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by jennyyang 6y ago
lol I randomly picked the worst example in the world. But you know what I meant, some country that didn't have English as an popular language. You know, like India! (just kidding!) I just learned right now that Nigeria's official
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by jennyyang 6y ago
An engineer that can't communicate properly is a poor engineer, regardless of their coding ability. I've worked with too many great coders who were terrible at communicating. This includes engineers who were fluent at English. Com
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by jennyyang 6y ago
I'm almost 50, and we did a geography project in grade 5 on Brazil. I still remember a lot about that project, despite a lot of that information being completely out of date now (My instinct is to still say cruziero as the currency of
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What Went Wrong with IBM’s Watson(slate.com)
5 points by jennyyang 6y ago|2 comments
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by jennyyang 6y ago
Technical debt is best understood exactly as the term suggests, like a loan. When you keep incurring more and more loans, you have to pay interest. At some point, the interest payments will get so high that it makes sense to restructure the
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by jennyyang 6y ago
Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him: https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010
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A room, a bar and a classroom: How the coronavirus is spread through the air(english.elpais.com)
11 points by jennyyang 6y ago|1 comments
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by jennyyang 6y ago
I never said all billionaires are geniuses. You are not engaging in a sincere conversation.
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by jennyyang 6y ago
Kalanick is a billionaire, many employees in SF are multi-millionaires, and millions of drivers around the world made a lot of money driving on the platform and continue to do so. I heard in Brazil, Uber helped 300,000 drivers alone make mo
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by jennyyang 6y ago
The genius of Travis Kalanick is twofold: 1) Going global as quickly as possible. He aggressively moved into a lot of countries as quickly as possible with the same formula, and for the most part it worked. 2) He created an entire industry
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by jennyyang 6y ago
It could happen, and you will need to adapt to it. Change happens all the time, and only those that resist change will suffer from it, while those that bend with it will benefit from it. That said, I really don't think remote work will
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by jennyyang 6y ago
Paper suggesting vitamin D might protect against COVID-19 earns an expression of concern https://retractionwatch.com/2020/10/26/paper-suggesting-vita... This isn't a home run yet, even though I would lik
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The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by jennyyang 6y ago|0 comments
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by jennyyang 6y ago
A company's hiring practice should reflect the type of engineer they want to hire. If they want to hire engineers that can start contributing immediately, and they hire engineers that need mentoring, then the hiring process is broken.
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by jennyyang 6y ago
I guess if they can take someone they would not have hired, and then mentored them to become a net-contributor, then the hiring process is broken. You can't really test this without hiring people you wouldn't normally hire based o
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by jennyyang 6y ago
If 85%+ of the people are getting infected with mild or no symptoms, and those most susceptible to death are quarantined (those over 60 years old), then you have a best case scenario where the death rate is around 0.5%. What we need right n
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by jennyyang 6y ago
The thing that companies fail to do is reconcile hiring decisions with performance reviews afterwards. They have a single hiring practice and they NEVER EVER change it, regardless of the quality of the eventual hires. The missing feedback l
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by jennyyang 6y ago
The interesting thing about Sweden is that they are going through a second wave even though they basically didn't do anything to stop the virus. I'm curious what caused the drop in infections and then the subsequent second wave. T
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by jennyyang 6y ago
People in Europe need to keep hammering US companies with GDPR violations relentlessly. At some point, if a company keeps violating GDPR, do the executives become criminally responsible? If not, they should be. I wish the US had something s
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Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy(electrek.co)
204 points by jennyyang 6y ago|219 comments
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by jennyyang 6y ago
> things are going to need to be sacrificed. What a comically cliche and stereotypical error that people keep making. 20 years ago it was the Bush and Cheney saying the same thing. Now its the liberals saying that the "poor, ignoran
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by jennyyang 6y ago
The creator of homebrew flunked a Google interview because he couldn't invert a binary tree. Everyone at Google that he interviewed said they used homebrew and loved it, but ultimately it didn't matter. He couldn't invert a b
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by jennyyang 6y ago
My mom is in a memory ward. The access to visitors is extremely limited. At one point we could only visit through a window to wave hello. Now, visitors are allowed in certain areas. But it's not foolproof and I'm sure if there&#x2
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by jennyyang 6y ago
To a large degree, this makes sense. In the UK, 75% of deaths are people aged 75 and older. I'm not sure if its the same age profile in the US but I would think yes. Even here in the Bay Area, the death rate is about 0.5% for everyone
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by jennyyang 6y ago
The conviction rate is very high, upwards of 85% in some states. So it's not like large swaths of completely innocent people are being held in jails. I'm okay with pre-trial incarceration as long as everyone gets treated equally.
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by jennyyang 6y ago
Why on earth would they pay $300M to have a fiber cable to Chicago? It sounds like they could move all their employees from Chicago to NYC for cheaper!
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Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for(electrek.co)
265 points by jennyyang 6y ago|429 comments
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by jennyyang 6y ago
Does this include bacon etc that are nitrate and nitrate-free? I would think uncured processed meats wouldn't be the same, would it?
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Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down(nytimes.com)
3 points by jennyyang 6y ago|1 comments
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by jennyyang 6y ago
At my previous company, I worked on high impact, very low visibility work. I was working directly with operations teams around the world in order to enable features that needed to be tweaked globally. It was vital for teams in their specifi

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