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by eitally 6y ago
This might be true, but I haven't felt it that way. My experience the past two months has been that my avg meetings/week has spiked from about 30 to 45, with avg time spent in meetings per week at 30 currently. The result is tha
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by eitally 6y ago
This is where the right answer is "you do you", since only you and your team know what works best in your operating environment. The previous poster is correct, though, that working backward from business value measurements in or
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by eitally 6y ago
Yes. I'm just saying that the majority of restaurants in the greater bay area will have lengthy delivery times during weekday dinner hours... the exception being if you order from a place physically close to your delivery point.
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by eitally 6y ago
That last bit only applies in dense downtowns. In the Bay Area, if I'm hungry right now and that happens to be roughly dinner time, I'm waiting 50-70 minutes for a food delivery.
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by eitally 6y ago
People need to understand that salaries are set based on cost of labor, not cost of living. Companies will pay what it takes, but that value is preset by what employees are willing to accept in any given market.
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by eitally 6y ago
I was in manufacturing IT before moving to big tech. Our big campuses in the US & Europe had 40-80mbps internet circuits. The remote facilities in developing countries often only had 10mbps MPLS connections to a regional hub. To be 1
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by eitally 7y ago
You don't need a Google account to join a Meet meeting. https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?co=GENIE.Plat... Re: your corporate switching experience ... this is a failure of the company culture, n
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by eitally 7y ago
Joining a Meet meeting is easy, just like joining a Teams meeting is easy. Both are much, much easier than Webex & Zoom, which irritate with attempts at forcing client software installation.
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by eitally 7y ago
Right. The older ones do but their little sister is running amok in everyone's business. That's the real challenge.
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by eitally 7y ago
English & Language Arts, including writing. Even for competent parents, unless you fully understand the curriculum and know how to teach it, providing direct instruction or enabling self-teaching in these areas is FAR harder than for m
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by eitally 7y ago
You would think that, and they might also think that, but they're largely not allowed to behave materially differently than they are accustomed to. fwiw, until our district settled on a specific set of policies, one of my kids' te
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by eitally 7y ago
100% this, and all those parents are also now wondering and worrying what will happen to their child next school year, when they're either at or ahead of grade level, but half their class is most of a semester behind. I had been reas
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by eitally 7y ago
+1. My next door neighbor is a 3rd grade teacher in a heavily hispanic & underprivileged elementary school. She was telling me today that she still has one student -- one of her best during normal times -- who hasn't been able to
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by eitally 7y ago
This is how most schools are handling it. Some combo of things like Google Classroom, zoom/webex/meet meetings, and various other apps & sites and online activities. They prescribe book reading, art & PE, but those are
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by eitally 7y ago
Even in other places, that's an issue. I'm in the San Jose Unified School District here in the Bay Area, and it's hugely diverse. Because of that diversity, the district has been reluctant to mandate any specific online ed r
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by eitally 7y ago
Nightmare is a strong word, but it is very hard. We have a 3yo, a 3rd grader and a 5th grader. If it weren't for the 3yo we'd probably be in decent shape because our kids are generally pretty mature and well-adjusted, and academ
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by eitally 7y ago
This isn't true. Kids start learning algebraic concepts in roughly 2nd grade, and are well-acquainted with the concept of variables, algorithms, order of operations, roots & exponents, converting fractions to decimals & vice v
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by eitally 7y ago
wtf -- you're 100% wrong. Common Core exactly shows you how to solve problems. It precisely does not focus on rote memorization. Yes, you need to memorize "math facts", but this is limited to simple multiplication tabl
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by eitally 7y ago
No,because in order for it to make a difference the student needs to be in a mental state for it to make said difference. It's just too hard for many kids to get motivated to self-teach, especially with no practical experience.
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by eitally 7y ago
This is my experience, too, and I don't have an fully engaged adult able to help. The kids can obviously move 2-5x faster than they do during normal school, but doing so absolutely requires an engaged adult. There are just too many t
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by eitally 7y ago
My kid's class has a parent-organized "Zoom recess" three times a week for just this. There's always a volunteer parent moderating/hosting, but it's an oppy for kids to be themselves socially.
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by eitally 7y ago
per your #1, my school district is doing that. One designated teacher [per grade, per subject] is recording lectures that are posted to a central repository. this content is assigned out, along with supplementary work, via Google Classroo
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by eitally 7y ago
But on the flip-side, I have so little trust that Amazon will actually send me exactly what I ordered that I'll look to direct sellers whenever possible when the details matter. Just last week I didn't do this when ordering 4 i
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by eitally 7y ago
And on this note, I was talking with my neighbor yesterday and he's having a related issue that only became an issue when Amazon enacted this covid-response policy. It used to be that it didn't particularly matter if your product
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by eitally 7y ago
The part about depending on only semi-reliable third parties for your logistics, or the part about the supply chain costs being 1000x your material cost?
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by eitally 7y ago
The Indian ITO firms have been seeing pressure for a while, but that doesn't also mean US tech companies have stopped hiring in India (or that they've stopped hiring contractors through those Indian firms).
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by eitally 7y ago
i don't know why you were downvoted -- you're exactly right.
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by eitally 7y ago
I suspect this is one of the reasons advertising on Instagram is going gangbusters. The combo of better targeting + a format that naturally lends itself to storytelling makes for a much more compelling advertising platform.
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by eitally 7y ago
But not at the SVP level, at least not at Google.
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by eitally 7y ago
Or that you're being considered for a similar job but under a different hiring manager. Another thing to note about Google hiring is that it's very different for different role types. Specifically, for SWEs, Sales, and other role

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