this is actually deeply irritating to me ive worked at lots of tech companies large and small in data/ml roles you have to understand every one of them is held together with the equivalent of duct tape and fortuitously growing barnacles, no one understands how the systems workhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1106374706674847745 …
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every product team has their own algorithms and often the use of these algorithms is to undermine algorithms operating on another part of the site over which a team has no control most of these algorithms were written by people who left the company and left no documentation
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another team I worked on had a production pipeline that consisted of a bunch of R scripts with hard-coded dates that had to be manually updated every month and run in a particular order while manually moving files around this was at a company youve heard of
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and this is all just data work I have no idea what the poor devs and ML engineers are working with but bless them
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ANY TIME you hear about a tech company doing some dumb thing "malevolence from the top" should be your last explanation No One Knows Anything especially the execs! My god you think they have time for this shit "why did your company do this" honest answer: "no idea"
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so sure nationalize everyone break them up whatever your Internet will collapse and a new dark age will emerge not because of any plot but because the giant edifice of twigs and chewing gum cant handle that kind of strain
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Just seeing the string “ETL” makes a muscle in my right eyelid start twitching
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