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by objclxt 5y ago
> the cigarette companies responded by a smear campaign, disinformation and panic, that was then used to regulate in a way that benefited only the cigarette companies That and the cigarette companies just bought into the industry. Altria
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by objclxt 5y ago
> Copilot acts like a search engine, you search, you find, then you judge. OK, but that’s not how GitHub position it: “Your AI pair programmer” “Skip the docs and searching for examples” They literally say it’s not a search engine!
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by objclxt 5y ago
For the most part, but had a soft spot for sushi. I used to work in Infinite Loop and remember when Steve’s favourite sushi restaurant closed so the chef was hired to work in the canteen instead.
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by objclxt 5y ago
> For millions of years, humans ate ruminant animals who’s herds they followed around, and almost nothing else. This is just wrong. Nearly all archeological evidence suggests humans were hunter-gatherers. They hunted (meat) and they gath
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by objclxt 5y ago
There isn’t a correlation between graduating from Stanford and being able to write secure code. If there was, all black-hats would be coming from Ivy League schools. They’re not.
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> There's a group of firms that are very picky with their hires (FAANG, HFT) that every recruiter in London will mention to you if you are a dev. Knowing which ones actually know these hiring managers is hard. They all claim to have
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by objclxt 5y ago
> At best I can believe that fixing it was intentionally deprioritized. Firefox is (depending how you measure it) 3-7% of the total browser market...if you have a bug that impacts Chrome and a bug that impacts Firefox and have to pick on
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> They’re actually pretty great, lossless CDs aren't lossless unless the material was recorded at or below 16 bit/44.1kHz. You can argue whether the difference is perceptible - some blind studies suggest not - but this fact i
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> Specialist doctors are not staying late on a Friday or working the weekend This isn’t true. Obstetricians work 24 hour shifts as standard. Babies don’t get born 9-5. If you come into the ER on a Friday night with severe brain damage y
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> at Facebook the general hiring process is in two steps. There’s a centralized hire/no hire that most people are aware of and then a second phase where team selection happens This is not quite how it works. I was a hiring manager a
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by objclxt 5y ago
> Similar corruption exists today. It is inevitable. OK, so if it's inevitably why hasn't this happened to the creative unions in Hollywood like SAG, WGA, the DGA, and the PGA?
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> Show me a well run union in the USA where they successfully compete against union union workers, their industry isn't being shipped overseas, and workers can optionally participate without having wages garnished. Writers Guild of
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by objclxt 5y ago
From what I can tell, a lot of people in tech are anti blue collar union, but mistakenly assume that blue-collar unions are all unions. For example, just in the replies to your comment people are saying they dislike unions because they
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by objclxt 5y ago
> they've silenced the second-most voted for President in American history, because he isn't their brand of politics 1. The second - and third, for that matter - most voted for President is Obama (69.5 and 65.9M votes). Trump i
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by objclxt 5y ago
> The more leverage you have as an individual, the less relevant a union is for you. If this was true, why are the highest paid and in-demand stars and directors in Hollywood all still dues paying members of their unions?
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by objclxt 6y ago
> The idea that a todo app is a capital intensive business is laughable It’s not just the building of the app that’s capital intensive - it’s the customer acquisition cost. A highly capitalised startup with a war chest can afford to spen
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by objclxt 6y ago
> one could build an Uber/Lyft for under $1M and basically can operate with two or so devs fixing issues This is fundamentally untrue, although you hear it a lot here. I have to wonder whether the people who think this have actually
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by objclxt 6y ago
It’s also a little misleading because Facebook includes Portal (its smart home devices) as part of AR/VR. Plus you have all the other HW and OS teams that other companies like Google and Apple would account for elsewhere, since Faceboo
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by objclxt 6y ago
> because of the predominant "fuck it" attitude: don't learn the customs, don't speak the language, don't put down roots, and don't interact with locals [...] when you bring in a junior software engineer&#x2
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by objclxt 6y ago
I was quite young and inexperienced at the time, and it turned out I was actually underpaid for the role. I ended up leaving after about six months. That being said, there’s very little income tax in Saudi, so yes - you can be paid well. I
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by objclxt 6y ago
> King Abdullah University of Science and Technology near Jeddah (new world-class university with the best brains money can buy, except it's not) I don't often get the chance to tell this, but I was - through a series of strang
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Before Deliveroo (and similar) services many local restaurants could only be reached by actually visiting them and eating them. The counterpoint to this is that one of the more profitable parts of Deliveroo's business is to do awa
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> will make it marginally impossible for new drivers to be accepted One thing worth noting is that the UK is already a little different from the US, because Uber drivers are required to have a private hire license issued by the city wher
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This definitely isn't the only post you'll need to read, because it doesn't talk at all about the behavioural interview. Which at Facebook is actually one of the most important factors in terms of job levelling. The more
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by objclxt 6y ago
When I talk to colleagues in tech about unions I hear a lot of misconceptions, seemingly based in stereotypes about what unions are for and who they serve. People often seem to think of unions as being purely blue-collar operations, and thi
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Why? Many successful companies are fully unionised. How many people creating content at Disney do you think are card carrying members of a union (the answer: nearly all of them).
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That’s a rather naive way of looking at how corporations work. If you’re the head of marketing and go to the CFO and say “hey, we found a way to get the exact same results we currently get but at half the cost” you can bet you will be rewar
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Facebook uses “Integrity” as a friendly synonym for abuse / spam / illegal activity. For example, it avoids them actively having to say they have a “fake accounts team” (which would in turn indicate they have a fake accounts probl
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Internally obviously Netflix et al have all the metrics they need, and goal on things like minutes watched and completed watchings. Externally, there are companies like Nielsen that attempt to derive ratings for steaming media (via surveys,
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Information control is no different from border control. Well, no, it's quite different. A border can be controlled, information cannot. East Germany could stop people crossing the border to West Germany (at least, those who weren

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