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by objclxt 6y ago
> Assembling iPhones is trivial I think it might be you who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Many startups have tried to enter the consumer electronics space because they thought assembly would be “trivial”, only to find that onc
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by objclxt 6y ago
Facebook doesn’t make its money off in-app purchases. Apple isn’t taking a cut of Facebook’s ad revenue. Your analogy really doesn’t hold.
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by objclxt 6y ago
> They spy on their users as much as anyone else (and overall, they have access to much more information than everybody else except Google). This is easily disproven by making a GDPR access request to see what various companies have reta
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by objclxt 6y ago
FAANG hire in Europe. They are not paying drastically different amounts to those European employees. When I relocated from the US to Europe from a FAANG company my salary was market adjusted (about a 25% cut), but RSUs and stock were kept t
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Never knew the numbers were like this. What’s missing from this post is how common it is. E8 at Facebook is extremely rare. I can’t remember the exact percentage when I was there, but it’s around 1-2%. E5 at FB is a terminal level, m
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by objclxt 6y ago
Not necessarily. Bear in mind Facebook's compensation is heavily performance orientated, the bonuses can rack up. You can easily clear $500k at Facebook as a senior engineer, especially if you're getting high evaluations.
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by objclxt 6y ago
I’ve done some work in this space - subtraction doesn’t perform well when other motion is present, whereas if you use pose / body detection you can ignore other bodies in view (i.e, the toddler running across the room).
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by objclxt 6y ago
> it would be more real if there was one actual case of a company or government censuring someone for it. To be clear, this story got legs specifically because California is bringing a case against Cisco for caste-related discrimination.
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Would be curious to understand more how much ROI they're seeing on hardware investments, like in Portal + Occulus. It’ll be negative, both Oculus and Portal are sold at a significant loss. Of course, FB’s perspective is that the p
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by objclxt 6y ago
It depends what you mean by “urban area” - somewhere like Palo Alto, where you’ve got nice big roads and a few turns before getting on the freeway and lots of sun? It’s not too bad, I’ve driven with colleagues there in their Teslas. My curr
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by objclxt 6y ago
We are. This isn’t Level 5, it’s nowhere close to level 5, and calling it “full self driving” is very disingenuous. I say this as someone who very much likes and owns a Tesla.
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by objclxt 6y ago
> only frustrated by Apple giving it Windows support a decade after it's creation. Swift was only publicly announced six years ago.
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by objclxt 6y ago
Phabricator has a quite different (I would say better, others would say worse) development flow philosophy to GitHub/PRs. Phabricator’s preferred model, which is heavily influenced by Facebook, is to forgo feature branches entirely and
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by objclxt 6y ago
Brian Armstrong wants to have it both ways. He wants employees to focus “on the mission”, and not bring societal politics and activism into the workplace. Fair enough. For better or for worse, we live in a capitalist system, and companies a
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by objclxt 6y ago
I have seen this happen firsthand on several occasions at several companies, and it’s a well documented risk vector. You see it for things like username takeovers, and also ad account reactivations. Typically it is not the people with cus
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Hollywood could unionize because no matter how famous no star alone is capable of walking out the door to make a new studio. I don't think that's quite true: United Artists was founded specifically by stars that walked out of
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by objclxt 6y ago
What? They absolutely will make them exclusive. Can you play Halo on the PlayStation? No, for the same reason you can’t play Uncharted on the Xbox. Microsoft will happily support Windows gaming, for obvious reasons. But the PlayStation fo
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by objclxt 6y ago
Should probably be noted this isn’t actually running on a pregnancy test, it’s a pregnancy test plastic shell with a replacement CPU and display.
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by objclxt 6y ago
It’s how “Institute” is inscribed above the main campus buildings of MIT in Cambridge, it’s done in a neo-classical Roman style where “U” is replaced by “V”. Basically it’s an MIT in-joke / reference.
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by objclxt 6y ago
> I'm from the UK and if you spend more than 180(?) days abroad in a tax year you become non-resident which has some implications This isn’t quite accurate. There are other tests that come into play, including whether you own a hous
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by objclxt 6y ago
> The amount of all nuclear waste ever produced takes up about the space of a football field No. Let’s be generous and use a soccer field, which is bigger than a NFL field, at 7,100 m3. There is about 22,000 m3 of high level nuclear wast
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Netflix routes over existing common-carriage infrastructure, and so does not impose any costs on people who don't use Netflix I don’t think that’s strictly true, since the available bandwidth on that infrastructure is not infinite
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by objclxt 6y ago
It’s the same. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all charge 30%. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Meanwhile, the expenses required to host and review these apps are in the tens of millions, not billions of dollars. We know that because we at Telegram host and review more public content than the App Store ever will. That’s some hype
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by objclxt 6y ago
These are tiny satellites, you’re not sending them up one by one. Starlink launch 60 satellites at a time.
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> a basic reading of the AGPL text readily and clearly confirms this fact. But that reading has never been tested in court, so from counsel’s perspective why risk it? No competent lawyer would take the AGPL at prima facie, they’re going
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by objclxt 6y ago
> The 200k Tesla Roadster is expected to have 600 mile range. What ICE car exceeds that? A large number of diesel cars can easily go over 600 miles. The Audi A8 and VW Jetta, to pick two random examples, can go 650+ miles on a single tan
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Don’t hear much about the Surface Hub these days. It’s alive and well? Microsoft released an updated version - the Surface Hub 2S - about a year ago. The intention was this could be upgraded in-situ using a cartridge to become the Su
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by objclxt 6y ago
> And the distribution you desire should be a reflection of your target buyers. You seem to be saying your team should only be as diverse as your target buyers, but your target buyers are often only as diverse as your team. If you try to
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by objclxt 6y ago
That’s not accurate for MIT or Harvard, their is no difference for many of their programs between the financial assistance given to domestic and international students. I was an undergrad at Harvard on an F-1 visa, the financial aid package

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