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by brown9-2 8y ago
The bank I pay mortgage interest to definitely reports that to the IRS.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
Whatever competitive advantage there might be, such secrecy also puts you at a recruiting disadvantage.
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I recently told my friend I need to stop chasing new shiny things(medium.com)
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by brown9-2 8y ago
It reads like an innocent misperception due to inexperience with Java. Very few people would choose to install libraries (JARs) used by their code via their OS package manager for instance.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
The idea that they are making money by simply repackaging the project or reimplementing the API is wrong. Customers are paying them to maintain and operate the hosted version of these projects. That’s valuable in itself and should not b
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by brown9-2 8y ago
I’m not suggesting fraud, just that we should take forecasts for what they are - forecasts, not guarantees. However it seems to me that Amazon did not seem to mind taking a reputation hit with the idea of a year-long “search” and bake-off f
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by brown9-2 8y ago
The Wisconsin Foxconn saga should teach us all to be highly skeptical of the claims that companies make when seeking these types of subsidies: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-06/inside-wi... A
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by brown9-2 8y ago
Which makes this whole episode so bizarre - they suddenly changed their mind on the value of having a HQ2 (and 25k jobs in a HQ) completely, after such a long and public buildup? Something is fishy here.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
...why did one service need to make a million connections to another service?
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by brown9-2 8y ago
I think it is very hard for a principal engineer who is also managing people to be effectively plugged into all the things going on that make him/her a "principal" engineer while also being an effective manager, and vice vers
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by brown9-2 8y ago
That’s the trap the author is trying to warn people about falling into.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
There’s a response to this in the article - those free versions are only supported for 6 months.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
No, Apple’s statement makes it clear that the use of the enterprise distribution certificate signing method for this use case is an issue. https://www.recode.net/2019/1/30/18203231/apple-banning-face...
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by brown9-2 8y ago
Then let’s start building vertically. It is a social choice to limit housing like this.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
I had an ex-colleague whose offer to join Google was 2x the total compensation at our company.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
> There's a fixed supply of single-family housing in Mountain View Well, that is the whole problem right there. It doesn’t have to be fixed.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
What you describe sounds like an equally broken process.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
> The way to get promoted at Google seems to be to play a game where you tick all the boxes for performance at the next level This is how it works at every company I’ve ever worked for. Companies don’t want to promote someone into a posi
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by brown9-2 8y ago
Who do you think selects the directors?
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by brown9-2 8y ago
"embargo" means Github gave this news to this outlet (and others) early, to be able to work on quotes and stuff. By breaking the embargo, accidentally or not, a possible ramification is getting fewer embargos in the future, if an
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by brown9-2 8y ago
I think what you are missing is that Google's SCM has different concepts and terms than Git. Google's system is derived from Perforce, which has the concept of a changelist (think: commit), which can be "pending" and sto
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by brown9-2 8y ago
The move should be to do nothing, or offer better terms to companies, as just about every other move harms consumers.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
You should get further than 1/3rd into the book before you comment on the very subject the book addresses.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
I imagine this is a nice benefit of working at an organization that is primarily about writing .
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by brown9-2 8y ago
> It's just classic bait and switch. Are you unaware that interest rates today are drastically different than a decade ago?
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by brown9-2 8y ago
Sounds like you should be upset that management was keeping projects like Dragonfly or the ambitions of the DOD contract a secret internally then.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
hijacked? it is an add-on that is enabled by default which can easily be disabled.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
retail of what?
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by brown9-2 8y ago
What you describe is already the status quo in NYC. Every large tech company is already here and has been.
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by brown9-2 8y ago
I don’t think it is a coincidence that the founders recently left.

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