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by rmk 4y ago
The standards of living are high only because of the natural bounty of the Bay Area. Pretty good weather, stunning natural beauty with easy access to plentiful and varied open spaces, some of the best produce in the nation thanks to the mos
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by rmk 4y ago
In my experience, layoffs almost always happen in waves. The first layoff is usually when nonperformers and people who are already on managers' hit lists (people who are hard to fire only for legal reasons) are jettisoned. Later rounds
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by rmk 4y ago
With an important caveat. The SWEs in the Bay Area are just conduits for obscene sums of money flowing from VCs to real-estate agents, landlords and homeowners. Plus car dealerships, perhaps (every other car is a Tesla or a higher-end BMW&#
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by rmk 4y ago
I understand the sentiment, but some of it is necessary, when the city provides services including running sewer lines to the curb, electricity, telephone and cable lines. Also the capital investments for roads, maintenance equipment and so
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by rmk 4y ago
Leave sooner rather than later. I have regretted not leaving earlier in every situation where the company has not been performing well. There is usually no financial incentive to stick at a failing company, and chances of doing great work a
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by rmk 4y ago
If you are being fired, you generally do not "defend" yourself. Also, people at this level are very well-compensated, and the comp generally prices in the risk of things like this. Whether you are on leave or not scarcely matters
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by rmk 4y ago
This is hilarious. The Google Cloud unit serves enterprises, and is basically playing catch-up with Amazon and Microsoft. Why wouldn't its culture be different from the money-printing monopoly that is Google search and advertising? Peo
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by rmk 4y ago
Democrats fail to act in unison when they are in power, unlike the Republicans who are much more disciplined in this regard. They also realise that much of America is conservative at its core and will not tolerate views or actions that are
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by rmk 4y ago
The hitch with unionising is that people can't do deals that increase their individual salaries, which is antithetical to the ambitious A-types that are rushing into the field nowadays. I also suspect that software people are more alle
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by rmk 4y ago
Intel was "disrupted" by their own doing when they missed the bus on the mobile revolution and the GPU revolution. And the M1 is very much a niche thing. It's an SoC, not a CPU, which is what Intel mainly produces, so compa
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by rmk 4y ago
The M1 arrived 13 years after the iPhone. A company of the size of Apple not putting out new products in keeping with its size is basically a lack of innovation. Some of my friends, who are Apple employees (and basically fanboys) can't
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by rmk 4y ago
By convention the left seater is the captain. In the case of AF447, the captain was asleep, and the FO and a relief pilot were flying the plane.
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by rmk 4y ago
Work from anywhere is truly advantageous for people without families, or people who have much older children (maybe). Also, if collaboration is centered around Pacific Time, then it effectively rules out many of the 170 countries. Add in 4
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by rmk 4y ago
Yes, that is what I meant. And any other type of feedback would be likelier to be ignored. That's why there's a stick shaker in addition to auditory and other warnings when the plane stalls, even in fly-by-wire planes.
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by rmk 4y ago
"I have the airplane" or "my airplane" is an established practice, but over and above that, the stick/yoke/rudder pedals all actually give you feedback when the other guy is also handling them. That feedback gi
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by rmk 4y ago
In the AF447 case, the lack of feedback/linkage of the Pilot Flying / Nonflying sidesticks was a big contributing factor. It is true that the Pitot tubes froze up. But the Pilot was roused from his sleep, entered the cockpit, and
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by rmk 4y ago
Echoes of AF447 here. I thought that Airbus makes the only airliners with no feedback when there are dual inputs applied, and Boeing takes a decidedly different approach. Can someone experienced with this explain how this could have happene
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by rmk 4y ago
CA FTB is hard to dodge even for capital gains. Basically, if you have ever lived in California for anything other than a "temporary or transitory purpose", you are at least a part-time resident, likely a resident. Ergo, you owe C
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by rmk 4y ago
I think the notion that people do not get social security credit if they are on 1099 is flawed. People on 1099s pay their half of the payroll tax that would be incurred by an equivalent W-2 employee. This is known as the "Self-Employ
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by rmk 4y ago
India has a huge wheat surplus that is available for export, and the next couple weeks will be crucial for a good harvest. It will be known whether the crop is good this season, soon. India could very easily step into the breach to supply w
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by rmk 4y ago
I've seen a few interesting things: Most Indians have darker skin, which helps in hot climates. Light-skinned people (caucasians, for example) suffer terribly in the heat and their skin is more prone to sunburns (although dark skin can
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by rmk 4y ago
It's not 'filthy communism', and people who suggest nationalizing industries ought to be better informed: they are the ones who are suggesting the dramatic shift from the status quo. I am suggesting that the nationalization s
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by rmk 4y ago
There seems to be a trend of 'let's socialize this company: it's a public utility!' that is getting stronger. The problem is that people who say this haven't lived in a socialist country and bore the brunt of the il
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by rmk 4y ago
Be concerned. Very concerned. If you try to change jobs, you will realize, to your chagrin, that your interviewers will typically have no clue how to evaluate the work you've done over the years (unless you have been doing full-stack w
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by rmk 5y ago
It will never be over. It may now be endemic, i.e., steadily circulating and flaring up regularly in the population.
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by rmk 5y ago
Meh. Really depends on the language. You'd be like a fish out of water if you stuck to that convention in Javascript or Go, whereas you'd be perfectly conventional in Python and C.
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by rmk 5y ago
How is this good? It does not even cover scenarios such as folks buying properties before they can move in (e.g., parents waiting for their kids to finish their school year before they can move; buying for parents who are retiring in a few
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by rmk 5y ago
Sadly, 5-7 interviews are quite common. I think this is because of a few factors: - Instituting a multi-round interview process makes the company feel like it's very selective and hires only the best. This also discourages 'shoppe
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by rmk 5y ago
The article argues that even a function call to a “less” function benefits from the elimination of bounds checking.
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by rmk 5y ago
Having one set of team members coming in vs others being completely remote will trigger FOMO among the remote employees, particularly if they went remote during the pandemic, and with good reason. Managers are much more likely to be among t

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