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by skookum 10y ago
I'm not sure what higher-level point the GP was trying to make[1], but I'm fairly sure they knew macOS doesn't run on mobile. Their implication is that were mobile devices included in the tally they would have contributed sig
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A hypothesis mentioned in the original paper: "...it is also possible that the cognitive benefits of exercise occur because locomotion is not simply an automated repetitive motor task, but is instead a highly complex behavior that invo
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Yubico's answer to this is to own & register two of them against the account/software they are being used as the 2nd factor for. Some accounts also offer something short of the whirlwind but not as socially engineerable as the
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...and outlast the degradation of their own service. In my admittedly limited experience here in Seattle, the quality of cars and drivers has been going down.
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That's correct. It was shortly after Steve took over as CEO. At the time a lot of options were underwater and Microsoft offered a buy-back plan where one could get a lump-sum payment in place of those options. In retrospect taking the
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Very few traditional home cooking recipes from any culture are particularly inelastic when it comes to ingredient quantities, especially for the fresh ingredients. I've never left aside half an onion unless it was expressly to have som
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I generally have no idea what is supposed to be in season at any given time. And while often I can infer what's in season - "Hmmm, asparagus has been 0.99/lb for the past few weeks, whereas normally it's around 3.99&#x2F
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Often the healthy versus unhealthy discussion reduces to a home-cooked-from-scratch versus processed/junk food discussion. Having seen how my North American-raised Gen X/Millennial peers shop for groceries, I'm not surprised
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by skookum 10y ago
Given all the handwringing on HN in the last month about fake/biased news, it's ironic to see so many comments latching onto this story with "well duh, we always knew Amazon was a terrible employer, and here's more proof
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Oh look, yet another article talking about how our leading tech companies (aka "Silicon Valley") can't hire fast enough with an infographic clearly showing that the "highly skilled guest worker" visas are predominan
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REI sells a bunch of stuff that's similar other than not coming in as large a single serving size. ProBar and Bonk Breaker are the two I've found to be most palatable. Apart from the big brands at REI, there's a ton of smalle
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How do you deal with the Nalgene getting funky once you're >1 days into a trip, or does the Soylent rinse out cleanly enough for it to not be a concern? I used to use Accelerade for a significant proportion of my calories when backp
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In the cases I've encountered it, the term over-engineering in the context of software development is more often used to refer to building in allowances for future functionality rather than for making the software more robust. Although
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I have a hard time believing that companies trying to pretend they are significantly larger than they are in hopes of snagging some super-special hire is a common thing. It seems like the sort of thing that would backfire quickly. I would q
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Keep in touch with your pleasant highly functional sane ex-coworkers and use your network to vet companies/orgs/teams.
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These articles are getting old. Pardon the pun. The main reason older programmers are so under-represented is that the field has grown exponentially over the past 2 decades. With ever larger influxes of college grads the previous smaller co
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You seem to be conflating the existence of unit tests with TDD.
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Therein lies the rub with all the faith-based modern development practices. Getting results? That's the power of The Practice. Not getting results or seeing negative impact? You're just not doing The Practice right and/or har
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None directly. Virtually none indirectly. They need to get promoted to Principal Engineer first, then Senior PE, and then DE. Circa 2 years ago I'd guess there were at most half a dozen DEs company-wide and iirc half of those were hire
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> SDE3 at Amazon is a career position That's what they say in every 1:1 but when you get to see how the sausage is made in the annual OLR you quickly realize that people who are deemed to have no hope of getting promoted to PE end u
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There will be outliers on either side obviously, but I would guess most SDE3s at Amazon fall into a range of 6-10 years of experience.
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Your location must not be Seattle, which is the context of the OP's inquiry. The average SDE3 (senior engineer) at Amazon is making more than this in total comp, and Google pays more than Amazon.
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We constantly have HN comments about how underpaid software engineers are, how companies are colluding to keep salaries down, etc, etc, etc. Then when someone asks if a salary is in the right ballpark for the local market, they're humb
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You don't mention what size company this offer is from, but in general for the established A-list tech companies a Senior SDE in Seattle would be making at least that in total comp (salary + RSUs + average bonus if applicable). That ha
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This article seems to be much ado about nothing. Amazon's buy box algorithm is weighted towards sold or fulfilled by Amazon because Amazon's metrics show that Amazon's customers prefer sold or fulfilled by Amazon. Many Amazon
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You're probably seeing a hidden message where there isn't one. The culture/benefits sections of most job descriptions are generic and that generic portion of the hiring message is tailored to the majority of hires the company
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> I reject the notion that Amazon's hiring practices are neither implicitly nor explicitly comparative. You are absolutely right on that. The core question that needs to be answered at each interview debrief is "when the next r
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> In the eyes of the interviewers, you were not the most qualified candidate for the position they were hiring for. For Amazon, this is not a correct conclusion. Having done well into the low-hundreds of on-site interviews for Amazon, I
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The poster you are replying to probably understands this distinction. They are referring to Amazon's co-mingling of inventory. When you buy an item on Amazon which is offered by more than one FBA merchant, Amazon does not necessarily f
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The explanation is alluded to in the second half of the paragraph you quoted: It was a land-grab strategy to build a customer base in the nascent online retail market. Edit: There are other ways that Amazon leverages volume to be able to se

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