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by freyr 6y ago
Yes, but this is offset by Amazon's sign-on bonus. According to online sources, Amazon's stock vesting schedule is: 5% in year 1, 15% in year 2, 40% in year 3, 40% in year 4. This is unfavorable compared to other top-paying tech c
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by freyr 6y ago
I've heard of Amazon's hard $160K salary cap many times over the years. The rest of the compensation is through stock and bonus. It wouldn't be unreasonable for a senior engineer hired in at total annual compensation of, for
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by freyr 6y ago
You're knowingly misrepresenting the issue, over and over again: The issue isn't that these scientists received money from a foreign government. It's that they failed to report it.
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by freyr 6y ago
The policy is simple and common sense: If you receive funding from a foreign government, disclose it. The fact that China is a dictatorship does not invalidate this policy. You seem to want it both ways: China is an innocent player that is
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by freyr 6y ago
Receiving funding from a foreign government isn't the issue, hiding it is. Do you actually believe that the Chinese government would find it acceptable if U.S. scientists working in Chinese labs hid their ties with the U.S. government?
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by freyr 6y ago
It's a master class in dark patterns. I guess they figure this will be good in the long run, but I'll never trust anything from Triplebyte or Ammon Bartram after this.
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by freyr 6y ago
Bell Labs and Xerox PARC are the poster children for successful corporate R&D labs, but I wonder if, to some extent, they were in the right place at the right time? The advent of modern computing and digital telephony provided rich soil
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by freyr 6y ago
That’s exactly what I wrote.
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by freyr 6y ago
Were these studies inconsistent with a curious mind and the limitations of knowledge at the time? In any research, some avenues of investigation are fruitful and others are not. When people look back on us 300 years from today, they'll
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by freyr 6y ago
It’s surprising to see just how much higher many tech stocks are valued right now than they were six months ago: MSFT +21% AAPL +15% AMZN +37% FB +6% NFLX +50% UBER +21% SQ +22% SNAP +16% MTCH +10%
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by freyr 6y ago
> Just want to point out that there's no rational basis for this argument The argument is that people in lower cost-of-living areas are willing to work for less, a public company's main motivation is profit, and companies low
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by freyr 7y ago
I don’t know about the head role specifically, but DARPA generally has short tenures by design. Each DARPA project lasts two years (with possibility of extension). So a typical DARPA program manager will work in that role for just a couple
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by freyr 7y ago
Congrats on getting out! I started a new job here a few months ago, but I'll be requesting to transfer to a remote team as soon as I hit my 1-year mark.
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by freyr 7y ago
> 2005-era Python was wrong about that. Given Python's incredible rise since 2005, and even in the past few years, I'm not sure we can say they were "wrong." It's serves a purpose.
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by freyr 7y ago
That mirrors my experience as well. Someone with influence is bored or wants to level up, so they'll drag the entire company into a long, expensive quagmire. Unless the existing codebase is mired in technical debt and completely unsalv
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by freyr 7y ago
> it's similarly difficult to switch to python 3 But that's almost certainly not the case. Even if their existing codebase relies very heavily on the small subset of Python2 features that require manual porting, switching to
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by freyr 7y ago
No doubt they put in a lot of work. But also, it's very unlikely that any of them would have taken 20 years and $310 million dollars to create a bus lane.
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by freyr 7y ago
It's controversial merely because it doesn't belong in a security tool that's intended to warn users about malware. I say this as a non-management, rank-and-file employee: I don't like the idea of activists (whether I ag
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by freyr 7y ago
Is he claiming that the people involved weren't experts? It doesn't seem that way to me. I think it's just the opposite – he's demonstrating how much rapid progress can be made when you cut the red tape and get the right
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by freyr 7y ago
San Francinsco's city government is completely incompetent and the city itself has devolved into a disgusting cesspool. But if you live in the city, you don't mention this. Instead, you loudly proclaim at every opportunity that Sa
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by freyr 7y ago
They got a code review. That doesn't mean the message they inserted was approved, it just means they got two engineers to sign off on the code. Obviously, inserting pro-unionization messaging into a security tool isn't "by
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by freyr 7y ago
It's not about being a security risk. This person used their access as a developer to alter internal security tools to promote their own messaging. That shows a profound lack of judgement, and it's not surprising their access woul
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by freyr 7y ago
Using access granted to you as a developer to alter work tools to spam controversial messages to your coworkers is wildly inappropriate and unprofessional. There's no rationalization that makes this acceptable behavior.
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by freyr 7y ago
(Sorry, I'd deleted the sentence you quoted right as you replied). I don't mind them raising prices as is needed. I'm complaining specifically about price gouging. For example, it cost me $8 to travel from my house to a bar t
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by freyr 7y ago
The article was written back in August, so are we already seeing the higher prices?
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by freyr 7y ago
Deepwater Horizon and Exxon Valdez were breathtakingly damaging. Union Carbide was breathtakingly damaging. Enron comes to mind. I’m not a proponent of wage-fixing, but I wouldn’t call the damage breathtaking. Google allegedly was planning
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by freyr 7y ago
Right, because we're living in such a pro-SV, pro-tech climate right now.
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by freyr 7y ago
> breathtakingly damaging behaviour This seems typically hyperbolic. What are examples of Google's "breathtakingly damaging behavior"?
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by freyr 7y ago
He hopes to make money from the livestream, not from the people staying at the hotel. It's right there in the article.
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by freyr 7y ago
This must be satire. It's one of the most cryptic, least comprehensible pieces of philosophy ever written. The most brilliant philosophers of his time didn't properly understand it, according to Wittgenstein himself.

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