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by rmk 6y ago
When children are vaccinated. It's not clear if the vaccine confers sterilizing immunity, i.e., you are protected against the bug and also can't spread the disease, so most people who have children or are around children will idea
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by rmk 6y ago
As an example, being able to talk to the people who handle the coding, commit, build, and deployment, all in one place, is quite valuable and saves time. In many large and established companies, there is formal training that puts all these
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by rmk 6y ago
This is done in many teams. Go has made it really easy via its gofmt tool. The trouble is that it's hard to do on a large existing codebase that's not consistently formatted: doing a mass format messes with the line-by-line commit
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by rmk 6y ago
People with less experience consistently undervalue linting and code formatting and style. Code linting forces one to deal with code smells and innocuous errors that can cost a lot to fix once they escape into the field. Consistent code for
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by rmk 6y ago
I think this paper, and survey, in general, appears to be ignoring one very important set of people: job hoppers and new entrants to the job market (to be fair, I did not read thru the entire paper, just looked over interesting sections). T
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by rmk 6y ago
Good heavens! What are 500 design people doing at Uber? Is this a case of managerial empire-building? I was at a small company of a comparable size to yours where the product was a mobile app (Apple and Android). It had fewer than ten (roug
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by rmk 6y ago
- Legal is generally part of G&A (General & Admin.) - Support is one category that I hadn't thought about, but perhaps they are contractors. - I can't imagine Uber having more than 50 or so design people, all in the '
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by rmk 6y ago
- Assume 1000 for the apps. - +1000 for backend. - +1000 for infrastructure. - +500 for SRE functions. - +1500 G&A That leaves us with 16,000 employees who are not in these categories. Supposing Uber operates in 50 major markets that re
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by rmk 6y ago
As I have argued elsewhere in this thread, default or monetizing the debt has consequences, including permanently higher borrowing costs that will exact a heavy price from future generations if they choose to go those routes. That's wh
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by rmk 6y ago
Once you incur debt, it must be serviced. If you forego revenue via a couple of channels (income tax, inheritance tax), you can either (a) raise debt to replace the revenue you lost or (b) provide incentives so that the revenue foregone is
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by rmk 6y ago
Incurring debt != Foregoing revenue via income tax
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by rmk 6y ago
I'm talking about the debt incurred by the Government in order to provide assistance to the unemployed and the businesses that were struggling. Trillions of dollars of debt (in addition to 20-30 trillion dollar debt already incurred) i
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by rmk 6y ago
One can wish, but I know that there is huge pressure on the current administration to appease the left wing of the party. Keystone XL is canceled, and the US has rejoined the Paris agreement on the first day of Biden's Presidency. A mu
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by rmk 6y ago
We did not simply make "behavioral choices". Whole swathes of humanity were ordered indoors! It was achieved at untold cost (actually, much greater than the trillions of dollars that have been given away already by governments) th
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by rmk 6y ago
It's a way of saying that person who is pardoned is a good parent (and therefore not irredeemably bad) and the (blameless) children will benefit from the pardon.
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by rmk 6y ago
Your experience is atypical: most people will encounter bad managers in their careers, and more so in this industry, which deifies youth (twentysomethings managing people is a poor idea, period, as are teams comprising only twentysomethings
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by rmk 6y ago
Some of the most heavily mismanaged places I have worked at have been startups. All sorts of insane people, particularly at management level, but also rank-and-file. Large companies have standardized interview and background checking proces
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by rmk 6y ago
Why is CA wasting its time with such miniscule distinctions about who can/can not receive the vaccine while using up something like 30% of the doses received? What is accomplished by such a political exercise that prizes ideological pu
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by rmk 6y ago
It's the lesser of three evils: losing coverage altogether, having to buy it as part of an open risk pool, or continuing coverage as part of the company's risk pool and rates the company has negotiated for its employees. It would
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by rmk 6y ago
Was the COO fired? It sounds like she was, reading this article. Is this a move to further reduce cost by rehiring in less-expensive locations? I imagine engineering functions will also be affected.
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by rmk 6y ago
There are many great varieties besides the Alphonso, that are popular in different parts of India. Examples include the Langda, the Malda and the Raspuri varieties. Quite different from one another and each with its own devoted following. I
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by rmk 6y ago
What this article is saying in a very roundabout way is that companies whose primary products are software, hardware or hardware/software artifacts will 'get' engineers better than companies whose primary products are not t
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by rmk 6y ago
The bulk of the article centers on whether, by enacting Section 230, the Government has rendered the actions of private companies into State Actions. State Actions that abridge free speech are forbidden vide the Norwood vs. Harrison (1973)
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by rmk 6y ago
That picture alone is a great lesson in how to convey a crap ton of information in a small amount of space. It was a great read, thank you!
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by rmk 6y ago
With the election of Biden, the US will shift to a more cooperative strategy for containing China. There will be a higher emphasis on building/repairing relationships with allies in the region, so that American blood is not spilled (al
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by rmk 6y ago
It has been happening to a certain extent. People who are only making political comments and indulging in flame wars are getting the boot.
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by rmk 6y ago
Electrical Utilities are tightly regulated, whereas big tech is not regulated at all. This comparison is really apples to oranges because of this. Electrical utilities can’t remove you for drawing more power than you are allowed to while al
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by rmk 6y ago
California is not a one party system. It has republican representatives both in the state and national legislatures. It has had one-party rule for a long time, and whether it has “worked” is far from clear. On the contrary, the beleaguered
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by rmk 6y ago
I think it's a reasonable for private companies (such as Twitter) to eject their customers or users as they see fit. But this should be subject to limitations under overarching laws that regulate these companies: something that even de
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by rmk 6y ago
I remember Amazon hiring a lot of systems research people in 05-06. They were very keen on Xen, judging by the people they were hiring. I wonder if they still use Xen post their Citrix acquisition.

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