JOnAgain

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by JOnAgain 12y ago
tldr; turnover of visa holders vs. non-visa holders should be used as the metric more than wages. Significantly lower turnover of visa holders suggests they're being exploited since those who can quit and find another job do. But this
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
More like the market is expecting them to lose the $10 billion in the bank (spending on money losing core businesses) rather than return money to shareholders.
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
Amazon might be known for good support on the customer business, but I've not heard the same regarding AWS -- quite the opposite. If Google support were worse, it would have to just ignore you.
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
For those who are curious, Amazon uses a backend service to control what you see. They randomly hash your customer ID (which you can never see) and then assign you to a bucket. It's a sophisticated A/B testing framework that then
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
I think I hate that feeling because it usually comes up in the context of a bug. Something that's lived in the system for years. It's existed through a half dozen code reviews when related code is refactored. Then some college gra
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
>> I find HN fetish with UoW to be interesting You would be surprised how much Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. recruit Waterloo grads. A Waterloo undergrad in Computer Science or Software Engineering is definitely competitive with the
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
It's a little different for a lot of other accelerators. YC takes batches of, what? like 40 companies or so in a batch? Most other accelerators are smaller with class sizes around 10. If YC is shooting for 40, and gets 37, it's ma
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
Back to paper.
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
>> for perhaps a 15% increase in pay Where are you working? Total comp in the bay is often much higher than other areas (data-points from Seattle, LA, and New York)
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
Mis-read title as "patients"
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
Maybe it does to some people, but I use the term "Rockstar" to connotate: - highly productive - gets features shipped (avoid analysis paralysis) - features rarely have bugs - features rarely have to be refactored when we scale - c
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by JOnAgain 12y ago
We learned MIPS and wrote a compiler for it. This was in 2002, so the compiler was in Java. Still a lot of fun. What were those two tools? LEX and YACC? Nostalgia. (Had to look those two up, I remembered them as LACC and YEX)
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
Or just rank em by salary/comp. More skilled people => more valuable to the economy => receive higher salary => more likely to get visa (=> pay more in taxes).
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
There are 2 classes of services on AWS: infrastructure and platform. It's important not to confuse them. Infrastructure includes EC2, S3, ELB, and things of that nature. Platform includes Beanstalk, Dynamo, EMR, and things of that natu
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
Linkedin CEO appears not to have a linkedin page (really?) CFO: www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-carney/a/494/713 CPO: www.linkedin.com/pub/roseann-duran/0/66a/971 ... it goes on https:/&#x2
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
here's the guys I bought from http://www.ebay.ca/sch/green-sum/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=...
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
I got a FSM-270YG for under $400 delivered off of eBay. Controls are in Korean, but it's a monitor so it only has 4 buttons and it's pretty easy to figure out. I love it.
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
This makes perfect sense and is a good policy. As a policy, they won't invest in future rounds. So everyone else knows they won't, and no one asks "why isn't Kima investing in this round?". It can be bad when an inv
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
they don't have many non-enterprise customers anymore zing
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
click the button, typical lead-gen to a dealership
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
"... stay tuned for future updates" read, Google will likely be shutting down our services within the next 6 months.
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
This, to me, looks like an example of relying on a nondeterministic implementation. To my knowledge, the standard doesn't prescribe that parsers take the second/last of a duplicate key. As a result, this is relying on implementati
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XBox -- Worst user experience in a very long time
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
No, there's a division called "Cloud and Enterprise Engineering Group". This suggest that either it encompasses non-cloud offerings specific to enterprise or the cloud they're building is targeting specifically enterpris
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
Azure will not catch AWS because it's not a first class division. It's an offering in a broader context. Contrast with Amazon who has an SVP of AWS (and he's considered one of the "more important" SVPs). Any chance
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
I'm working. Email, design, and planning for upcoming sprint (software engineering). Why? Because I enjoy what I do an I have stuff to do. I work for Telenav in Culver City, we were ThinkNear until October. Nothing's really change
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
Shitty article. They weren't trying to build a car, they were trying to get the horse to pull a car. They were still selling physical media, just hamstringing it so it would be less useful than it is today. Want to build a "Steam
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
<rant> >> Well, if you want the @#$@ing from Gamestop, go play PS4 Stop telling customers "take it or leave it". Tell them, "I'm sorry you can't do that", or "we've decided not to support
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
The kind of thing that this article described happened all the time before anyone knew about prism. It just never got much publicity.
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by JOnAgain 13y ago
There's been a lot. Amazon generally avoids press, but they launch stuff that fails all the time. I'd say only 1/3 things they launch (or get really close to launching internally) is actually successful. Since they avoid press, people don't

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