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by bluedevilzn 4mo ago
He specifically mentioned that Geoworks got Acquired shortly after he was already at Amazon So, he actually did go through the multi-stage interview pipeline. Just because you can’t read well, you don’t have to be so cynical.
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by bluedevilzn 8mo ago
This is AI slop. >This isn't just a cute analogy. The octopus nervous system genuinely solves the same problem. >Let's talk real numbers.
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Yann LeCun: New Vision Language JEPA with Better Performance Than LLMs(arxiv.org)
10 points by bluedevilzn 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
The stock on the other hand…
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
Yes… If you read the comment, you’d notice that there were no loans involved whatsoever. If you can’t rent or buy a car without a credit score, you should only be allowed to buy a gun until you have proven that you’re a trusted member of th
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
I moved from Canada to California for a new job with a mid six figure salary. I had a very difficult time finding a place to rent as I had no credit score. Only places that were available without credit score was a room to share. That was n
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
That too for $1.5 million. 99% of Americans would picture a mansion when they think of a $1.5 million home.
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
Jobs created iAd. He hated bad ads. Here’s him announcing and talking about ads in WWDC: https://youtu.be/eY3BZzzLaaM?si=Dttc5eJJ1B7Zf3sB
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
> And all that with wages well below even the local market in our crumbling Third World economy. With no exciting research positions nor self-managed time nor compensation, what was the advantage over a high-paying job at Microsoft or IB
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
Yes but this exists - ads.apple.com
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
It begins...
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
The biggest mistake tech companies have done over the past 2 decades is not spending enough money lobbying. Every other industry manages to stay under the radar by continuing to pay both sides. Tech industry never got involved in politics s
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by bluedevilzn 1y ago
Except paying more for a service doesn’t guarantee better service. I have hired local handymen at $75 per hour and they have been equally bad with fake reviews.
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
Except the movie came out in 1989. Trump wasn’t really well known in the media when the movie was written. There wasn’t even a trump tower.
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
Parent comment is the quintessential example from the article that most people who know git didn't learn git properly.
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
This is due to ad blindness. The Previa ads were always there but that was the first time you noticed it because it was on your mind.
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
Many thousands of Sr. Staff engineers+ and Sr. managers+ across FAANG. Google alone has 4000 directors all making a million at minimum. I have only worked at FAANG across my nearly decade long career. So, it’s a biased but very large sample
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
Working 40 hours and making 7 figures, gives you plenty of time to have a life. The key here is not to categorize as a “language developer”.
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
I think you a missed a 0 there. $100 is insultingly low for a 4 hour assignment.
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
It’s lucrative if your bar is 6 figures. No engineer that makes 7 figures calls themselves a ruby developer with the exception of DHH.
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
This must be the first real world use case of HE. It has generally been considered too slow to do anything useful but this is an excellent use case.
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by bluedevilzn 2y ago
Helen Keller is the counter point to this. She’s obviously intelligent and had no sights or sounds as input but only texts.
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10M Context Token Window(medium.com)
1 points by bluedevilzn 2y ago|0 comments
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by bluedevilzn 3y ago
Also Canadian here. PhD might be a stretch but there’s absolutely a large number of Uber drivers with a foreign masters.
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by bluedevilzn 3y ago
Ownership is good and it helps but that’s not what’s actually required to get promoted to L4.
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by bluedevilzn 3y ago
It’s a secretive quant fund in California. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGS_Management
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by bluedevilzn 3y ago
This is most definitely a LARPER
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by bluedevilzn 3y ago
Greg just quit too: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
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by bluedevilzn 3y ago
When I was at Amazon, I thought this was an insane scale. Then, I joined Google to learn how they serve couple orders of magnitudes higher.
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by bluedevilzn 3y ago
I did that half a decade ago and got nearly 2x the original offer.

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