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by raz32dust 4y ago
How do you know that? I don't disagree that many projects are futile. But it is usually only apparent in hindsight, and humans are very good at justifying their own jobs and by extension, their team's jobs.
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by raz32dust 4y ago
I think you are describing all big tech companies. But what's the solution? I think it's just a result of having a large org. 20% of the org delivers 80% of the value. But when risk appetite is high and the company can afford to t
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by raz32dust 4y ago
Thing is, everyone's value system is different. What is busy work for one person can be satisfying for someone else. So the bottom line is to do work which you derive value from. If you are working on a team of 100 people working on a
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by raz32dust 4y ago
This is such a gross simplification. First, even people who you follow might post both wanted and unwanted content, and the platform will be more useful if it can somehow show me the things I want to see. Second, it overlooks content creato
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by raz32dust 4y ago
Wow, that's eye-opening as an Android user and helps to put the anti-tracking initiative into strategic perspective. Apple is leveraging user trust to claim that it's ok for them to track users, not not ok for anyone else.
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by raz32dust 4y ago
Engineering at FB/Google has not shown any dearth of innovation, even recently. The premise is just wrong. [1] https://research.facebook.com/publications/ [2] https://research.google/pubs/
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by raz32dust 4y ago
It's hard to draw the boundary. We could say that AI should only be given access to exactly the same information that humans have access to. But AI will have magnitudes more memory and compute resources. So for example, an AI could onl
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by raz32dust 4y ago
What you are saying doesn't make sense UNLESS there is a monopoly. Let's say it costs Ford $10k to manufacture the car. Let's say their average profit per car is $2k, and the dealership gets $1k on average - which means that
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by raz32dust 4y ago
Why would a fixed, online price end up being higher on average than what someone paid after haggling at a dealership. If anything, it should be lower because of (1) Reduced overhead, and (2) It is more closer to a free-market due to more tr
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by raz32dust 4y ago
MySql/Postgres? What am I missing?
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by raz32dust 4y ago
Didn't mean to discount communication issues. They are definitely a blocker for growth and impact. The best engineers I worked with had these issues, but worked on them and improved over time to increase their impact.
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by raz32dust 4y ago
If by 10x, you mean engineers that add 10x more value compared to an average engineer in the team, then from working 10+ years in the industry, it is abundantly clear to me that 10x programmers exist, and a good team is likely to have 5-10%
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by raz32dust 5y ago
Lot of people in the comments are recommending the Economist for a monthly/weekly digest. Any complimentary journals or magazines that can provide a slightly different perspective?
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by raz32dust 5y ago
This is purely anecdotal and goes against all data. A simple search for "Are speed limits effective" will show you tons of past experiments. Safe speed limits, when enforced, are highly effective in reducing accidents and fataliti
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by raz32dust 5y ago
Meditation is a tool. I don't understand how anyone can claim that a tool is powerful enough to alter your mind or body can only have positive effects. Of course, any such tool can also alter your mind or body in a negative way, if use
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by raz32dust 5y ago
Who is stopping you from finishing work early and going to to do personal work? I work in a large FAANG-ish company and developers are only expected to complete their tasks - nobody is watching when they clock in and out so you can still wo
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by raz32dust 5y ago
The articles states, "Boeing said the company did not rely on engineers from HCL and Cyient for the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, which has been linked to the Lion Air crash last October and the Ethiopian Airlines di
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by raz32dust 5y ago
(1) If the manager did PIP purely as a way to prevent team transfer, then yes I agree that it is clear bad behavior that should be punished. But I am not sure if that is the case. Say this guy was the lowest performer in the manager's
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by raz32dust 5y ago
I think that will be extremely unfair to the manager who is just acting on stupid company policies. Managers have a very difficult job of walking a tight rope. Why single out one person and ruin their career?
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by raz32dust 5y ago
What would it take for you to accept that people should get vaccinated by law? Or do you think it should just not be mandated ever?
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by raz32dust 5y ago
Curious - why does Youtube not figure out how to outsmart ad blockers? Is it technically not possible to embed ads into the video such that the ad blocker cannot detect it?
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by raz32dust 5y ago
This is not true. I work in a FAANG-like company. Talent shortage is real - we are having to hire entry level grads where we originally wanted experienced candidates. We are even going out of the way to hire candidates from non-traditional
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by raz32dust 5y ago
Amazon is a marketplace. Marketplaces are great businesses if you are early - they have strong network effect, are strong monopoly candidates and are not capital intensive.
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by raz32dust 5y ago
You can still play the games without steam (I often play without internet connection). But of course you'll miss out on a lot of things (multiplayer, achievements etc.) which might be important to you.
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by raz32dust 5y ago
> If you are in AWS, don't pretend that there is a real need for your applications to be deployable to multiple clouds. Isn't the reason people do this to make sure they have leverage in case AWS increases prices in the future?
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by raz32dust 5y ago
Google flights is fantastic. Don't know if it is "the best-designed thing I've ever used", but it is on top of my mind as I just used it yesterday. Google doesn't get enough credit for the things that they did do we
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by raz32dust 5y ago
Taste, by definition, is subjective. Good taste is a matter of knowing your audience and knowing your inventory. If you can use your inventory to create something that your target audience loves, you have good taste. It requires having a gr
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by raz32dust 5y ago
In my experience, meetings definitely feel more productive when at least the key participants have cameras on. So I would not advocate for a "camera off" culture. Instead, something that helps me and might help others - When I am
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by raz32dust 5y ago
I was also curious about this. Looks like it is slightly exaggerated [1] It is 17 degrees Fahrenheit, and the study mentions 8.3 degrees Celsius. A linked follow up study in 2013 was able to reproduce temperature increases between 1 and 6
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by raz32dust 5y ago
It's a sign of the growing inequality and desperation of the 99%. I think space tourism is a nice milestone for mankind. But people are feeling hopeless about their own future - they are not able to see any opportunity in this for them

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