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by tmotwu 6y ago
Again, the vast majority of the 150,000 are not R&D and don't really have anything to do with product development to even matter. Yammer, Satyas QnA - which I'm glad you mentioned because organized groups send a representative
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by tmotwu 6y ago
150,000 employees are not all L5x-L7x leveled or engineers. Not everything in the world gets leaked, so we're only addressing one leaked spreadsheet - of many. Your original claim was that people get fired for this within the week. I r
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Without examples of your claim, how would I know?
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by tmotwu 6y ago
On salaries, I'm really confused - I'm telling you it exists. Heck, it even got media coverage: https://onezero.medium.com/leaked-salary-spreadsheet-reveals... . Do you know anybody getting fired for starting one?
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Yet people do voice and raise their concerns through those avenues. Just because it's underutilized, it certainly counts. Does Google have more than I am not aware about? You can't share your salaries internally at many places thr
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by tmotwu 6y ago
I mean, outspoken internal employee groups exist and higher ups acknowledge them. Satya drives home the empathy and feelings message more than any other CEO. And AFAIK, I don't recall an instance of Microsoft suppressing an employee&#x
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by tmotwu 6y ago
I could not get through the entire article with straight face. It's riddled with fallacies and misconceptions on the problems currently facing self driving. It was especially this horrible take that put the credibility of this article
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Who actually believes reddit is a promising site for children? Unlike Facebook/Instagram, reddit is already 50% pornography with very low barriers of harassment and cyberbullying (due to pure anonymity).
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Not making any sort of argument, just addressing some facts. It's in response to "Would you trust this person to watch your children?" That is why it's not public information. See how it only matters when it's publi
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Who is moderating your child's Instagram posts? As someone who knows some Facebook Moderation TPM's, you might not like the answer.
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by tmotwu 6y ago
This is an extremely valid point. What happened to Pao was an absolute horrible stain in that community's history. The fact that their board succumbed to the mob was a huge let down. Folks don't realize this but from here on out,
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by tmotwu 6y ago
> This is a consequence for past actions This is exactly how people justify cancel culture and/or cancelling others. Before anyone downvotes as they did to OP, I am in no way shape or form defending the person of interest. But unfor
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Parallel programming is not what you think it is. You're right that parallelism is not the answer to everything, but parallel programming is not even a paradigm people use to write basic business transaction logic. Distributed computin
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by tmotwu 6y ago
I would urge caution with that mindset. The HN crowd is as biased as anybody else. While some may have more curiosity and drive towards alternative viewpoints, they are not less susceptible with siding one source over the other. In fact, I
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by tmotwu 6y ago
US propaganda is still pretty subtle, just that the subtlety is becoming less effective at a faster rate than they expected. At least if people realize they're getting fed propaganda, why is that something to fear?
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by tmotwu 6y ago
It's surprising that people think media quality has declined. It's always been bad, possibly even worse before. "Press Freedom" or "Journalistic Quality" indexes have always been awful because it's equival
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by tmotwu 6y ago
> It’s like the new Library of Alexandria. Would be very unfortunate if the S3 story ends like the Library of Alexandria.
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by tmotwu 6y ago
What's wrong with the Surface Book?
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Completely agree. I don't think he should be ragged on for his opinion but he presented his opinion as objective truth, based on logic and reason (everyone else's palate is driven by their cultural guilt???), when it was anything
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Such a weird take. When the likeness of Bourdain and Ramsay are criticized for appropriation, you come up with a completely opposite reality - that some food enthusiasts are simply politically woke. I've lived in both deeply homogenous
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Interesting perspective. I'm on the other end of the coin. Work with mostly C++. Looking at job boards, there are endless opportunities for Ruby and JavaScript positions, not so much for C++ these days. JavaScript will probably be fine
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Pomodoro works in theory but ultimately requires a lot of discipline because it's easy to just ignore the timer. Worse, maintaining half an hour of deep focus just doesn't work for some people, especially the types the article des
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Some software engineers don't know how job roles are named everywhere else. They think it's all just Software Engineer I or II, whatever that's supposed to represent or what their job entails. Meanwhile, EEs split their roles
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Certainly you have to look at causations for that holistically. People have cooked and eaten meat in the past as well. It needs to be further studied on the qualities that has driven our growth in the industrial age. I think we now have a b
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Buddhist societies and the sects formed around them immediately come to mind.
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by tmotwu 6y ago
There's really no way to answer those outcomes broadly because, for the vast majority of human beings, we don't count our calories or compute the macronutrients in our food. It's very difficult to see this unless you perform
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Those arguments always drive me nuts because they're all so bro sciencey, and I'm not even vegan or vegetarian. Sure, meat offers a different set of nutritional value than vegetables - you can most definitely replace it entirely w
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by tmotwu 6y ago
If javascript/non-native CRDT implementations are responsive enough compared to existing algorithms for collaborative editing like OT, what incentives or cases exist to demand high performance native implementations? To be clear, I thi
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by tmotwu 6y ago
Snapshat is far more impressive wrt tech and scale. Clubhouse will never get that far honestly - simply too easy to clone even without Facebook and Twitter.
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by tmotwu 6y ago
I wonder what implications this has for C/C++ in big tech backends. Startups, from what I've seen, have already moved away. No doubt, it will still be around in low latency or embedded. However, this is a significant cut of their

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