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by habosa 7y ago
Totally agree with your points about code correctness. That's the most important thing. I spent probably a year making systems/tools/processes to ensure that every code snippet in our documentation is imported unmodified from
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by habosa 7y ago
That's a really hard question but I think smaller teams need to be more empowered. Right now every big decision seems to come from way up high which guarantees that it seems out of touch and misses edge cases. A lot of the angst comes
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by habosa 7y ago
A few random ones off the top of my head: 1. There will be zero single-owner self driving cars sold by the end of the decade. There will likely be a ridesharing service powered by self-driving cars. 2. A FAANG-level company will refuse to
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by habosa 7y ago
Googler here. Opinions are obviously my own and not that for my employer. Just sharing my thoughts, take it all with a grain of salt. I've been at Google full time for 5+ years and was an intern before that. The company has more tha
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by habosa 7y ago
The only thing more toxic than the mold in the apartment are the comments here. Yeah it sounds like Trent could have handled the situation better. It also sounds like he didn't and is now pretty screwed. There's no need to pile o
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by habosa 7y ago
I still lose bags a very high percentage of the times that I check them (maybe 20%) so I never check them. It's far from solved.
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by habosa 7y ago
I just went to Dubai for the first time ... one thing about Dubai is they can still build fast. All of Downtown Dubai was built in about a decade and it is really something. Tallest building in the world, largest mall in the world, multipl
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by habosa 7y ago
This rings true for anyone who has ever worked at a big tech company (I work at Google). At Google when your project begins to scale up you can ask for more money, more people, or both. Most teams ask for both. What you can't ask for
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by habosa 7y ago
Ok here's a question: why do I care? Watching TV has always been an experience with ads in it. Netflix is going to know what I watch no matter what device I use. In fact, my TV is probably the most private way for me to watch a stre
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by habosa 7y ago
But what's wrong with perpetual dividends? I think the relationship between investors and dividend-paying companies is a lot healthier than non-dividend-paying companies. If buy 1 share of DividendCorp I can rationalize it as a stream
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by habosa 7y ago
Is there any possible way to break the American addiction on housing as the primary investment / wealth for a family? As long as existing homeowners are incentivized to drive up the price of their home, none of our housing supply woes
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by habosa 7y ago
Thank you for sharing your side of the story. I was wrong to attack you so personally on a public forum and I apologize for that. It's too easy sometimes to forget I'm insulting a real person when I'm critical online. I hope
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by habosa 7y ago
Agreed! This is my dream seat. I like the aisle because I can get up but sometimes I miss window seats because you have a wall to lean against. This brings the wall to any seat. I would happily pay a little more for this seat.
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by habosa 7y ago
I have been waiting for a case like this. The boilerplate SV Software Engineer contract says that the employer basically owns your whole intellectual output. In practice it's extremely common for people to leave FAANG companies and s
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by habosa 7y ago
Yes that is true, although even those SV MegaCorps hire only a small percentage of the students from a small percentage of schools. I was not trying to limit my statement to Silicon Valley, where the job market is very robust (although sti
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by habosa 7y ago
You are 100% right that my view is clouded by the relative youth of the software industry. Achieving seniority is a much longer road elsewhere. My main point was that when you've just spent 4 years in college learning and accumulating
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by habosa 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, and you're right that there is good information out there. I meant the popularly reported unemployment numbers which show things as "better than ever". They don't match people's actua
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by habosa 7y ago
I have heard both sides, I think it depends on your industry. I know people who are blown away with how much ROI they get from Facebook ads. Others have the experience you mentioned.
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by habosa 7y ago
They sold 350 scooters at $700 each. So just under $250k in sales. They decided, right before Christmas, that they would tell all those people their $700 has been thrown right in the trash. The founder of this company is the founder of Ti
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by habosa 7y ago
This mentality keeps on going right up through high-paid white collar work. All job postings inflate the minimum requirements and everybody wants someone else to train their employees. All junior software engineering jobs that could be fil
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by habosa 7y ago
That book is incredible, and still relevant to this topic! One big thing in the book is that humans don't understand the complexity of forest ecosystems and it shows when we try to change or recreate them. If we expect that we can ju
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by habosa 7y ago
Anecdata: I spent 5 weeks in Spain in 2009 and 2 weeks in Spain 2019. I can tell you for sure that people who work in customer-facing industries speak MUCH more and better English now than they did 10 years ago.
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by habosa 7y ago
1) Larkin Street Youth Services https://larkinstreetyouth.org/ On any given night in San Francisco there are about 1,500 homeless people between ages 12-24. This is shameful. Larkin Street provides every service they could
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by habosa 7y ago
The photos are gorgeous and I would definitely use this mode. Astrophotography always kind of rubs me the wrong way though because that's not how it looks. Even if you go out to somewhere that's really dark, like a large National
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by habosa 7y ago
Some of the demand is induced by how easy it is to get the reservations. I hate to say this but maybe we should make it a little more annoying? Imagine if campsites were either: a) first-come first-served b) reservation by physical mail on
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by habosa 7y ago
I remember the day that Imgur launched on Reddit. The post title was something almost exactly like this. At the time it was a revolution, every other photo upload site was shady or slow or expensive or some combination of the above. ~10 y
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by habosa 7y ago
If you want a campsite in a major national park you need to look up when they are released (normally 3mo in advance) and wake up at exactly 6:59am and get your trigger finger ready or you really don't stand a chance. I just wish there
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by habosa 7y ago
Seriously. I hate that visiting a national park now involves the same sort of online shenanigans as getting a popular concert ticket. That's not the vibe that should be associated with our parks system. Anyone botting the site should
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by habosa 7y ago
My favorite Amazon scam is the Amazon Ship of Theseus[0]. You sell a product, normally a cheap electronic, and build up a decent corpus of positive reviews. A good example is a USB-C cable or something. Then you decide you want to sell a
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by habosa 7y ago
I hate that any online company can set arbitrary Terms of Service which they know for a FACT I have not read (I didn't click) and then decide to pull the rug out from me at any time because of that. These companies are seriously import

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