lhorie

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by lhorie 5y ago
Sure, but what you're saying can be be interpreted both charitably and not. The charitable interpretation is for scenarios like focus wrap-around in modals. It's possible to navigate by tabbing over focusable elements hidden beh
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> Test accessibility with keyboard One very simple step a dev can take is to just `tab` over their pages and check that important elements (links, buttons, etc) receive focus. Especially if they toggle something on the page via JS. If so
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by lhorie 5y ago
"It's hard" doesn't generally fly as an excuse; it certainly won't in court. If you're a web developer, accessibility is part of the job. If you're not, you can buy that expertise either by using a SaaS or
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Well, if we're going to talk about edge cases, I also see the opposite: people who are allegedly at EM or staff levels coming in for phone screen interviews and only getting a recommendation to move forward at senior level. One thing t
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> Career ladders generally don't support that kind of progression I can't speak for the generality of edge cases as I don't have that much experience with them, but from my limited experience, that's not what I see. I
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I don't really understand the argument about inflexibility to deviations. The article you linked to acknowledges the type of workers you talk about: > the official word was most employees should never expect to get past Senior Engin
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I mean, generally speaking, the implication is that each level is demonstrably able to do everything that the lower levels can, and that levels broadly indicate organizational impact (note: not to be confused with customer impact). A ML p
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A cynical take is that armchair architects who talk as if they can build Uber in a weekend are more likely to be junior than distinguished/fellow engineers
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I mean, I think you kinda need to look at historical context too. Traditionally, "leadership" meant managing people pretty much exclusively. What is colloquially referred to as the "IC route" is a relatively new way of r
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Teachers typically specialize in a single subject and tests are multi-disciplinary. The subjects can range from literature to chemistry to history to physics. As in, you have to be at the top of the pack for literature questions even if you
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I'm not from India, but the country where I'm from also has universities with highly competitive admission exams. The "crazy tough exams that determine your life" thing is a very specific form of tunnel vision that does
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My understanding is it was an all-hands-on-deck, divide-and-conquer thing. The big brand cram schools had literally hundreds of teachers whose only jobs was preparing students for admission exams. They could easily have each question solved
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by lhorie 5y ago
"Surgical" doesn't necessarily mean invasive. It's most likely a procedure similar to rhinestone implants[0]. As for why they use a 1-way device: this method of cheating has been around for decades; you get someone to ta
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by lhorie 5y ago
I can't comment on the safe ride fee as it predates my tenure at Uber (i.e. we're talking about stuff from 5+ years ago), but from what I'm gathering, it does appear to have been a BS fee. I'll acknowledge that there was
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Have you considered looking into statistics? As in, have you noticed how nobody's talking about the Uber drivers who pull in 100k+ per year? Or consider we're literally just taking a quote at face value here without questioning wh
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> If they still insist on saying drivers are independant contractors, none of their whining about "tragedy of the commons" is anybody's business You're confusing things a bit. Uber itself doesn't "whine&quot
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I'm not personally on any mission to "convert" anyone. If you don't care about an insider's perspective as a data point for informing your opinions, that's totally up to you. I'm merely pointing out the ir
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> The solution for the $5, 45min ride that comes out of the driver's pocket is to guarantee the trip price covers a profit for the driver and let the rider choose if it's worth it. But that would mean fewer trips and lower guar
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by lhorie 5y ago
I work at Uber. Opinions are my own. Etc. Here's my two cents: people in the company are acutely aware of this problem. Insiders legitimately want drivers to have flexibility without fear of penalties, and there are some major projects
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Easier to roll out, is my guess.
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One step further, don't start a conversation with "X is broken, can you help me fix it?" Tell me what you did so far, actual behavior and expected behavior. Pragmatically speaking, I get a lot of coworkers asking questions (l
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by lhorie 5y ago
There are always lots of over-entitled loud people at FAANG/friends when it comes to conversations about compensation. At one point, my company was rated as one of the highest paying companies on levels.fyi, and people were still compl
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Yes, they are. Typically raises are annual and increase pay by 2-5%
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Got a 4% raise here. AFAIK, none of the big tech companies are doing comp adjustments based on inflation. They never did, they never purported to, and they never will. From my observations, employees are particularly antsy about this comp c
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I interview SWE candidates at a big tech company. I've been the freelancer guy, I've been the senior SWE guy, I've been the architect guy. But feel free to take what I say with a grain of salt. Frankly, you do you. Companies
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Technically, they "work" in both scripts and modules, they just work differently in each case. This is valid Javascript that returns true if running in script mode or false if running in module mode: const isScript = (x = tr
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California weather is very forgiving even if you account for places like Tahoe. AFAIK, none of the self driving companies have much experience with scenarios like New York in winter.
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Both my kids went to montessori-style preschools. If I had to attribute development of curiosity and creativity to something, I'd attribute it almost entirely to inherent personality rather than education: my two kids could not be more
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React also requires that you call functions to trigger rendering (be it via setState or `[, setFoo] = useState()`) and it definitely has warts that trip people up too (e.g. semantics of calling setState twice synchronously). The dependencie
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> react is fundamentally about 'inputs changed, render this' I mean, pretty much all frameworks these days have that fundamental declarative model, react wasn't particularly innovative on that front (e.g. the declarative m

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