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by yitianjian 6y ago
I would keep in mind that FAANG likely has a much higher percentage of international students and workers, which skews things a bit. It's definitely taking the top talent from all over the world, versus your small web shop in Cleveland
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by yitianjian 6y ago
Big size, low barrier to entry (especially at SDE-1 level) Source: work at Amazon
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by yitianjian 6y ago
The Northeast has a density comparable to Europe. I do agree on the culture issue, however - Americans definitely prefer cars by default. Although in the Washington-Philadelphia-NYC-Boston corridor it may be possible, if there is ever a cul
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by yitianjian 6y ago
They are, but there is still more trust in the government. Speaking for the Chinese perspective - there are objective measures that most people can evaluate to say that their government has been successful. Sure, there's always disinfo
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by yitianjian 6y ago
I think it may be the "working at Amazon" part, considering its been under fire quite a lot in the last few years
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by yitianjian 6y ago
1) These are benchmarks just using a counter - a lot of libraries perform really well using these minimal POCs but fail complete in real world applications (whether due to library performance, missing features, etc.) 2) This is sticking Ang
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by yitianjian 7y ago
I work at a FAANG right now - I received interviews for FAANG, top unicorns (Palantir, Uber, Lyft), quant/finance (Citadel, TS, Jane St), with an unrelated degree (Biochem), average school (top Canadian school), and 2ish YOE at a no-na
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by yitianjian 7y ago
I also feel modern web apps are just much more complex than those from the jQuery era. So codebases have to do a lot more. It's hard to find a 1:1 mapping, as we just didn't expect as much out of the web in those days.
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by yitianjian 7y ago
Quite a few public health professionals have stated that asymptomatic individuals, while infectious, are a very low risk vector. They don't cough or sneeze and the primary transmission rate is through droplets. I can try finding a few
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by yitianjian 7y ago
I saw one really good comment - we'll know for sure if we under reacted, but we'll never know if we overreacted
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by yitianjian 7y ago
There were changes after SARS that led to better containment and reporting measures in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. Sure, the initial cases were clearly messed up, but it has mostly been contained in Hong Kong and Singapore. And with t
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by yitianjian 7y ago
I believe it was declared a PHEIC - Public Health Emergency of International Concern - and this should be the signal that governments need to take measures for containment to prevent it from spreading. I believe the pandemic label is when c
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by yitianjian 7y ago
It's not 2% for younger, it's like <0.5% for less than 40, and something like 10% for older than 70.
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by yitianjian 7y ago
Ophthalmology is one of the "lifestyle" medical specializations - it doesn't have the high hours/stress of many of the other medical paths
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by yitianjian 7y ago
Disagree on yarn - npm is still trying to keep up and the latest releases are doing well Seems like within React, Redux/Apollo/plain is splitting the data layer again too But the yarn/npm is a tiny difference and data layer i
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by yitianjian 7y ago
Also depends on the level you're at. At lower and pure IC levels, sure, but at higher levels hiring C-suite/VP/Director+ is also about changing vision and sending a message. So I can see why having something (that's just
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by yitianjian 7y ago
I would hardly consider Amazon as having an OS - but having actual decent mobile website experience and being a service that requires less use than social media probably helps
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by yitianjian 7y ago
Would love to see a gradually increasing tax on unused/underused property - so small time landlords who lose a lease aren't screwed over but no one should be leaving storefronts empty for years It's terrible in Toronto, you&#
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by yitianjian 7y ago
You never know, something like "The Hand of Alan Turing" might be a fairly decent draw for hiring
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Sidewalk Labs' Public Proposal for Toronto Quayside(quaysideto.ca)
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by yitianjian 7y ago
If it's insightful/interesting - why not? It's incredibly hard to search HN comments via search engines too, but I've definitely come across comments that just made me stop and think.
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by yitianjian 8y ago
If you're recruiting with a specific company and specific team that you love, sure. But I can't imagine committing multiple hours of my time to each random company's take-homes. As a rule I don't really do any take-homes
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by yitianjian 8y ago
Unless you entertain/throw parties!
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by yitianjian 8y ago
The article talks specifically about Indian startups, so I think it's a fair assumption
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by yitianjian 8y ago
I think you have to get really lucky, or really go above and beyond. I've been at my company for almost two years and I've gotten a net 70% raise across this time frame. Although it's only from 60k to 100k CAD so, YMMV especi
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by yitianjian 8y ago
It seems like what he described - he hired more freelancers/contractors at the start of these projects resulting in a ton of expenditures, but as they matured they costs mostly are server-based.
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by yitianjian 8y ago
Plus - housing is fairly secured and unlikely to ever go to zero, it's tied to an asset, and you can invest on loaned principal without extreme risk in case of failure.
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by yitianjian 8y ago
TO be fair, despite the US having some large emptier states, the US has nodes of very high urban density - most notably the Northeast corridor. From Boston to Washington there's around 50 million people, with - depending how you define
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by yitianjian 8y ago
Users actually discover/browse Medium, and will hit content that isn't directly searched through their explore features/algorithms. Hosting your own site means relying on cross-posting/SEO/etc.
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by yitianjian 8y ago
Hey - I've never really heard about the "Church of Pavlina", and Google isn't really forthcoming. Do you mind explaining what you mean a bit?

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