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by sockgrant 6y ago
HN loves to hate FAANG interviews. There's always a monthly passion post about how flawed they are. I don't think it's unfair to say that Google and FB are considered to have strong engineering talent. So the interview proces
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by sockgrant 6y ago
Can fail behavioral or design interviews while passing coding and not get hired. Can also have written what you thought was good code but have been given too many hints. Or, could have written good code to the question asked, but took so lo
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by sockgrant 6y ago
> It's definitely nice to have these skills but let's be real, you aren't going to use them on a daily basis. I mean, practice for the job you want. The majority of software jobs don't need this stuff -- writing front
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by sockgrant 6y ago
Advertising is eating the internet alive? Advertising has made the internet as we know it possible.
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by sockgrant 6y ago
There’s gigabytes of video of every cop in the US? And every one of them is a racist brutality piece of trash? Can you show me this archive? Or are you saying that there’s hundreds of videos of piece of trash cops and you’re projecting that
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by sockgrant 6y ago
That could be. I haven’t given much thought on how to solve the problem. It could also be that we need to kill laws that are protecting police from the justice system.
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by sockgrant 6y ago
That doesn’t mean that all officers are bad. Good cops exist.
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by sockgrant 6y ago
You got sources for those stats? > There are no good career cops I’ve watched a few videos of cops kneeling with protestors or cops laying down guns and walking with them. Are those bad cops? When you say “there are no good career cops”
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by sockgrant 6y ago
Sorry, your comment might make some good points but you lost me, your reader, when you made absolute claims about police officers. There certainly exist police that just want to be tough guys and beat people up. But there’s plenty officers
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by sockgrant 6y ago
1) he should pass by reference to avoid the extra copy. So in his example yes it’s dev naivety 2) but somewhere somehow this object will deallocate, so his trick of putting it to another thread would work if the deal location takes awhile.
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by sockgrant 6y ago
Is it possible to author a program that can determine whether a bill is "better" or "worse" for constituents, and whether it makes the city / county / state / country "better"? How would you cate
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by sockgrant 7y ago
Yes. Businesses pay people to work on business needs.
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by sockgrant 7y ago
You got a source for that?
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by sockgrant 7y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/ Get promoted once at google / Facebook and you should be there. Promoted again and you’ll be 300-350k
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by sockgrant 7y ago
Do you have any comment on my assertion that Taycan is not a Model S replacement?
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by sockgrant 7y ago
Not to mention the Model S is faster 0-60 and cheaper.
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by sockgrant 7y ago
I thought Tesla superchargers have faster charging speed? They have 150kW charging, is Porsche doing something better? OP said Taycan is the new Model S, I think that your comment vs. mine highlights that this isn't true -- Taycan cust
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by sockgrant 7y ago
Can the Taycan compete on price, speed, range, and charging network? AFAIK it loses in all of those categories.
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by sockgrant 7y ago
All car manufacturers test their cars on public roads.
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by sockgrant 7y ago
I think that the point is that being able to do what you did requires intelligence to accomplish.
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by sockgrant 7y ago
Well it sounds like a phone interview. One goal of the phone interview is to not waste people’s time with onsite if it’s determined the candidate couldn’t pass onsite. If their onsite has more leetcode coding questions, then the interview s
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by sockgrant 7y ago
It wasn’t surprising that what he was doing lead to that result. It was that it was a slow creep that lead him down the path and sometimes you don’t realize where you’re headed until you have a come-to moment where you take stock of your li
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by sockgrant 7y ago
If it’s what you desire, then yes, you should quit. I’ve done it before and it’s a great experience. 100% worth it. Follow your dreams. Just don’t delude yourself into thinking you will grow your side project into a full time income. You ma
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by sockgrant 7y ago
This has been known for awhile. The exception is if you pay good money to advertise with them.
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by sockgrant 7y ago
Google is a search and advertising company. Literally nothing else matters to them. People should stop being surprised that Google’s side projects that don’t even make a blip on the earnings report are not to be used. Don’t build on google
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by sockgrant 7y ago
There are so many APIs that they've flipped pricing on or flat out cancelled I'm surprised anyone still uses them for absolutely any APIs. Seriously. I can't say this strongly enough: Google APIs and platforms are for buildin
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by sockgrant 8y ago
OKRs are goals. Slack is a chat app. You can chat over slack about goals, but slack isn’t goals and goals aren’t a chat app.
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by sockgrant 8y ago
Why didn’t you make OKRs out of refactoring, integration tests, etc.?
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by sockgrant 8y ago
> What kind of companies pay software engineers 300k+? The big ones. Google Facebook Microsoft Amazon. > Is it realistic to make 500k-1 million+ at these companies as a developer? It's realistic but not a given. You've gotta
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by sockgrant 8y ago
Dang. That's scary. While I was watching I started out in awe feeling like "holy crap, I'm looking at a UFO!" But after staring at it for a long time and then having the white flashes I quickly changed to "oh fuck,

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