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by kleinsch 4y ago
Most people who are comfortable riding in traffic are experienced enough at cycling that they can stop without staring at their feet.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Apples and oranges. WhatsApp has tons more than 50 today and operates off Meta’s business. Twitter was 350 a year before the IPO.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
They already paid a multi billion dollar fine for misusing 2FA phone numbers and have insane process to prevent this specific scenario. Way more likely that OP put their phone number somewhere else.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
How do you prevent people from opening a ton of accounts with different risky positions, abandoning the ones that don’t work out, and claiming to be a genius on the ones that top the leaderboard six months later?
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Grades you got on actual schoolwork are a much more obvious predictor. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-22/grades-v...
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Seems like it would be pretty similar to a clarinet or saxophone, which kids learn all the time.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Quality tech journalism as usual. Reporter heard one person at Google (which has 150K employees) memed about something, another sent an email. What do they want? Google to build a VPN into Chrome for incognito? I can only imagine the same a
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by kleinsch 4y ago
You’re full of bad takes today. Morale at a 10 person company decides it. If it took you 49 weeks to realize this was a bad hire, that’s on you too.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
First paragraph is true, but then it veers into silliness. I’ve worked at plenty of companies that do peer feedback and never signed anything. If they want to fire you, peer feedback leads to a PIP which is the actual documentation the lega
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Go outside the SF/HN bubble and try to find people with a negative view of Google. Out in the real world nobody cares about ad tracking. In 2020 I walked around suburban Colorado wearing a FB Messenger hoodie and had multiple people co
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by kleinsch 4y ago
You’re missing the point of the parent comment. News Feed and FB posts are a small fraction of activity in the FB family of apps. Messaging is massively important to billions of people worldwide. WhatsApp or Messenger usage is greater than
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Which is completely fabricated. Quick Google search has 1/366 for every 1000 miles you drive. https://ehlinelaw.com/blog/odds-of-being-injured-car-acciden...
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by kleinsch 4y ago
If you have a risky commit, esp with a three day holiday weekend, you wait to land it until after the weekend.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Your pay is based on the cost to hire your replacement. That’s it. There’s no crazy conspiracies, there’s no moral failing, they’re not running a calculator of how much value you generate. Would it sap your motivation to learn there are pe
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Heavily editorialized headline, like most news coverage of scientific studies. They found that cannabis users answer survey questions about apathy similarly to non-users. And that cannabis users will push buttons for candy similarly to non-
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Which seems more likely? - He’s irrational and crazy and changes his mind on a whim - This whole thing was an excuse to sell a ton of TSLA at the top of the market
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by kleinsch 4y ago
They’re a standard step in disclosures and if you don’t like them you can walk away. If you didn’t choose to read them or waived the right to walk away, that’s your choice.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Google has always recruited and interviewed independently of whether they actually have roles open that make sense for you. Earlier this year, I passed the interview and spent six weeks in "team match" before I gave up and took a
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Everyone who learns to create art has a background in what’s been done before them. I don’t see painters in galleries list everything that’s gone into their education. Song credits don’t have the thousands of albums the creators have listen
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by kleinsch 4y ago
If you're in a detached head state and create a new commit, you have a commit that isn't on a branch. The commit still has a parent, so it's not the branch that's tracking the sequence, it's the commit. Branches are
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Google recruiters will get in touch regardless of whether you have a chance of passing the interview or there’s actually a role open that makes sense. Just went through 6+ weeks after passing their interview where they couldn’t find me a te
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Cool, let's do the solar panel scammers next. I still get multiple calls/week for California solar energy, despite moving out of state two years ago.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Meta used to be able to hire those people, but with their reputation issues and other companies joining them in tier 1 pay, they have trouble getting them now. What they're dealing with is, Meta used to be a very results-based environm
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by kleinsch 4y ago
I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make, other than that these are famous events in engineering. What does a bridge collapsing bc of a structural defect or a software bug causing higher doses or radiation have to do with systems
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by kleinsch 4y ago
States are trying. Move to another state and don’t go back.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Everyone who has data is still doing it, the buzzword just went out of fashion. Now it’s data science, analytics, ML eng. What truly ended is “big data” meaning “we’ll come take your logs and magically transform your business.”
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Interesting article. Purely reacting to the headline, I think a Google employee fell for the effect of wanting to be famous. Big tech companies are having to deal with the reality that in certain areas (integrity, privacy, AI) employees wit
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Half the commenters on this site are under 25. Every topic about parenting / children makes it pretty obvious.
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by kleinsch 4y ago
Come on. This is a tool that has a legitimate purpose - if you buy advertising on FB, you use pixel trackers to find out if it was effective. Did the ad you showed the user lead to them doing the thing you want - buying a shirt, signing up
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by kleinsch 4y ago
I feel like we discuss this once a week/month and it always breaks down to the same things bc of the number 10. - Yes, some engs write code faster than others. 10x seems really high, so therefore 10x engs don't exist. - Yes, some

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