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by kenhwang 7y ago
I know GSuite is on a whole tier lower standard of support, but man do we have horror stories there. Here's a fun one: One of our engineers needed to send out a couple hundred individual emails to other people inside our company. So, b
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by kenhwang 7y ago
The cafe near my office resells Costco baked goods like muffins and cookies. They primarily do hot breakfast/lunch/sandwiches, but hey, sometimes people just want a cookie.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
We're smack on the frontpage of https://cloud.google.com/customers/ Google is more important to our parent org than Amazon; Google is a strategic partner, Amazon is simply another tech vendor. We might be part of
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I've only noticed it on produce. Fruit and vegetables can be a bit cheaper at the normal grocery store. I assume it's because Costco usually sells those items packaged while the grocery store typically does not. Real example since
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by kenhwang 7y ago
We're owned by one of AWS's biggest clients and we get to straight up request features every other month and have their teams build it for us. We have a few humans assigned to our account that will physically come into our office
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Aw. The best part of E3 was always the decor all the studios do to their booth. Hard to replicate that experience since it's very similar to visiting an art museum. I wonder if the studios will just release the playable demos to the pr
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Lambda and EC2 have the same network bandwidth charge.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Seriously. Something like an AWS nano instance only costs $4/month and can easily handle that many requests an hour with a slow dynamic language.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
To adjust the mask. You won't have direct contact with your hands, but the mask is a better environment for disease than your skin is, so touching it instead of your skin isn't any better.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Adaptive cruise with stop/go and lane centering is a feature offered in many cars now. So it's not like Tesla/autopilot has a unique value proposition there anymore. Mentally, I find auditing the system while it drives way mo
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by kenhwang 7y ago
No one _wants_ Tesla's chemistry. Tesla is the only automaker using the NCA chemistry. Sure, they're improving NCA quite admirably, but every other automaker would rather use and develop NMC. Traditional automakers would rather ha
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I can pretty boldly claim that I can filter out "definitely not". I'd say most interviews can too. There are a handful of companies that do this for you. These are the candidates that can't FizzBuzz or even write a line
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Engineers can't even go through a code review without getting butt hurt. And that's when you're on the same team with mostly the same goal. Usually the blowback to the company hits marketing/legal/HR. Gathering and
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Considering most of the interview is evaluation of soft skills and unique backgrounds there's almost certainly fuzzy basis.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I still give Google shit for the feedback they gave me. Good feedback is incredibly hard to do well.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
In our case, it's not an iron-clad no feedback allowed policy. We're just much more careful about giving it, approval is given on a case-by-case basis. A good typical whiteboard interview naturally includes hints, feedback, and co
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by kenhwang 7y ago
They're getting a prompt, professional, inoffensive response in exchange for their time. That is decency. You can't expect a business to feed the hungry, cure the sick, and house the poor out of the goodness of their hearts becaus
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Interviewing is a business transaction, not social services. They'll min-max their time just like you'll mix-max your compensation. I'll happily give advice, feedback, mock interviews, and other sorts of help on my own time i
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Employee hours. Someone has to collect, document, sanitize, and explain the feedback. Then respond to the response to the feedback. In the time it takes our recruiter to provide feedback to a candidate, they could have sourced 20 more candi
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by kenhwang 7y ago
It's hard work because then you'll have to explain and document the hiring proceedings, then sanitize it before sending out, with content that's actually actionable by the interviewee. What we put in internal candidate notes
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I have a handful of times. They we're quite insightful and entertaining, though mostly not helpful since most of time they were commenting on things that just weren't meant to be. "It is possible to commit no mistakes and sti
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by kenhwang 7y ago
One time we gave feedback on request and the candidate contested the feedback, then went out on a social media rampage. So yeah, we stopped after that. It only takes one bad candidate to make it not worth the effort.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
My biggest confusion learning Chinese when I was growing up was the concept of "orange". I believe orange only became part of the common vernacular fairly recently. But since Chinese words are just a combination of other words, th
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I switch to DDG precisely because I stopped being able to quickly distinguish ads from results in Google. Even the "results" felt like ads. Now when I have to fallback onto Google, the results just feel so spammy compared to DDG.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Plus, the raincoat doesn't mesh well fashion-wise with the suits everyone wears to work and uniforms for school. People dress very well in Japan.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
They're pretty much communal when I visited Tokyo/Kyoto. Pretty much always left the building with a different umbrella than I entered with. Just about everyone uses the same $5-10 black/gray/white/clear umbrella. T
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Do it by channel. Either a channel is approved for children content by a human or it isn't. Then just rereview periodically. There's much less churn in channels compared to the content.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Anonymity? Instead of everyone knowing the exact person working at Google donated to a cause/politician, you only know there might be an employee at Google that did.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Kotlin is more like if Java and Python had a love child. It's clean, simple, quick to pick up, and pretty much retains the behavior of the underlying language.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
We're a Ruby/Python/JS/Scala shop and once people are up to speed the productivity of Scala blows the other three out of the water. It's insanely hard to beat the productivity-performance ratio of Scala.

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