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by freyir 8y ago
Yet it seems like a big complaint among (ex-)Googlers is that they were underutilized and spent their time working on trivial tasks.
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by freyir 8y ago
They’re using custom hardware to make this work. This isn’t always clear from the press release. For example, they mention that the technology works at “WiFi frequencies.” That’s true, but they’re sending a radar signal using two huge anten
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by freyir 8y ago
It’s a new paper from the same group. In 2015, the tracker person was just shown as an amorphous blob on the screen. In the recent paper, they display a stick figure modelling the movements of the person’s limbs.
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by freyir 8y ago
From what I’ve heard, SpaceX pays pretty poorly. Extremely long hours for below-average aerospace salary. Surprised to see you mention them, but maybe they’ve improved lately.
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by freyir 8y ago
Or you’re getting underpaid relative to your peers.
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by freyir 8y ago
If you’re making $300k-$500k a year, a $1M house is extremely attainable.
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by freyir 8y ago
Who is? CSS and SVG are great, but how is her javascript? Neglecting the role that jQuery played is foolish, and even respected developers can say foolish things now and then.
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by freyir 8y ago
I bought a Kindle tablet, and I wouldn’t even use it as an IOT control surface.
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by freyir 8y ago
You've selectively trimmed down his responses to the most generic-sounding lines. The general theme in the AMA is to jump in, accept you'll make mistakes, think critically about what succeeds and fails, and leverage technology to
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by freyir 8y ago
I tried it. Black doesn't seem to touch long strings or comments. It just leaves you with "line too long" errors that you can clean up yourself. For your code example, see my comment above.
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by freyir 8y ago
In: left[a_rather_long_key][a_rather_long_key] = right[a_rather_long_key][a_rather_long_key][a_rather_long_key] Out: left[a_rather_long_key][a_rather_long_key] = right[a_rather_long_key][ a_rather_long_key ][a_rat
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by freyir 8y ago
I used to feel this way before using Go.
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by freyir 8y ago
> Everything else is secondary Including solvency? Noble goals don't keep debt collectors at bay.
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by freyir 8y ago
You're getting downvoted, but you're right. A "third-world country" was a country that wasn't aligned to either the Western countries (first world) or the Communist Bloc (second world). These terms have become outd
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by freyir 8y ago
Talent allows some people get away with being jerks. If you think talent and bad behavior go hand in hand, you should meet some new talented people.
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by freyir 8y ago
The article claims it includes app visits: "Since then, total monthly visits to Facebook in the US (both on the web and through the mobile app) have fallen [by 3 billion/month]."
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by freyir 8y ago
The monetary cost of a Swedish child might be lower (though to some extent, the cost is just distributed across the population in the form of taxes), but the opportunity cost is not. Scandinavian countries have high rates of post-secondary
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by freyir 8y ago
Costs in terms of time and money. In the past, kids could work on the farm or in a factory and generate money, now you have to send them to daycare and buy them toys and they cost money. Previously, more people would jump straight out of hi
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by freyir 8y ago
Historically, children generated profit. These days, in developed countries, children are expensive. They cost money and time (e.g., years that you would otherwise spend going to school, building a career).
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by freyir 8y ago
Google refused to provide the businesses' names to Axios (even with a guarantee not to publicly identify them), and refused to answer whether the calls were edited. If the calls were real, I wonder how many recordings did it take to
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by freyir 8y ago
> There just shouldn't exist problems that relatively untrained eyes can spot and fix in short order Many companies have big glaring inefficiencies that employees become blind to over time. Often times, new hires will be acutely a
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by freyir 8y ago
Also their VP of Autopilot Software, out the door after 6 months.
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by freyir 8y ago
But that's the reason why Duplex is interesting, and why there's a grain of truth in what ZainRiz is saying: Humans have settled on a de facto API for scheduling appointments. It uses the telephone as its interface, speech as it
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by freyir 8y ago
> AI and Machine Learning require graduate-level mathematical and computational skills Yeah, not really. A lot of day-to-day work in ML requires rudimentary math, at most. I know PhDs who quickly get discouraged with ML because they&#x
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by freyir 8y ago
> The end game would be for the business to run something like duplex on the other side, and you’d have duplex talking to duplex. And looking even further into the future, we can imagine a day when the computers forgo natural speech an
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by freyir 8y ago
They could easily buffer the last N minutes of recorded data in a black box. Not doing so would seem pretty irresponsible.
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by freyir 8y ago
> I know plenty of people that make $30k-$40k/y in NYC and can afford to live in Bushwick with a few roommates This sounds fun for a bit and then you grow up. If the Bay Area wants experienced workers filling non-tech/finance
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by freyir 8y ago
The quote is over the top, but this vision pushed Apple beyond merely "predictable and efficient" products. If they'd stuck to predictable and efficient, there's no way they'd be an $800+B company today, so it seems
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by freyir 8y ago
Document repeated negative performance or toxic behavior and then act on it. There are plenty of people in non-vulnerable classes who regularly do indefensible things because they know their companies won't act on it.
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by freyir 8y ago
This happens because companies are unwilling to fire employees, even incompetent or toxic employees, for fear of lawsuit.

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