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by achow 4y ago
From previous discussion.. Looks quite similar to Ikea's desk partition - Eilif Screen. Ikea's one also uses fleece kind of material for sound absorption. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-fr
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by achow 4y ago
Open office is all about big cost saving. The moment there are closed walls and doors, lot of other cost kicks in - individual HVAC vents, plumbing for individual fire sprinklers, wire routing for electric, network etc. Open office also mak
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by achow 4y ago
Looks quite similar to Ikea's desk partition - Eilif Screen. Ikea's one also uses fleece kind of material for sound absorption. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-freestanding-gray-... https
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by achow 4y ago
> Maybe managers like the author are the problem... Startup founders who cash in, join Google, and are unpleasantly surprised to find that they are now just another middle manager.. The author was a Distinguished Engineer at Google an
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Twitter was down because an employee accidentally deleted data(businessinsider.com)
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by achow 4y ago
https://archive.is/K6jrq
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by achow 4y ago
From a previous discussion Stripe's response seems to be reasonable. They have a solution to avoid this kind of situation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34747702 It seems that Flurry's well intentioned call
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by achow 4y ago
A total of 617 workers were laid off in the Seattle area, according to a notice filed with the state.
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Microsoft Cuts Jobs in HoloLens, Surface, Xbox as Layoffs Continue(bloomberg.com)
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by achow 4y ago
https://archive.is/hdQe9 What follows is the most detailed account yet of FTX’s final days. It is based on interviews with people with first-hand knowledge of events, as well as court documents and extensive internal messa
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by achow 4y ago
Detailed documentation gives lot more clarity on the components and how does it work. Example, the display that is being used: https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#display
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by achow 4y ago
Speaking of convenience, secret, fast, out of govt' oversight.. Hawala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala is in practice for long long time, and it is almost exclusively used to avoid tax and for underground ope
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by achow 4y ago
There is no candy crush or similar in today's Samsung phones.
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by achow 4y ago
Plenty of examples where only low performers are targeted. Salesforce asked some managers to rank their lowest 10% of employees https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-rank-employees-mo... Amazon recently instructed ma
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Alphabet’s Profit Falls 34% (fourth consecutive drop) Amid Ads Slowdown(nytimes.com)
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by achow 4y ago
Thanks for this insight. That means they can be offered job back as contractor, for all you know they can band together, start a venture and offer their service to Goog and others. Afterall layoffs does not mean that there is cut back on em
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by achow 4y ago
I could count 20 Massage Therapists who were impacted. Never thought these will be full time positions. Wonder what would have been their career growth plan, how was their perf eval done?
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by achow 4y ago
https://archive.is/3sdEY
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Breakup of Google’s Ad Business Would Reshape $500B Sector(wsj.com)
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by achow 4y ago
Sam Altman addresses that when he was asked that question in 'How I Built This' Podcast. Essentially: OpenAI did not realize the massive scale they needed for them to be successful. When they realized this, they could not raise an
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On Sat night at least 10 dead in Monterey Park, Calif., shooting(washingtonpost.com)
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by achow 4y ago
Can you please give some insight into how this works? At the 'backend' do you have an army of tailors, or totally computer cut&stich operation or somewhere in between?
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Google is freaking out about ChatGPT(theverge.com)
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by achow 4y ago
Also to add to your point, this "I" is very specific as opposed to "we leadership", it is out there in public. Board and/or shareholder can use this to cut Sundar's salary/bonus or whatever that is person
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by achow 4y ago
More on UX Better Design https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9kZXNpZ25iZXR0ZXI... Finding our Way https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9maW5kaW5nb3Vyd2F...
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by achow 4y ago
Quite possible (ChatGPT related). Considering this was the Tweet that he sent yesterday.. https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/1615820298305118221 As a followup to AI blogpost (which is clearly in response to C
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Microsoft plans to cut jobs in a number of engineering divisions on Wed(bloomberg.com)
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The Age of Industrialized AI(danieljeffries.substack.com)
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by achow 4y ago
This perhaps means 'quantity over quality' or 'quality is not the only priority'. Which is also worrisome.
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by achow 4y ago
It was correct.. was easily verifiable.

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