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by badfrog 8y ago
> Also, how many of these articles does it take before people stop using Facebook? Infinite. The majority of people won't see these articles. And the majority of people who do see them won't care enough to change their behavior
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Yeah, I remember when all the free applications you downloaded came bundled with sketchy browser toolbars and "virtual assistants" that they installed without telling you. It wasn't good times back then.
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So, the problem is phones and not app stores?
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Could be, but this article is only about Android.
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Why would this be more likely to happen in the walled garden? The app stores actually have some sort of quality control and API-use restrictions. Desktop applications that you get outside of app stores can do literally anything, and you hav
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The only goal for your life? Hopefully not. The only goal for your career? Some people would say yes. Some others would say it's not the only goal but is important enough to compromise on other goals.
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What's the importance of reproducible builds? Edit: found this nice overview by clicking a few links from the original post https://reproducible-builds.org/
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by badfrog 8y ago
I definitely agree with that, but I've started to hear a lot of people argue that social media is inherently bad. Reasons I've heard include wasting people's time, giving a false sense of community, and causing depression.
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by badfrog 8y ago
> you get some choice as to where to work People's career decisions tend to be motivated by money. If you're looking to maximize your compensation, the options are Big Tech (Google and Amazon have similar levels of ethics issue
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by badfrog 8y ago
> the CEO's own stated goals are hostile to humanity Are you saying that is the case with Facebook? Can you explain?
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by badfrog 8y ago
The generous interpretation would be that the people who are there "because of what's in the press" want to fix the problems.
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Most people who work there believe the press is wrong or overblown. > I suspect people would question ones judgement to keep working there? At least I do, to be honest. You're part of a small minority. 99% of people you talk to in t
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My only guess would be education.
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> However, I am not sure if thoroughly complete. Of course a 1,000 word web article is not going to be complete. There are dozens of books you can check out for more info, including from Tim Brown CEO of IDEO [1] and from Columbia Busin
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I don't know about this author's intention, but in general with design thinking frameworks, the idea is not that each step must be followed rigidly in order and never re-visited. It's more about calling attention to the impor
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These are very important steps to creating something, but there's not really anything new here. This is basically a simplified version of the design thinking framework with the implied "build" step at the end made explicit. F
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The examples you cite are exceptions, not the rule. Most Google engineers still work in CA, and it's easier to get hired for a role at HQ because there are always openings for all kinds of positions. For the smaller offices, they might
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> How can I justify buying a modest house in my area (for $1M), when my parents are piling up debt, struggling to pay rent, and barely able to buy groceries? Is this a moral conflict, i.e. you don't feel comfortable spending that m
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by badfrog 8y ago
> Would a reasonable person rather take a guaranteed $1000 or a 10% chance of a $1 million? For a lot of good software engineers, it's more like: Option A: $1.5mm (5 years total comp at FANG) Option B: $0.5mm (5 years startup salary
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I wouldn't consider #1-3 to be issues with OCaml syntax. It took me a while to understand what was going on with them, but once I did, I had a solid understanding of expressions vs statements, which has helped me understand functional
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by badfrog 8y ago
Anybody have opinions between the two? If you already know OCaml are there strong reasons to consider Elm instead of ReasonML?
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With only one store, how do you keep your state reasonably organized when you get up to hundreds of pieces of data to manage? And what do you do about generic reusuable components that need state? Say a typeahead search that needs to track
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by badfrog 8y ago
FB and Google pay the same for all their US locations and significantly less in non-US locations. Most non-FANG companies, even in SV, are not close on comp.
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by badfrog 8y ago
> Just wanted to give OP a tip. Without providing any actionable information, that tip sounds more like a brag.
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by badfrog 8y ago
Is that problem worse in tech than in other fields? It seems the biggest employers in most industries could be considered harmful to society.
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by badfrog 8y ago
> the average HN crowd is just way too rich What does too rich mean?
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by badfrog 8y ago
OP has been at Amazon for 8 years, so their annual comp will include vesting of RSUs that have grown enormously in value.
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by badfrog 8y ago
E5 (the terminal level) at FB is more like $325-350k. I think Google's terminal level is L4, which would be around $250k. $450k is totally within reach for people willing to put in the effort to hit E6/L6, but it's definitely
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> the need for a good general-purpose, efficient language Is the implication that plain OCaml is not good?
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by badfrog 8y ago
Just because of FB support, or are there other reasons?

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