chojeen · HackerTrans

A better analogy would be "remotely swing a hammer as a service". You can't build something like that and act shocked when a significant fraction of your users use it to harm people instead of driving nails, and you certainly shoulder a large fraction of the responsibility.

chojeen

12 ay öncediscuss

I really don't get a lot of this criticism. For example, who is using iceberg with hundreds of concurrent committers, especially at the scale mentioned in the article (10k rows per second)? Using iceberg or any table format over object storage would be insane in that case. But for your typical spark application, you have one main writer (the spark driver) appending or merging a large number of records in > 1 minute microbatches and maybe a handful of maintenance jobs for compaction and retention; Iceberg's concurrency system works fine there.

If you have any use case like one the author describes, maybe use an in-memory cloud database with tiered storage or a plain RDBMS. Iceberg (and similar formats) work great for the use cases for which they're designed.

chojeen

5 yıl öncediscuss

> Riot and Blizzard both have large flagship franchises that they practically decorate their offices around, statues and all. When I was talking to recruiters in the past, Riot stood out as one of those "don't bother applying if you aren't absolutely shitting passion for our games out of every hole" as culture fit.

I interviewed at Riot when I was trying to move back to Saint Louis. I could not muster up very much enthusiasm for League, and you could just feel the room shift into "just get through this interview ASAP" mode.

Can't help but feel I dodged a bullet.

chojeen

6 yıl öncediscuss

Do people have any pride? Why would you subject yourself to this?

chojeen

6 yıl öncediscuss

It's hard to know how to feel about this complex situation. On one hand:

- The Chinese government clearly has its tendrils in TikTok and uses it to push its oppressive censorship policies around the world

- The security implications of giving China a backdoor into a large percentage of American phones is too concerning to ignore

On the other hand:

- Explicitly targeting specific companies feels wrong. If security and censorship are real concerns here, Congress should be passing laws that apply to all companies, not just TikTok

- Even though there are sound reasons to restrict TikTok, this is still a transparently protectionist policy by the Trump admin and fits right into his nationalistic, totalitarian, xenophobic playbook. A broken clock is still right twice a day, I suppose

- Requiring a sale to an American company is the mirror image of China's forced technology transfers for foreign companies. Two wrongs don't make a right

I think the best scenario is for Congress to preempt Trump with laws that protect American security and free speech interests without executive action. That's easier said than done, though.

chojeen

6 yıl öncediscuss

At a startup, there's a good chance Fred's time would be better spent knocking out feature work (you only have so much runway, after all). But at a mature tech company, assuming he's good at his job, Fred is likely providing a ton of value by

- Keeping his coworkers sane (barely functional codebases that are difficult to work with have a way of killing morale) - Having an intimate knowledge of the code base that can inform future feature work - Paying down tech debt that's generally uninteresting to more feature-oriented coworkers

Having a whole team of Freds is probably not a good idea, but having one in a senior engineer or tech lead role is really useful.

chojeen

6 yıl öncediscuss

I can't imagine forced remote for all employees would ever become the norm. It feels like likely that companies would move from dedicated offices to leasing co-working spaces for those that want it.

chojeen

6 yıl öncediscuss

Do they still have to label irradiated food in the EU? IIRC many people avoid it because radiation is scary sounding. I have to imagine that chemically treated meat would be an even tougher sell, regardless of how benign it might actually be.

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