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by sahila 4y ago
Not sure this follows. Their designs might be bad(?), but certainly for any UI driven applications, they do do use the native and emulated devices. What OP means is that you ssh into a cloud machine for development.
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by sahila 4y ago
Curious, what would you have google do? Disable GA tracking when in incognito, and if so, how should they handle other tracking scripts? Possibly they could try to explain to the user what GA is, but I imagine if users don’t understand the
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by sahila 4y ago
But doesn’t this drive home OP’s point further? For people who work in service jobs - healthcare, schools, shopping, and restaurants/cafes, for example - how would you approach working less? People want to go out and eat and places are
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by sahila 4y ago
But Google only tracks you if the website you visit belongs to Google or the website uses something Google Analytics. In either case, it's explicit in how Google gets your information. Is there other ways Google is tracking you in inco
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by sahila 4y ago
And gasp you may have to reward your worker because they truly are that valuable instead of reaping all the benefit for the cto.
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by sahila 4y ago
This might be okay in isolation, but eventually as the entire team of engineers start to underdeliver, the team and company does get affected in terms of feature rollouts / velocity, and it's difficult to recover from it. People w
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by sahila 4y ago
> North Korea and Russia are going down this path. While I'm not sure which side of the argument I stand on, I do think it's pointing out that even if certain societies / countries do do the things, they unfortunately bare
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by sahila 4y ago
Or get better? You lucking out in which country you’re born in / citizenship shouldn’t be the only thing that allows you get a job. We all work in an industry where we praise meritocracy, so the best thing to do is to earn your role th
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by sahila 4y ago
That sounds unlike faang interviews (the only one person being a swe part). Which one was it and what were the interviews like? The non-team thing is common but they do it to bring “objectivity” to the process and since it’s leetcode or sys
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by sahila 4y ago
Just at meta where he was involved in Oculus. He's moved on to working on AGI on his own company (see news here https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/19/john-carmack-agi-keen-rais... ).
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by sahila 4y ago
This post seems light on any actual data between the difference on individuals who have a CS masters and not, and instead argues against getting one on a few aux points: * Opportunity cost * two tweets of HM saying they don't find it u
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by sahila 4y ago
10 years ago, did you see all your family members keeping a computer with a constant internet connection in their pocket? I think our predictive abilities of the future are often lacking.
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by sahila 4y ago
I think OPs point is that we could be living be a “post-scarcity” world today if we simply distributed existing resources equitably to everyone. The problem isn’t we haven’t solved how to make enough food to feed everyone, it’s that it’s no
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by sahila 4y ago
> When people use number of jobs rather than hours worked per week it's typically beacuse number of jobs is greater than one and hours is less than forty. It’s hard to imagine a person wanting to take on multiple jobs if instead the
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by sahila 4y ago
There’s definitely doubt about another Amazon appearing! Sure we might get a dominating e-store that sells goods, that’s easy to imagine. But that same company also creating the largest cloud provider, being the largest distributor, going i
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by sahila 4y ago
That’s how you get stuck with Lotus as your email system and IE6 in 2022, and frustrating competent admins with old technology.
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by sahila 4y ago
Are they tight enough for activities like running and hiking, or is it just casual usage? Send a link of your shoes.
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by sahila 4y ago
I can't speak to the larger business case, but I'd find this useful for me. I have a number of rental properties and I find our tenants have many different ways of paying, and giving this out instead could save the trouble of havi
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by sahila 4y ago
When's the last time you've flown doing this? I haven't gone on Virgin with my pet but Googling shows it doesn't allow pets in cabin ( https://www.bringfido.com/travel/airline_policies/virgin_atl
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by sahila 4y ago
You do realize that you can only fly in-cabin with your pet if it fits underneath the seat ahead of you, usually < 20 lbs. Many pets don't fit this criteria, but otherwise I agree with you.
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by sahila 4y ago
No need for an external mic if they can just use your phone app + mic.
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by sahila 5y ago
Say I offer to buy Apple for a penny/share. The price for their shares won’t move because of my offer but may move from normal market conditions. If the shares increased a dollar the day after my offer, would you say there’s a greater
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by sahila 5y ago
And a ton more work to file a college application and a smaller group of applicants. Zillow apartment applications is just clicking an "I'm interested" button.
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by sahila 5y ago
> I can't imagine this to be true for the vast majority of web/sass companies I entirely disagree with this except for the most trivial things you describe. And for those trivial things, does your company just have a never endi
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by sahila 5y ago
It might be 2% or even lower hire-rate-to-applications, but your set isn't all applications but those who put in a 100 hours of leetcode prep; that I bet is much higher than 2% into faangs.
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by sahila 5y ago
Succeed at what though? Yeah most could probably code, but can they all design and run a team? Have they all worked on the same problems, scale, and should be principal engineers? You also interview to level as well as to get them into the
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by sahila 5y ago
The problem is "skill on paper" is just that, words. There's tons of java developers but not all the same. References too are pretty easy to game. Alternatively if by skills on paper you mean open source projects, that's
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by sahila 5y ago
The thing about games vs cars is games aren't even supply-constrained; you just download a copy from the store! Even if you buy the physical games, they're almost always available within a few days of release at most. Just not a g
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by sahila 5y ago
It's pretty easy to understand really; it allows engineers to focus on other things and do more. It's not nefarious or because people are always lazy, but the choice between spending time on a business feature or a logging library
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by sahila 5y ago
Dunno why you're being downvoted but it's true. I noticed it pretty quickly when I tried going back to the previous page and instead it scrolled up.

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