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by ceras 5y ago
East Asian expressways often are less disruptive to the city than in the US. There typically aren't as many, they're narrower, and the ramps and interchanges aren't as big or as numerous. Not always true, but by and large the
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by ceras 5y ago
What's the alternative to 24hr on-call?
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by ceras 5y ago
I have made good friends through work, including people I keep in touch with after changing jobs. Even if we don't keep in touch, I appreciate the transitory friendship for what it was. It's not like I keep up with most people fro
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by ceras 5y ago
Walking or biking to work is quite nice for me when I live close enough to work. A good friend of mine loves her walks home from work, as she's told me many times. When I've lived train distance, a 20min commute has been quite fin
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by ceras 5y ago
No, that doesn't really follow. Just because something happened doesn't mean it's optimal. There are many examples in game theory, like the prisoner's dilemma, that showcase this effect. As others have explained in this
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by ceras 5y ago
It's been years since I worked there, but I gotta say nothing compares to the Google NYC office in my opinion, as far as offices go. If you know a better office let me know :) I still know people there, several of whom started going in
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by ceras 5y ago
Do you have data backing that? I definitely agree about super-commuters, but OTOH in NYC: with small apartments and convenient transit commutes, there are some extra reasons to want to go back to the office. I'm willing to bet the supe
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by ceras 5y ago
Not everyone has a long commute, nor does everyone have a commute they dislike. For example many people like biking to work, or reading on transit.
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by ceras 5y ago
If the decision to colocated or remote is made at the team/org level, then enough teams should choose to be remote that there will be many options for you, just as there will be many options for people that want a colocated team. These
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by ceras 5y ago
Something is stopping them, otherwise they'd do it. Even if that's purely psychological, that's no less real to them, and the outcomes are clear. A close analogy might be weight loss: "nothing" is stopping anyone fr
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by ceras 5y ago
I enjoy the structure it adds to the day, the built-in activity I get commuting, the ease of adding other activities onto my day before or after work since I work in Manhattan, the office amenities that give me one less thing to worry about
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by ceras 5y ago
Some people feel exactly the opposite and are happier working in an office than remotely - even if they believe remote work is more productive! Iirc it's very roughly like 20-30% want full remote, 50-60% want some type of hybrid (where
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by ceras 5y ago
OP's article says 15% of requests were denied, i.e. 85% of requests were approved.
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by ceras 5y ago
OP said they prefer to resolve in person rather than Slack/Zoom/etc. They weren't projecting, just expressing a different preference for what they find productive.
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by ceras 5y ago
Google has always lost top people to the next hip large-but-not-too-large tech company as they try something fresh / try to win the tech stock lottery. It was Facebook over 10 years ago, for example. You could get counter-offers to not
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by ceras 5y ago
It's team and role dependent, so it pretty much is "both" at the company level. This seems win-win to me. Teams and orgs that consider remote-friendliness important can operate that way, while teams and orgs that don't t
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by ceras 5y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, the other candidate may have given the company a deadline, and so the company may have needed to pass on the other candidate in order to accommodate your timeline. Not saying this is what happened here,
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by ceras 5y ago
As someone who's liked using DI frameworks, I'm curious: if you do it manually, as your codebase gets large, doesn't it get harder to "plumb" a new object that needs to get used somewhere at a deep level? This seems
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by ceras 5y ago
Yes. Parking is required for essentially all building types in the US, including office buildings and residential buildings (houses, apartments) too. Often even in very dense areas with public transit.
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by ceras 5y ago
Minimum parking requirements are ubiquitous in the US. Houston, famous for "not having zoning," has these too and is the reason it's as car-centric as the rest of the US (only in 2019 did it remove them for a small part of t
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by ceras 5y ago
They're probably mainly thinking about Midtown East, which is almost purely an office hub and indeed pretty empty on weekends. It's kinda nice being there and feeling eerily alone. It used to be FiDi was the same, but it's be
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by ceras 5y ago
The NYC income tax does not apply to non-residents: https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/nonresident-faqs.htm#nonresi... (edit: linked to clearer section in the FAQ)
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by ceras 5y ago
Thing is, within the banking industry, these end up being fairly standardized titles. Titles mean less across industries, but within an industry, there's some consistency. In fact in banking, these are more standardized than tech ind
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by ceras 5y ago
FWIW, the Google Search pronunciation guide[0] says Guassian like "gouse-ian", which is the only way I've heard it pronounced (US east coast). It's also what I see as the phonetically-written pronunciation when checking
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by ceras 5y ago
I meant the @gmail.com versions of those apps.
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by ceras 5y ago
The free versions of Google Workspace apps (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs) are also there to build demand for the corporate version. Or worst case, if building demand fails, they at least create familiarity -- so that there's more emplo
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by ceras 5y ago
My mistake, I see now the person I responded to may have meant that Americans say just the state. In the videos I've watched, and at least for myself, I usually hear it like you suggested: state + USA.
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by ceras 5y ago
I've watched some YouTubers do that. For the people that say "United States," a common very follow-up question is "where in the United states"? That tracks with my own personal experience internationally: if I just
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by ceras 5y ago
There are people who come at a young enough age, e.g. as infants, and don't know anything at all about their "home" country. They may not even know the language very well, if at all. They likely don't have a single memor
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by ceras 5y ago
The job is "reduced hours," so assuming you work more on the other days to make up for it is quite cynical IMO. You can choose to not believe the listing, but the benefit is stated clearly, and it isn't any less informative t

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