what happens if you suffer catastrophic failure, you'd lose up to one hour of data?

The system had RAID, so disks could be replaced without taking anything down.

We never had a catastrophic failure, but yeah, and hour of lost data wouldn't be the end of the world. For regular maintenance we would just coordinate with the QA team to pause testing temporarily. (Testing was only around-the-clock near a product release.)

how do you know those queries are actually correct without domain knowledge?

Do you know enough about JOINs and how they work to be able to break those big queries down and figure out whether they are doing exactly what you're asking for in English?

You don't, and if businesses start using vibed reports for regulated reporting then I guess we'll see soon what the courts say about that

Litigation aside for a moment - I'm not sure vide-coded reporting could be much worse than what I've seen from early-career analysts in past companies.

You don’t. But you can still check ? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i mean that would apply to meeting your SO in real life too, that's just how life works

Well, sometimes. A lot of people just marry someone they went to school with, or worked with, or who was in their friend group or local community. It was simply a matter of deciding to pull the trigger.

Obviously there's still the narrow margin of "living in the same place at the same time", but that margin is much wider than "be in this exact game server at this exact time of day on this exact day".

The margin is wider but the number is smaller. You can be on a hundred different game servers at various times, but you're only born and grow up in an area once.

And some are big “had to happen” (right college choice, wrong WoW faction choice, etc) and others are “the specific had to happen but would have eventually” - if you’re both playing horde on the same campus you’d eventually meet in game or IRL, for example.

My wife apparently swiped me on Bumble by accident

I guess it is AMA, anything except about your current hiring pipeline lol

Does your company actually look at resumes? you post in HN but nothing ever goes through. I have a feeling that your recruitment team is not doing their job properly (or being super selective)

Why not just move to NA/Europe? Chinese engineers are a security risk

It’s not easy, but if Chinese devs can be hired as remote engineers, they can apply for digital nomad visas in Europe after 3 months.

Not gonna lie, that would be a dream, and that's coming from an American.

The WSJ reported that many Americans are relocating to Lisbon, investing in real estate in New Zealand, or becoming digital nomads in Southeast Asia.

how does this work from a security standpoint? per user encryption?

Location: Canada/US Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: React/Next.js/Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Tailwind/Typescript/Python/Django/etc

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuUttzrImLuoBmBcJL_tu0rP...

Email: actual.edward@gmail.com

My name is Edward. I'm an individual with close to a decade of experience shipping impactful software and leading teams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-c-040270111/

Quick bullet points:

- Significant experience with working across the stack

- Cooperative engineer with a focus on velocity and revenue

- Wears many hats

who do you think gets in trouble if her phone dies and all her stuff is gone

storing things in the cloud is responsible

Just back it up once a week on the computer, that's what I do.

I don't even use a Google account on my phone. Most apps don't need it! There's only a handful that do, in particular ChatGPT that really insists you have a Google account logged in (why they force you to make an account with their direct competitor is beyond me but they do)

But perplexity is much better anyway so I use that.

And who gets in trouble when her iCloud account glitches itself and loses everything? Or when the network is dead and nothing works?

Local copies should always be primary and cloud copies secondary.

But you don't get to extract rent in that case which is why none of the big companies want to do things that way.

local backups is responsible

yeah you might do that, but how many non-technical people can be bothered to do so?

Yeah but a good majority don't want Islam in Iran, Iran used to have a culture

> Yeah but a good majority don't want Islam in Iran, Iran used to have a culture

Yeah but a better majority doesn't want Evangelicalism in USA, USA used to have a culture /s