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by romanhn 2y ago
Just so you're not surprised later - the acquihire-to-big-company stories I've heard all involved the team having to interview for the jobs via the standard process. So it's not so much a shortcut into a FAANG, necessarily. T
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by romanhn 2y ago
I've been a Windows user since Win 3.1 and until Win 11. My phones have all been Android, and I can't stand the iPhone UX. Yet, when time came last year to replace my dead Intel-based laptop, I went with an M1 Pro and never looked
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by romanhn 2y ago
Reminded me of circular wall running in 2001 Space Odyssey more than 50 years ago: https://youtu.be/1wJQ5UrAsIY
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by romanhn 3y ago
Yes, this was an incredibly prescient article.
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by romanhn 3y ago
They're following the well-trodden path of after-the-fact philanthropy practiced by robber barons (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller) to clean up their public image following unscrupulous business practices that brought them those b
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by romanhn 3y ago
Thanks for helping me make my point. How's it up there in the socialist ivory tower? See, I grew up in Soviet Union and seen socialism's effects first-hand. It thoroughly disabused me of the notion of the holy class struggle and m
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by romanhn 3y ago
It's a ridiculous term that promotes polarization and dumbs down the level of discourse. I have the same reaction to it as when I see "bootlicker" as applied to anyone who takes the company's side (or is in management in
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by romanhn 3y ago
Obviously I don't have it. The author doesn't either and he is the one making the big claims. Regardless, I'm not arguing the extent to which Prabhakar Raghavan contributed to Google Search quality, I haven't even heard
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by romanhn 3y ago
"Honest enterprises" also falls into the trap of anthropomorphizing organizations. Companies are not people and cannot be honest/dishonest, moral/immoral, etc. Companies are made up of people who choose to take certain p
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by romanhn 3y ago
To be clear, I meant the author does not have full context.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Hyperbole is well and good in fiction and personal opinion pieces. I suppose my, and parent commenter's issue, is that we expected a certain type of writing, but got another. And that's fine. I don't have a dog in this fight,
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by romanhn 3y ago
Agreed. I struggled to keep going after "computer scientist class traitor". A very juvenile take that reflects poorly on the author, IMO.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Oof, that sounds rough. You're right, I'm just sharing my own account and haven't seen these issues.
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by romanhn 3y ago
> Screen sharing doesn't work, at all This is definitely not true. The Meta Quest app can connect to a headset and show what the player is seeing, both video and audio. Been watching my kid play various games for years. Also not sur
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by romanhn 3y ago
I'm guessing it's the opposite. Meta is trying to establish the same OS-level foothold/control that Microsoft, Apple and Google have.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Yeah, that's how I understand it. Applies to mobile code as well.
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by romanhn 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but it is my understanding that using a GPL library on the frontend triggers the "distrubution to users" clause of GPL. It's a strong copyleft license, turning the entire frontend portion of the applica
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by romanhn 3y ago
You can self-host without an API key. Unfortunately they just switched to the GPL license, which may or may not work for you.
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by romanhn 3y ago
TinyMCE just changed their licensing from MIT to GPL, which may impact your decision. Fun fact - TinyMCE and CKEditor are both owned by the same holding company (Tiugo Technologies).
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by romanhn 3y ago
Are they? Both have been acquired by the same holding company.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Curious how you arrived at lumping "reinventing healthcare" with "not doing something good for the world". Your list looks like just companies you don't want to work for. Which is fine, just don't confuse it wi
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by romanhn 3y ago
I think many (most?) boot camps are money grabs that overpromise and underdeliver. I've also seen great juniors come out of boot camps. Either way, you're now talking about something different than your original question - most jo
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by romanhn 3y ago
Knowing how to code is the most trivial part of a software engineer's job. Making sense of vague (or even conflicting) requirements, knowing when and how to make the right trade-offs, communicating effectively up/down/with pe
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by romanhn 3y ago
If a job can be learned in a month to a degree where the learner is now proficient in it, then the barrier to entry is low and the job is either repetitive in nature or has a very low expectations bar (e.g. for junior roles). I highly doubt
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by romanhn 3y ago
Around $800, Bay Area peninsula. The cost has been growing quite a bit every year.
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by romanhn 3y ago
The original RealAudio was the only tech that allowed me to listen to online radio over a 14.4k modem. It was all very impressive, if you didn't care about sound quality.
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by romanhn 3y ago
What if I told you that Creative Labs is still around, still selling Sound Blaster cards...
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by romanhn 3y ago
RealAudio was my go-to before Winamp showed up. It's crazy to me that RealNetworks is still around.
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by romanhn 3y ago
When I got a new laptop six months ago, it was my first new computer since the 90s where I didn't install Winamp as one of the first steps. Really only because it was my first non-Windows machine. Didn't even get deep into researc
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by romanhn 3y ago
Same accountant we've used for years. I don't understand the "leaked your data" question, care to elaborate?

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