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by tgma 2y ago
> Maybe he should remember from what country his parents came and what happened to the billionaires there. I get you don't like the policy (assuming it is even the official policy.) How's this related to having an excited team
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by tgma 2y ago
This is a classic Sergey snark. He is basically saying that number is 60 not 40. (Also diminishing returns does not usually imply "net negative" but less ROI on the marginal hour you put in.) Point is, Google seems to be somewhat
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Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office(nytimes.com)
59 points by tgma 2y ago|29 comments
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by tgma 2y ago
...unless it is. Compiler crashes are easy to see, but it can actually be nontrivial to identify miscompilations as they can only trigger in certain code paths and with careful observation you can notice the second order effects... If you s
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by tgma 2y ago
Yes, as I acknowledged I did not spend time digging in who wrote which exact patch or sift through some loudmouths on /r/cpp whining about things. The burden to substantiate your argument at this point is chiefly on you. I have sp
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by tgma 2y ago
Yes, I just briefly clicked at the top contributors. As expected they are mostly not homeless PhD students. All big ones are employed or have been employed by Apple/Google/RedHat/SiFive/Sony, often multiple of those. (Di
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by tgma 2y ago
I totally get that avoiding GPL3.0 was the goal for Apple (less so for Google I'd say). If avoiding "giving anything back" were the goal they have fucked up on that. Regardless, the point is they could have pretty much done p
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by tgma 2y ago
> clang was sponsored exactly to allow Google and Apple to take a compiler and not be legally obliged to upstream their sauce. Sponsored is an understatement. It was pretty much entirely funded by those two, so if the goal was to leech o
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by tgma 2y ago
Ah right. I stand corrected.
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by tgma 2y ago
Not sure how much modem is contributing here. My guess is it is primarily due to the lack of ProMotion. 16e has a 60Hz display.
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by tgma 2y ago
Really? You see a narrow contextual restriction for irrelevant information in a grant/hiring packet to be worse than compelled speech?
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by tgma 2y ago
It's not always like that. Most of the team would be hired to move protobufs around for the Torment Nexus so it seems quite innocuous.
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by tgma 2y ago
> Zuck needs Yann LeCun and other senior researchers at Meta a lot more than they need him. Of course not. Quantifiably so. Proof: he can get all of them for comparably measly salary to his net worth. He has. (P.S. Besides, you'd be
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by tgma 2y ago
I've seen him on record that he'd pretty much work for whoever pays him (in the context of research grants for military). Virtue signaling to feel good is only worth so much to people. Humans compartmentalize very well.
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by tgma 2y ago
Those are just examples. Whatever the reason for each, sovereign jurisdictions don't allow free access to their resources/markets just out of spite. That includes Europe.
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by tgma 2y ago
You do realize many US companies are not practically allowed to operate in some European jurisdictions? Uber and Amazon come to mind.
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by tgma 2y ago
The root cause of this sort of comment is people often equate the outcome of democracy == good or desirable to them or even the majority, which is not necessarily the case. People can whine about the outcome of a democratic process all they
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by tgma 2y ago
You realize it was a representative-democratic process chose to enact TikTok ban, so your statement is literally false on that dimension alone.
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by tgma 2y ago
In founding of the United States lies tariff stories. The United States does not reject government and nations as entities at all. It just asserts rights for its citizens which doesn't include everyone on the planet.
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by tgma 2y ago
Sure, I totally get that someone may hate it and on balance decides it is not worth it for them, and still recognize it is generally a career promotion. I am simply asserting it is objectively a promotion even though there's propaganda
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by tgma 2y ago
And they are the people who decide whom to fire.
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by tgma 2y ago
Well, no one bats an eye if a manager chooses to become an IC (of course they have to know their shit, many of whom don't, and always bluff "I wish I was an IC"), but from IC to manager is not an automatic option. Being a man
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by tgma 2y ago
ICs like to think they don't have to deal with politics. It is only an illusion that sometimes is true because their manager happen to protect them from those (double-edged sword: hurts visibility) and if they are lucky their interests
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by tgma 2y ago
> It was so resource constrained that you couldn’t put a picture on your home screen because it would have taken too much memory. This is the sentence in your original comment I had responded to (and I quoted it in my original comment, n
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by tgma 2y ago
nit: > It was so resource constrained that you couldn’t put a picture on your home screen because it would have taken too much memory. Clearly you drank the Apple koolaid that later artificially limited wallpapers to 3GS (or 3G?) and abo
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by tgma 2y ago
> made a different choice but ultimately at that point it would still have been too late to save Nokia. You think if they made just a single decision different and bet on Android instead of Windows, they would be in the same spot today?
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by tgma 2y ago
Counter opinion: if you want to advance in your career, always opt for management roles when given an option, even if you feel you don't love the shitwork that comes with it. Management is more versatile, more leveraged, and always has
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by tgma 2y ago
If you have to explain in 5000 words how it would offend someone and hardly anyone really knows the backstory (or your version of it perhaps) before reading your 5000 word article, including the people you think could be offended, it probab
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by tgma 2y ago
Yes, I have [but I've not been to the border :-)]. Lack of air conditioning and low respect for tech employee (feudal style treatment of owner/worker) compared to Silicon Valley was obvious (although they are propagandized to thin
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by tgma 2y ago
If the policy were that precise you would not need humans.

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