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Lots of people take useful parts of the functional paradigm without bringing in the whole shebang. Javascript being at the top of the list of languages in that page is a good hint at how people use it: things like Array.map are often used i
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The estimation algorithm doesn't seem to perform very well on outliers. I tried "senior software engineer" for my company in San Francisco and the salary estimate came out as half of what levels.fyi would've reported (ne
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Isn't that a bit of a false dichotomy? GP is specifically calling out that self driving technology has limitations (and specifically as they pertain to car accidents being edge cases in the first place). Self driving tech hasn't p
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While we're in the topic of impressive technological achievements, it's probably also worth mentioning how crazy it is that just a few decades ago, Deep Blue running on a supercomputer was the state of art in chess analysis, and n
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FWIW, in the earlier days of lichess, IIRC when it had barely broken the Alexa top 10,000 threshold, lichess ran on like 2 boxes despite serving millions of users. There's a good chance that many AWS slinging devs here have not actuall
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> I don't know what he's actually called in english His english name is Captain Fray (a name that was presumably carefully chosen in order to avoid the need for redrawing his shirt, which has a big F on it)
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> The art and the stories come first Yes, this can't be emphasized enough. I mentioned inclusivity to weave a narrative, and although one could argue that more recent characters like Luca are more of the checkbox-ticking variety,
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A discussion of Portuguese Rs wouldn't be complete without at least a mention of Jimmy Five[0] (aka Cebolinha), a character in the Monica's Gang cartoon. > Due to dyslalia, Jimmy Five is incapable of pronouncing the letter &quo
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One needs to be especially careful with adapting experience to interview questions. Unlike the candidate, you probably were already immersed in the problem domain for months or years and have good context in what techniques exist and are re
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Yeah, that is one of those claims that sound nice in theory but kinda come crashing down when rubber meets the road. Companies do in fact engage in a process of getting someone in and doing an actual job, they're called internships. Th
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I interview candidates at a company with a relatively high volume of interviews and I use DSA criteria in my interviews. But here's what I do: - I phrase the question in a way that has some semblance of day-to-day relevance. That is to
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The point that kinda got lost here is that outside of the big tech circles, equity packages are basically non-existent. So, whereas in, say, Google Canada, you might make CAD 150k salary + 100k equity, in CGI[0], you might only make a CAD 1
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Keep in mind that in conversations about big tech compensation, the baseline is typically Bay Area salaries. This is the area where you can find the most public info on (e.g. levels.fyi). In my specific case, I'm talking about Toronto,
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A good way to approach these opportunities is to understand the nature of the opportunity pool. Perhaps the most famous resource on this topic is a video about trimodal compensation distribution by Gergely Orosz[0] (a former Uber engineerin
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> I'd rather the guy who made the original rather than an app cloning team in China or some bay area tech bro My two cents is don't think too hard and just enjoy the game. Let it be. Que sera, sera. Isn't it said in startu
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> We all have to make the choice between prioritizing creature comforts and freedom. Of course, this starts from the assumption that work is inherently an undesirable activity and that conversely, pleasurable activities are incompatible
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I wouldn't go as far as say they're incompatible; I'm sure it's doable. But there's a pretty big difference in believability between the claim that "engineers are much more likely to be FIRE people, to the exte
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I haven't really seen a whole lot of evidence that there's any stronger correlation between FIRE and engineers compared to other jobs (in fact, many FIRE blogs are from non-eng people). And conversely, there's plenty of engin
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I would posit that the OP underestimates the impact of his second point: remote-first in a covid world opened up a large swath of opportunities to get very large total compensation bumps everywhere. I'm part of a slack group comprised
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I had a problem once but it turned out to be the restaurant's fault (they accepted my pick-up order, marked it as picked up and closed for the day before I got my food - all of this in the span of ~10 mins). I submitted a complaint via
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Kind of a toss up. Doordash has more market share in US but UberEats has wider international presence and is a leader in some markets. But yes, Uber acquired Postmates at one point and is now rolling out a subscription program called UberOn
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The first sentence in your first link links to an announcement saying this: > Android has always allowed people to get apps from multiple app stores. In fact, most Android devices ship with at least two app stores preinstalled, and consu
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s/Uber/Costco/ to see a better example: an iOS app is at best a minor convenience to an average costco member. Almost all costco customer acquisitions are through word of mouth / brand recognition and the vast majority o
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For startups, the advice is specifically given in the context that cheap customers are often "high maintenance", whereas deep-pocketed customers w/ accounts payable budgets provide more reliable income streams with less drama
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> from apps on their platform More like apps that also happen to use iOS as a frontend in addition to other funnels/marketplaces. Costco is one of the examples cited, and I frankly didn't even know that they had an app even tho
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> For example, in the bay area, parking in SF is difficult to say the least and usually in paid garages I think it's useful to consider that SF downtown parking is - in the grand scheme of things - an exception, not a norm. As it tu
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It's not an either-or proposition. There's a spectrum of things that are supported to varying degrees by various browser platforms and a spectrum of degrees of caring about compatibility. On one end of the spectrum, you might have
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> The new house on the split lot has a sale value of $1.5M Maybe I'm just not understanding this right, but does this mean that that example house which currently is estimated at a $1.3M value would be split into two, each with a ma
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You need to look at things relative to something that makes sense in the context of the conversation. Obviously, it's better to be a barista in LA than a starving kid in a war zone, but the context here is that we're talking about
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Just doing your well-paid job until a comfy retirement, taking regular vacations throughout the years and overall just having a normal boring happy life also falls under this umbrella.

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