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What software leviathans do you think are best at managing their complexity?

Yeah, the language of the regex implementation and the API were the two biggest factors. Go’s regexp package only allowed you to run 1 regex expression at a time while hyperscan and re2 allowed you to pass in a set of expressions to run all at once.

We started off using Go's regexp library for our regex needs, but it wasn't made for our unique use case of running 40+ regular expressions over terabytes of data.

Here's our experience benchmarking Go's regexp against Intel Hyperscan and Google re2, hope it's useful!

Agree with the parent commenter some more elaboration on how your seemingly low profitability isn't a concern in the long term would be helpful to understand as I don't see immediately how your investments in the short term will help in the long term. The table makes it seem you spend -$464,071 to make $477,449 but your comment here makes it seems like 460k sales actually only cost 200k in raw materials, which is impressive!

best of luck and great article as always!

ohh interesting, I didn't know about schema.org -- that's pretty cool!

No worries about making it a browser extension. I wasn't sure if you're trying to make this into a business or not. I would envision this working similarly to iOS's reader mode but for recipes. Best of luck!

This is fun, thanks for sharing!

Is there any way to run his and include our private repo contributions to count the code written for a typical job?

Would you care to share how does this app work under the hood? I think the hacker news audience would be more interested to understand that then to use the app per se haha. Do you parse the page for a bulleted list next to certain keywords?

Also why not just make this a browser extension instead of an app to remove the step requiring the user to scan a QR code?

Agreed! This dilemma could be solved if college was much cheaper. Another commenter mentioned his annual tuition in Italy was about 2k euros which is unheard of here in the states... It's hard to have a negative ROI at that point.

hey, author here

thanks for the valid feedback -- I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with my blog and definitely got carried away with SEO/Growth Marketing tips I've incorporated towards the end of the article. I'm not sure whether to go down mtlynch.io 's path of being a solopreneur or Daniel Vasello's deconstructing his career in SWE or a more pure scott aaronson or star slate codex blog.

I'll change it to something less 'fishing' and rather more open if people want be notified of posts. In retrospect, I'd rather just share my stories, guiding principles, and tacit knowledge I've developed than try to sell a course or a guide at the moment

With regards to the title, I hope the story I shared about the uber driver and my experience with the mismatch between my degree and what I had to learn on my own to become employable speaks to why I believe the title is true. I'll consider changing my essay's point of view from 3rd person-ish -- but again I'm still trying to find my voice so it's a work in progress

thanks for reading! I thought the discussion here was pretty cool too

Could you say that for all engineering graduates at the majority of universities (even the bottom 50%)? I know plenty of people who had internships and were effectively employed a year before graduating, but I can't say the majority of people are in that position.

If education is just 2k euros rather than the 15k (public) or 60k (private) in the US, I agree it's much less of an issue for sure because much less is at stake.