Author: dineth
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Strategy and focus
Great quote from “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters” by Richard Rumelt: “If the business is really successful, then there is usually a good strategic logic behind that success, be it hidden or not. But the truth is that many companies, especially large complex companies, don’t really have strategies. At the core,…
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What kind of principal engineer are you?
What kind of principal / staff engineer are you? This is a really good guide around what each type of role entails. One of the reasons why a single levelling guideline for an IC is really tough. https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes The four common archetypes of Staff-plus roles I encountered are: ❶ The Tech Lead guides the approach…
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Great read: the man who killed Google Search
…Google’s response to the Code Yellow was to roll back changes that were made to maintain the quality of search results. Yikes. It is yet another story about corporate greed destroying a great products. Passionate write up, well worth the read: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ Thanks @Rob for the share. Coverage of Boeing troubles by John Olivier was…
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A week in Phuket
Recently, we spent a week in Phuket (Thailand) to get away from our busy work schedules to just chill by the beach. Phuket is an island at the south of Thailand. It is mostly a tourist island with stunning beaches, bright blue waters, great resorts and delicious local food. Here are some pix!
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Future of the web
I recently had the opportunity to attend WordCamp Asia in Taipei. It was my first time in a WordPress community event. One of the key takeaways for me was that WordPress adoption was in decline. Not only that, behind closed doors, I got to hear that number of websites created on the web overall is…
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Euclidean distance vs Cosine Similarity for text searches
Good article on the topic: https://cmry.github.io/notes/euclidean-v-cosine
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Watch: Pantheon
Great show about living forever. Best sci-fi show I’ve found this year. Check it out!! IMDB
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Thinking beyond your team
Recently, couple of my teams decided to combine their codebases. It was essentially the same application, written twice over to do the UI for a wizard that went down 2 paths. Their backends do very different things. However, the customer sees a very similar interface. After having done the migration, there have been some gripes.…
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Do all software engineers care about customer impact?
I got into a fun chat with my friends about unengaged people at work. Do software engineers care about salary, solving a problem technically (discovery), shipping, or does that work has to have impact in someone else’s life? Of course, different people find joy in many points within this spectrum of outcomes. Interesting question surfaced:…
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Barry to Google on “increasingly aggressive Google”
Worth the read (images in the post). Having been at Expedia, this issue is all too familiar. I hope someone does something. Google should profit share for the data they use to run their business, much like OpenAI should for its data for LLMs. Twitter link Barry Diller emails Google exec December 12, 2019 pic.twitter.com/UjyoDjQei4…