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by gcheong 5y ago
They reached domination by network effects. Without any real current competition they are a de facto monopoly in their space. Monopolies have zero incentive to improve things for their customers much beyond the original value proposition th
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by gcheong 5y ago
The fact that she can’t legally die in her own country even though she has a terminal illness and that she mentions she is worried that if her family and friends knew where she is going that there might be legal repercussions does open the
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by gcheong 5y ago
Possibly the Netherlands or Belgium as well. A couple documentaries came to mind for anyone interested: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/right-die-belgium-inside-w... https://aeon.co/videos/w
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by gcheong 5y ago
I believe the main reason for the terrible on-time record of Amtrak has to do with prioritizing freight rail over passenger rail as they have to use the same lines.
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The Secret Plot to Unleash Corporate Power(mattstoller.substack.com)
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by gcheong 5y ago
You beat your head against the wall, submit your solution and see how it compares runtime-wise and memory-wise with others. If you're not scoring well on those metrics, then you go to the discussion to see if there are better solutions
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by gcheong 5y ago
I think people expect it because that's what we've been told for so long that nobody bothers to question it along with other societal tropes like "having children is the greatest experience you can hope for" or, like we
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by gcheong 5y ago
Thanks for that. While I don't advertise my age I'm pretty sure the employment gap in my resume is putting them off and I'm getting a lot of the same response as you mentioned. But even before then it was getting harder to fi
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by gcheong 5y ago
What does this mean practically speaking? I’m 55 and just starting to look again now after being out of the workplace for 4 yrs.
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by gcheong 5y ago
Assuming you can find a spot for it, the other option is to live in an RV down on Lake Merced Blvd near SFSU or Winston Dr. going up to Stonestown mall. At least you're on land and can move it if you need to.
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by gcheong 5y ago
"#6 get a rent control lease and hope for the long-term savings" This is what worked for us though it wasn't a specific plan other than we couldn't afford non-rent controlled housing at the time. We lived in a small but
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by gcheong 5y ago
Boring answer but really the main thing is to just get as much practice as possible in the kinds of questions they're going to ask you. It's good if you can get specific feedback so in that sense one of the online interview practi
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by gcheong 5y ago
Legal counsel will almost always give advice based on the worst case scenario. This isn’t reflective of the likelihood of the worst case scenario so, unless they can point to a strong amount of evidence that shows companies being sued and l
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by gcheong 5y ago
Yes it’s an expense but you’re not doing it out of charity it’s for the benefit of the company and so it is also a part of the job.
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by gcheong 5y ago
True but being employed goes a long way to giving the perception that you are employable so in the cases that the decision is a toss-up between an unemployed person and an employed one I’d be willing to bet the employed one wins almost ever
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by gcheong 5y ago
I’ve made it to both Google and Facebook onsights. I still have no clue what my chances were going in but got rejected both times. If you get through leetcode then you can get an onsight but that’s when they actually attempt to measure comp
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by gcheong 5y ago
From what I’ve seen it’s almost always as you describe or something political like a manager taking over a group and wanting to make room for their friends. But if employees are burning out and then being PIPed instead of getting support I
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by gcheong 5y ago
Why not extend this same criterion to the work itself? I mean you can’t really trust that any developer is writing the best code at any given point in time so it would seem at least a minimum of 5 or 6 developers should weigh in on any give
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by gcheong 5y ago
“Is it annoying for candidates?” Not just annoying, it can be downright demoralizing going through the interview process when the standard is “reject for any one reason, only accept if all agree.” and no feedback whatsoever is given.
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by gcheong 5y ago
I got the 2% from a presentation by a company in the business of prepping people for FAANG interviews, the actual number could be higher but I was just trying to make a point about relative probabilities.
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by gcheong 5y ago
My cynical take is that this company views development as a combination of basic coding skills plus the ability to find solutions on stack overflow. Maybe it’s exactly what they were evaluating.
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by gcheong 5y ago
30 might be too much but it also depends somewhat on the probability of success. 100 hrs practicing leetcode + systems design for a 2% chance at a FAANG seems a worse trade off than 30hrs researching an interesting subject for a presentatio
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by gcheong 5y ago
These companies do exist but finding them amongst the sea of leetcode ones is a challenge.
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by gcheong 5y ago
That’s the standard excuse but how much less of a chance do you really think there is to hire the wrong person after 7 interviews vs say 3 or even 1 done well vs the time you’re spending trying to reduce that risk? More opinions isn’t alway
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by gcheong 5y ago
Yes but once you get through your residency your expected earnings go up quite a bit and you don’t go back to square one. If someone had told me that I’d still need to prep for leetcode interviews at age 55 I’d have chosen the MD path given
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by gcheong 5y ago
It's probably possible, but is it optimal? And what do we even mean by optimal? What's the ultimate purpose of AGI? Perhaps it would be optimal in the sense that it could teach itself to be an expert in anything in short order, bu
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by gcheong 5y ago
Getting the bridge built was also a highly visible and thus naturally a higher priority project for the implementers than either a new bus lane or suicide nets. Probably a better comparison would be the building of the signature span of the
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by gcheong 5y ago
I don’t need a 200k+ job at a FAANG, but it doesn’t seem to matter as FAANGS are perceived as having the best hiring practices (because they wouldn’t be so successful otherwise, right?) so the entire industry just blindly follows suit.
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by gcheong 5y ago
I’ve had interviews where I implemented a small feature on an existing application. It didn’t take any longer than your typical hour-long algorithmic implementation interview. Given that we don’t have post-hire data on any of these practice
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by gcheong 5y ago
A friend of mine was working as a db developer for a local hospital in a small port town when the local bookstore announced it was closing shop. He decided to buy it and now he runs it full-time. It's been several years and as far as I

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