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by freyr 4y ago
Netflix pays cash. I believe employees can buy options at a discount, but RSUs are not part of their comp. If Netflix is like most companies, they’ll start reining in spending. In fact, that’s exactly what was reported a couple weeks ago:
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by freyr 4y ago
This is a policy addressing one side of the supply-demand equation. I think most people would agree that measures can be taken on both the supply and demand sides. It’s a rather extraordinary claim to suggest that root causes don’t exist on
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by freyr 4y ago
To be fair, my first time returning to a Linux desktop after 10+ years of MacOS was marked by feelings of contempt and disgust. Not to say MacOS is objectively better or that it gets everything right. But any time you’re thrust into an unfa
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by freyr 4y ago
It’s been reported that Omicron was relatively mild in the West because so many people are vaccinated or have had previous exposure. In a place like Hong Kong, where relatively few people were vaccinated or previously infected, Omicron was
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by freyr 4y ago
Her connections to mainland China are well documented. From Wikipedia: “Pak was an overseas executive director of the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA), an organization overseen by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO) of the
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by freyr 5y ago
The headline seems sensationalist – Is this really an attempt to get workers back to the office, or just one more optional perk among dozens of others that tech companies offer their employees?
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by freyr 5y ago
Certainly, interesting work and effective in-person collaboration do exist at the these companies, it just varies a lot from team to team. The trope of PhDs hired to optimize button colors exists for a reason.
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by freyr 5y ago
This is the most frustrating part of being forced back to the Bay Area. Even before the pandemic, we always had distributed meetings, with people calling in from various buildings, conference rooms, phone booths, etc. So nothing changes bet
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by freyr 5y ago
> To be clear: there is NOTHING at all about sound in this article. The spectrum does not show a continuum from sound to light. Except that a portion of the spectrum graphic is labeled “perceptible sound.” That’s what the OP is refer
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by freyr 5y ago
For the curious, eligible movies must satisfy at least one of the following criteria: At least one actor from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group must be cast in a significant role. The story must center on women, L.G.T.B.Q. people,
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by freyr 5y ago
Overpopulation? But I think it’s safe to assume they mean pro-choice.
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by freyr 5y ago
Bell Labs still exists but is owned by Nokia, who now makes cellular infrastructure. AT&T Labs also exists. But the days of telecom research making rapid and monumental advances peaked decades ago. Nokia or AT&T or Huawei or Ericsso
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by freyr 5y ago
The problem is that it’s worded in a confusing way, not that it’s “dumbed-down” for a general audience.
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by freyr 5y ago
Are customers buying desktop apps? For certain complex tasks (e.g. image/video/audio editing), desktop has advantages. But for the bulk of what most people do on their computers, web apps are good enough and much more convenient.
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by freyr 5y ago
“Vaccine effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines to prevent COVID-19-associated hospitalizations included: 85% (95% CI: 82 to 88%) for 2 vaccine doses against Alpha; 85% (95% CI: 83 to 87%) for 2 doses against Delta; 94% (95% CI: 92 to 95%) for
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by freyr 5y ago
Not to mention advertisers, but could it be that most users don’t actually want porn and solicitations by sex workers showing up in their Facebook and Instagram feeds? There is no shortage of places to find porn or sex workers online, for
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by freyr 5y ago
Someone in the management chain is making that decision.
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by freyr 5y ago
While Verizon may (or may not) have offered one developer $300k, it’s certainly not the norm: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Verizon/salaries/Software-Eng... It’s not for AmEx either: https://www.l
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by freyr 5y ago
The underlying assumption seems to be that future waves will be mild because Omicron was mild, either intrinsically or due to improved immunity. I hope it’s the case, but time will tell if this is true. Alternatively, they’re planning to mo
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by freyr 5y ago
Or just move out of the Bay Area/NYC/your country’s equivalent overpriced metro, and live very comfortably. Of course it works better if your closer to Tim’s age than in your 20s or 30s.
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by freyr 5y ago
Perpetually right around the corner.
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by freyr 5y ago
Still, extremely few in the claimed range, even after October.
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by freyr 5y ago
Is it always less risky? What happens when the price of apartments triples or quadruples over the years but your income stagnates or even goes down? You’d better have rent control, which is generally a bad economic policy overall, and you’d
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by freyr 5y ago
L6 at Amazon is two levels up from the bottom (“senior engineer”)? Where are they making $500k-$600k a year? From levels.fyi, FAANG and the unicorns are almost all in the $300k-$400k range. Have offers gone up $200k in the last few months?
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by freyr 5y ago
> Netflix has somehow attracted a lot of really good ones $400k+ cash and no junior engineers can’t hurt.
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by freyr 5y ago
At my last gig, we tried hiring contractors and got bit by this twice. We’d interview a candidate over the phone or Skype and he’d be extremely knowledgeable, answering all our questions flawlessly. Then when he arrives to the office, he ca
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by freyr 5y ago
That jumped out at me, too. I worked at an R&D lab on the East Coast early in my career, and there was such a great mix of young and old engineers. Many of the older engineers were legends and they knew so much. The pay wasn’t great by
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by freyr 5y ago
Alright, you convinced me.
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by freyr 5y ago
> out of the ordinary housing market in the Bay Area when you compare it to other cities in CA like San Diego and Los Angeles. Many of the high-paying tech jobs in Los Angeles are consolidated in the Venice Beach area, so-called “Silic
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by freyr 5y ago
None of that has any bearing on what I said. If anything, having an MS and mid-level experience only make it easier for you than most. But you’ve been complaining about your job for months and you’re still there. And you talk about all othe

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