Bahamut

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by Bahamut 8y ago
Seems Siri is much better than Alexa as well - I often hear my roommate struggling with getting Alexa to do what she wants, and various other friends struggling with Alexa as well, usually because of accents. Smart assistants in general hav
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you consider innovation in software? There's numerous quotes out there across the spectrum about how what Apple is currently doing in software and hardware is unprecedented, even from Microsoft execs. I suspec
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I'd argue that someone with CS fundamentals doesn't necessarily tell me how adaptable someone is. Many times, the depth isn't there to strongly indicate one way or another. Adaptability is a difficult thing to try to assess.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
A prior maintainer of that lib here - that library is a behemoth. Unfortunately I ran out of time to be able to continue to maintain it, and now work for one of those big tech companies that requires a lot of approvals to participate in ope
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by Bahamut 8y ago
On the flip side, this has a cost of creating siloing/low bus factor, so if you were to ever get in an accident that took you out, or you left the company, the company would be potentially completely screwed.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
What would you define as a "real relationship"? Is texting someone once a month any different than commenting on things going on in their lives, or messaging them on [insert platform]? My view is no - a relationship, whether by so
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by Bahamut 8y ago
> And i haven't touched it after they switched to a new version, but in the old version they noticed state changes by contiously comparing all of your state. (so more state meant it would be slower). Are you confusing AngularJS and
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by Bahamut 8y ago
For all numbers excepting initial load, everything I've seen shows Angular is significantly faster than the rest - the difference is more pronounced with more DOM nodes. Angular also has the advantage of incremental update, although Re
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by Bahamut 8y ago
One thing it should be noted with Angular is that there is currently work on a new renderer that should allow framework bundle size to be optimized with the whole framework being tree-shakeable. I wonder how Angular would compare once that
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I sort of discovered this myself when looking for flight prices about 4 months back around this week (flying from the US). I happen to have the whole week of Thanksgiving off from work due to it shutting down that week every year (supposedl
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by Bahamut 8y ago
That sounds more like a quality problem of the particular dev shop than an indictment on Angular.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I can’t remember prior years, but browsing this site on mobile has been the most painful web browsing experience for me in years (iOS Safari). Consider the design of the site in the future and mobile browser behavior - for example, tapping
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I know Apple has some engineers that work in other offices - there’s a good component in Cork (Ireland) in Software Engineering, and other offices where engineers work out of. Similarly, I know of a fair number of engineers at Facebook work
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by Bahamut 8y ago
This does not match with how I have seen friends using Snapchat - friends spending time focused on recording videos for Snapchat while with other friends instead of valuing the time with the friends they're with. I've experienced
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by Bahamut 8y ago
There's more to it here - the wealthy generally are able to better play long games to further save more, better able to handle unexpected life events that could devastate the less prepared, and have better alignment with the government
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by Bahamut 8y ago
FWIW, I don’t think FAANG necessarily care about what degree you have vs. what can you do. Mine certainly doesn’t, and I know a number of people at these companies who are college dropouts.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Full package vesting over 4 years - you typically get annual refresh grants, which are new 4 year grants that stack on top of your existing grant.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Google offers are some of the best for putting pressure on other companies. I am currently at another FAANG though, and may not leave my company ever, even if it would likely up my compensation.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
This is not true of most of the numbers on levels.fyi that I can tell. I know for my own FAANG employer, the numbers seem right on the dot with numbers I have seen elsewhere and my own compensation (RSUs being at time given, not current val
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by Bahamut 8y ago
This is false - employers do give less. My own FAANG stock for my initial compensation when I joined my company was at $105k in RSUs, and they jumped up about 35% (was even higher, but the market is a little volatile currently). My refresh
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by Bahamut 8y ago
The California tax rate is off - you get taxed certain percentages up to a certain amount (progressive tax). The effective tax rate for $500k in California should be about 9.44% pre-deductions (should be effectively lower than this). Should
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I have interviewed with Google 7-8 times over the past 3-4 years (Google has mostly rejected me, but last time I cancelled the process with an onsite scheduled due to personal reasons) - every single time, Google has let me interview with J
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by Bahamut 8y ago
These numbers are out there - a cursory look at https://www.levels.fyi for example should open your eyes to some of the numbers big companies pay, that I can confirm with my own comp info for my company (a FAANG). Also it should
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by Bahamut 8y ago
I don't think gamers necessarily expect an L3/R3 button. The Switch does not have anything like that, and Nintendo has always been top tier for gaming controllers.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Something that doesn’t get publicized but is as onerous is that Amazon is recruiting engineers to work on facial recognition tech that was implied to be used for their warehouse workers[0]. [0] Amazon recruiter emails that coworkers and I h
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by Bahamut 8y ago
At least in the Valley, this is very much not true. Very few companies are willing to match the compensation from the tech giants. I work for a non-Amazon FAANG and I'll be surprised if a company was willing to match almost $300k of un
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by Bahamut 8y ago
Yes really based on my own experience in a FAANG - if you hit the top of the pay band, your salary will go up at a minuscule percentage, even with significant outperforms ratings.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
But a newly promoted staff engineer has more ability to move up in pay in annual reviews.
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by Bahamut 8y ago
The companies are all of varying sizes and distribution of types of workers. Google has a heavy engineering component to it - Apple and maybe to a lesser degree Amazon does as well, but one thing about Apple is that it has a culture of gene
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by Bahamut 8y ago
It shouldn't be in the transit planning - it should be addressed at its root cause, instead of trying to paper over the issue by focusing so much on the incidental nature of public transit bringing a shift in location. Unfortunately, o

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