Panini_Jones

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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
Arrested Development had a narrator: Ron Howard.
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
Quick correction: Google does not have 150K+ engineers.
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
IC7+ was never frozen. Everything else is (at least for eng).
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
Check out levels.fyi or candor.
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
Have we seen this happen in the past? Did Microsoft go through a general sense of despondency when it cut people in 2009? Did it recover?
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
I wonder what effects this uncertainty will have on an organizational system. With multiple rounds of layoffs, talks of 'flattening', projects being cancelled, internal transfers being frozen, hiring being frozen, when does an org
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
E5/L5 compensation is relatively similar across the board for normal performers ($350k-$450k). Once you get into the E7+ compensation levels, then you start to notice a real differences.
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
In HCOL cities in the USA, it can be tough to get a setup like this. One may suggest to move cities, but my community is my friends in the city I live in. One may suggest getting new friends in a new city, but that's a tough and long p
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
In Britain during WWI and WWII, there was a campaign where women would commonly shame men who weren't in uniform by putting white feathers on them [0]. Although arguably different, some of the same mechanisms, e.g. using sex to encoura
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
> 4. Meta did layoffs early, and 'honorably'. They got a lot more news coverage being early, but they didn't lock people out in the middle of the night. That causes a lot more complaints from those laid off. If google didn
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
Google A/B tests their recommendations. Either these recommendations improve their topline metrics or you're in some exotic test group for some in-flight experiment. Either way, these are deliberate choices whose results likely sh
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
It doesn't encapsulate the abstract goal you're trying to achieve, which might be value to the user. Heroin has many active users, but some might argue that heroin doesn't maximize value/usefulness for the user over the
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
I see software engineers lament about a lack of fulfillment in their career (heck, I'm one of them). The author doesn't have fulfillment and decides that they should quit their job and move closer to nature to be fulfilled. I don&
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
Why did you repeat the first 1.5 sentences of the article?
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by Panini_Jones 4y ago
> that's called living in a country of laws with due process. The loophole is that the company is allowed to continue breaking the law while the appeal is in progress.
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by Panini_Jones 5y ago
I will never buy from Samsung again either. I bought a 49" monitor from them in January. A week later, I had two lines of dead pixels. I'm still trying to get them to repair it and customer service has been the worst. Moreover, th
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by Panini_Jones 5y ago
It's a picture of people taking a selfie. I think that communicates what a selfie is better than an actual selfie.
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by Panini_Jones 5y ago
Your parent comment states that there exists no known form of interviewing that captures the trajectory of the candidate. I stated the existence of one, thus showing that there exists a known form of interviewing that captures the trajector
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by Panini_Jones 5y ago
Internships are a form of interviewing and provide a duration over which you can test how fast the person learns.
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by Panini_Jones 5y ago
Google does not already pay the most. In recent years, they've been known to even 'lowball' SWE candidates with no leverage. Source: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Microsoft&tr...
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by Panini_Jones 5y ago
TikTok could be exacerbating this attitude in men who are already predisposed to feeling helpless in their dating efforts. I notice that I feel worse about my appearance when I've spent more time on TikTok. I also notice that I see mor
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by Panini_Jones 5y ago
What incentive is there to explicitly influence dreams versus other means of driving engagement and ad revenue? How do you measure 'dream influence'? Sure, it could be a bi-product, but I doubt this is something TikTok is trying t
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by Panini_Jones 6y ago
Was there a new breach yesterday or is this the 2019 one?
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by Panini_Jones 6y ago
It's a unique social phenomenon that has been enabled by technology that some of us here helped create.
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by Panini_Jones 6y ago
I grew up in Toronto. I'm aware of the safety disparity but nevertheless I still think this is a nice place. There are also places in Toronto that I wouldn't go to. Anecdotally, I've been beaten up randomly in Toronto but not
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by Panini_Jones 6y ago
> SF isn't a nice town You make this assertion but back it up by remarking on things from the past. The Mission was a bloodbath for Native Americans one or two centuries ago, yes, but how does that support your initial claim that it
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by Panini_Jones 6y ago
IBM is one of their main competitors. When I interviewed a few years ago, it was primarily consulting. Things could have changed, but I doubt they have.
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by Panini_Jones 6y ago
Would you like to invest in Theranos?
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by Panini_Jones 6y ago
I'm not sure it's in TechCrunch's interests to tell us how credible their leakers are. Leakers probably have repeat value and they don't want to poison their relationship.
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by Panini_Jones 6y ago
Isn't it the case that game publishers often will invest in game developers for their platform? I read elsewhere this was the case, but I haven't found a good source online.

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