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by twright0 11y ago
> I have to praise Google for the way the situation was handled The original creator of the spreadsheet claimed that she was retaliated against in the form of her manager rejecting peer bonuses sent to her.
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by twright0 11y ago
If this is true, why do computers regularly and consistently defeat even the best humans in full games of chess that last dozens of moves?
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by twright0 11y ago
> using taxing authority as a weapon against political opponents (Tea Party thing.) Can you elaborate on this one? I can't figure out what it's referencing.
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by twright0 11y ago
> Successful startups all, and I mean ALL, have serious compliance issues. This feels like a very hyperbolic claim. There are definitely high-profile examples of startups that had compliance issues and are struggling to bring them under
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by twright0 11y ago
> ruined a perfectly good Daft Punk song It's not like he painted over the Mona Lisa. You can still go listen to the original Daft Punk song if you prefer it - it sounds just the same as it did before Kanye sampled it.
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by twright0 11y ago
Bizarrely, I get identical results to yours, both when hitting the center option over and over, and when going back and forth sequentially. Have we both opted out of using our personal data to train our keyboard leaving only the global defa
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by twright0 11y ago
Messages posted on people's walls are also public to all their friends, which I'm sure plays a larger role in reception than the UI they use to consume the message, and certainly influences what you're willing to say.
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by twright0 11y ago
> If Fb goes the MySpace way, how much is that donation worth? If Fb goes the Google way and its value continues to go up, the donation will be worth more. It's true that the donation is of unclear value. But calling it $45 billion
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by twright0 11y ago
This seems like your mental model assumes relatively small codebases. On a codebase with 1m LOC, your estimation of 2500 lines/day still takes ~400 person-days. That's a big investment to put into something that doesn't prese
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by twright0 11y ago
This approach is backwards. This is the kind of problem that is easy for a person, but not for an AI. So if M was an AI pretending to be a human, you could use this to determine that. But in this case, the suspicion is that M is a human pre
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by twright0 11y ago
Nobody used the word "trigger". It's interesting to me that you're conflating pointing out a potential issue (their sarcastic "classy") with being personally upset ("triggered") - what's going on
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by twright0 11y ago
Most 'software guys' have academic backgrounds in computer science, which typically doesn't include anything like engineering ethics. An outright 'Software Engineering' degree might include something like that, but
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by twright0 11y ago
Do you work on "a technology that converts those smoke coming out from factories to oxygen instantly or something that will clean the water or fix the ozone"? If not, why not? I find that I can often understand why others make the
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by twright0 11y ago
There's not a lot of black hat activity, but there's plenty of good- to neutral-natured messing about. The "Wall of Sheep" is a great example; if you send something that looks like a username/password on the public
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by twright0 11y ago
> mortgage rates are dirt cheap and rent versus own pricing is at parity. I think you're discounting the down payment factor. As a single engineer in SF, I could afford the monthly payment on a mortgage, but putting down 20% of a $1
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by twright0 11y ago
> Offer $500 as a 1099 contractor to complete the assignment within the next 2 weeks or so. Just as an aside, I would actually be more willing to undertake this type of interview if you weren't paying me. I don't have any ethic
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by twright0 11y ago
If this is what they were actually doing, and not hyperbole, I suspect you would have a reasonable case to fill out an FCC complaint - see their "Rules and Resources for Dealing with Unwanted Calls and Texts" at https:/&#x2F
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by twright0 12y ago
> like the driving equivalent of a "thought police" society from 1984 -- but automated. Except in this case it's reporting a crime that you have actually already done - you broke a traffic law. It might not be an extremely
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by twright0 12y ago
Google's acceptance rate is well above .01%, just using basic reasoning. Google employs tens of thousands of engineers, which means they would have had to reject hundreds of millions of candidates for the role of software engineer.
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by twright0 12y ago
After a few months of frequently working weekends, Google started giving me directions to work on Saturdays when I stayed at home. I very much like the idea behind this kind of prompt but something like this has so much surface area that it
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by twright0 13y ago
If you're working solely in an environment so minimal and obscure that it can't view a PDF, I think you've lost the right to be catered to (and complain) when it comes to document format decisions. The comparison to Excel is
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by twright0 13y ago
But surely if we can observe that a "free-er and more market-based" approach is working less well than the approaches taken by other countries, we should change our approach? Our dubious superpower status will not be much comfort
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by twright0 13y ago
Silicon Valley interns (in tech fields) are generally paid reasonably well. There may be some cases where tech companies here don't pay their interns but the majority certainly do. The cases of systemic intern non-payment seem to gener
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by twright0 13y ago
"Stack ranking employee evaluations" I agree with a great many criticisms of Microsoft, but this one always strikes me as nonsensical. I was an intern at Microsoft and (while I never participated in stack ranking) it never seemed
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by twright0 14y ago
Unless you happen to be standing too close to someone a human decides to kill with a drone, of course.