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by rifung 8y ago
> Not really, in my opinion. Type inference especially has come a long way. Does dynamic typing also make writing tests easier? For example when writing tests in Python it's relatively trivial to mock out specific methods or functio
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by rifung 8y ago
> The more common definition is that dynamic programming refers to solving a complicated problem by breaking it up into simpler subproblems that can be solved independently I dont think that's sufficient? I thought DP also implies y
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by rifung 8y ago
I work for Google, opinions are my own. I believe this is because previously antitrust law was used when things were bad for competition but nowadays the thinking is more that antitrust laws should be used when things cause higher prices.
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by rifung 8y ago
I'd argue that competition would drive more technological advances. There are commonly complaints on HN that FAANG are sucking up all the talent after all. Having worked at Amazon and Google I definitely feel most people are overqualif
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by rifung 8y ago
Possibly because you'd have more competition although higher prices as well. On the other hand, this would be much better for the economy which is, in my opinion, more important.
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by rifung 8y ago
> But the IC track is flawed. The programmers I spoke with said that promotion is slower on the IC track, and the distinctions between titles are blurry. According to David Golden, a 45-year-old engineer at MongoDB, “In the development-o
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by rifung 8y ago
I don't work at FB but I don't agree with this. Is it really better in the long run that people who disagree with privacy intrusions leave? I'd argue that it's better they stay and are part of the conversation to improve
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by rifung 8y ago
> I'd question that. FB undoubtedly pays very well and probably better than almost all competitors, but at the same time most FB engineers could almost certainly take work somewhere else with a slightly lower (but objectively still
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by rifung 8y ago
> It surprises me that the majority of my family can still tolerate Facebook (and instagram/whatsapp etc.) despite what is known. I don't think I'm THAT concerned with privacy but even I have thought about disabling my Fac
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by rifung 8y ago
> So people just take whatever is offered. Because, there are tens of thousands of people applying for these jobs. Most of them are likely to better than you and they didn't crack all competitive coding style interview to land a job
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by rifung 8y ago
> Most economists love the idea of a 0% corporate income tax, which would likely be paired with LTCG going to the earned income rate. Unfortunately it sounds too much like a "handout" to be politically viable. Source? I thought
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by rifung 8y ago
> people on Hacker News tend to be smart enough to understand how to estimate probability distributions and how to compute expected value off of these estimate That's a strange assumption to make. If anything, I'd argue that pe
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> Kelly Ellis, a former Google engineer and one of the plaintiffs in the gender-pay suit against the company, said in a legal filing that Google hired her as a Level 3 employee — the category for new software engineers who are recent col
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by rifung 8y ago
> Is there really nothing more pressing in the world that we need to suck up the talents of designers and developers to make a "better nightlight"? I'll admit that it looks like a nice enough product, but nobody needs this
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by rifung 8y ago
> Curious, I remember speed being the primary reason. This was how I remember it as well. Not only that but the timing was very fortunate for Chrome because at the time Firefox had some very bad memory leaks which in my opinion really he
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by rifung 8y ago
I think it removes bugs caused by the try/catch pattern which can make it very difficult to follow the path of execution. In a sense exceptions have the same issues as "goto". It's not that they are inherently bad so muc
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by rifung 8y ago
> On the flip side, if no one was anxious and everyone was perfectly enjoying the present, it could be that no one would ever bother to even invent the wheel. I don't think the idea is that people should stop investing in the future
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by rifung 8y ago
> Assigning resources to growth is usually the most stupid thing to do. By definition the projects that can grow the most are the projects with no customers or revenues, especially new projects that are nowhere, they can only grow. http
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by rifung 8y ago
If I get discouraged I just tell myself this is good because I am adequately challenging myself. If you're only doing stuff that you feel is easy then you aren't really going to improve.
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by rifung 8y ago
No. Over 30 or 50 years maybe but 10 years is too short especially considering we just had an incredible bull run. I think many leaders in the space have said they expect lower returns in the coming years as well. Obviously this list is bia
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by rifung 8y ago
> I would think this would be a top TGIF question almost every week at this point (because it seems that's how often Google product shutdowns are in the news). Actually this week (!) was the first time my question was upvoted enough
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by rifung 8y ago
I don't think that's a list of approved languages but "likely candidates"? But apologies perhaps I confused Chromium for Chromium OS: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/mas
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by rifung 8y ago
> Is there some sort of institutional ADD? I work at Google, opinions are my own. Obviously this is my personal take, but I don't think that's what it is. To me the issue is the performance/rewards system. Imagine you&#x27
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by rifung 8y ago
> Hell, it's harder to change your primary bank than to change your ISP. Is it though..? I just changed my primary bank. The most difficult part of it was listening to the account manager person tell me about what a terrible mistake
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by rifung 8y ago
> It makes me wonder why Google wouldn’t put their efforts into using Rust, for example. Well some newer projects in Chrome/Chromium are written in Rust so for what it's worth there is some effort. I believe just yesterday the
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by rifung 8y ago
> The all-male charity, the President’s Club, which raised money for causes including children’s hospitals through high-valued auctions, was forced to close after the Financial Times uncovered sexual assault and misogyny at its annual di
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by rifung 8y ago
If the issue of too many DOM elements is memory use, wouldn't it be better to just limit the memory use of a page? Apologies if this is a really ignorant question as I know very little about browsers/front end development.
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by rifung 8y ago
I work for Google, opinions are my own. Have there been any studies or anything on how having or breaking up large companies affects a country's competitiveness on a global scale? I feel like an extremely large company may be more comp
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by rifung 8y ago
> Does the vision of company really come from one person's declarations? I will say in a way yes it does. If the CEO has to sign off on funding for projects you basically have to align your projects to something they appreciate beca
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by rifung 8y ago
> I think you have causation wrong here. Users leave search history enabled because Google makes it unnecessarily hard to use the app with it disabled. That's a fair point. Nevertheless, most people on the team were not there when t

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