And yet, if your car had a 3G telematics system involved (the SOS button, among other things), you’re out of luck next year. They’re doing NOTHING about it.
They sold 2017 cars with a time bomb that goes off in 2022, and nothing to do about it. LTE capable devices were around for years at that point.
I agree. Knowing that I can buy up to a 2017 model without easy mass surveillance means I no longer have to stop shopping for vehicles until whatever year they first introduced those 'features'.
What I remember of Phabricator when I used it years ago was the very confusing naming of things, that didn't improve the user experience. It did have a nice command line tool to help you in your workflow.
I think Phabricator's heyday was during a time when everyone was trying to formalize their workflow, another project of that time was git flow.
Facebook’s diff tool looked similar maybe 5 years ago but there’s been constant improvements to it in that time. There was a dedicated team maintaining and improving it. Today it bears only a passing resemblance to Phabricator.
GP’s claim that Facebook uses Phabricator is an overstatement.
"This doesn’t sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT." is a reference to the training you get while working there. It goes something like this: "if you wouldn't want it on the front page of the NYT _attributed to you_, don't say it to the press".
It's right next to the part where they tell you to take things offline rather than leaving a paper trail around -- but of course, they word it a bit more carefully than that.
"Don't be evil" vs. "don't do evil" vs. "don't leave records of evil". Very different things.
Nobody's ever cared about the stuff I made never happen by being good ahead of time. They've only ever really cared about the fixes to stuff that blew up. It helped that whatever blew up wasn't mine, I guess, but not that much.
Really, a lot of places just put up with your personal desires for excellence as long as you keep saving their bacon. Stop saving their bacon or throw the "balance" off from their point of view, and they won't appreciate you any more.
Sorry, but management tends to suck in this regard. If you find someplace that's different, hang onto it!
I definitely screwed that one up, and it's slightly different now. I was going for one of those voiceover-y "not having attained X, they went for Y instead" approaches and it fizzled. I think it's because it was too long and because it's text and not an actual voiceover. (If that makes sense.)
I got it, and indeed if you read it at “talking speed” it works ok.
By the way, I also appreciated the post. I’ve been in similar situations in several occasions and never quite figured out how to avoid stigma and bad feelings for stepping on other peoples’ ego. I’ll give your technique a try
I'm not sure if it's just your style or you perceive my comment as an extension of workplace sexism, but in case it's the latter - if I saw a male engineer ranting about (ex-)coworkers publicly like that, I'd still have thought "Wow this guy sounds like a rockstar."
The decision had already been made, and not by any of the people in that chat. We were shooting the shit about the impending change and what it meant in terms of our stuff running on it going forward.
You ever, you know, just talk with your coworkers? And not just sling bugs at them?
This might come as a surprise, but a whole bunch of people going around out there have no clue whatsoever when it comes to this stuff. They believed in the race to the bottom, that literally anyone can do this kind of thing, and decided to back it up when applying.
I'm not saying you're getting all of the bad ones, but there's probably something going on if a supposedly simple problem (this, FizzBuzz, pick whatever you want) fails. Yeah, I know, someone's going to mention the environment, and the pressure of it being an interview, and that's certainly true.
All I can say to that is that I've posed FizzBuzz itself to someone who claimed aptitude, totally randomly over a chat session, not as part of an interview, just us chatting randomly. I think we were actually talking about how interviewing was such a pain. They themselves talked a great deal... but then never delivered on it.
Besides, you work at Google. Don't you see this all around you? They're already on the inside.
They sold 2017 cars with a time bomb that goes off in 2022, and nothing to do about it. LTE capable devices were around for years at that point.