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541.
by rifung 10y ago
As an American living in the US, I feel the same
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by rifung 10y ago
> Since they will "assess" where you fit best. Disclaimer: I work for Google At Google this just isn't true unless we are talking about new grads. After you pass the interviews, you have to do team matching, where you will
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by rifung 10y ago
> These types of posts are worrying to me. Why could this post not have been crafted by someone at Lyft? Or one of Uber's many other detractors? Given the PR nightmare that Uber is in why not pile on while the public seems primed fo
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by rifung 10y ago
> Also, it sets their BATNA as well - how much value they miss out on while working on replacing you. Ah I never thought about that. I don't really get what you mean with respect to more money to get freelancers and such. Isn't
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by rifung 10y ago
I don't think the value you generate actually matters in regards to compensation though. What matters is how easy you are to replace.
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by rifung 10y ago
> Why I am so confident in this answer? 1) I've gotten every one of my jobs through networking (either from meetups or from former coworkers and friends) This doesn't mean people don't get jobs through normal HR means. I&#
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by rifung 10y ago
I use a Thinkpad X1 Carbon for work and when I unplug the external monitor I never know if it's going to sleep or just freeze.
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by rifung 10y ago
Those are very damning accusations. Care to give some examples?
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by rifung 10y ago
Sorry if this is a dumb question but do homeless people fit the description since I'd think they still have to spend time begging?
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by rifung 10y ago
Where are you from? I've always heard "how much do you make" when people talk about compensation. I'm from the US and have lived in California and Washington.
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by rifung 10y ago
How do you know or decide how much you should get paid?
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by rifung 10y ago
According to this article, you'll see some improvements. https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/09/evernote-google-cloud-pl...
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by rifung 10y ago
Do you have any data to back that up? At least when I was a student, I would be pretty unlikely to ask on Stack Overflow because I'd probably need answers quickly and not want to wait for a response, but I don't expect everyone to
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by rifung 10y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with the "tier" as I believe UT Austin used Haskell because of Dijkstra: http://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java MIT has also switched to Python from Scheme
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by rifung 10y ago
What proportion of people asking questions do you think are students vs professionals/other nonstudents? Seeing as most people are only students for 4 years of their life, I would be surprised at how much students contribute to this ch
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by rifung 10y ago
I thought they, or some of them, also only use electric power at low speeds? Doesnt that count as increasing economy?
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by rifung 10y ago
Ah I appreciate the correction.
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by rifung 10y ago
I really don't think so. Someone will see SV real estate prices and make sense of it. Then again, I don't see the Salem Witch Trials as that alien either.
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by rifung 10y ago
I imagine most are not making 300k. Also, like many things Google does, I'm guessing it's partially because scaling is becoming an issue. It takes a while to get a space ready, and it's also not easy to just expand around exi
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by rifung 10y ago
It's a bit unfair to only list the health benefits of beer and the downsides of other beverages. Alcohol is also a carcinogen and even if you stop drinking the effects still lingers for at least 15 years: https://www.cancer.
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by rifung 10y ago
> Unless Amazon really fucks something up, Walmart will never be able to attract the tech talent that Amazon does. Nobody wants to work for Walmart. Disclaimer: I am probably biased because I used to work for Amazon I'm not sure I a
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by rifung 10y ago
I don't think anyone is assuming they can't be wrong. I think it's more that the post said this was a bad move "with authority" when you don't have all the information unless you actually were involved with tha
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by rifung 10y ago
I believe it's because research supports the idea that greater diversity leads to a better workforce. For example, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ekaterinawalter/2014/01/14/reapi... There have bee
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by rifung 10y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Google (opinions are my own) How would the people filing the lawsuit know whether Google didn't hire them due to their age or for other reasons? I see posts all the time about people complaining they didn't g
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by rifung 10y ago
> I am not sure if an autonomous car will be safer. I mean, can they even do panic breaking right now (For example, if someone or something jumps in front of the car?). You know, safety is often not about having the fastest reaction time
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by rifung 10y ago
But with sufficient compute power, couldn't you just have the machine equivalents of a cardiologist, anesthesiologist, neurologist, etc all looking at your information at the same time? It seems easier to scale compute power than to sc
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by rifung 10y ago
Is there any reason we can't just rely on autonomous cars in areas where these edge cases don't happen? Then as the companies behind this technology make more money, they can start working out the edge cases, but before then, even
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by rifung 10y ago
The M5 makes the same tradeoffs but in a different way. It takes a very good sedan and makes it even better. But, there's no question that it would be even better to drive if it wasn't limited to being able to comfortable seat 5 p
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by rifung 10y ago
What if he were only indirectly motivated by money? Money has a lot of potential for philanthropy after all and he did say that that's where he'd like to focus.
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by rifung 10y ago
Another explanation for their leaving is that the overall strategy around Search is changing and now outside of those two individuals' realm of expertise. I work for Google but this is pure speculation on my part.

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