birdymcbird

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by birdymcbird 4y ago
‘The system is only failing black and hispanic students.’ What is “the system”? you mean to say the school is racist or unfair to black kids..hispanic kids? who is responsible in your opinion?
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
every business exist to make money or something of value to its shareholder. You can hire contractor to modernize you kitchen or paint wall.. you need some understanding of exactly what is scope of work, what is $ cost, what is the quality,
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
staff/principal engineer opinion: figure out business priority. if something in poor state.. it impacts you personally, you team, organization, overall business? the higher it blast radius, speak with you staff or principal engineer an
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> You certainly get paid well at those firms (except for one of the A’s) but you won’t learn anything transferable because those firms are profitable because of monopolies (F, G, and 1.5 A’s) or over capitalization (N, half an A, look at
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
hr cuts and cuts to other “cost center” no surprise. from my time at amazon this feel like only small step in fixing so many issues. engineering has too many manager in promotion race..layer after layer of manager..empire building focus and
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
maybe you can describe specific example? topics hinted here are broad. concurrent programming for example also not taught same always. myself in school learned about concurrency like threads and mutex theory but “really” learned first time
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Not at all. if my money in svb.. would have ran to pull it out. too many armchair expert not understand issue effect people who not gamble money but victim of just having deposit. main issue bankers did not hedge risk of inflation. why help
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
the problem is if I sell my own investments right now at loss nobody will come to pay my obligations. so why large institutions get to reap profit but get out of jail free when they screw up.. one set of rule for common man and another for
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> Who would've thought post-hand-wringing-over-poor-300k-salary-tech-workers realizing their disposability that we would have another event reminding HN just how different the rules are for capital owners than the rest of us. no off
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
saw their all in episode. definitely did not get signal you described.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
East solution..do not tip or do not give business to these places. If person just hands me my order then me not tip. Shamelessly press 0% on touchscreen.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
> “We should expect this to also be true in business. A lot of companies were hiring during the pandemic, so everybody decided to hire. Now, companies are laying off, and everybody decided to follow each other and lay people off. A lot o
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Make perfect sense. Thank you
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
sound cynical and most people think business cannot succeed if they do like this. but you can. you can build over $1 trillion USD market cap. company i referring to is Amazon. entire amazon campus basically 1 h1b visa holder after another.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
“Inflation in the US has cooled for a seventh month in a row, but prices continue to rise far more quickly than is considered healthy.” How should one interpret this? The overall inflation rate is going down, but inflation is still too high
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
all sounds good…to be honest read some paragraphs but not whole page. step 1 for Mercedes Benz is to make a vehicle reliable especially at their asking price. had a mb c300. lots of oil leak after warranty period. sensors also bad, constant
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
thats true. even if not amazon scale.. lets say you building multi tenant SaaS product. cell-architecture provide strong tenant isolation avoid noisy neighbor problem. other benefits like deploy changes to one cell so tenant may request del
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Don’t see this on twitters iphone app at all. if this really happening then musk right to fire engineers. from me time at google and amazon - most critical services operate independently..not requiring entire teams to operate. just need 1-
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
question everything. do not take internet and media at face value. many lies. half truths or zero truths. in country where living now, me former political preference. always viewed its politicians favorably. saw problem to be “other” side.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
HN definitely step above reddit. reddit mess of angry people and rage bait articles. every other post on /r/popular is hate towards non-progressive/us conservative or something about lgbt/trans or black americans. agree
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
not sure this really fix any problem. $60k good salary in arkansas maybe. if you in expensive city..not go very far. have kids in public america school system. government spending money in my opinion uncompetitive and wasteful. but public e
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
>> Or was there really tons of dead weight at Twitter? elon fired > half the company. site runs reasonably well. personally havent seen issues. main question is what these people did. and being in big tech seen this up close. origi
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
personally dont disagree. at big tech productivity fell off cliff with remote work. lot of “fake” growth and fake “success” because of fed zero rate policy. but party over. especially entitled people earning $200k++ year have little room to
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
>>> 1. Nobody is forcing you to use Java Never said this. Said no one forced you to use lombok or what library you complaining about. not only do you make false statement but you dishonest in debate. >>> 2. Appealing to au
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
if this alien then bigger danger for human. civilization that travel how many light year to get here possess technology human identify to be magic or God. terrifying to think at least to me :)
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
>>> Worked, and Yes. But thats due to legacy more than anything else, and because the builder tools team built a pretty sizeable ecosystem around dependencies/builds with Java, with a lot of templates out of the box. amazon mo
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
was at amazon at peak covid. distribution/warehouse problem and over hiring problem are two separate problems. i will explain overhiring problem. from 2018 to 2021 many amazon executives and director leave company. this continued in 20
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
wrote objective c lot in early 2010s. loved the language. from just reading articles and code sample, swift much faster and easier to write. i would still like to write objective c but feel swift easier to teach to new programmer. if goal t
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
you said you work amazon. isnt majority amazon running jvm using java? using random lib sound poor or inexperienced developer problem not java problem. same issue can happen in other language. but this all beside point. let say java terribl
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
no. team members can take turns being scrum master if they want scrum. these are fake jobs. became prevalent with zero interest rate and cheap lending..especially at small companies when they have massive evaluations stamped on by investor

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