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by trunnell 3y ago
Look past the flaws of this particular code of ethics. The better question: Is it time for us to adopt some code of ethics? Many other professions have important ethical standards. Medicine, law, civil engineering, and many other fields.
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by trunnell 4y ago
> Flyctl for AWS Have you tried AWS Copilot? I’m having good success with it. Probably not quite as simple as flyctl, but still it’s only one command to deploy a container. I would really like fly.io to overcome these hurdles.
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by trunnell 4y ago
You're right, this is probably the main problem (rather than the ability to change the content on TikTok.) So you're implying that their future influence operations could be enhanced and better targeted by using profile-level view
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by trunnell 4y ago
Right - it's complicated and nuanced. Some Disney censorship is probably benign, right? This is the argument made by the crowd urging inaction. Consider the recent example of John Cena, an actor in the "Fast and Furious" fr
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by trunnell 4y ago
People underestimate the power of TikTok to influence opinion. Strangely, TikTok makes up a large part of the "information diet" for a lot of people. It's tough to find a great analog from 1930, but I think the postal servic
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by trunnell 4y ago
The executive branch is responsible for foreign policy and national security. This issue is about a hostile foreign government being in a position to manipulate the internal communications and political debate in the US. So it's more
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by trunnell 4y ago
Duh. No reasonable adult (in any country) would go on the record to propose that a hostile foreign government should run any part of their internal communication infrastructure. It's well documented that all companies in China are beh
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by trunnell 4y ago
That's the essence of adaptive streaming - the player continuously selects a video bitrate that can be downloaded quickly enough given the network conditions. That requires multiple video bitrates being available, and each one must be
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by trunnell 4y ago
A few of these are good, but others remind me of that "How To Professionally Say..." list that was making the rounds a few months ago, which was actually a list of snarky, passive-aggressive and shockingly unprofessional phrases.
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by trunnell 4y ago
The OpenConnect team at Netflix is truly amazing and lots of fun to work with. My team at Netflix partnered closely with them for many years. Incidentally, I saw some of their job posts yesterday. If you think this presentation was cool,
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by trunnell 4y ago
Eh, it's more like... exactly what the title says: EVs are just more efficient. 1 gallon of gas contains 33.7 kWh of energy. [1] The average ICE car goes 24 miles on 1 gallon of gas. That's 0.7 miles per kWh (24/33.7 ≅ 0.7).
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by trunnell 4y ago
Former Netflix manager here. Netflix frequently competes for L6/L7 talent against Google, Apple, and FB -- and wins. Look at the detail view on levels.fyi and sort by compensation. They pay extremely well for the best talent. But th
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by trunnell 4y ago
Netflix's keeper test doesn't apply to someone going through a personal problem or other temporary issue. A manager would support them, making sure they get the time off they need. (And Netflix managers are usually very generous
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by trunnell 4y ago
This is exactly how the opening reads to the book No Rules Rules. Erin Meyer, a business professor, has that exact analysis of what "should" happen in an environment like one Netflix describes. But she interviewed dozens of Netf
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by trunnell 4y ago
I can't make sense of your comment. > you don't pay more to person A to entice person B to enhance your team That has nothing to do with the "dream team" idea. It's a metaphor referring to the 1992 USA Olympics
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by trunnell 4y ago
No, not at all. I was there for 10 years and I don't recall any mass layoffs. The article says this is about reducing expenses. Note that the article doesn't say if the layoffs were in Los Gatos or in the Hollywood office, or bo
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by trunnell 4y ago
If 200K sounds high to you, check out the salaries posted on Levels FYI [1] The Bay Area might have the world's highest paying market for software engineers. [1] https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Netflix&a
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by trunnell 5y ago
If pay transparency is the goal it might be better to publish each employee’s pay. That way, at least it’s possible to connect the reasons why someone is being paid more or less (like experience, or extra responsibilities, etc). Few peopl
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by trunnell 5y ago
A "culture of approvals" is one root cause of this situation. Something needs to be done, but instead of doing it an engineer asks someone else for approval and doesn't receive it. Healthy teams don't work that way. In
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by trunnell 5y ago
Sorry to tell you this, but it sounds like you have a bad manager. Your story is like not how healthy teams operate, which in my experience actually are much more like the post you're replying to.
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by trunnell 5y ago
Why do you say it'd be a bad idea to store frequently accessed experimental data in Google Drive?
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by trunnell 5y ago
Think of profit as a natural way to make an activity self-sustaining. And if a product is profitable, it likely has an authentic reason for continuing, namely that it’s creating value for customers. Now, of course, judgment is still requir
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by trunnell 5y ago
When I've recruited people somewhere within their multi-year vesting schedule, I've found that they absolutely hate the "golden handcuffs." It leads them to resent their employer and ultimately motivates them to leave.
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by trunnell 5y ago
> this move seems reminiscent of Netflix's pay structure, in the sense of offering a higher cash portion but lower equity. Netflix gives you 100% of your total comp in whatever form you choose: all cash, all stock, or any combinati
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by trunnell 5y ago
Ok, maybe a better way to say it is that having teams independently develop services is a good way to reduce the coordination tax if you have high coordination costs. If your environment doesn't have that problem I guess this doesn&
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by trunnell 5y ago
I assume you're referring to the visualizations like the ones halfway down this post? https://netflixtechblog.com/vizceral-open-source-acc0c32113f... It wasn't really a horror, and those charts are a little misle
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by trunnell 5y ago
I'm curious about the difference between free speech and the right to a megaphone. From what I've gathered, the problem isn't that social media publishes harmful posts at all, but rather that social media promotes bad pos
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by trunnell 5y ago
> A path out of the dark forest, or at least towards finding a guiding light that could illuminate it, lies, in my opinion, in improving the current provenance system through algorithmically-aided positive reinforcement and better docume
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by trunnell 5y ago
> The problem in today's space is that WE CANNOT KNOW! The infrastructure for documenting and fighting scams simply isn't there. We're not capable of resolving disputes... This is an obvious problem to anyone familiar with
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by trunnell 5y ago
Former Netflix engineer and manager here. My advice: Start a greenfield project using what you know (unless your main goal is learning) keeping things as simple as possible. Microservices is more often an organization hack than a scaling h

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