Xyik

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by Xyik 7y ago
Its in google / Nest's best interest to put in common place security measures like MFA or notifications like detecting an unknown device accessing the camera. If I'm paying this much $ for a product, i don't want to have
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by Xyik 8y ago
The issue is not so much white boarding as that is a broad term like others have mentioned. Using a whiteboard is a common part of many jobs. But it is not often that we have to write 100% correct code that compiles on whiteboards quickly.
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by Xyik 8y ago
I believe code design is ultimately subjective. Unlike other metrics like performance which can be easily and definitively measured, you can't easily measure 'good' code. The definition of 'good' changes based on th
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by Xyik 8y ago
Love this thread. I see this a lot, where engineers blindly follow best practices and have urges to re-factor code when its not necessary. Big files are not necessarily bad and I love that a lot of the comments are with me on this. Having t
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by Xyik 8y ago
wish.com | San Francisco, CA | Data Analyst / Data Engineer - User Acquisition | Full Time | - SQL / Hive / Presto - Looker / Tableau - Excel - Experience with large data sets - Python or R is a plus - Comfortable inter
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by Xyik 8y ago
Its sad that everytime there is a post about Facebook the comments are extremely toxic and negative, and don't really even discuss the article itself. I would argue that 80% of all tech companies are doing close to 0 in making the worl
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by Xyik 8y ago
I think try catch is fine with some documentation or commenting around why the developer chose to do so instead of specific handling for all the different possible exceptions.
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by Xyik 8y ago
Why shouldn't people optimize for the number? At the end of the day, people change, and being optimistic or excited about the job today doesn't mean they'll feel that way 4 years from now. Money on the other hand, is quantifi
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by Xyik 8y ago
this is so true, and my experience exactly. one thing i do disagree with is commenting, there is a time in a place and its hard to derive on a rule on exactly where, when and how, but well placed comments are VERY important and can save dev
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by Xyik 9y ago
competition is a good thing, it encourages all competing parties to strive for a better product. from an investment point of view, its a bit similar to Lyft vs Uber ... pretty much the exact same business, but there is always room to eat ma
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by Xyik 9y ago
I work on an engineering growth team that focuses on large-scale digital advertising and can say it does work, for the right business, in the right context. You need a proper analytics team, engineering team, and experience to do it right.
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by Xyik 9y ago
when you climb high grades the rock becomes extremely difficult to navigate and 'grip'. The common example is stacking 2-3 credit cards on top of each other and looking at the edge from the top - thats the size of the rock people
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by Xyik 10y ago
The issue is that its much easier to critique and call out issues than solving them. Most of the time, the individuals involved are aware of the issues already - critique is only valuable once the criticizer has made an effort to truly unde
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by Xyik 10y ago
apparently japan is really good at this.
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by Xyik 10y ago
can you explain a bit about how preferred shares wipe out employee options? thats only in the scenario the company exits for far fewer than its current valuation?
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by Xyik 10y ago
pretty much every big company in silicon valley is known for their engineering talent, since top talent just moves around from company to company (e.g: lots of ex-googlers, ex-facebook, etc).
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by Xyik 10y ago
It's really easy to get ads wrong. The wrong placement, objective, bid amount, bid strategy, targeting, creative, incorrect tracking, poor landing page, etc can all waste your money. But just from looking at the home page of the site y
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by Xyik 10y ago
surprisingly however, video as a medium has exploded recently and with the advent of 'live' and popularity of stories on instagram, Snapchat is in a good spot.
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by Xyik 10y ago
i find it hard to believe that it could do worse than Twitter.
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by Xyik 10y ago
I'm actually super confused by what this is.
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by Xyik 10y ago
Anecdotal, from the small sample size I've seen from working in Silicon Valley.
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by Xyik 10y ago
Many 22 year olds with a CS degree have been coding since they were 12.
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by Xyik 10y ago
Glad to see some sanity for once and people that realize building 'trivial' apps like Twitter and Uber are not feasible 'in a weekend'. Just making sure the app is secure takes months, and security becomes more complex a
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by Xyik 10y ago
Because running the ads team at Twitter alone would take 75 people.
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by Xyik 10y ago
This is basic advertising. Google search ads and referral will bring in higher quality users because search is trigger/intent-based and referrals come from a more trustworthy source (usually), vs. FB ads that basically blast everyone.
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by Xyik 10y ago
interesting, but as others have pointed out, it doesn't show us anything we can form conclusions from. It's just an interesting coincidence or correlation.
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by Xyik 10y ago
> Not until you press return Maybe true for HN, but not necessarily true for other sites like google search / FB search. It's common practice to send all keystrokes to the server to speed up searches.
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by Xyik 10y ago
I don't see why there can't be a public website for civilians to submit cases like this. Obviously there will be complex legal/moral issues, but there needs to be a way to put a spotlight on police who misuse power, as well a
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by Xyik 10y ago
It's time to disrupt police states, hopefully there are start-ups already on it.
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by Xyik 10y ago
Let's be honest, the only reason companies aren't transparent about these things is because of investor/founder greed. Whether or not the numbers are 'fair' isn't even relevant until employees fully understand

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