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London Tube drivertested positive for coronavirus(cityam.com)
2 points by hknd 7y ago|1 comments
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by hknd 7y ago
[wfh] My company forces me to work from home which means I can't get breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks at the office but have to order food. As people stopped ordering from Chinese/Asian restaurants, many of them give a
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by hknd 7y ago
These are different teams within Google, and it's kinda not fair to say that Google is not truly behind open web standards. Their whole web developer advocate team is behind open web standards, and pushes it forward everyday. The engin
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by hknd 7y ago
off-topic: I like how that agency is selling "Faster pages" / "just like this website hence resulting in lightning fast websites." But sending 1.3MB over the wire for a super simple website :D
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by hknd 7y ago
Better pay is imho not true. Maybe the lower bound might be higher, but from my experience working in FAANG/IB/HedgeFunds the pay for normal SWEs (web frontend+backend, fullstack, whatever you wanna call it) was always higher than
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by hknd 7y ago
mate - this is super cool. Love how you structure your project (very similar to mine).
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by hknd 7y ago
I did this - moved from Western Europe to London a couple of years ago as a SWE. Initial compensation was a bit more than before but expenses were much higher (back than I was in doubt where I made the right decision). Now I'm making m
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by hknd 7y ago
FAANG/Hedge Fund SWE here. I'm not doing any coding in my free time (as have too many other things to do), and I'm doing very well as a high level IC.
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by hknd 7y ago
Getting banned, and not getting any explanation from support sucks big times. Hope someone from Airbnb Support reads this and can help out.
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by hknd 7y ago
It's actually with any company which gives you that much of freedome and voting power. And people hate it if something is being taken away.
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by hknd 7y ago
When they talk about documents it's more about Google docs (sheets, ...) created internally by employees. Getting access to personal information within Google is very, very difficult - it's not like you can query the user's s
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by hknd 7y ago
And that's exactly the reason AMP is so popular with end-users. It's fast, and opens instantly on slow networks with your phone. End-users don't know what AMP is, and most don't know that the lightning symbol is AMP. Wha
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by hknd 7y ago
UK - SWE - 3y - totally worth it (compensation wise)
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by hknd 7y ago
Google has a very open culture, e.g. all documents/calendars/... are open to anyone by default. If it's private, you'll need to mark it as private and then nobody has access.
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by hknd 7y ago
Same news, no paywall: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/wework-lays-off-2400-employe...
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by hknd 7y ago
This is actually really good and tangible advice - will defo support that project. "Support Your Friends" chapter is really good! I've making mistakes mentioned there all the time.
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Major Databreach – 1.2B people exposed from a single organization(twitter.com)
2 points by hknd 7y ago|0 comments
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by hknd 7y ago
`How internet ads work` Most of the things in this article are just bluntly wrong. Like a "deal"(2) is not an "order"(1) - there are completely unrelated concepts. An order is a collection of line items. fyi: Academy for
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by hknd 7y ago
I'm working with >100 engineers in my team and >1000 engineers in my building, and nearly everyone has a mbp. We usually just drop our macbooks somewhere if we attend an event, or a meeting, or go for lunch in our building. Not h
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by hknd 7y ago
That looks absolutely amazing!
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by hknd 7y ago
The person is probably a temp/vendor from a consulting company (think accenture or cognizant), who should've signed the same NDA agreements as anyone working on that stuff.
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I still use xhr instead of fetch(gomakethings.com)
1 points by hknd 7y ago|0 comments
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by hknd 7y ago
It's ddos protection. Probably a lot of users are trying to refresh calendar right now (which will probably hit the calendar service). If they put ddos protection in front of it, it won't hit the calendar service but the ddos-prot
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by hknd 7y ago
It's like with any big company: they'll have a bunch of SREs and SWEs working on it and trying to solve this asap, but it's probably too technical to give more details than "we're investigating".
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by hknd 7y ago
works for me :|
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by hknd 7y ago
Calendar is loading, but not my events o_O
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by hknd 7y ago
Looks like it's back up for me
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by hknd 7y ago
These pages at Google/Amazon/Netflix are updated by the incident response team, so it's a manual task.
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by hknd 7y ago
The Google Search team is always ranking pages to get the best metric (ctr, time-spend-on-website), s.t. it indicates that users are happy with the result. If any feature/change introduces a regression, they will not ship it. (That kin
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by hknd 7y ago
Yes it's possible and a lot of teams try to convert their temps into full-time employees. A conversion requires interviews (2-3). Candidates usually get statements of support from their team colleagues, which has quite an impact during

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