> eventually people who have worked at google are going to have more trouble getting jobs elsewhere when all the tools they've worked with are things that nobody outside of google has heard of
This has already happened. Many companies offer dictionaries to translate the names of Google tools to their tools. Open source ones exist as well: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
An issue I’ve ran into is startups being very hesitant of hiring Googlers because of a perception that they can’t engineer without other teams of developers supporting all of their tooling. One startup specifically asked how to create a dashboard without using Plx - a wild question given the vast OSS dashboarding ecosystem - but it was still a concern to them.
Referrals are vetted by global teams who are just checking boxes - it's very common to have to reach out to the recruiter for the role directly to resurrect a rejected referral.
For the Freestyle Libre 3, you can use it without an account. That does not mean that Abbott is not still sending your readings to the cloud, but at least your name is not attached to it.
> it sounds like they are grooming a generation of super-micromanaging executives
My read from the linked example was the Director built a tool outside of the critical path that was a quality of life (performance) improvement. This is a prime example of code that leaders should be writing - the team isn’t blocked by them, they can put it down at any time, they maintain familiarity with the tools and codebase (both the good and the bad), and if it lands then the team is uplifted.
A leader should know how to influence his org within a 3 minute conversation to do this. The fact he stopped his Director of AI work to do this means their org is broken - or worse they have no influence over it
> if there were at least a commonly agreed base framework of concepts and ways to do and especially to name things
All of the above exist, the International Software Testing Qualification Board is one of the entities offering certifications in this: https://www.istqb.org/
ISTQB/ASTQB's definitions and teachings aren't commonly agreed on by the testing profession, at least in North America, and their certification isn't seen as being of any particular value. I hear they're held in higher regard in Europe and elsewhere.
A lot of people took it so they could put it on their CV/resume and get past the job filters, consultancies got their testers to do it so they could get past client filters ( from my experience when I was working in the UK)
Now this! THIS is one of the coolest projects I've seen in a while! Why did instacart never build anything this useful? I'd give anything to be able to filter my grocery store's shelves with something like this.
This page is very well designed! I really like that it puts the focus on text arrangement, font sizes and the strength of border lines around the cells and whole tables. Looks very pleasing.
Might seem counter intuitive but that's the intended behavior.
Instead of looking at the order of values think of it as the angular velocity state associated with a rotation plane.
Worth noting that q1q4, for example, refers to the rotation plane of the 1st and 4th dimensions.
5: q1q4 = 0.5, q2q3 = 1.0, rest = 0.0
5->4: q1q4 = 0.5, q2q3 = 1.0, rest = 0.0
4->3: We no longer have the q1q4 plane available therefore q2q3 = 1.0, rest = 0.0
3->4: Now we have the q1q4 plane back but the state has been cleared from previous interactions
Going to a lower dimension essentially deletes previously set state of higher dimensional planes because they don't exist at that point.
When resetting it just goes back to the default configuration.
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people