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by endtime 4y ago
I also always interpreted the beginning of the book as deliberately written to make the reader feel the future shock that Manfred is trying to stay ahead of.
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by endtime 4y ago
Before. I made a Memegen meme about ten years ago comparing the sign in with G+ buttons to the classic Wikipedia Jimmy Wales begging-for-donations banners, and for many years it was one of the top 100 Memegen memes ever.
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by endtime 4y ago
> even the most financially illiterate people know that interest rates should be vaguely proportional to risk. I estimate that approximately 80% of people would not even understand the claim you're making, let alone be able to evalu
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by endtime 4y ago
Yeah, I did a bit of Dart null safety migration work at Google and I thought they did a good job. (The auto migration tool sometimes made things nullable unnecessarily, and so you had to carefully review its output, but you could always jus
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by endtime 4y ago
I spent 10 years at Google (left in April) and I do think it's much better than how Amazon is described in this thread. Not perfect, but really still quite good.
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by endtime 4y ago
> You're learning the same material as the people who go to a state university. The advantage is the proximity to power, the people you rub elbows with who can help your career down the line. I got my MS CS from Stanford and this is
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by endtime 4y ago
You contribute to anti-remote work sentiment by doing this.
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by endtime 4y ago
I worked on Google Assistant for ~four years. The NLP is important, but it's still just a slice of making the thing work. And while there's some cutting edge stuff going on there, it's not so general or mysterious that it can
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by endtime 4y ago
> I don't know of any existing linter that could check for backwards compatibility , but I am interested in one. Buf, from the OP, does this with `buf breaking`.
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by endtime 4y ago
That's one of the core problems Buf solves.
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by endtime 4y ago
protobuf is much more concise and readable than OAS. You can define API contracts in protobuf and still serve JSON APIs via the standard-ish gRPC/JSON transcoding enabled by google.api annotations.
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by endtime 4y ago
I don't know a lot about Brazil, so someone may correct me, but I'm under the impression that crime in Brazilian cities can be quite bad.
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by endtime 4y ago
> Blockquotes. Are people really typing > before each paragraph? No, they’re using an editor. Yes they are, and no they aren't, respectively.
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by endtime 4y ago
> I want to work on my own projects on my own terms. This is the only way I can find work that is worth doing. Worth doing in what sense? Not in the capitalist sense of your work being worth at least your compensation. Maybe you mean &qu
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by endtime 4y ago
Blaming the doctor (and firing him) might solve the potential problem that the doctor is incompetent in a way that kills babies. The article doesn't haven't enough info to be sure, of course. But if my wife ever needed a C-section
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by endtime 4y ago
+100 When I write today, for work, the challenge is always to write less. My VP might have time to read two pages; he's almost certainly not going to read anything longer.
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by endtime 4y ago
I haven't been a teacher, but I have been a TA (while a grad student with a full course load) with a substantial weekly grading burden (e.g. 30 students' problem sets a week, with 10-15 problems each, for a class introducing conce
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by endtime 4y ago
To the downvoters: this is a sarcastic reference to a comment London mayor Sadiq Khan made about terrorism.
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by endtime 4y ago
I lived in NYC for ~7 years and never had anything stolen.
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by endtime 4y ago
No group of thousands of humans will be politics-free. But I do think Google rewards good engineering. There are a bunch of other caveats though; if you do great work on something for a year and then it gets canceled before launching, you w
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by endtime 4y ago
People are grouping all FAANGs together in this thread. But this wasn't my experience at Google at all. It's impossible to get promoted past L5 (or even maybe past L4) with a short term-focused approach like this. And, at least at
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by endtime 4y ago
Have you tried a Pixel? I've been happily using them for years.
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by endtime 4y ago
Sigh...yes, I am familiar with the concept. That's why I said that if enough people are on the project, the length of time to completion should be the length of the critical path. If I were committing the fallacy you're accusing
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Ask HN: Software answering “How long will this project take with N people?”
6 points by endtime 4y ago|11 comments
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by endtime 4y ago
Having recently left Google after more than 10 years, I don't think those are the reasons for any decline at Google. I think it's very hard to scale a company to that size without many layers of middle management, and I think it&#
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by endtime 4y ago
State-funded media isn't great for liberal democracy either.
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by endtime 4y ago
I left Google earlier this year. I think it was the right move for me at the right time. That said, I think your view of Google is a bit darker than the reality.
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by endtime 4y ago
I'm not anonymous; it's easy to figure out my identify from my HN profile. I didn't work on Stadia, but I did work on Google Fiber for a couple years only to have almost all that work cancelled, and I'm still sad about i
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by endtime 4y ago
Why would you conflate some VP with the PMs and SWEs who built the thing?
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by endtime 4y ago
The excerpt I quoted isn't about whether it was a waste of time or a savvy career move, just about the total amount of work that went into it.

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