does the “flattening” affect equity grants. With fewer employees, does each get larger equity stakes?
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
A newspaper ran a contest to write prose in the style of Graham Greene. Greene sent in the opening two paragraphs of an unfinished work. He came in _second_ in the contest. Many years later, Greene sent in an entry to a similar contest. This time he didn’t win any prizes but got an honorable mention from the judges.
mavelikara
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Love to see the evals on this one!
mavelikara
·3 месяца назад·discuss
> I still remember the people arguing that lightning is just fine and we don't need usb-c. It's true, they existed.

Before that, many of them argued that powerpcs were better than x86. :)
mavelikara
·3 месяца назад·discuss
What is meant by snapshot testing in this context?
mavelikara
·3 месяца назад·discuss
That is an LCA requirement. The company did well to publish this at a place where employees frequent.