Typing fast is about latency, not throughput | Hacker News
It occurs to me that because we use both hands, the way we type is inherently ‘asynchronous’. For example, when trying to type(‘the’), the individual ‘function calls’, typechar(‘t’), typechar(‘h’), typechar(‘e’) may be initiated (i.e. fingers begin moving towards their target keys) in that order, but there’s no guarantee they are terminated (i.e. fingers hitting their […]
What I learned getting acquired by Google
Working at Google is like having a second passport. Go to any major city in the world and your badge2 unlocks a beautiful office with great food, desks, and a high speed link to every person in Google’s 200,000+ person network. And like visiting America as a foreigner, everything you see inside feels oddly familiar […]
Hard-to-swallow truths they won’t tell you about software engineer job | Hacker News
I would encourage anybody interested in a professional career (in anything) to zoom out and keep in mind that almost every profession is ultimately about providing service. Source: Hard-to-swallow truths they won’t tell you about software engineer job | Hacker News
Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts – The New York Times
Banks generally won’t say how often they are closing accounts this way, and they’re not tracking how often they get it wrong. But federal data offer clues. Source: Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts – The New York Times
‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess | Hacker News
If you squint, could apply some of those observation to the world of software. Source: ‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess | Hacker News
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Source: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
What it was like working for GitLab
You can’t determine what is “minimal viable” without data Source: What it was like working for GitLab
Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners – Global Investigative Journalism Network
Searching for foreign assets of a Middle East king in 2021, Kehoe and her colleagues found that the monarch secretly owned 14 luxury homes in the UK and the US via a network of front companies in tax havens. They then got dramatic confirmation when the secret client’s home address was listed by formation agents […]
Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
Any Markdown code block tagged js will be executed as JavaScript in the user’s browser. This is an incredibly powerful abstraction—anything you can do in JavaScript (which these days is effectively anything at all) can now be seamlessly integrated into your document. Source: Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
How I keep myself Alive using Golang
As an incident commander, you are empowered and encouraged to pull anyone in from anywhere in the company to resolve the incident as quickly as possible. By resolve, I mean remove customer impact which means you must identify, triage, fix/put a short term band aid on and identify and record long term actions. We then […]