VirusNewbie

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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
This is true at Google too, because you get a large four year grant, while people who have been there are getting smaller refresher grants staggered. I am making more this year than managers one level higher than me because of stock increas
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
>d. As a result, FP's emphasis on granular transformations can increase cognitive load, particularly when dealing with these intricate dependencies. Does it increase cognitive load, or is it just making the cognitive load more appa
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
well, they're looking at earnings growth, not profit margins. You could have a company that increases profitability YoY and not grow revenue as well. It's less typical, but certainly possible with technology companies. I think
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
Right but I feel similarly about excel/sheets and powerpoint. But they make almost every office worker a bit more productive, so it’s a good market.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
No they don’t.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
They train on GCP now.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
if this doesn't work well with super high level languages, why would it work really well with LLMs?
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
I would pay if it worked well. But it seemed to have gotten worse over the last couple years.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
Property taxes exist because we want to tax externalities like land use. Taxing fake wealth because you own a company and some VC assigns it a valuation is insane. Why should you dilute your ownership share just because of some arbitrary n
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
I was wondering if you could go the other way, could the statistical knowledge of what most people want when they type XYZ mean we could use it to design more powerful languages that are even less verbose. I don't really know but I h
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
> CRUD backends and their types can be easily boiled down into various statements about permissions. RoR did this like 15 years ago. I don't see how CRUD is eliminated by LLMs if they weren't eliminated by the hundreds of fram
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
>all those huge companies that pay similar wages and do similar work basically end up having similar talent But IBM and Microsoft don't pay the same as the largest top tech companies.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
>Is it time to move jobs, or time to move careers? Split the difference and try a new stack/specialty. I remember being burnt out and tired of all the shit and I decided to try a new stack/language and development got fun again
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
> What specific kinds of differences? Overall talent level. Almost everyone I've interviewed with at Google impressed me, as well as came across as thoughtful and kind. I did interviews with many teams at Microsoft (9 technical int
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
>I personally know people who moved up the ranks there to director and above, I didn't mean that engineers can't become directors, I meant that IBM didn't have a track for top ICs to get paid more than directors and still
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
> It’s just another large US tech company. Like Microsoft and IBM before it. This is just a hyperbolic statement that should not be taken seriously at all. Look, Google isn't some fantasy land that some people might have lauded it a
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
Most employees have hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars of stake in the company they work for. Are you completely unfamiliar with how the tech industry actually works?
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
>If you are young and you go work at Google, they will beat that fire out of you very quickly. I don't agree, but there are challenges at Google that don't exist in other large companies. Google's monorepo along with the &
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
Plenty of companies with amazing marketing teams tried to do NLP and then ChatGPT came along...
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
Some of it is a status symbol. I don't know any well to do tech friends that buy expensive watches or jewelry, but are happy to drop 1k+ on a new phone every year.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
Right but a year ago, FAANG and deca-corns weren't even hiring at ALL. There was almost no headcount. Sure it's not a boom, but there is hiring, teams are getting backfills, it's not great but it's not near as horrible
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
They might find out delta does embarrassing things like not testing out of bounds array access or does global deployments without canarying.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
and they'd run it on...AWS or GCP?
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
so you're saying you can't work backwards at an arbitrary point without the initial IO and that's the problem?
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
>. Turing machines specifically are not required to preserve anything about the initial state and so information can be destroyed and created ex nihilo, violating the main principle of physics which requires that all matter and energy be
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
Til. thanks.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
wow. Off by millions of orders of magnitude, impressive!
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
yes, that is true. My target comp is around $370k. My actual comp this year will be ~470k due to stock increase of my initial grant. Eventually it will normalize closer to the lower end as my large initial grant is replaced by refreshers,
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
It sounds like there are liquidity events, so it's not like they have to wait years to cash out.
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by VirusNewbie 2y ago
>Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA So OpenAI and Anthropic are decacorns that are paying far far more than any FAANG so it's hard to compare them. Meta, Apple, Nvidia, sure, I can understand the sentiment, even if I

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