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by rb2k_ 9y ago
> Sam Altman runs YC now and as of last year was apparently seriously considering running for governor of California. That strikes me as grandiose and not good for society Arnold Schwarzenegger was the Governor of California. At least as
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
Keep in mind that the quarterly earnings report was 9.32 billion USD. That is approximately 100 million a day. I'd say downtime at that scale is important. Also: People tend to call the police: http://time.com/3071049&
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
Facebook has a "dead code society" t-shirt for these kind of single commit delete numbers as well :)
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
I moved from Stuttgart to the US 5 years ago. I am always delighted to come back and see that I need less and less cash. It blew my mind when even Aldi and Lidl jumped on the credit card train. Looking forward to the day when I can visit Ge
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
From what I recall there were quite a few, most of them discontinued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Wallaby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumway_(software) https://en.wikipedia.o
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
LinkedIn has a PDF export and I see plenty of exported LinkedIn profiles when doing candidate interviews. Seems to work for a lot of people.
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
There are tons according to http://www.wordmine.info/Search.aspx?slang=de&stype=words-wi... FRAKTIONSZWANG FREIHANDELSZONE KONFISZIEREN [...] A lot of them are combined, but still quite a few 'regular' ones
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
> Even our Google Wifi access points don't support IPv6 in their latest firmware They actually rolled IPv6 support out with their latest firmware. I'm at sea at the moment, so I can only find the play store note: https:/&
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
I recently built a NAS with 4x 4TB 2.5 inch drives
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Having done interviews at a few of time, I'd say that's mostly false, at least for the last 2-3 years. As far as I can tell, there's always a pre-defined pool of questions. Some of them are pretty 'open ended', but
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
It should probably have been titled "The Utter Uslessness of Unstructured Job Interviews", because that's the kind of interview the author criticizes. In my personal experience, structured interviews can be very helpful in de
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I would guess that those are the 'normal' site visits for H1Bs that happen every now and then and somebody didn't understand what those are. I know several people that had them over the last few years. Standard procedure to m
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Since the post mentions performance as one of the main problems, it seems kinda strange to defend the Mac Pro. The trashcan Mac Pro has very outdated Xeon E5620 CPUs and it doesn't seem like there's a lot of upgrades in the pipeli
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Ha, I thought that was a joke. Apparently not: https://blog.imgix.com/2015/05/08/racking-mac-pros-hardware-...
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Oh, super interesting. My mother has macular degeneration and the only thing they even said was possible so far is injections with Eylea, Lucentis or Macugen. I guess she manages currently, but it's interesting to see that there are ot
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
They had macular degeneration which usually can be slowed down or stopped while there's a bit of vision left. Now they're at "no light perception". Considerably worse.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
That is usually how all companies at that scale release code (at least the ones that I know of). Only that it's not 365 groups, because at the size of FB that would be several million people.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
> One of the basic premises of anti-immigrant policies is that you can somehow influence the ratio of "useful" vs "not-useful" immigrants. I think there is a very strong correlation to 'documented' vs '
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
A lot of them already are: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=open+compute+server
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
You pay money, they process it in 2-3 weeks or you get your money back.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Usually everyone achieves 100% of the bonus. Good performers more than that. It's not part of the 'base', but it's almost a certainty that you'll get it.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
At least with the 'big' valley companies, as a "senior engineer" (level 5) the usual numbers are around $170k base + a bonus that is 10%-20% of your base salary. That's about $200k cash without RSUs. So I'd say
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
At Facebook you can usually chose which team you will join after bootcamp, so asking to be interviewed by your future manager is a bit of a problem.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I doubt anyone actually correctly measured this without giant amounts of residual confounding. (As usual with most social sciences) That being said: I am having a better time compared to sitting in a 1-2 person office room. So for me it&#x2
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Lots of people. There are some cozies (Think 4 thick curtains and a few sofas inside) or walls with meetings rooms between every 4-5 rows of desks. Also: nobody really takes calls from their desk. If you want to do a VC call, you get a conf
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I seem to be the odd one out in that I actually enjoy an open office setup. I've had both and I feel there's so much more collaboration happening in an open office. I almost see it weekly that there's a LOT of learning throug
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I'm afraid not, my knowledge is all 2nd hand (wife is scientist) :)
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Isn't Mendelian Randomization prone to pleiotropy? I've never understood how people can control for that without a complete understanding of the genome.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Zuck's answer: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103427714244971
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I wonder how much of that can be compressed for transfer and storage.

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