JustLurking2022

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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
In theory yes but if the premise for why we allow disproportionately large immigration from certain countries is that we're bringing in unique skills, and we decide that premise is flawed, then it would also be cause to reevaluate the
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Fixing one loophole is not mutually exclusive with fixing the rest...
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Guarantee it's below average at most outsourcing firms. They may play games like advertising a position as a "junior engineer" but require 10 years of experience and then bill clients for a senior engineer but, knowing the bi
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
On an aggregate level, probably true, but I've run across plenty of highly talented people in smaller markets and at less exciting companies purely because it's where they wanted to be.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Have worked with quite a few H1-Bs with absolutely no special skills. Large off-shoring firms soak up quite a few of them for people coming out of degree mills. The only advantage to businesses is that these people are modern indentured ser
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
As someone with a family, thus sounds awful and very much the sort of "the company is your family" cult like behavior that has warped the industry for the past couple decades.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
I don't think the enforcement is all that selective - any time I took an exam in a large hall, there were professors and TAs pacing around on the lookout. In smaller settings, it might have been just the professor but they all seemed t
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
And my point is that there are probably a lot of those motivated people working on the problem today. You make it out as though we've arrived at this state by either lack of effort or competence by Google/Microsoft. My guess is th
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
The web changed when every kinda slimy business bro realized they could monetize gaming search results. No matter what your fantasy web looks like, be assured, people will game it to the point it's not what you intended.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Public corruption is illegal and blowing the whistle on it is protected speech.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Other places I've also seen Police associations sell stickers in exchange for "donations". I honestly believe it should be illegal for civilians to donate to any organization setup to benefit police and/or their families
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised at all - the NYC police force demographics don't come particularly close to the city as a whole. Blacks are significantly underrepresented while Latinos are actually over-represented. Assuming the cards go
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Making some money doesn't mean it was necessarily profitable enough to be worth flying. Typically you have a rate of return across the company that an investment needs to clear to be worthwhile. Especially when considering the aircraft
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
I've met him briefly at after a talk he gave and had the same impression.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Wow... we can't catch every criminal so we should just allow everyone to commit crimes. Every class I took in college made at least some attempt to prevent cheating but it can certainly be tough. Not every subject even lends itself to
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
The primary design constraint for all of those is security whereas for generating HTML it's done combination of simplicity/maintainability/performance.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Highly doubt. The Concorde's problem was economics not science and a rocket based solution is even less economical - even a reusable one.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Less commuting = fewer miles on your car = less frequent need to buy a new one.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
I'd expect an engineer designing a new database, even for internal use, to be familiar with the competition's strengths/weaknesses even if they're going in a different direction.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Individually, perhaps not. In aggregate, there definitely could be more resources made available for critical services if you could make the org 20% more efficient just by getting rid of people who think they're entitled to a huge payc
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Honestly, this is the sort I'm rooting to be culled out. I'm all for a healthy work-life balance but have no sympathy for the "rest and vest" folks - there are absolutely people getting paid in the top 1% who work ~25 ho
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Honestly, I work at a FAANG and, sadly, the answer is often a combination of people paying absolutely zero attention to tech that's NIH (e.g. SWEs working on DBs who have never used Postgres) and the fact that no one gets promoted for
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
It's a valid point - RocksDB can be thought of as the internal backend implementation of the DB. It's the front end API that matters as to whether Redis could fulfill the same purpose.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
The answer is that OpenAI has a lot less revenue on the line, so they're more willing to take risks in legal grey areas.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Most engineers earn nothing close to FAANG comp. Even some really great computer scientists who just don't happen to live in the silicon valley bubble don't.
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Evidence would seem to point toward not many. Even the Bent Pyramid, which may have come before Egyptians perfected the math behind building pyramids, still stands. Throw in the numerous ones found in various jungles by LIDAR and they seem
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
I'm sure there's some truth to this but, working at a particular FAANG that seems to embrace and reward complexity, that's a far worse situation. The tools are often infinitely capable with numerous configuration options but
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
The dumbest part of this is that they're doing it at a time I've never cared less about Netflix content - they lost a lot of the best reruns and only put out 1 decent show every couple years. Even though this doesn't affect m
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by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Your best chance would probably be to go primitive - many different pyramids of various designs have stood for over a thousand years.
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by JustLurking2022 4y ago
And those engines played a significant role in the problems.

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