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by seiji 11y ago
doh. It didn't occur to me people would stay in Seattle after getting Google jobs. Perhaps Google should COL-adjust SF employees up to about $500k/year. There's a weird life trap where you're making what most people wou
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by seiji 11y ago
Wow, it actually says this: "Leaders are right a lot. They have strong business judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs." Don't question. Obey. Leaders are leaders
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by seiji 11y ago
Remember, you can fire them at any time, with or without cause. People keep saying that around here. It's technically true (the best kind of true?) but it's not exactly how the real world works. In the real world (meaning: actu
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by seiji 11y ago
When one bedroom apartments cost $5,000 per month, you need a minimum salary of $200,000 to even qualify at the low end, but then over half your take home pay goes towards rent. A safer salary is easily $250k to $300k. Those levels of sal
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by seiji 11y ago
with little intention of accepting the offer Protip: please only waste interview time at large companies. I've been on the receiving end of having people interview just to "test the waters" at a small company and it's
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by seiji 11y ago
Since I left, I've helped multiple other friends/colleagues detach emotionally from the need for approval Literally cult de-programming. Kinda amazing we let companies go so far. Fuck Jeff Always good to re-read Steve's
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by seiji 11y ago
Also, agency models are based around ongoing negotiations needed multiple times per year. (also also, agency models are closely tied to union models which freaks out tech employers.) Employees aren't supposed to be job hopping every 3
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by seiji 11y ago
A sign of the times: nobody is questioning the privacy issue of Tesla tracking individual usage history. Are they tracking usage by correlating GPS in the car to charger locations or does the car charger interface transmit a serial number
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, those are good times. SF sucks transit-wise because Caltrain (SF to South Bay) stops at midnight . BART stops around the same time too. Heck, in NYC many events don't even start until 10 pm. Every evening transit trip to SF (
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by seiji 11y ago
Sometimes HN seems to have an anti-interseting-topic filter doesn't it?
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by seiji 11y ago
NYC is the only city in the world with a 24 hour subway system every day. Many people enjoy not having a car: especially the very poor (can't afford car anywhere), so NYC is full of very poor; and they very middle (can't afford c
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by seiji 11y ago
NSA not required. Our politicians are immune to insider trading laws: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/07/congress-argue...
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by seiji 11y ago
Why would the NSA monitor everyone in the world but not its employees' activities on their internal databases? Did you really just ask that?
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by seiji 11y ago
Before the web, people changed channels or got up during TV commercials, Many people still don't realize it's trivial to have a DVR automatically skip commercials, but advertising companies and TV networks sued TiVo to make su
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by seiji 11y ago
There are options though. You can move towards a more teaching/"team lead"/"architect" role to get away from a lot of the day-to-day cycles. You can move to a company where people actually sick around for 10+ y
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by seiji 11y ago
Start with The Algorithm Design Manual and understand everything it says. Then try some exercises and re-read the entire book again. Use google to study any math in TADM you don't understand up front. TAOCP isn't for reading fro
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, it's normal business weirdness. It's a reverse triangular merger: http://witnesseth.typepad.com/blog/reverse-triangular-merger...
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by seiji 11y ago
Why? Programming as a bottom-of-the-org-chart employee is boring and powerless. Every 5 years you have to re-learn almost everything because the fads change, but the substance doesn't change. Today we need a 16 layer deep toolchain t
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by seiji 11y ago
I think this is more about changing what Larry and Sergey do all day. This is in line with their prior strategery of continually maneuvering towards "give us more authority but no responsibility."
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by seiji 11y ago
If you want to see how true "hacker ethos" existed as compared to today's "WE HIRE HACKERS" brandvertising placed in IPO filings, check out early or pre-www FAQs. Here's a good one (a few MB of text) about hack
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by seiji 11y ago
There are two possible things happening in the article and neither are explored (yay NYT!). Case A: the school already had this research happening. Coke saw the research could help their arguments and decided to pay them to do more of th
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by seiji 11y ago
"processed food" has a very specific meaning. Basically, anything that comes in a factory sealed bag or wrapper. So, not a burrito from Chipotle, but a cliff bar or a twinkie or anything that has a long and confusing ingredients
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by seiji 11y ago
This is a situation where "we pay you, now do as you're told" comes in handy. Not every job can be full of self-directed aspirational spiritual awakenings. If that were the case, nobody would deliver my dinner on a bike when
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by seiji 11y ago
newegg has been selling quad 12GB Titan X GPU combo packs for a while. single-click add-to-cart for 18 components: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemLi...
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by seiji 11y ago
Haskell: https://gist.github.com/gigamonkey/6249d85021bc8bf54eb4 Erlang: https://gist.github.com/mattsta/b6749e566f5cfd75762a List comprehensions make no sense to anybody at first. But after you
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by seiji 11y ago
Kinda hilarious since we've had completely isolated ports for a loooong time. For non-data-intensive tasks, don't underestimate how fast speaking erl_interface over a unix pipe can be. Plus, free isolation, free fault tolerance
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by seiji 11y ago
That's a feature of the language, not the VM Lies. One way to look at the Erlang SMP VM is basically as a load balancer. Erlang automatically migrates processes between cores for maximum concurrent efficiency. It's basically c
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by seiji 11y ago
The weirdos and ideas are still there, just drowned out by the masses. So, just like real life? Not helpful at all. The Internet was an introvert's dream. Then the popular extroverted high school kids took over our entire Internet
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by seiji 11y ago
However there are still plenty of people congregating But not in the same way. I used to know people's lives from IRC and ICQ. I remember chatting online for hours. I was interested in their lives and they were interested in mine, a
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by seiji 11y ago
What are the lessons of Erlang Joe gives good talks. Here's one he recommends as an intro to the capabilities and philosophy of Erlang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u41GEwIq2mE The entire Erlang thesis falls out

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