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by dvirsky 7y ago
Been using the 700 since they came out, I actually really like the touch interface. Skipping is a bit iffy but volume and pause work well, and it's very handy when I'm working out or doing the dishes, and I don't need to fidd
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by dvirsky 7y ago
The big companies don't care if some great candidates can't do these kinds of problems, there are many others who can. They care about not hiring bad candidates, period. Anyway, I've done both types and for me the false posit
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Another story about this, sounds remarkable: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/da...
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by dvirsky 7y ago
So CodeSearch, Critique, Borg, Sherlog, Cider come to mind as top notch tools that are not available outside. As far as libraries go, the C++ Fibers thing is incredible and I don't think it's open. Blaze is amazing (albeit a bit s
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Piper was actually a big source of frustration for me. Yeah it's dead simple, but once you have a CL chain, you're entering a world of pain. I've switched to Fig a while ago and haven't looked back. Beyond a tiny fix I&#
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by dvirsky 7y ago
The current internal CodeSearch is one of the best tools available for Google engineers. It's really a marvel.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
I've read that you need about 40% of the population to be immune to it, for this to die down. Suppose you will inevitably get there no matter what we do (barring a deus ex machina like a vaccine) - you want to do it at a pace that does
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Actually, an ironic communism game sounds like lots of fun.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Is it though? I work on a system that builds in singe to double digit minutes. The productivity loss from x2 slowing down of the compiler is going to be so painful compared to the gains I'll get by not copying some sorting functions et
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Finding a new role inside the company actually requires some work though.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
I was reading the first half of your comment and immediately went "but.. but... what about those huge Java stack traces?".
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by dvirsky 7y ago
I guess my method for new frameworks / languages / etc is sort of a combination of top down and bottom up. I start with very high level overview, followed by a very simple tutorial, then work my way up in the hands-on path, and wo
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by dvirsky 7y ago
It's available to political parties under restrictions that they do not make it public and delete it after the campaign is over.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
These are most of the details that you get asked on the phone when you are asked to verify yourself in a lot of contexts (not banking, but say getting medical records from your health provided over the phone, etc).
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by dvirsky 7y ago
It's more extreme because the domestic market size is a fraction of the US' domestic market.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
There's a real phenomenon where the top talent works mostly for FAANG / other big tech's local r&d centers / top local start-ups - or are founders; The second tier mostly work for smaller start-ups; And the third tie
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Actually the shipping container itself is pretty much high up there I guess. Pretty revolutionary for a box.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Seat-belts maybe. Not as important as the car itself obviously, but definitely simple and super impactful.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
This is a Google project though. I haven't dug too deeply but maybe it does share something with the internal fibers? (Which I agree are just amazing)
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Clear boundaries and contracts are just a side effect of working in a service architecture, I've found. If this is your reason for doing it - just define a style guide on how to isolate code and make sure people (or procedures) keep it
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by dvirsky 7y ago
It's not about Leaving Google, it's about bradfitz, who is an awesome well known engineer.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Yep, not bad, but not in an epic sci-fi way like, say, Hyperion Cantos. It's funny and witty, kinda like a dramedy-political-thriller that just happens to be based in space.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
The title (not the text, though) sounds a bit like the premise of The Flow from John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collapsing_Empire
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Side question - won't it be more profitable to sell some and keep some for potential future profits, so the overall risk is lower but you still profit potentially?
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by dvirsky 7y ago
10 direct reports on average is a lot. It might be okay at the highest levels where you mostly make strategic decisions, but it's too much for a manager that's involved in day to day processes and decisions.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Yes, the number of levels needs to be normalized by the size of the org (although probably some log of the size, it should not grow linearly, following the nature of an org tree). If one manager has around 5 direct reports on average, you n
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by dvirsky 7y ago
I'm more interested in what it's going to cost in 5 years.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
(2019)
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by dvirsky 7y ago
IIRC most of the "real time" stuff is done on Redis, for which this QPS load is usually a joke (depending on requests of course, but counters etc are easy)
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by dvirsky 7y ago
"With our advanced Proof of Sleep algorithm... In the cloud..."

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