rainyMammoth

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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
This is exactly the point I'm trying to explain to my friends that are outraged that Facebook didn't censor Trump's post. I think Facebook is one of the worst companies out there, but for other reasons. The issue with Faceboo
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I'm baffled as well, especially given how mediocre their website is (and yes I know they have more than just their website). Usually with those type of comments someone replies explaining that we don't get it and that you MUST hav
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Agree with you, I would associate Silicon Valley with Greed and Hypocrisy though.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
You can easily trace stock trades.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
All the DMs would definitely be valuable.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Ethics? You are asking people to study and spend hours working on LeetCode problems for something close to completely useless. On the ethical scale, people that accept to spend hours of their limited life doing so are probably not the ones
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Looking at your history, looks like you work for Google and bought into the cult that you must be great because you passed the interview. maybe the people you know there don't want to admit they spent some time studying questions? Mayb
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I think you are very wrong. Every single software person I know at a FAANG spend multiple weeks studying leetcode style questions. Think about it: you are passing an exam. Why wouldn't you study the questions that you know are going to
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
The only thing that interviewing assess is how good at interviewing the candidate is. I swear that for 90% of the typical software interview loops, someone with some minimal understanding of computer science that spent 2 month studying the
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
that is not bias, but rather a lack of diversity
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Sure you can, but that doesn't change the untold expectation. It puts the work on us to get away from it, and that is no easy!
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Slack. It has become the ultimate annoying piece of software that I feel I always need to check and keep an eye on. There is an untold expectation to always be online. It's using the same mechanism as Facebook to keep you hooked with d
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
To me happiness always comes out from hard challenges. Pushing myself to achieve something that I thought was previously impossible
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I would boycott Facebook for other reasons than them not boycotting Trump ads. Facebook is simply a TERRIBLE company. They make us lose billions of hours and created a mental health epidemic, especially in teenagers that cannot stop compari
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Most devs in bigTechs micro optimize very little things (ie, cogs in the machine). It makes sense only at a scale where those micro-optimization can pay for themselves. I'm not sure how you stay sane working on those micro-issues thoug
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I really don't see how by a wide margin Facebook products can be a net positive to the world. They are a net NEGATIVE and probably by a huge margin (if you could quantify it, probably destroying more lives than a lot of defence contrac
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I know a couple. The answer is simple: Money. Facebook pays way above what other tech companies pay (a 6 year of experience senior engineer in Menlo Park can easily make 600k/year). There is also a sense of pride coming from back in th
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
so you want an office to "escape" your family and daily life? It's sad but I would bet that's the case for a significant amount of parents and husbands.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. The way I understood his argument is that it would remove all the existing social aids such as unemployment benefits, food stamps etc and replace all of those with UBI. This means that eve
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Andrew Yang's argument is that a lot of people already receive some level of help from the state (food stamps, unemployment, etc) which would be transferred to cash instead. So you need to account for those as well.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Interesting argument. Why doesn't a plane fly like a bird? Why don't we have submarines that swim like fishes? (for the sake of clarity, yes I'm being sarcastic to demonstrate how stupid that argument is. Humans have eyes but
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
The only reason rents are not dropping yet is human psychology. Landlords don't want to accept that rents need to go down so they leave it up at the same price even if it means that places go vacant for multiple months. In a perfect ma
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Why don't they revolt by quitting? I know not every employee is able to do that but I'm guessing that at Facebook the vast majority could switch job fairly easily. Once Facebook realizes that they are losing good employees they ar
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Definitely. But as a general trend my money will be spent on more meaningful "things" or experiences and not on the mindless stuff that I used to sometimes spend it on during my previous busy life. What I mean by this is I will bu
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Since I work from home I spend my extra time to cook healthy affordable meals. I barely drive and try to use my bike pretty much everywhere. Having the time to really do what I want gave me the opportunity to spend way less money on "i
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I think you explained it right. Over the last couple of years I started working from home more and more to the point that I'm considering going full remote after this pandemic. The way I see it is an evolution from old-school thinking
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I have a Toyota Corolla to sell you at $100k.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
This sounds like complete bullsh*it. Where does he bring up the subject of Facebook connecting people to the level of addiction? With the only goal of maximizing screen time (and dopamine) to sell more ads? It's not "connecting pe
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
But here you are, letting us know that they have been wonderful sending consultants. It's part PR, part long term customer acquisition
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I still don't get it. Why is there nothing for Womens

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