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Twitter also had to move away from Ruby into a service-oriented architecture back in the late 00s. It's not a very scalable language, even when you hire people who work on the compiler.

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You advance in either lifestyle or risk (maybe both). Managers are better equipped to optimize and climb established business structures. ICs are better equipped to create new products or at least jump into a nimble team. Maybe you should take more risk on special projects in your organization, spearhead new technology shifts, or join a startup (giving substantial due diligence to understand the feasibility of a startup business plan from a technical perspective).

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Strength Training @ Crunch Gym, 2-3x/week, 90 min each. I walk uphill or bike to get my heart rate up, then 1 hr workout. I used to do a wide variety of physical activities: tennis, rock climbing, dancing, golf, hiking, running. They were great for socialization but I didn’t really get a balanced fitness using them as my primary workout. Especially as you age, strength training is a great base. I do it solo because I don’t like the CrossFit style energy. It’s great for energy, anti-anxiety, focus.

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Annecdotally, as an ambivert, my experience with chat apps (versus physical life) results in even more social anxiety. The amount of criticism on Slack is higher than I experience in physical life. When you see a person, you can pick up on queues that they are being sarcastic or recognize their individual speech pattern as something to minimize. Text looks far more uniform in terms of interpreting emotion/personality. Even when I post on HN, I’m not sure if some comment I tried to write in a measured way will be harshly criticized. When I say something similar in person, the hearer has a moment pause before saying something adversarial because they can see my face and humanize me.

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This is a different age, but I think the same principle applies. When I was 20, I started getting issues from excessive keyboard usage. It stayed for 5 years even though I cut down substantially & tried massages. I ended up rock climbing and my issues went away with larger muscles. I’m in my 40s now and still use the same approach: where can I build muscle and make the pain subside. It doesn’t take much muscle, normally 3-6 months of practice @ 2x/week. The results normally stick pretty long, even when I back off the practice.

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Given that there is tremendous code sharing of Apple's OS+AppStore software on the laptop and phone, I have not understood how both hardware products are not subject to the same rules. Phones are basically micro-laptops and should have similar platform expectations, legally.

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When I see Vanity Fair, I think: the Middle America Centrist I can trust.

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Why not CCTV? Having video footage to subpoena after a crime is committed, then analyze, seems less surveillance society than going straight to a real-time, individual tracking data store.

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Somehow, Meta managed to overhire in low cost of living areas and will likely look at employee overhead when considering where to downsize.

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  1. Note that this is a news aggregator for tech startups.  Tech startups in large cities tend to hire most of their experienced engineers from FAANG companies.  So, it's in a tech startup's interest to critique FAANGs.
  2. You could want to be a great startup founder or early engineer as an ambition.  Probabilistically, your most straightforward path to this goal is to go to a FAANG next.  Golden handcuffs, most people come in with this ambition then don't leave because there's so many pleasant aspects.  Think about point #1 again.
  3. If you are trying to get into a more respected tech community and are limited by visa issues, which companies tend to solve more often than individuals, it's probably in your interest to find a company [1] that will clear this hurtle for you and [2] that has a brand you can leverage.  FAANG is a subset of companies that would provide that option.

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This seems like a pretty generic question, so I assume you're looking at it from a new grad standpoint. Distributed Systems is more of a technical/resource specialty. You will be optimizing data across multiple systems. You'll want to measure it, improve overall performance/size/cost through algorithm and heuristic optimizations. It can be a terminal career state, meaning that plenty of people have a great career ending with the title: Distributed Systems Engineer. The progression within this career is similar to other Software Engineering roles. You are taking on larger projects, more team coordination, more business critical or technical complex problems.

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While I agree that multi-tenant urban housing is lacking in America, the real question seems to be why no other American city has made significant progress on catching up to the Northeast corridor. I don't think that Washington DC is the prime example of the problem. If anything, it's the only city in America to have a true European feel due to the height constraints. When I lived in NYC, the dense skyscrapers of Manhattan were very constricting compared to Brooklyn, where I ended up moving. Manhattan is great for office buildings but less as a relaxing abode outside the Village. Even Shanghai & San Paolo has more space between large buildings with room for light, trees, sky.

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Research hypergamy. It's a pretty well-established phenomenon across generations.

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That's essentially what GitHub is doing. You have your entire contribution history and they have a product to help managers analyze contributions across teams. I worked at a couple startups that used this to evaluate their employees in manager-only meeting.

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Negative externalities play a large factor in the cognitive split. I'm more willing to tolerate a minuscule amount of people who hurt themselves more than a minuscule amount of people who hurt a random innocent.

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I agree with your analysis. My frustration is in this reality, which I think could have faster iteration speed with the right framing & education.

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Oregon has decriminalized all drugs and I have heard a number of people in the Bay Area wanting to make progress beyond this without definitive results: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta... . Personally, I tend more towards the liberal viewpoint but I also believe that the more granular we can make A/B Scientific Testing here, the more our country will reach a positive equilibrium faster.

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Drug legalization highlights one of my frustrations at the practical American dialog about controversial topics:

1. Liberals get acknowledgement that weed isn't so bad and should maybe be legal. 2. Liberals: "Legalize all drugs!" 3. Conservatives: "No." 4. --- 20 years pass and another generation is born ---

I wish nuance made it to the front page more than diatribes expounding upon, essentially, hard yes and hard no.

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https://www.yugabyte.com - Postgres fronted distributed OLTP database

I work there (300+ ppl). It's primarily open source. It makes money through support contracts and cloud hosting, but all core development is done in the open.

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