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by jsolson 11y ago
There's a bunch of shit that's basically pinned to calendar start date that's sort of absurd. Consider this: if you started June 3rd and I started January 3rd, your 2nd anniversary with Amazon would come with full vesting of
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by jsolson 11y ago
Ah. Fair enough; I misunderstood the original post. I will admit to not having paid any attention to the 401k policy while I was at Amazon other than ensuring my employee contribution maxed out each year. Also the parent's assertion th
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by jsolson 11y ago
Amazon's argument, when I was working there from ~2011-2013, was that they had few perks, hard work, but that they paid better than other companies giving employees more freedom to choose what to do with the fruits of their labors. I d
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by jsolson 11y ago
So, I would have agreed with this before I worked there. It's stock, it's done well, great for you as an employee! Amazon has what they call a 'total compensation philosophy'. Basically, if the stock has done really well
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by jsolson 11y ago
> The end result is that practically speaking, a full-time employee will be 100% vested after no more than about 2.5 years, and possibly as soon as 2 years. edit: This is correct under very specific circumstances, which as I call out in
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by jsolson 11y ago
Is it not obvious that you're going to get general-purpose search engines which explicitly do not operate in Europe that exist for the sole purpose of finding information that's been erased from Google under the 'Right to be
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by jsolson 11y ago
This completely aligns with my experience working at Google. I work roughly a 9-5; most of my coworkers do the same. Sometimes I will read e-mail on my phone and triage it, but I never reply. My laptop comes home with me out of habit but ve
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by jsolson 11y ago
You could try Google Pittsburgh; it's almost the midwest :) (I work for Google Seattle, but I grew up in Pittsburgh -- Seattle is definitely more my speed, but I do enjoy a trip home now and then)
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> It didn't occur to me people would stay in Seattle after getting Google jobs. It's actually pretty fantastic.
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Our maker space at Google Seattle (which is not a full on machine shop, although we should have the mill online soon) is explicitly for personal projects only (for liability reasons, I believe, although IANALcat).
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by jsolson 11y ago
Personal preferences will naturally remain personal. There were a bunch of things that felt unfamiliar to me on OS X, but few that felt 'wrong'. Then again, I made the switch back in 2005 or so to a PowerBook G4. Linux was a very
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by jsolson 11y ago
Part of the 'pride' behind being a Linux hacker came from heavily customizing, breaking, fixing, and generally maintaining your dev kit. I have a friend who's taken on a motorcycle rebuild project and I can see a lot of analo
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by jsolson 11y ago
You might consider an Android Wear device. I don't have personal experience with this (I mostly work out on a stationary bike with Netflix), but in theory you can copy up to 4GB of music to the watch and play it back via Bluetooth head
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by jsolson 11y ago
Your argument is too broad for the issue under discussion. What you say may be true, but the fact remains that (regardless of the underlying reason) these other countries agreed to the terms set by the US with respect to copyright, and agre
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by jsolson 11y ago
> uber genuinely expanded the market by reducing friction? Based on personal experience, I would have no trouble believing this (particularly for SF, Seattle, or other cities which lack a dense taxi presence). Prior to Uber's arriva
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by jsolson 11y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google, although on Cloud Platform. I've never spent any time working on ads or anything related to it. That said, I would say yes, I do want targeted ads. When I search for things with the intent of buying somet
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by jsolson 11y ago
Seattle is pretty alright. Substantially cheaper than the bay, no state income taxes, lower sales tax, and competitive comp.
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by jsolson 11y ago
Clearly this review was not written with people like me as the intended audience, as the introductory paragraphs were almost completely incomprehensible to me on my first pass through them. That said, what follows is an excellent argument f
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by jsolson 11y ago
When supporting a service on the scale of say, EC2 and the rest of AWS, one would typically expect follow-the-sun support.
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by jsolson 11y ago
It's not so restricted if you use Managed VMs instead of (or in addition to) the sandboxed App Engine: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/
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by jsolson 11y ago
Hi Joe :) Conveniently, Amin Vahdat recently shared some content publicly about why it should scale to lots of VMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w (And, to others, disclaimer: I work on some bits of GCE netwo
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by jsolson 11y ago
That, in general, is not the behavior I've observed on native hardware. Without getting into hard numbers, I routinely see multiple gigabits/second/core.
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by jsolson 11y ago
Sidebar > Settings > Manage Downloads (at least on Android). I agree that this is sub-optimal, but I think up until recently it was actually impossible unless you started another download and tapped the notification.
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As I understand it they both started at GS15 step 10, which even with the cost of living decrease moving to DC still puts them around half where they were before.
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I know two people who went to do this (and have stayed on past their initial six month terms). I think they're insane, but they are fantastic engineers. Even at the top of the GS pay scale, they're making ~half what they were in t
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by jsolson 11y ago
I do worry about that as well, but that's a much more difficult problem as people's opinions can be damaged by so many things along the way. What works for some people[0] is a disaster for other people. The 'disaster' na
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I have used it, and for what it is I like it rather well. If I was in the business of building real-time systems, I would choose it over Linux in a heartbeat.
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I think we do very well at hiring the sort of people who already work at Google. The false positive rate seems to be very low, and the people I work with mostly seem very happy (I know I certainly am). The false negative rate worries me, th
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by jsolson 11y ago
So, I've witnessed this horrifying thing where someone snaps a photo of, say, the floor, or a blank wall, and then uses the caption line to send their actual message. Packing roughly 60 bytes into 8 megapixels makes me cringe, although
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by jsolson 11y ago
Eh, that's reasonable from Athens, GA (I spent ten years in Atlanta, and have some familiarity with the market in GA). Moving from Atlanta to Seattle doubled my total comp (and definitely did NOT double my CoL). Staying in Seattle and

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