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by hiyer 5y ago
A single person working 10-12 hours on their own startup is not toxic. I wouldn't even call that a "culture". Founders/execs/managers slave-driving their employees to work 10-12 hours a day is a culture. And it&#x27
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by hiyer 5y ago
That's a good question. I would guess it's because we started using zd before jira launched servicedesk, and there was too much inertia to move.
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I get that they get to keep most of their money, but how come nobody's going to jail for this?
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by hiyer 5y ago
That's definitely true of some teams at Amazon. If you're working as an "away team" as they call it, it can take months to get even a one-line change reviewed. It can take a couple of days or more just to figure out how
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by hiyer 5y ago
Last 2 companies I worked at, we used zendesk for support tickets, and the support folks were pretty happy with it. However pricing is definitely an issue - at both these companies us engineers did not have individual zendesk accounts as it
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by hiyer 5y ago
Just curious - how come you haven't got a green card or citizenship if you've been there for 20+ years?
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by hiyer 5y ago
I used to use Pinterest for recipes a few years back, but their recommendations sucked (or they didn't have enough content). I would either keep getting the same suggestions again and again or recommendations for meat dishes though I&#
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by hiyer 5y ago
This is not a new contract - Pinterest has been using AWS since at least 2013 (I used to work in a company that Pinterest purchased a service on AWS from, and Pinterest was our largest customer by far on AWS even then.) So maybe they'v
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by hiyer 5y ago
IIUC what s/he's saying is that there's not a shortage of beds per se but staffed beds. And the staffing shortage is because a lot of staff has been diverted to covid cases.
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by hiyer 5y ago
I had the same question - there are obviously a lot of applications for this, but why would a company like FB need it?
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by hiyer 5y ago
What I'd like to know is whether they're docking the pay of that exec dude who's working from New Zealand. Although I'm pretty sure he's made enough to not care.
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by hiyer 5y ago
I don't deny that it's possible. If you're having champagne and caviar on your date you're definitely going to run a bill of over Rs. 10k. But the author claims that 8k is a typical expense for a date night out, which i
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by hiyer 5y ago
Great debugging story, but I have to ask why someone would want to run something like Cassandra on Windows anyway. I'm not at all surprised Cassandra has dropped support for it as the article mentions.
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by hiyer 5y ago
Just to add, these are five-star restaurants we're talking about it. While I am privileged enough to be able to afford them, even I don't eat at such places more than 2-3 times an year if that. At very good non-five-star restauran
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by hiyer 5y ago
You can check the menu for Machan hotel from the Taj Palace here [0]. The most expensive item on the menu (a seafood grill, which is probably not a single-person dish) is around $30, and there are plenty of dishes in the sub-$20 range. I&#x
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by hiyer 5y ago
> The 23-year-old earns 8,000 rupees a month ($125) for her work. That’s what her employers can expect to pay for a single “date night” out at one of the city’s finer restaurants. Even in 2021 (article is from 2017) this is an exaggerati
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by hiyer 5y ago
I'm not sure if benchmarks reflect real-world performance with adblockers and other extensions installed. I've been using FF (nightly) as my daily driver on Linux and Mac for years and I don't see any perceptible difference i
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by hiyer 5y ago
> To me, rounds imply a decision point (and delay) in between. My experience has been that if you clear the engineering phone screen the company asks you to go through all the rest of the (4-6) interviews, even if your performance in one
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by hiyer 5y ago
I'm not sure where the distinction lies - both seem same to me :-)
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Almost every single tech company I've interviewed at (ranging from medium-sized startups to FAANG), I've given at least 5 interviews, going up to 7. The only exceptions were very small startups and a couple of large Chinese organi
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by hiyer 5y ago
Well, if $3 billion is all it costs to send someone to the moon why doesn't he do it himself instead of asking NASA to buy his services? Probably NASA probably has some other hardware, know-how, and people that Blue Origins doesn'
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by hiyer 5y ago
Income tax is quite high in India at the upper bracket. For the right-most tick on that chart (Rs. 70 lakhs pa) you can expect to take home around Rs. 3.5-4.0 lakhs per month after tax. In Bangalore a decent flat will cost you at least 10%
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by hiyer 5y ago
Not just creative fields. A relative of mine did an MPA from Columbia-SIPA. He spent around $200k all told (including indirect costs like housing), and on graduation the best offer he got was for around $60k. Eventually he took up a job (ou
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by hiyer 5y ago
True - caramelized onions are often added as toppings to Biryani and other rice dishes. They're rarely needed for gravies though. Edit: typo
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by hiyer 5y ago
Genius isn't limited to only science and technology. It would not be wrong to call Warren Buffett a financial or investing genius; and similarly Mukesh Ambani a genius industrialist.
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Adding a pinch of baking soda significantly speeds up the cooking of onion. I've never timed it (and I've never taken onions all the way to caramelization since Indian food doesn't need it), but it's noticeable. It'
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The damage they're doing to themselves will eventually trickle down to those they live with - spouse, kids, parents, friends, etc.
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by hiyer 5y ago
That should be avoidable with "include guards" like [ -n "$_MY_FILE" ] && return || readonly _MY_FILE=1
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This is really cool, and would be especially useful for unit testing like the article says!
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It's possible for the hiring manager to also be the bar-raiser, especially at senior levels like SDE3 and above. I have personally seen this happen. Having said that, I doubt that specific people are hired to be fired. I would consider

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