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How interesting: An Amazon engineer joining a startup using AWS: hits the ground running (has been using AWS throughout their time at Amazon) A Google engineer joining a startup using GCP: most likely needs to learn how GCP works (most of Google runs infra that is not GCP)

I was having drinks with a founder buddy last night (200+ person org, $80m ARR) and they've now implemented a "no Bay Area sales talent (AEs, leaders)" policy after contending with unending amounts of entitlement, whining, and low integrity behavior. Midwest, mountain west,

Told my CISO who doesn’t Google much that the GDPR “right to be forgotten” requests are actually called DILF (Data I’d Like Forgotten) requests and I think he bought it Now we wait for him to use it in a board meeting….

small rust projects you should try

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

How AI Is Capable of Giving a Voice to Those Without One (and Why It’s a Game-Changer) - readwrite.com/ai-gives-voice…

"And so Google is now following its own subsidiary’s [Mandiant (part of Google Cloud)'s] advice." techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/goo…

happy friday

Hi friends! I wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest site on the internet. Long and short of it: We won the bid and — you're not going to believe it — the previous InfoWars folks aren't taking it well.

Ahead of the DOJ's updated search antitrust remedies proposal, Google workers met with the the DOJ to urge the government to consider the impact on workers. They say worker protections are critical to any remedies' success. theverge.com/2024/11/20/243…

The 30under30 to prison pipeline going strong.

if you're not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship. true happiness comes from building dashboards that give executives deeper insight into critical business functions

Most teams of software engineers have 1 savant. They just want to build. They have crazy ideas. They have lightning fast execution. And they don't like rules. Your job as a manager is to protect your savant from management at all costs, steer them and let them fly. 1/3

High level Shopify merchants DM me to lock in your invitation. Only a few spots left! See ya at AWA 😇

Every software engineer should read Google's Spanner paper. Spanner proved CAP theorem wrong by inventing TrueTime that achieved <7ms clock synchronization at planet-scale. Very few innovations impact software we use as much. Must read.

The dog who supported his best friend in his first steps 🫶

Today at Google Cloud Next, we shared exciting announcements across our entire product portfolio, including:

i mean it's a great therapeutic experience

I've been married 30 years. When we got married, we agreed that as the husband, I would make all the big decisions and my wife would make all the small decisions. It's worked out great! I'm just surprised there have never been any big decisions.