quantumofalpha

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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
You meant STEM OPT? H1B masters pool only marginally improves H1B lottery chances, which are far too low today to begin with.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Even in California you have to worry about that, should your project Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or developme
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Not even say for $500k+ TC per year (not unreasonable today from faang)? Copyright for all pre-existing stuff stays with you, the question is just who gets IP rights by default to all the new stuff (including commits to existing projects) t
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
> What position do you have to be in at Google to be able to upload your side projects to "google.com/X"? Software Engineer. You just need to pass code review to make such a change - convincing people reviewing it would be
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Some of big tech are so big and dabble in so many things, that it's not unlikely that some part of your project competes or relates to some part of employer's business, enough to cause IP problems. The process, at least as Google,
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
At one of previous gigs we had weekly newsletters organized and edited by our VP. Besides org-wide news it typically featured 1-2 freshly written in-depth articles about some piece of our system or project by engineers who worked on it. An
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
You can test if a processor is GenuineIntel or AuthenticAMD or something with cpuid eax=0 and act accordingly. So no problem whatsoever if AMD uses it for something else.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
For compatibility with something? From a quick googling probably this thing - https://software.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/e...
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
How would that explain 50% yoy increase that the article mentions? Number of active iphone users seems to grow a lot slower than that.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
My bet would be on self driving car data. I interviewed a while ago at their special project group (the car) and come to think they did mention they made a heavy use of commercial cloud providers...
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Early retirement
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
What do you hope to get out of masters? After a few years in the industry employers stop caring much about your school and degree (unless it's PhD, that sticks for life). Work experience is a lot more valuable than another degree.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Titles don't mean much without knowing the type of company that assigned them. Every second guy is a VP at a bank - it means merely something like 'senior SWE' in banking, often you wouldn't even have any reports. 5yoe i
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
That's merely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
> Are there any open source licenses that explicitly forbid use when training an AI? Github/OpenAI's defense is "training ML systems on public data is fair use" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
That's the theory but it isn't that trivial to measure engineer's productivity, especially in small +/-20% range we're talking here. We aren't like bricklayers where you can directly and precisely measure the o
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
From what I've seen, it's mostly not based on time in big US tech companies for salaried full-timers. Nobody cares if you put 20, 40 or 60 honest hours a week into a project. Ultimately, visibility and impact of your work is wha
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
I've seen a fair share of googlers who work 4 days a week and getting 80% of the pay. Most prefer to get 100% of the money though, especially since at review time you're judged on what you accomplished, not raw butt-in-the-seat ti
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
You probably confused it with continental europe - there education in public universities in many countries still is extremely cheap or free. UK on other hand is like light version of US.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Not sure about technical details for that but perhaps something like https://vitess.io/docs/reference/features/vitess-sequences/ . Vitess itself is a project that grew out of YouTube's needs to scale
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Yes, exactly. Video ID is just a base64'ed DES-encrypted primary int64 video key from MySQL. It used to be sequentially incremented until at some point they switched to randomly generated primary keys. Any (ex-) engineer who snapped a
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
And they did! At least in California, that's the news here. Overleveraged people got a lesson but will be made whole it seems. And every houseowner massively profited from house prices appreciation. What more can you ask for? Have your
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Depends on company, but most of those with RSUs generally give you every year refresher grants, each with another 4 year vesting schedule, so long as they are happy with your performance. Thus, if your initial grant was G0 shares, and refre
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Non-paying tenants is just a short-term problem and you can put a dollar amount on it. It's not the worst thing that can happen to a property. People with deeper pockets than you and able to wait it out would still buy with the right d
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
It's longtail-ish but there could be a number of other reasons why you might not be able to rent out a property for many many months.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Renting out houses is not a risk-free business. Risk materialized and hit people who took way more than they could chew. But I doubt most of them are really "crippled" in light of crazy price appreciation on the other hand. They m
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
US tech companies are generally no longer interested in bringing foreigners from abroad on H1B - it's mostly dominated by indian body shops today. Wage levels rule changes might change this status quo but it's not in effect yet. C
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
maybe you got a dvd
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
More like no arrests that they could talk about, but it's not unheard of for governments to launder the evidence until it's more admissible in court ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction )
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
It's mostly C++ or Java (& other JVM languages) in high class finance, some python and verilog for their niches. The article is about the odd one out firm that has its own rather unique stack. It essentially says so at the end - &q

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