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by rifung 7y ago
I work for Google, opinions are my own. > Sorry to all Googlers here for being so blunt, and feel free to point out one or more examples from the last few years where Google has prioritized their users above quarterly / yearly profi
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by rifung 7y ago
> For example, everybody on the planet is now familiar with soft drinks. If anybody has never tasted Coke, it's not by accident. But Coke's ad budget is enormous. If all soft drink companies stopped advertising tomorrow, societ
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by rifung 7y ago
> I guess alot of people here work in the pharama industry. No.. you're being downvoted that's a completely unrealistic proposal for people to follow. People should not need to drive across the border to get medicine. Also not
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by rifung 7y ago
> First of all most software developers have no idea what a quality software developer is until they see somebody who delivers 10x productivity and even then they still cannot typically extract what makes that one developer so much more
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by rifung 7y ago
Only goes up to 2011 but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google
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by rifung 7y ago
> Some people just aren’t motivated. Is it really that people aren't motivated or that they aren't motivated by the incentives you're offering? > A surprise pay raise, catering lunches, taking them to an offsite, etc wh
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by rifung 7y ago
> Show me one of these mythical jobs poorly trained programmers get, I will blow them out of the water Unsolicited feedback: I think it should be pointed out that your attitude probably isn't helping in your job search.
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by rifung 7y ago
> Have found that the closer you get to hardware groups at any of the FAANG's, the higher the average age. Hm that makes sense given the relative infancy of the software industry. Not to mention that enrollment in CS programs has be
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by rifung 7y ago
Note I'm only familiar with the US > + religion(these days, US outright ban any casual religious reference because it offend some believers, resulting modifying some manga/anime/game) Where has this happened? The censorshi
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by rifung 7y ago
I work at Google but not on Search. My guess is that it's because Google Search now also has to cater to queries from Assistant. Being required to handle web, mobile, and assistant probably necessitated tradeoffs in quality of one over
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by rifung 7y ago
> Did anyone understand the message the article wanted to communicate aside from the title? What was it? Is it a valid message based on the sources it linked? The phenomenon: "in recent years, stock valuations have increased faster
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by rifung 7y ago
Sorry I've tried to reread your comment several times but I don't understand the point you're making. Why should people be okay with unlimited expenditures by corporations and special interest groups? Having your government&#
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by rifung 7y ago
Aren't there tools that are used to catch code plagiarism? I am curious what results you would get if you used them on both ReactOS and the NT kernel.
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by rifung 7y ago
> Where are all the Google cloud employees when you need them commenting on threads? I am a Google employee though not in Cloud. I am not really sure what commenting is going to accomplish here? I don't agree with this and many othe
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by rifung 7y ago
> I strongly believe in halting on error as the default response, and unwinding until the correct layer can proceed. Isn't this is exactly what happens in Go code with the current implementation? At least all the Go code I've
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by rifung 7y ago
> Work is not a replacement for a social life, and there are more ways to develop one now than ever. And, the social load from people who do their social life at work is actually one of the reasons I prefer working from home: I have only
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by rifung 7y ago
The problem with using the positional method is that 1) It's much more difficult to read since you have to know the position of elements of the struct 2) You swap one compile time error for another: in the case you add and remove a fie
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by rifung 7y ago
That's an excellent point. Like I said in my original comment, it is comparable if you buy a place outright. I suspect if you are able to both extract rent while also save on your own rent, that may be the best of both worlds. Perhaps
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by rifung 7y ago
> I assume you mean adjusted for inflation here? Even then that hasn't been true. I used the numbers from here: https://economics.harvard.edu/files/economics/files/ms28533.... Specifically in section
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by rifung 7y ago
Put it in an index fund like VTI and don't touch it or use one of the robo investor platforms like Wealthfront and Betterment.
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by rifung 7y ago
> When we rented, we were subjected to eviction at any time, for nearly any reason, for basically no notice (60 days, which in the US is effectively zero notice). Your subjected to every whim the crazy wildly-irrational housing market th
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by rifung 7y ago
> On the flip side though, after my 15 year mortgage is up I'm not going to pay another dime outside of maintenance on this thing. On a 30 year, you'll still pay a fortune over the life of the loan which makes the renting argum
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by rifung 7y ago
I do see renting as a temporary arrangement only in the sense that at any point it's possible I will be forced to move out. However, after doing the math I think I will rent for my entire life since it makes much more sense financially
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by rifung 7y ago
Potentially unpopular opinion.. If companies don't have strong enough incentives to change their interview processes, doesn't that kind of imply that it is working for them, at least to a certain extent? At least it doesn't s
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by rifung 7y ago
I once told an interview I didn't know something and they told me that I should never say I don't know something and just try to make something up. I don't really agree with him and just kept doing it though and things seems
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by rifung 7y ago
> Saying "I don't know" like this in an interview scenario is nearly impossible for most candidates and only serves to humiliate rather than prove their abilities. I don't think this is true only in interviews though.
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by rifung 7y ago
> My guess is that outside the tech industry, new ideas are relatively rare so even very simple ideas feel incredibly valuable. Are they not rare even inside the tech industry?
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by rifung 7y ago
> If society believes that some animals should not be in captivity at all due to moral/practical reasons, it is worth asking: What other technologically driven solutions can be made/used to help people of all demographics exper
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by rifung 7y ago
> I love reading about Google's systems, but I wish I could work on those problems at scale, that is my dream really. I wonder what more systems Google has that we don't know about. I work for Google and I used to have this exa
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by rifung 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_... seems to imply they are correct and you are wrong actually. Or at least the one you use is not the original.

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