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by ceras 5y ago
Not a fit for every scenario, but you can set a minimum number of instances for Firebase to keep ready. Should help reduce cold starts: https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/tips#min
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by ceras 5y ago
Contractor SWE's at Google are very rare. In my several years there as both a SWE and EM (I'm no longer at Google), I never encountered one. My understanding from other EM's/Directors was they were only hired for non cor
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by ceras 5y ago
From the same author: - His book on engineering management, An Elegant Puzzle: https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Ma... - His blog also discusses management: https://lethain.com/
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by ceras 5y ago
This is common for co-ops in NYC. Co-ops are, more or less, condos where the board has more say, and are much more common than condos in NYC. As an owner, you can typically only rent your unit for up to 2 out of every 5 years, and you canno
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by ceras 5y ago
The main moral problem with meat consumption, to me, is not the killing - everything dies, you're right. It's rather how awfully the animals are treated both throughout their leaves, and also (in most cases) the slaughter process.
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by ceras 5y ago
As a URM in tech, that's not my own experience. There's rarely attention drawn to the fact that I'm a minority - and I like it that way. Heterogeneity is tough with this: some individuals like and benefit from initiatives tha
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by ceras 5y ago
At least when I worked at Google a couple years ago, you could indeed start political discussions. Communications are very open at Google, and employee activism is quite visible. Political questions also come up in Q&A's, and some
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by ceras 6y ago
The methodology linked from the article[0] defines it as people who answered "yes" to either of these questions: > (1) Do you use the internet or email, at least occasionally? > (2) Do you access the internet on a cell phone
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by ceras 6y ago
I still use it, but also feel it's not really showing me the right content. What do you use instead?
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by ceras 6y ago
Setting aside whether it's a good idea to encourage this: in practice today, combining laws is a reliable way for different groups to compromise. If group A wants a policy that B doesn't want, and B wants a policy that A doesn&#x2
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by ceras 6y ago
AFAIK it still exists. In my several years there, most people didn't take full advantage of it, and that was as true in 2011 as it was in 2020. Most people just didn't come up with anything a technical project they'd rather w
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by ceras 6y ago
I don't know, I think there's a couple examples of these open source projects gaining non-Google traction: - The new Edge, Opera, and Brave are based on Chromium - China has a huge ecosystem of non-Google Android devices Google do
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by ceras 6y ago
If your parents make median income or less, Ivy League schools are effectively free. Your parents have to earn quite a lot for you to pay sticker price.
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by ceras 6y ago
Echoing others' points. The company I work for (fairly large tech company) uses Go, and is hiring in NYC, but has no roles listed on Dice. I know of at least two more definitely-not-small tech companies hiring in NYC that use Go, and t
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by ceras 6y ago
For anyone curious, the largest non-profit focusing on exactly that (cheap & delicious vegan alternatives) is the Good Food Institute: https://www.gfi.org/
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by ceras 6y ago
As an end-user, AMP sites load faster and with less clutter. The only downside is a clunky URL, but I rarely care about that. AMP improved my mobile search experience. The main AMP concerns seem philosophical, which I don't think OP w
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by ceras 6y ago
It doesn't seem to me it meets the requirement of the landing page being relevant to the trademark and making it easy to purchase/view information: the ad takes you to a page that puts Applebee's front and center, and you hav
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by ceras 6y ago
> They actually paid more for the zurich office cause taxes were so high. Google pays for cost of labor, not cost of living. While related, it isn't the same: for example, Google London pays much less than NYC, and Tokyo even less t
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by ceras 6y ago
Quick correction: Lyft continues to operate scooters (as well as bikeshare), e.g. see this recent program: https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/LyftUp-Scooter-Critical-Work...
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by ceras 7y ago
I worked at Google for nearly a decade, and as a manager for most of it, and I strongly believe there's a misunderstanding here. Google does negotiate pay of high L5+ performers against outside offers, but promos are simply off the tab
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by ceras 7y ago
Sadly I don't have a single good high-granularity source on-hand, but here's a few. Plurality goes to religious groups (which I find particularly uninformative, since many religious groups provide significant social services): - C
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by ceras 7y ago
I donate to these: - The Humane League, which campaigns for corporate commitments to improve the lives of chickens, e.g. shifting major restaurants to using cage-free eggs. They're doing an incredible job: ~50 years of chickens lives a
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by ceras 8y ago
What let it through my filter was: (1) I'd already spent time and money on traditional treatments with neutral or even negative results. So $11 and a few hours reading wasn't that hard to stomach (2) I heard it recommended by othe
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by ceras 8y ago
It is plausible chickens have less moral weight than whales. But it's not exactly because of intelligence -- it's their capacity to suffer. I know intelligence is very tempting to use because it's a very good proxy in the ext
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by ceras 8y ago
I left a recent comment on HN about this[0], and at the risk of sounding like a shill I'll share it again as it helped at least one person :) My experience tracks with yours, and it really does seem like modern medicine is missing some
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by ceras 8y ago
They are, but while intelligence does likely have a correlation with capacity for suffering, it isn't the same thing. For example, a human infant is much less intelligent than an adult, but we do not typically believe their capacity fo
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by ceras 8y ago
Before adopting this approach, please be aware that chicken has substantially higher animal welfare costs than beef -- likely by orders of magnitude. This makes the calculus more complex, such that if you're sympathetic to animal welfa
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by ceras 8y ago
Personally, I don't think the benefits are necessarily worth it for everyone. It benefits me a lot, but I don't go out of my way to recommend it to (say) my wife as she has things quite figured out without it. I'd say meditat
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by ceras 8y ago
I suffered from chronic pain that was starting to seriously interfere with my life for a couple of years. I could find neither a cause nor non-invasive solution till I read The Mind-Body Prescription[0]. It quickly and completely fixed my p
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by ceras 8y ago
To add to that, the authors acknowledge a similar weakness of the study: "We note that while the ban may have worked for Reddit, from a macro-perspective, it may have also relocated the behavior onto other sites." Since in this di

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