VirusNewbie

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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Google has chosen to invest all across the stack in numerous ways. Why do they have 180k people working for them? Because they design their own racks, build their own machines, built their own network, designed their own databases, buil
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
If GCP was its own company it would almost be a Fortune 50 company on its own. Youtube would be a Fortune 100 company. That seems a lot more successful than most software companies. Meta on the other hand, really just has ads.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
fucking lol, that is how it usually goes with deprecation.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Cider-V is very nice. It's VSCode so all the extensions just work - Vim mode, themes, etc. It's also nice that it stores all my preferences in the cloud, so switching machines is seamless (helpful when my macbook broke a couple w
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
It tests for multiple things, at its best: A basic work ethic to understand fundamental CS concepts. Sure maybe plenty of people can't write a binary search in two minutes unless they practice live coding a bit, but plenty of people
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
This is so fucking dumb you're going to hire a candidate who got A/B tested into the 'smarter' SoTA model or something.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
I've interviewed at many large tech companies including Microsoft, and Microsoft Azure was mostly a clown show. So, yes I judge the talent there. I'm sure there are some superstars that I'd love to work with, maybe I'd
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
you don't even get a severance that way. People moved for a job, then got stranded without even getting a first paycheck.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Coinbase famously rescinded offers days before people joined when they did a previously huge layoff. That's absolutely diabolical and I sometimes fantasize about accepting a job there and just ghosting them.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Ok, well, I work on systems quite a bit larger than Github, and I think they have a major reliability issue.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
eh... https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/oct21-post-in... They tried to scale MySql and turn it into Cassandra and then they lost customer data (that they claimed to later recover).
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Yes google cloud is actively hiring.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
yes I would tell them "you're underpaid, if you can, come to a company that appreciates your talents more".
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Executives have made a choice to not pay for top talent at Microsoft Azure and Github.
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Every big tech company gives massive amounts of stock. I would guess more multi-millionaires have been created by Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple than any other companies or industry ever. The fastest way for anyone hear to make 7 figure
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
He forgot one other big company that uses TPUs besides Anthropic...
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
OpenAI uses GCP. I don't know if they use TPUs. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-taps...
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Yes it does, it applies to any ownership of shares that are not traded on the public exchange. This means the shares the Google founders have, or Zuck, or the owner of SNAP, or any number of large companies founders would have to sell a si
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
it's not an arithmetic error, it's literally written in the tax bill to value voting ownership shares as a percentage of the company if they are not available on the open market. Section 50303(c)(3)(C) says "For any interests
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
It does apply, because Sergey's shares are not the same kind available on the public exchange.
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
No, Sergey owns non pubic, shares that are not available on the open market that have move voting rights. So the tax 'values' those at the % of voting rights as a percentage of the company valuation. Likewise, Evan Spiegal would
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Wealthy people pay the vast majority of taxes in California. Meanwhile, at least 20% of the population are complete freeloaders.
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Ford probably made 3k profit on that car. Given the falling costs of inference, what are the chances your neighbor gives anthropic 3k in profit over the next few years? Not terribly bad.
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
It's a little weird. I work for Google, but I spend way more time helping get Anthropic serving and running than anything to do with Gemini.
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Not at all my experience in big tech. Are you maybe extrapolating from working at Microsoft or IBM or something?
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Airpods? They make more than most SaaS decacorns. How can you not credit that as a massive success that came out of nowhere?
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Unions protect existing members at the expense of people breaking in. You can look at teacher's unions to see how this plays out. Older tenured teachers cannot be fired, new teachers have to fight for the few open positions for a fra
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Can you tell me more? 25 years ago I was only a high school getting paid minimum wage 'cosplaying' as an office worker writing SQL and VBScript. So, my view is skewed, but I got the impression software engineering was not a place
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by VirusNewbie 6mo ago
Is it possible this has things backwards? When I was in high school 25 years ago, unless you got lucky with an IPO, tech didn't pay all that well. (I worked in software while I was in high school, so I know some of this first hand). I
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by VirusNewbie 7mo ago
resume link doesn't work btw.

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