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by amf12 5y ago
> Also past vaccine history means absolutely nothing. You can't assume the next bridge is built safely just because you have never seen a bridge fall before. It does not mean nothing. Yes just because previous vaccines were safe doe
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by amf12 5y ago
> Everything they code is a one off solution to a one off problem. To me, this is more indicative of the company culture than your coworkers' IQ.
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by amf12 5y ago
Eh, that depends. Typically car depreciation is not linear. Depreciation is higher in the initial years and the % depreciation reduces each year. Buying a car, keeping it for 5 years and selling it off might be cheaper than leasing a new on
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by amf12 5y ago
You can. If you open the email, there is a "note" icon in the right sidebar. If you create a new note it tags the email to the note. But this may not be exactly what you want.
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by amf12 5y ago
> I do think it performs best using Chrome though. Or Chromium which is FOSS.
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by amf12 6y ago
+1 to FT. I have been reading FT for a while now and have completely stopped reading NYT or other publications. They seem to have solid reporting and are pretty unbiased IMO.
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by amf12 6y ago
> bring a deck of cards or a guitar GUITAR!? Please, no. That would be the second worst thing on a flight after crying babies.
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by amf12 6y ago
Dude, I am sure your family will be worse off with the insurance money, but without you. Please, seek help, and think of them.
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by amf12 6y ago
> If someone is making money with a stock, some other person is losing money right? Not necessarily. Investing in stocks isn't necessarily a zero-sum game like a lot of people assume. Both the buyer and seller could make profit on a
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by amf12 6y ago
Except that would lead to anti-trust rulings against Google. Google can't do this unlike Apple because it generates revenue from advertising.
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by amf12 6y ago
You don't even have to request it every time you see a privacy post online. The control allow you to set up an auto deletion policy (min is 3 months).
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by amf12 6y ago
> One big takeaway, AWS is CRUSHING GCP on the financial side. Or, Google is investing more to compete? AWS is financially stable now because of its investments in initial years. GCP revenue growth does seem promising.
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by amf12 6y ago
Facebook has some top notch systems and infrastructure.
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by amf12 6y ago
> They can’t hire people with good ideas anymore because as we know money isn’t a great motivator This is not entirely true. I have seen excellent people go to Facebook because they gave out the highest offers. Now whether they get peopl
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by amf12 6y ago
Personally, I think it is a good policy for work culture. 20% does not just mean you have to work on your own idea but you can work on your other passions or to develop your skills. Say you are a backend dev and are passionate about ML, you
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by amf12 6y ago
Well, Google values independence and so almost everyone is pretty independent. There is also consistency in the internal tools, libraries and infra used, so onboarding to the new team is just understanding their project. The 20% project tha
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by amf12 6y ago
This is a good point that I did not think of. Google maintains the paper was not up to their standard. The authors submitted the paper to a conference. And now, one of the author asks MIT Tech Review to not publish it because it is an early
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by amf12 6y ago
> That's just outright false. She was terminated, effective immediately. Without taking sides (I don't know the full story to understand who is objectively in the wrong here), that's not completely true. She basically gave
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by amf12 6y ago
SWEs who weren't just recently promoted to L5 at Amazon. They have some experience at that level. Granted, there could be some bias because it's not easy to pinpoint when they were promoted.
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by amf12 6y ago
> I don't think it's about growing fast so much as, from those I talked to, Amazon now has a fairly bad reputation in the tech community. My personal observation having known quite a few Amazon SWEs and interviewed them. The
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by amf12 6y ago
Yep, that was my understanding as well. It doesn't seem to be for consensus. Although, for Frontend servers which just do auth, routing, etc - why is P2P gossip necessary for building shard map? Possibly because retrieval of configurat
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by amf12 6y ago
But really, you pay for wider seats, pre-boarding, lounge, better meals, extra baggage, etc. Not worth the cost of a business class IMO.
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by amf12 6y ago
> 3 years ago Actually I have had the same experience 1 year ago. The current situation is just due to the pandemic.
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by amf12 6y ago
I would really like this on trans-continental flights. I don't want the frills of Business but I just want a seat that reclines more than 100 degrees - perhaps 180.
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by amf12 6y ago
Agreed, but fit is more important for hospital and laboratory staff. For general public unfitted N95 like this is still better than some random cloth mask I think.
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by amf12 6y ago
Yes, its certainly an improvement over the whole-day-take-home-test. I was comparing it with the leetcode style format for junior-mid level engineers and system design for senior level. I would much rather prefer that over contract thing; a
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by amf12 6y ago
Not just studied; he is Swiss!
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by amf12 6y ago
> Companies are hiring software engineer not computer scientists. If someone wrote a sort algorithm in a normal job I would expect that not to be used and a library to be used. This is also knowledge that people who studied and aced the
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by amf12 6y ago
And also they are optimizing for TP while ignoring the FN. Is it possible that some of the candidates they rejected could have been interviewed by other interviewers and made it to offer stage? It probably doesn't matter to them as lon
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by amf12 6y ago
> If someone wants me to write a basic sorting function, then I would have no issues. But if someone expects me write an optimised quicksort function, nah. Let me be a devils attorney here. Understanding efficient sorting and how quick

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