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by vthallam 10y ago
That would be great, as long as the employee is motivated and smart enough to do great work, else it would be difficult for the manager to gauge employee's quality of contribution.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Thanks for the insight, especially about the junior position at LinkedIn. I am an engineer who has run a start up previously in recruiting space and looking for product roles at LinkedIn. Is there a way i can reach out with few questions?
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by vthallam 10y ago
I checked the traffic for the mentioned website on Simlarweb and it is around 750,000 in Nov and 650,000 in Oct, so yeah, considering this is all US traffic, if he had put advts in the right places, these earnings are not really difficult t
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by vthallam 10y ago
Every single day? May be you should come out and meet more people, just saying. Again, you might come across certain incidents where this might be true and there are cases, where they are more educated than an average American and get paid
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by vthallam 10y ago
> It's "easier" to hire because they "agree" to lower wages and its easier to retain them Wow. Why do you think someone on H1B will agree for a lower wage assuming he/she has a good skill set to get into ora
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by vthallam 10y ago
True. Humans definitely will find a way to figure out what to do next if AI takes away lot of jobs. But the important thing is that the rate of which these jobs go. With the recent advances in deep learning or AI in general, the rate of los
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by vthallam 10y ago
I understand the recent security failures of Yahoo must have weakened the company brand name to certain extent, but it's a 2 decade old web company almost every know off, not sure what made the decision in favor of the new name.
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by vthallam 10y ago
This is the exact reason i didn't switch to a pro yet. I love dropbox and all the syncing, but give me a plan below $5 with a relative storage. Google Drive gives 100GB at $2, that would be an amazing start for Dropbox.
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by vthallam 10y ago
I don't think a govt would have any position on this. The law enforcement agencies are actively working on tracking and finding out these people which is how this came into limelight.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Exactly. The use cases and target audience are different. I use my echo dot for playing songs, switch off lights and add random alarm/timer etc. The future not might be voice only, but it will definitely voice intensive.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Google opened up the assistant platform where you can create 'Actions' similar to skills on Amazon. It's only a matter of time, Google Assistant supersedes in 3rd party integrations.
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by vthallam 10y ago
This wouldn't work unless the employer we are talking about is a software/tech company where they can hire remote/setup a office with very less money. On the other side, people who work on industries which are located on cert
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by vthallam 10y ago
But that's the job of the investors, they don't try to hit the returns with every idea. What they look is a capable team who can pivot if that's what it takes to make a compelling product used by millions.
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by vthallam 10y ago
I have no formal data, but salaries in general are mostly about the demand for certain skill set. In the US, there are more tech companies which are fighting for the talent than it's in UK. Also, 100K entry level is norm only in NY and
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by vthallam 10y ago
It's crazy i am seeing this on HN. I feel Yahoo is all worth for the following reasons: 1) 2 decades old brand name everyone aware of 2) Yahoo! has some good products which is used by tons of people like Flickr, Finance, search(12% mar
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by vthallam 10y ago
Except that a few friends work there, i have no relation what so ever.
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by vthallam 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that the latest round of negotiations would cover the part 'what if someone sues, who pays for it?". Also, Verizon got an awesome deal to buy Yahoo for $4 billion and there's no way they will walk away fr
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by vthallam 10y ago
This is great. Finally a separate division with focus and more accountability on the timeline i guess.
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by vthallam 10y ago
I don't think that the newly released Actions always expect a conversation. In scenarios where it makes sense to just reply with an answer you can still do that. I am guessing you just have to use something like 'Hey Google, can y
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by vthallam 10y ago
Forget about this article and consider the video metrics they inflated. They counted a 3 sec play as a video view and that's a big thing. 4 out of 220 is still a big number for a big company such as FB to be wrong at.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Haven't tested Teams yet, but very shrewd move by Microsoft. They lead in the productivity suite with Office/Skype/Sharepoint etc in enterprises and a slack competitor which tightly integrates all their services is a wonderfu
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by vthallam 10y ago
I guess the parent comment means that messenger takes a lot of permissions on mobile.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Guess I'm not alone who isn't good at this. But i now have realized that you have to very few set of close friends than like 20 acquaintances(i know it sounds obvious) and i never miss an opportunity to meet them no matter how bus
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by vthallam 10y ago
Such rant with little stats. > A scanner, to have all your documents scanned > A printer, to get a "printout" of the receipts You only do it once. > A shit ton of patience, since the sites barely work. Check the new India
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by vthallam 10y ago
I don't think anyone in GOI feels Digital India == aadhar. That's only part of it. Digital India is about creating the ecosystem which starts from providing Internet access, digitizing more govt services, creating awareness among
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by vthallam 10y ago
They still do unfortunately. New grad salaries at tech divisions in the banks are low relative to the tech companies. The bonus is again significant if you have more exp.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Really? Sundar Pichai is a product guy and all he is trying to do now is push their AI research and apply existing innovations to all consumer product lines(search,maps,photos,assistant,home,pixel etc) which i think is the need of hour. Sea
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by vthallam 10y ago
My experience is completely different. I've been using Google flights for 2 years now, it always shows me the best price compared to cheapoair/hipmunk. Also I love the clean UI :)
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by vthallam 10y ago
Looks great! Simple and just works. How long did it took to get this done? I've been thinking to just make something like this to learn node and socket.
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by vthallam 10y ago
I have some friends on H1B who work there and also other top tech companies, trust me there's no discrimination in salary. With the extra legal fee, i think it's a burden for them to have people on temp visas.

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