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by morgante 8y ago
If you're using your personal phone to check work email, that strongly implies a business need. Basically all my coworkers have corp phones.
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by morgante 8y ago
> We are looking for a plain, vanilla, ticketing system that someone can respond to. You definitely don't have to be Snapchat-sized to get access to the support console where you open tickets. The base plan is $100/m, which is
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by morgante 8y ago
> I think they weed out a few, but completely ignore practical development skills, work ethic, soft skills, design and architecture skills, etc. Tech interviews are not solely whiteboarding. Even at FAANGs there are system design and hir
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by morgante 8y ago
1-2M is way above market for a "senior dev." Even for the top companies, that tier is reserved for truly outstanding performers who have launched major projects/innovations.
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by morgante 8y ago
> This isn't even that uncommon, I've talked with multiple YC companies that have gone through this and who are now on their way toward being successful. That they are YC companies by definition means they are not solo bootstra
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by morgante 8y ago
Jews have been considered "white" for decades. In modern America, it's generally only neo-Nazis and their ilk who seek to other Jews as being non-white.
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by morgante 8y ago
It is not especially unusual for industry hires (even those with plenty of experience) to come in at T4 for Google. Being productive and effective within Google is an additional skill which is not identical to the outside, so it's a ri
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by morgante 8y ago
That's true, but it's also counterbalanced by strong equity growth over the past few years. A $100k/yr GOOG grant from 2014 is now almost $200k/yr (even ignoring refresh and raises).
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by morgante 8y ago
> For instance, a Google recruiter once told me to spend a few months becoming a Python expert, and then they'd interview me (in Python); Most SWE hires are generalists at Google, not tied to a specific language. Unless you're
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by morgante 8y ago
> I suppose the moral is that all large organisations converge towards bureaucratic processes that waste the time of high$/hour employees and attempt to hinder all not immediately commercialisable progress. All large organizations h
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by morgante 8y ago
> But in most high-end professional fields, that's not true. Many of the top people in other fields also have a strong passion for the field, which came early. Ex. top lawyers usually love the law and many had experience with relate
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by morgante 8y ago
You're right, Access Transparency is specifically for enterprise GCP customers (at least currently).
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by morgante 8y ago
> Are those logs available anywhere? Can users see when Google employees have looked at their dat For Google Cloud, we have access transparency logs which let you see when and why your data was accessed. https://cloud.google.c
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by morgante 8y ago
> I wouldn't want prosecutors to get a cut from settlements, because then they could abusively intimidate defendants for profit. So then prosecutors will refuse to ever settle cases, even when settling is the best choice for all par
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by morgante 8y ago
They used to allow far more data portability/access and that's exactly what got them in trouble (Cambridge Analytica).
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by morgante 8y ago
Effective Altruism is not a single monolithic organization and I think you really go too far to assume all/most advocates think AI research is more important than feeding the homeless. Personally, I wholeheartedly subscribe to effectiv
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by morgante 8y ago
https://www.facebook.com/events/ provides precisely that and is one of the things which makes Facebook such a great platform for events.
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by morgante 8y ago
> as a Chinese national myself, I have not seen a single STEM person who has left the US for China because of immigration reasons. Are you kidding? That happens literally all the time. I personally know tons of Chinese friends who wanted
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by morgante 9y ago
The ability to quickly look up someone's role and teams (+ easy links to talk with them) is hugely valuable in large and growing companies. How are you even supposed to talk to someone if you don't know who they are or that you sh
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by morgante 9y ago
I really hope there are. Solid internal tooling around people ops is sorely lacking at many growing startups.
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by morgante 9y ago
> So why is it registered to your company if it is your personal blog? To deduct taxes? If you are, you must derive business benefit from it. So it is in face not a personal blog. It's not strictly personal, in the sense that I post
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by morgante 9y ago
Explain how you ask the user whether you can get their IP address when any such request requires receiving their IP address. This is draconian legislation which unnecessarily causes many more problems than it solves.
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by morgante 9y ago
Because I fundamentally don't think a random foreign entity should dictate how I manage logs on my personal blog. It's challenging enough to debug issues without having IP issues. I don't even consider a random IP to be PII.
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by morgante 9y ago
Right, I meant it's just as "possible" in the sense of it not really being practically possible.
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by morgante 9y ago
I don't have a login system for my blog.
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by morgante 9y ago
Exactly. I'm not arguing it's impossible, but that it imposes a meaningful additional burden on small operators without any real benefit to privacy. Personally, I don't even think people should have the right to go back and
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by morgante 9y ago
My personal blog is registered to my company. Restaurants being subject to local laws around hygiene makes sense. It would be far stranger for restaurants to be subject to health codes from across the world just because tourists occasionall
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by morgante 9y ago
> My approach is one very much based on risk Mine too. The risk is massive fines, while I currently derive virtually no benefit from my online presence. > On one argument operating a blog is a purely personal activity and so out of sc
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by morgante 9y ago
And that is just as "possible" under the current structure of GDPR.
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by morgante 9y ago
That's precisely the problem and is a clear example of how Europeans value privacy differently. Personally, I think it is a fundamentally important right that I be able to post a blog about how "the_mitsuhiko wronged me" in s

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