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Brandon Jones

@BrandonJ0nes

Software Developer @BetterCloud

Joined April 2013
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Amazon Prime is now inserting ads into full price rental movies? Please go die in a fire


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I think I have a lot of trouble with the idea that an AI puts magic words in my resume to communicate in a "secret scoring language" with another AI, so the two of them can negotiate on whether I, the human, deserve a chance to be seen and talked to by another human.


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Being British is wanting to move to America as a child then thinking “fuck that” as an adult.


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We had 6 engineers talking for 4 hours about a 2 line code change for an obscure edge case that will never happen. Are all Fortune 500 companies like this?


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does this mean i can apply and use ai during my coding rounds?

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machineProducesSmoke redd.it/1gd32rb

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Netflix ripped out React for their logged out pages and prefetched instead for their future pages 6yrs ago. The JS bundle became 80% less, load time 50%, and time to interact 50%. We know how to do make websites faster, we just choose not to.

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I am on a mission to: - make java great and cool - bully java 8 devs who refuse to upgrade - make people love sealed interfaces + records ((Enterprise ADTs) with switch expressions


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Coding in movies vs. real life.


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Tbh caring about where someone worked is weird when the focus should be on the qualities of the person, there’s probably many top tier talented engineers in telecom, banking, finance etc but you’d never know because it’s not ‘FAANG’ therefore they can’t be ‘good engineers’


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“Thanks for interviewing 7 times and completing that project but we chose the internal candidate we planned on hiring the entire time.”

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pretty sure i can be a tech CEO

This is hilarious. “We’re tech CEOs.”



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"We saw ~20% better CPU usage on 17 vs Java 8 without any code changes. It was all just b/c of improvements in G1, the GC that we are mostly using. 20% better CPU is a big deal at the scale that we're running. That's a lot of money" #Netflix #Java infoq.com/presentations/…


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I ended my time at @Meta as a director. But I started as an engineer on FB Chat. Everything about it was broken — we had to rewrite it. And while the effort to fix it is one the projects that led to @reactjs, the most important fix was far simpler... Here’s the full story: —…

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they train them to be worth way more but then won't give them a real promotion so they get it elsewhere

How long did you stay at your first dev job?



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Sam Altman can solve world hunger by giving one GPU to every person on the planet.


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i ask HR if they think that it is ethically okay to pay me less than 50% of every person for doing the same job? they tell me "why would we pay you more than we have to? that doesnt make any business sense" i realise i am talking to a person who doesnt give a shit about people


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