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by freyr 9y ago
Yeah, hard to imagine that things can improve over time!
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by freyr 9y ago
I wouldn't rule out $500k for Google. It's not a super reliable source, but Glassdoor lists the average total compensation for a Google staff engineer at $420k. I doubt Apple, Amazon, or even Facebook pay that much on any regular
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by freyr 9y ago
Staff engineer at Google, most likely, but possibly Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft. In any case, somebody who thinks this represents a significant slice of the Silicon Valley workforce is living in a bubble. For every engineer making >$500k
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by freyr 9y ago
What good is a "hot job market" that can't keep up with the housing market or cover the costs of raising a family?
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by freyr 10y ago
Facebook has really excellent marketing for their hardware engineering efforts.
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by freyr 10y ago
I can't believe they let this go on while trying to market groceries. There's no way I'd ever consider buying anything edible from them. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't even realize they're being sold counterfe
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by freyr 10y ago
You can create images using your favorite image creation software (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, MS Paint, D3, anything) and embed them in a LaTeX document.
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by freyr 10y ago
> Do I have to go into "other" to tip less than 20% for being handed a brown bag? Yes, of course, you go into other and select 0%. You don't need to tip someone for handing you a bag, and prompting for a 20% tip is shame
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by freyr 10y ago
> self-driving R&D, which is honestly well outside of their current business According to the CEO, self-driving cars are "existential" to Uber's success. They may need something that disruptive to meet the company&
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by freyr 10y ago
Some people do that and get promoted, and in the end get paid well. You can't stop that; there are hustlers in every industry and always have been. It's only a problem if the employer starts treating this as the norm, and expects
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by freyr 10y ago
Salaries have gone up, and software companies regularly rank among the very best companies to work for in the world. What exactly are you expecting?
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by freyr 10y ago
The easiest (or most common) way is to start young: go to a top university. This makes it far easier to jump into a top company. Then you're mostly there, without even necessarily programming anything exceptional. Otherwise, you could
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by freyr 10y ago
I love that. Or when they audibly sigh, tap their pen on their desk, or stare out the window. These actions say, "I have more important things to be doing," and that's how you know the company is doing big, important things.
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by freyr 10y ago
I was upset that our government is exploiting our consumer devices. Now I'm upset that our government isn't exploiting our consumer devices better.
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by freyr 10y ago
> You really think it's impossible to use facts to construct a narrative that is untrue? What? That's completely unrelated to what I said, which is simply that the phrase "true facts" is redundant. > people with
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by freyr 10y ago
"Bypass" means to go around something in order to avoid it. If there was a traffic jam on the highway, you could bypass it by exiting the highway and traveling down a side street. "Bypassing encryption" then would mean t
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by freyr 10y ago
> You can publish only true facts Can we go back to just calling them "facts"? A statement can be true or false, but a fact is true. You're playing into the idea that there are "false facts" or "alternativ
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by freyr 10y ago
> Always start off by asking the candidate, "Is this still a good time?" I prefer when the interviewer reschedules the interview two or three times, calls 15 minutes late, and then asks "Is this still a good time?"
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by freyr 10y ago
I followed the web link and still hit a paywall. Perfect. Edit: I went to the "Top Stories" link, which was right above the identical (and paywalled) search results link, and that got me through.
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by freyr 10y ago
> time pressure definitely adds to stress Also the stress of someone standing over your shoulder watching you work. At work, I enjoy hashing out problems with a coworkers at a whiteboard, but in an interview it's paralyzing to hav
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by freyr 10y ago
> interference is considered as noise, which means that SNR simply drops You're arguing that PHY data rates are low because SNR is low, and SNR is low because interference is high. In my experience, this is not the case. PHY rates
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by freyr 10y ago
I think it was a joke.
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by freyr 10y ago
No, but traveling to Europe for work helped to change perspective.
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by freyr 10y ago
> there'd be fewer people working those types of jobs if there wasn't some extra money from the customers. And somehow, Europe isn't suffering from a massive taxi driver and server shortage. And here in the U.S., there i
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by freyr 10y ago
What do you consider exceptional Lyft service? Exceptional, by definition, is rare. Having an easy option for a rare event is usually bad UI.
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by freyr 10y ago
No, it's a complaint against Lyft since they made a conscious decision to include tipping, while their main competitor demonstrated that modern American companies do not need to bow to stupid customs. [edit: shouldn't have implied
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by freyr 10y ago
> Lyft has in app digital tipping (drivers keep 100% of tips). One of the reasons I don't like Lyft. How about this system: pay the drivers a fair wage up front, so they don't need to subsist on the generosity of strangers. I
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by freyr 10y ago
And Trello
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by freyr 10y ago
From these comments, I can't tell if Uber is a scrappy startup where everybody knows everybody, or it's a huge global corporation where nobody knows what's going on elsewhere.
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by freyr 10y ago
> Everyone is more than their worst moments Maybe. In my worst moments, I haven't sexually harassed a coworker. I think a lot of people can say that, honestly and proudly. Singhal made his $35M+, and I'm honestly not too worr

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