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I’m a software engineer at one of the big ones — you’d recognize the name. I write when something doesn’t add up. Often things everyone’s quietly agreed to stop questioning. Click to read Dan Unparsed, by Dan Kinsky, a Substack publication. Launched 5 months ago.
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The Part of Me That Doesn't Believe AI Is Fine
"The hardest problems we have to face do not come from philosophical questions about whether brains are machines or not. There is not the slightest reason to doubt that brains are anything other than machines with enormous numbers of parts that work in pe
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System Design Interviews Can Get Weird Once You've Worked on Databases
I was giddy.Not nervous-giddy. Confident giddy. I had an offer sitting in my inbox already, and I was pretty confident I knew why.The interviewer asked me: Design a search system for every shopfront on our platform.It's info, it's location, what it sells,
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Adobe, RapidRAW, and the Future of Selling Software as a Product
I love taking photos.Not in any professional capacity - just travel photos, sometimes I'll take my camera around the city.This one's from a work trip I took last year:Dún Laoghaire harbour, Ireland, after sunset.Here's the thing though - only half the mag
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HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74/100. No - 88/100. Actually 83/100.
This open-source ATS by HackerRank has been blowing up recently: https://github.com/interviewstreet/hiring-agentIt's popped up on LinkedIn and Reddit with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of likes.1 A coworker mentioned it to me in passing a few days ago.I'
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I Thought Creativity Lived in Art Class
First year university. Calculus with proofs.Specifically epsilon delta proofs. If you've done them, you know. If you haven't: you're given a limit and asked to prove, rigorously, that it exists. No formula. No method to reach for. You construct the argume
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How FAANG Became General Electric
Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. Nicknamed "Neutron Jack" for, "eliminating employees while leaving buildings intact".There used to be a social cost to laying off people. Not a legal one - a reputational one. The kind that made engineers think
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The Bezos API Mandate Has An AI Sequel
Jeff Bezos in 1999, before the systems - and mandates - that would define Amazon.In 2002, Jeff Bezos issued a now infamous mandate:All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.Teams must communicate with each ot
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