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by hintymad 7y ago
And the team publicly defended their consideration in a company all-hands, IIRC.
1802.
by hintymad 7y ago
This is hardly surprising at all. There used to be lots of complaints, both internally and publicly, about how bloated and ineffective Uber's engineering organization was. Many engineers were bitter about many overlapping projects in U
1803.
by hintymad 7y ago
If I were a We engineer, I would leave the company immediately after learning that the CEO ripped off millions of dollars from his very own company. I just can't see how that level of greed can help build a successful company.
1804.
by hintymad 7y ago
They did some impressive stuff, but internally the eng org was bloated as hell, thanks to Thuan's leadership. Ironicaly, Thuan recently asked his directors to tell him which departments are bloated so he could decide who to cut. So muc
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by hintymad 7y ago
According to the book Autonomy, he was a pioneer in the field of self-driving car, and excelled at making things happen. That said, he was always controversial and ethically dubious even when he was in Google. As the org that he was in grew
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by hintymad 7y ago
To his fairness, Levandowski knows how to move things forward in PoC stage. He made huge contribution in the early days of Google's self-driving car initiative, and Sebastian Thrun liked him so much that he negotiated an amazing bonus
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by hintymad 7y ago
P.S., Levandowski caused similar drama when he was in Google's self-driving car division too, per the book Autonomy by Lawrence D Burns.
1808.
by hintymad 7y ago
Why did reporters keep calling Levandowski an engineer? He's really not, at least not for quite a number of years. Anyway, Levandowski was a lousy leader, and was really detrimental to Uber's ATG. He bloated ATG from fewer than 10
1809.
by hintymad 8y ago
Maybe language does not matter that much in many cases. Modern languages have become so good that I don't find myself wrestling with them very often. When it comes to the point that I do need to fight my programming languages, well, le
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by hintymad 8y ago
IIRC, $100K a year before 2008 was considered pretty high compensation in the valley, and things started to change around 2009. The total compensation of software developers started to increase by double-digit percent almost every year.
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When a programmer thinks not knowing BFS is okay
7 points by hintymad 8y ago|12 comments
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by hintymad 8y ago
I'm curious on why people love to set up their companies in the city or live in the city. I mean, there are plenty of office space in Fremont, for example, and living in the Bay Area is much more pleasant than in the city. I was wonder
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by hintymad 8y ago
Exactly! I don't quite get the sentiment that military is nothing but evil, either. Hasn't history taught us enough? How many peace-loving civilization got destroyed by those who had no interests in producing but looting? Look at
1814.
by hintymad 8y ago
To put things in perspective, Susan is incredibly talented. She went from barely knowing high school math to enjoying advanced mathematical physics in fewer than three years, which means in this three years, she learned Analysis (not Stewar
1815.
by hintymad 9y ago
I can offer some anecdotes: In a startup that's evolving its culture, there are a number of engineers who did very little engineering work but participating interviews all days long. They turned down a candidate if the candidate got pr
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Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead(ft.com)
3 points by hintymad 9y ago|1 comments
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To what extent should the CTO be responsible for Uber's engineering culture?(quora.com)
8 points by hintymad 10y ago|1 comments