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901.
by actuator 6y ago
Seeing a lot of comments about low salaries in Canada, is there anywhere outside US that salaries are that good in tech? London, I know is about half of US if you look at FAANG comps and you have higher taxation compared to a city like Seat
902.
by actuator 6y ago
Cost of living is not the factor here, cost of labor is as others have mentioned. If not, for example London tech salaries would have been comparable to NYC/SF/SEA if you compare cost of living.
903.
by actuator 6y ago
Japan gets talked about a lot but Taiwan and SK are doing worse if you see TFR. TFR of SK was below 1 in 2018, replacement level being 2.1. It would be interesting to see how this plays out in the next two decades over there considering the
904.
by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, calling this a trend would be stretching this a bit. From what I have seen myself and heard from friends in other FAANG or other medium/big tech companies, a lot of employees prefer to work from office and are not liking the cur
905.
by actuator 6y ago
I think he was talking about the value he generates, so possibly something like revenue/profit per employee kind of thing. For example, FB and Google make more than $1M revenue per employee. You can go more granular and look at the imp
906.
by actuator 6y ago
Why do you need to buy the RSUs then? Don't you already get them once they vest.
907.
by actuator 6y ago
Dropping the cliff period for new employees is pretty much useless. The equity/ESOPs new employees will be exercising will be of the last valuation price which would be already high, and after Covid-19, with the struggles of tourism in
908.
by actuator 6y ago
Non listed companies do give RSUs. For example: Stripe
909.
by actuator 6y ago
Please don't post messages like these, it doesn't really help with the discussion. Also, just because maybe they have more folks from one ethnicity than most companies have on average, doesn't prove this argument. Lastly, sit
910.
by actuator 6y ago
It feels bad that this happened to one of the companies with a very good engineering culture. The stuff they have put out in the open either on GitHub or through their blogs is a testament to that. I think any company will be lucky to have
911.
by actuator 6y ago
What will that accomplish though? The way he described their auth APIs, you will be able to set an auth token generated by you for an account that you anyway have the user credentials for.
912.
by actuator 6y ago
It depends on the data you are storing, using unique UUIDs for something like profile image(avatar?) is good enough, as I commented here the probability of a collision is so low that you can assume them to be not iterable for practical purp
913.
by actuator 6y ago
Even I wouldn't recommend generating your bearer tokens client side if they are actually doing it, but collision thing is a bit far fetched. Any randomly generated UUID like UUID4 has a randomness in space of 2^122(ignoring pre determi
914.
by actuator 6y ago
I wouldn't be too sure on the second point. I recently went through a background verification check initiated by one of the FAANG company. It was all clear for me but the criminal check report kind of hinted the sources they were hitti
915.
by actuator 6y ago
Was this similar to MS's infamous stack ranking system where some teammates will be always rated bad even if everyone is doing well?
916.
by actuator 6y ago
That is certainly different. I wonder if Instagram is resisting, lest it will lead to feature bloat.
917.
by actuator 6y ago
Don't all companies have PIPs? Does Facebook have disproportionately high percentage of PIPs compared to their peers in FAANG, even Amazon?
918.
by actuator 6y ago
As someone who has not used Tiktok what does Tiktok do differently from existing products like Instagram? Wouldn't videos in Instagram stories/posts already cover Tiktok's usecase? Also, I guess give Zuck time. He weathered t
919.
by actuator 6y ago
It has been interesting to see the different approaches to future planning in the wake of Covid-19 by the two big ad players. While Google is looking to scale back on things like hiring, FB looks to be going all in on this opportunity and d
920.
by actuator 6y ago
Wouldn't being distanced from your friends and family kind of increase the usage of mediums you can use to connect with them, and see what's up in their lives? Also, humour through content like memes, videos which platforms like I
921.
by actuator 6y ago
Umm.. that[1] is not even remotely close. It just includes about 7-8 days of lockdown period from India. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_lockdown_in_I...
922.
by actuator 7y ago
They could have started pushing social distancing measures earlier. Also, they might not be able to close airports on their own but if I am not mistaken screening and quarantining is something they could have started enforcing(or more stric
923.
by actuator 7y ago
People usually bring up the population density and travel point to say why NY and NYC in particular is doing so bad but it is a lot to do with attitude of the leaders. This[1] is a tweet from March 2 from the city's mayor. I know it ha
924.
by actuator 7y ago
They might have contained it better as they went pretty intense on lockdown. There were lots of videos on internet from their lockdown on which people were laughing at China being an authoritarian state. The videos displayed homes being tap
925.
by actuator 7y ago
Most washing machines have the spin cycle which removes almost all water that could drip out. So I haven't noticed any water that drips out as such. Also, you have a specific place in some apartments for this with different type of flo
926.
by actuator 7y ago
Care to publish if you have anything stored away from this? I don't work with Rails anymore but the last Rails app(single threaded, Unicorn) I worked with raw CPU compute was not the bottleneck usually as with most CRUD apps time was m
927.
by actuator 7y ago
You should have at least changed the comment or picked a different sounding username. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178218
928.
by actuator 7y ago
Grab dominated SE Asia and that exit for Uber made sense as they got a very good equity stake in a dominant player. They still haven't exited all parts of Asia. I really doubt that Uber is going to be a US only business. They still are
929.
by actuator 7y ago
This becomes very difficult as your data grows. If you live in AWS world, imagine periodic snapshotting from EBS, S3, RDS(and other data stores), EFS etc. For most people a different DC of the same cloud provider should be enough. If you ha
930.
by actuator 7y ago
I like Cloudflare and find them to be a very good value proposition. They have a domain registrar now as well, though I haven't tried that yet. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

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