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by bmat 5y ago
Yes, liquid comp (salary+bonus) exceeds my total Google comp (salary+bonus+equity). I should qualify this by saying I left Google as an L4 SWE and I'm starting at this company as an engineering manager, so that factors in. But FWIW I g
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by bmat 5y ago
TIL HN doesn't have DMs. If you add a contact method in your bio I'll reach out
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by bmat 5y ago
Sent you an email :)
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by bmat 5y ago
Sent you an email!
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by bmat 5y ago
I don't want to call out the company without their blessing, but they're a unicorn with $100M+ raised so that certainly helps them be competitive.
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by bmat 5y ago
If you work at one of these companies and are frustrated by the decision to return to the office, I encourage you to seriously consider leaving to pursue a remote-first career. Not only to send a message, but also because there are many gre
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by bmat 5y ago
Comparing a few dozen cherry-picked headlines over 30+ years to a specific warning by 14,000 scientists is hardly apples to apples. Also, CEI claims the ozone hole was climate alarmism and nothing bad actually happened, but that’s because s
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by bmat 6y ago
Definitely. My takeaway is we should be skeptical of any comparison between COVID and flu statistics.
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by bmat 6y ago
For people getting hung up on the apples to oranges analogy: imagine you're a farmer. You're hearing reports that there's a huge surplus of oranges and everyone is cutting production. You have a lot of orange trees, so you&#x
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by bmat 6y ago
The point was comparing reported COVID deaths to statistically extrapolated flu deaths is apples to oranges. What you quoted was a comparison of reported deaths to reported deaths.
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by bmat 7y ago
Zero accidents in 200k miles, so "tragedies avoided" was probably the wrong way to put it. My point is: for every one tragedy, there are hundreds of little ways Autopilot makes everyone on the road safer.
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by bmat 7y ago
That's fair. In ~200k miles of driving I've also had zero accidents so maybe it's a stretch to call these things 'tragedies avoided'. But the point stands that Autopilot does little things every day to improve safet
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by bmat 7y ago
> Anyone who has driven with autopilot, how quickly might it react to a perceived obstacle? Would it take a hard turn into a median faster than a person could reasonably react if it thought there was something in the road or that the roa
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by bmat 7y ago
Before owning a Tesla I did feel like Autopilot was overhyped, but I now realize that's more because of media coverage than anything Tesla is actively conveying. The vehicle software actively encourages driver attentiveness. Moreover w
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by bmat 7y ago
For every tragedy, there are tragedies avoided. I can attest to a few. In the last 10,000 miles, Autopilot has: safely swerved to avoid a car that would have sideswiped me, preemptively braked after detecting the 2nd car ahead (not visible
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by bmat 7y ago
Similar story here. 29, had been working at a big tech company for almost 4 years. Didn’t really enjoy the work, definitely didn’t enjoy the 1 hour commute. Tried to convince my manager to let me work remotely but was rejected, so I decided
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by bmat 11y ago
As a native of Gainesville, FL (where Grooveshark is based), this is really sad news. Certainly they made mistakes, but what few see is how much they contributed to the tech community here. Their CTO has personally mentored many companies i
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