As I dig deeper into SQL and uncover its warts, one that I keep revisiting is this awful concept of SQL NULL. Way back when, I previously covered this in a way that was, at best simplistic, and at worst, wrong. Now that I’ve had more time to uncover all these little minefields, the best […]
Hang out around techie circles enough and you’ll eventually hear a variation of the astonished “X has how many engineers?”, where X is every notable startup and technology company ever created. For example, here are some undated (but relatively recent) ballpark numbers for product and engineering staff divisions of randomly selected companies: Instagram: 1,800 engineers […]