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by websap 2y ago
I work in big tech in the US. In my usual daily life, I get to meet extremely intelligent and successful people from India. Ex-founders, Executives, engineers that have built large parts of the software we take for granted - each and every
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by websap 2y ago
That is absurd. In Seattle, I pay $70 for 1 Gbps.
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by websap 2y ago
They just did.
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by websap 2y ago
Final update - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap... He's being allowed to continue graduating.
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by websap 2y ago
Wait! What! I sort of understand the part they wanted you to shutdown the website. Maybe its a copyright issue, even though the website only showed dummy courses. I don't understand why they'd not let you sign up for classes to gr
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by websap 2y ago
A random company is able to claim copyright infringement for one of the most beloved YouTube channels. WTF is going on at Google and Youtube?
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by websap 2y ago
Because people have been conditioned through the media to believe that once the Billionares get taxed, you're next. We're at an unprecedented levels of wealth inequality in America. Billion dollar businesses built on tax payer mon
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by websap 2y ago
A higher price is more accurate than the pretax price
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by websap 2y ago
I've been working at FAANG for the past 10 years, so this made me absolutely chuckle! I can totally image a PM somewhere calculate the negative bps for this and call the experiment a failure!
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by websap 2y ago
I will take the blurb which says taxes are an approximate calculation based on web browsing data available, vs, no taxes shown. We're gate keeping good features for large % of users over some edge cases.
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by websap 2y ago
Yes, because my IP address doesn't give them a way to calculate tentative taxes? My IP can be used to serve me ads, but not serve me actually relevant information? There's a very small % of traffic that actually uses VPNs
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by websap 2y ago
Khan has been absolutely spectacular for the free markets. Transparency in pricing (with this law), transparency in cancellation of subscriptions, blocking acquisitions where businesses should fail. The free market shouldn't allow mono
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by websap 2y ago
Is it just me, or is this a really bad website? If I jumped into any of the experiences by clicking the blue dot, it seems to stutter for 2 - 3 seconds before the video starts, there is no audio even though it seems like there should be? I&
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by websap 2y ago
I got a sound system for TV watching that supports Dolby Atmos to watch movies and TV shows at home. It's been great. I rarely go to the movies any more and this makes watching movies great. It also made me realize how bad certain stre
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by websap 2y ago
All media bias aside, what is really like the work culture at Tesla like for SWEs?
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by websap 2y ago
Are they going to make the benchmark available so other LLMs can be compared?
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Ask HN: What contact lenses do you wear as a tech professional?
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by websap 2y ago
Nope, most tech companies use some form of Leetcode interview, whether they call it that or not.
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by websap 2y ago
I think you dropped your tin foil hat on the way out
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by websap 2y ago
Prepare for leetcode and system design interviews. Thats going to be the key factor for breaking through to a tech job.
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by websap 2y ago
What does privacy and safety, have to do with memory safety and CVEs? You are conflating multiple aspects of software engineering. > And Larry Page himself doesn't use G-mail for privacy reasons. I couldn't find anything to cor
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by websap 2y ago
Woah woah! Those are fighting words. /s
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by websap 2y ago
You're comparing a dinosaur to a caterpillar. OpenAI still has to bloom.
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by websap 2y ago
Same going to a coffee shop is now a luxury reserved only for vacations, or if I want to meet someone outside home. Starbucks has become my goto, because of their app, ubiquity, and consistency. Coffee culture, similar to wine culture is bl
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by websap 2y ago
There should be some sort of cap on tips. My friends and I went our for dinner last weekend and we ended up spending around $600 for dinner, there were 5 of us. They automatically added 20% , $120 as a tip. We spent about 2 hours at that re
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by websap 2y ago
We're moving to a world that most restaurants won't have servers taking your food and drinks order. This is already happening in Seattle, multiple spots are now counter style ordering, you order, get a number and someone just come
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by websap 2y ago
It would be interesting to see how well does a human do it? Are they correct more than 99.9% of the time?
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by websap 2y ago
I've always enjoyed Julia's articles. I know she quit her job to do tech writing full time, but is that still true?
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by websap 2y ago
It's not aesthetically pleasing to wear 2 watches.
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by websap 2y ago
The thing is I do use the Apple watch during the day. So having 2 different sources is going to be a problem.

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