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nosefrog commented on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming   taylor.gl/blog/29... · Posted by u/taylorlunt
dehrmann · a month ago
In 2015? That seems low for an entry-level job at a startup, then. $60k is more like 2010.
nosefrog · a month ago
It was low. I got a bump to 90k that year, then 130k when I jumped companies, which I thought was a mind boggling amount. Do entry level devs even get out of bed for $130k these days?
nosefrog commented on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming   taylor.gl/blog/29... · Posted by u/taylorlunt
nosefrog · a month ago
My first programming job in SF paid $60k/year 10 years ago. I'd like to thank big tech for driving salaries up.
nosefrog commented on Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)   elidourado.com/p/personal... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
brikym · a month ago
It'd be good if small time pilots could fly quieter aircraft. There is an A380 that regularly takes off near me and it's quieter than most small planes. The engines on smaller planes drone loudly and it goes on and on as the planes are slow. Just another externalized cost of aviation.
nosefrog · a month ago
On the flip side, my baby likes the small loud airplanes. He points at them and says "oooh!"
nosefrog commented on There is no memory safety without thread safety   ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/... · Posted by u/tavianator
chadaustin · a month ago
Every time this conversation comes up, I'm reminded of my team at Dropbox, where it was a rite of passage for new engineers to introduce a segfault in our Go server by not synchronizing writes to a data structure.

Swift has (had?) the same issue and I had to write a program to illustrate that Swift is (was?) perfectly happy to segfault under shared access to data structures.

Go has never been memory-safe (in the Rust and Java sense) and it's wild to me that it got branded as such.

nosefrog · a month ago
Hi Chad!
nosefrog commented on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says   nytimes.com/2025/07/10/wo... · Posted by u/xbryanx
octopoc · 2 months ago
Many vegans think everyone else is evil/demonic for eating meat. “Meat is murder” etc etc. So the natural conclusion to that is, according to several vegans I know, that everyone who eats meat should be forced to either stop being a mass murderer or kill themselves.

Keep in mind there was a point where I was vegan, I know several vegans, so I know what I’m talking about.

They’re not shy about it either—look up That Vegan Teacher on YouTube for relatively middle-of-the-road vegan behavior in action.

nosefrog · 2 months ago
I was vegan for 7 years, one of my vegan friends had the opinion that human hospitals should be banned and only animal hospitals should be allowed.
nosefrog commented on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful   florian-kraemer.net//soft... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
cyberax · 2 months ago
With Protobuf this is a conscious decision to avoid back-compat issues. I'm not sure if I like it.
nosefrog · 2 months ago
Infra teams like it, app devs don't like it.
nosefrog commented on Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++   collabora.com/news-and-bl... · Posted by u/LorenDB
simiones · 4 months ago
Please find one web server being actively developed using one process per request.

Handling thousands of concurrent requests is table stakes for a simple web server. Handling thousands of concurrent processes is beyond most OSs. The context switching overhead alone would consume much of the CPU of the system. Even hundreds of processes will mean a good fraction of the CPU being spent solely on context switching - which is a terrible place to be.

nosefrog · 4 months ago
We did that at Dropbox in Python for a while. Though they switched to async after I left.
nosefrog commented on IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge   theregister.com/2025/04/1... · Posted by u/rntn
tempest_ · 4 months ago
This often just feels like bad management.

They go remote, but don't change a lot of other things or attempt to mitigate the downsides (there are downsides, everything is a trade off) and then claim its a failure when they need a stealth layoff.

Also IBM has a long history of "Resource Actions" so this type of thing is not all unexpected from them.

nosefrog · 4 months ago
At Google, they found that engineers L5 and above got more work done with RTO, and engineers at L4 and below got significantly less work done. WFH is great but it doesn't work for fresh engineers (who are often the most gung-ho about it as well).
nosefrog commented on Show HN: Koreo – A platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes   koreo.dev/... · Posted by u/tylertreat
nosefrog · 5 months ago
We use Python to generate these configs at my work. Ends up working out pretty well. I previously worked on the biggest deployment of gcl (the inspiration for KCL, Jsonnet) at Google and it was a giant nightmare and the cause of many outages.
nosefrog commented on Google to buy Wiz for $32B   reuters.com/technology/cy... · Posted by u/uncertainrhymes
kats · 5 months ago
Yeah, but Instagram and WhatsApp have billions of users. Everybody has heard of them. Advertising on Instagram generates revenue.

Wiz is a SaaS b2b startup. Even on a forum for startups most people haven't heard of them.

Wiz reportedly has a revenue of 750m. It would take Google 30 years or more to break even on this deal. But like all bs startups Wiz will fade into irrelevancy 6 months after being acquired.

Google is getting completely scammed.

nosefrog · 5 months ago
Nobody thought Instagram and WhatsApp were good acquisitions at the time.

u/nosefrog

KarmaCake day1189November 24, 2011View Original