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by kenhwang 6y ago
Definitely not for a large percentage of people. Just a significant percentage of the IC engineering workforce. Especially the digital nomad types. People with kids aren't going to relocate their family internationally unless they alre
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by kenhwang 6y ago
If your company can operate on EST, yeah, the hours almost work out. Lines up even better on India Standard Time. For PST, central Europe is perfect. 6pm-2am workday is pretty doable.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Even better. Play during the day, work at night. ~Most~ Many engineers prefer that.
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Latest version of both. I figured any of the video recording capable DSLRs likely would work fine and gave it a shot.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Canon did too! Definitely a huge upgrade over a typical webcam. I'm using my old T1i which can be had for less than $50 these days, plus you can pick up a 18-55mm kit lens for like $20 and the video quality blows away any webcam, espec
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by kenhwang 6y ago
More importantly, they need to understand legacy support and deprecation. AWS and MS have seller track records on backwards compatibility and EOL policies, while Google's feels worse than a garage startup at times.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I say "multiple specialties". Seems to be received extremely well.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Some of my most complicated problems were solved while I was at the gym or hanging out with my dog in the park. It's nice to just have peace to think.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Even on my hard searches, Google gives me a bunch of useless SEO and ads. It's like we're past peak search and we're slowly going to stop being able to find things on the internet.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Our AWS account manager emails a personalized curated list like this every month. It's quite nice.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The problem is having people conduct whiteboard interviews without actually understanding what the whiteboard interview is looking for. 10x engineers tend to be force multipliers not because of their technical skills, it's due to their
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by kenhwang 6y ago
That's why it has been standard practice for Presidential candidates and aspirants to release taxes and other financial disclosures before elections, and why it was such a big deal that Trump didn't.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I'd say that's more credit to Scala than the norm for most typed languages. Scala is an insanely productive language if you're up to speed on it.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I doubt it with multiple large manufacturers discontinuing cheaper cars and continuing to push up market. If there was a market for cheaper cars, there wasn't enough demand to be sustainable. Lightly used cars have become far better va
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Is it standard practice to carry around the keycard? Most owners I know don't bother. So this could potentially strand them unexpectedly but I suppose that's the same for any other car if you lose your keys (but at least not losin
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Considering the average transaction price of a new car is $39k now, $35k is right in line with what the market can bear.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
There was a study suggesting the strongest social mobility influence granted by an university education is really just the proximity and opportunity to network with the wealthy on even grounds more than the education itself. So by having a
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by kenhwang 6y ago
If you fail out Timmy, he has to pay for tuition again thus paying for even more students. Or just charge the 10x upfront + normal tuition/year after that.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Same experience at my UC. Popular/impacted major courses aren't even allowed to curve up (only down). The universities will defend the reputation of their top majors by aggressively filtering out people not meeting the bar. It&#x2
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by kenhwang 6y ago
1 for 1 isn't worth it, and the UC system already plays that game with international students where one international pays for 3 in-states. Make the buy-in price pay for 10 and I'm in support.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
If I'm calling a meeting, I'm sending out the agenda and meeting notes and expect the same of meetings I attend (and decline if there's no agenda sent beforehand). Plus side is it really cuts down on pointless meetings since
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by kenhwang 6y ago
As a person maintaining multiple Rails codebases approaching a decade in age: RoR just bitrots incredibly fast and its really difficult to catch or update. With each new version of RoR gems just stop being compatible without replacement, an
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Every Google product I've used has had hilariously awful recommendations. For a company that has so much of my data and indexes the entire internet, it sure is surprising how bad they are at recommendations.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
It's never actually useless code, it's the code that is _almost_ there. Then there's the whole political dance where one team still uses it because the replacement isn't quite the same and now you're solving some ob
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by kenhwang 6y ago
For me, it's either the core or foundational part of the most important projects to the company, or, one liners followed by a paragraph of comments in some tricky/obscure part of a codebase no one has looked at in a while.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The level above lead/senior.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
So glad the term "hopes and dreams" was used. That's exactly how I describe half my staff level role. I move mountains to enable and materialize "hopes and dreams", or I destroy them without a sliver of doubt, in eq
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I've been encouraging my team (parents or not) to just take time off. The singles are suffering from essentially cabin fever given their typically smaller living accommodations and now missing social support. The parents are distracted
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Agreed, seems like Nvidia is preemptively trying to fend off AMD with an extreme show of force. This level of performance/pricing is much higher than even AMD's most optimistic estimates for performance/efficiency gains for t
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by kenhwang 6y ago
It's one thing to be unfair when the government is footing the bill, like basic income or tax brackets. It's a good incentive to balance out rising cost of living. It's another when it's small businesses footing the bill

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