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by vikinghckr 7y ago
So you have a problem with a fast-food restaurant trying to sell fast foods?
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by vikinghckr 7y ago
Well, if you own a car just for commute, it's sitting idle for 23 hours out of 24. Whereas the Uber/Lyft driver is using it for 8-12 hours a day, and the overall ownership/maintenance cost is not linear with usage. On top of
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by vikinghckr 7y ago
One thing not mentioned here is how it will impact customers, and who these customers are. These regulations will result in higher fares for customers and those customers overwhelmingly tend to be people who can't afford to buy and mai
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by vikinghckr 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but I feel like when people talk of STEM as a lucrative field of study, they tend to imply CS. Non-CS STEM field hardly have a shortage of qualified and talented people. In fact, there's probably a oversupply compar
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by vikinghckr 7y ago
I don't doubt that Nadella is humble, and so is Microsoft under him. But my point is they're not in the least bit ambitious technically. They are not trying to make any product that's the best in the world. The old Microsoft,
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by vikinghckr 7y ago
Sure. Making an effort to recruit the brightest minds means first of all paying them like your competitors are paying. Giving them similar perks. Giving them challenging things to work on. Giving them good promotion paths within the company
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by vikinghckr 7y ago
How does that follow? If what I say is true (and it is, just talk to software engineers who work at these big companies they'll tell you the same), then it means Microsoft have done nothing under Nadella that's ambitious or challe
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by vikinghckr 7y ago
They're writing code obviously, but they are happy hiring mediocre programmers these days for their boring, mediocre products. They pay far lower than Google, Facebook and Amazon do. They make zero effort to recruit the brightest minds
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by vikinghckr 7y ago
Sorry, but this so called Microsoft revival under Nadella is pure marketing, not in the least bit technical. Under Ballmer (and Gates before him), Microsoft were a super ambitious company that tried to be the best at everything it did, and
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
After years of switching between programming fonts, I finally settled on SF Mono. Not planning to switch any time soon (and hopefully ever).
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
That's not necessarily a bad thing for consumers if the replacement product is just as good or better than the previous one.
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
There are hundreds of thousands of developers around the world who dream every day about working at Google. If you think a few dozen engineers aren't replaceable by a company like Google, you are wrong.
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
> a company that adds so little value to human life (at least in its current form). Only place I hear this is on Hackernews and Reddit. It's not a coincidence these are two sites where a huge portion of users are socially awkward s
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
> 80% of Googlers in NYC will probably have lower lifetime earnings than firefighters or cops once you factor in pensions No way. How much do you think Google entry level fresh graduate engineers earn in total compensation?
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
Thanks. This news is a pretty big deal then.
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
Ah OK, I wasn't aware. In terms of purely engineering talent, how would you rank Google's Mountain View, Seattle, NYC and London offices?
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
Well, problem with Orlando etc., as opposed to NYC is it would be harder to attract elite talent there. In fact, it will be hard enough to attract talent at NYC when most tech companies are still in SV.
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by vikinghckr 8y ago
If it's going to make NYC a major engineering hub, on a similar scale as Mountain View, then it's a huge deal. If it's going to be mainly non-technical roles, then meh.