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by cletus 4y ago
The only way L6s are making "low 7 figures" is because of large movements in the share price after they were given grants. Low 7 figures is realistic for L8s without the share price noticeably appreciating. With discretionary gran
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by cletus 4y ago
These outliers are rare but they do exist. I knew someone at Google who was hired as L3 straight out of college (as all non-PhDs are) and got promoted once a year to L6 (Staff) so 3 years. He got promoted to L7 2 years after that. It's
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by cletus 4y ago
Two lessons you should draw from this: 1. The successful communication platforms are ones that are opt-in, meaning you can't message or talk to someone unless you give their consent; and 2. This is why federated messaging systems have
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by cletus 4y ago
Two rules I learned early that served me well: 1. If you don't do arithmetic on it and it's not a primary key then it's not a number (eg an employee number might be "123456" but it's a string not a number); and
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by cletus 5y ago
Many years ago I had a job to add some features to an existing PHP site. The code base was a mess. I think there were 7 copies of the code in production that were copied and modified slightly to some specific purpose. It was like 300,000 li
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by cletus 5y ago
Three things spring to mind: 1. IPv4 will persist, possibly forever. There's really no compelling reason to migrate to IPv6 other than address space and we've had decades at this point of getting around this problem with various f
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by cletus 5y ago
Not sure why this says FAANG because it's talking about Google. Calibration, promo committees, feedback and the like are intended to create equivalent expectations on impact across different orgs. The dirty little secret however is tha
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by cletus 5y ago
For another view on how this will change things, consider the delta-V map of the Solar System [1]. As an example you need 45km/s to reach Saturn, roughly 20% of that is just spent getting to Low Earth Orbit. Now consider the long-term
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by cletus 5y ago
I was looking for a Linus quote I saw on this but can't seem to find it. It's not specifically about security but Linus said something about translation between user and kernel space was an absolute lower bound on performance and
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by cletus 5y ago
The average cost of a Google engineer is at least $500k/year. This includes all direct compensation as well as amortized office costs, perks, meals and so on. I have no official figure on this but the average total comp can be well-e
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by cletus 5y ago
The drivers part is easier to answer. Where Linux started drivers were compiled into the kernel. A few years later modules came along to dynamically load drivers (and other things). But modules could still (and can still) crash the kernel a
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by cletus 5y ago
I don't really know anything about QNX (like I said, not an expert) so I'm curious: just how general purpose is it? Has it made design decisions based on it's targeted use that are problematic for, say, running untrusted code
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by cletus 5y ago
In the early smartphone era I was extremely bullish on mobile gaming. I expected a creative explosion and a golden age of gaming due to the power, convenience and (inevitable) ubiqutity. But then in-app purchases happened and we got to see
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm not sure people realize just how much money Google has thus far sunk into Fuchsia for (AFAICT) very little in return. It was in the billions ... years ago . I don't know if this is still the case but the mission was absolut
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by cletus 5y ago
I don't think there's an alternative to optional static type checking at this point. Like you say, there's a bunch of untyped code out there. I'd actually hate to see a JS/TS divide in PHP. The typing needs to reall
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by cletus 5y ago
There are a lot of great things here but PHP just needs to embrace static typing (IMHO). Take match expressions plus enums. Incredibly useful. You know what's even more useful? When it's a type error to leave out one of the values
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by cletus 5y ago
This is smart and what Apple should've done. Apple is clearly beholden to the massive cash cow that the App Store has become. Apple's attempts at complying with various orders are that their cut should be 27% and the payment proce
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by cletus 5y ago
Until Google comes out and segregates actual and false positive ToS violations such that it doesn't kill your entire Google account, I can't in good conscience use any additional Google services. This began TEN YEARS AGO when Goog
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by cletus 5y ago
There are three kinds of waste: 1. Waste from extraction of uranium ores. This part is relatively insignifcant; 2. Enrichment waste. Most (all?) power-generating nuclear power plants use U235 as fuel. Mined uranium is primarily U238 with lo
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by cletus 5y ago
Weird timing. I was just dealing with an issue related to this. I had a work a phone. I restored an image to my personal iPhone and just today tried to sign on to Youtube. It redirected me to the SSO page for my former employer's page.
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by cletus 5y ago
Oh I remember this. There's one positive I take from this. A lot of people are understandably upset at, say, the GOP's latest wedge issue: health care for trans children [1]. It's one of many from gay marriage to trans athlet
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by cletus 5y ago
So this is one area where I think TypeScript made a mistake: it added syntax that wasn't compatible with Javascript. This means you couldn't seamlessly support JS and TS with the same repo. Wouldn't comments be a better solut
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by cletus 5y ago
Don't overcomplicate it. If your calorific intake is less than your calorific expenditure, you will tend to lose weight. If it's more, you will tend to gain weight. That's it. Here are some steps to get there. 1. Figure out y
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by cletus 5y ago
It really isn't, just like outsourcing to India didn't kill engineering in the developed world.
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by cletus 5y ago
One wonders with these big companies if the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. Seven years ago, Google closed the Krakow office (>100 engineers) mere weeks after finishing a refurbishment [1]. It's not clear to me how lar
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by cletus 5y ago
I really don't understand how McDonald's board and leadership has let this situation happen and continue. These ice cream machines are the printer cartridges of McDonald's. Pointless DRM and obfuscation designed to maximize a
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by cletus 5y ago
This is what happens when Boeing is run by accountants and MBAs instead of engineers (as it once was). Short term financial "wins" like outsourcing eventually make Boeing unrecognizable from the industrial behemoth that cranked ou
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by cletus 5y ago
Carcinization fascinates me. The fact that this has independently happened ~7 times seems to suggest that given circumstances will lead to certain outcomes. Obviously we don't know what alien life looks like because we haven't fou
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by cletus 5y ago
It's worth noting that these skilled trades (eg plumbers, electricians, carpenters) have wildly different experiences in different countries. In the US they aren't actually paid that well, particularly compared to software engin
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by cletus 5y ago
Stablecoins are going to be another hard lesson for many, many people and yet another example of crypto failing to learn the lessons that built the financial system Crypto Andys seem to despise. This has been tried. We've tried pegging

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