cairo140

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by cairo140 5y ago
The biggest feature I miss from Google is the constellation of citc and the distributed build system that revolves around it. Most is described or implied by "Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository" (20
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by cairo140 5y ago
I've worked in JS for around 12 years now and welcome this change of keeping JS as a scripting language but incrementally retiring it for performance-intensive general-purpose applications. To my eye, JavaScript has three applications:
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by cairo140 5y ago
I worked on the vendor (not auditor) side of accessibility audits, which have similar structural issues as security reports. The amount of latitude individual vendors have in shaping the scope of testing, setting cadence/private review
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by cairo140 5y ago
Even if content license holders don't require Netflix to go above and beyond, building sophisticated DRM is a moat against other streaming services. If Netflix can build a sophisticated VPN-detection service, copyright holders will be
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by cairo140 5y ago
There's no secret sauce. The typical aphorisms of software development are generally correct and apply here: * internalize the cost of core changes and don't push them downstream unless you have a really good reason * staff a cor
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by cairo140 5y ago
I worked on the infra team for a TypeScript-based product downstream of the author. His and his team's approach and writings influenced at a lot of my thinking about core development, and I'll always be grateful for having had the
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by cairo140 6y ago
Winners: The investors who bought Airbnb shares at $68 whose shares are now worth $140. Losers: Existing Airbnb shareholders who have shares in a company that could have raised $7B in cash but instead raised $3.5B. In theory, the mispricing
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by cairo140 9y ago
Disclosure: I work at Google. You can consider looking at Glassdoor[1], bearing in mind this includes data from several years ago before the wage-fixing bust and excluding natural growth. Looking at offers that I have friends have gotten at
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by cairo140 9y ago
H-1B applications often exclude expected value of bonus and RSUs (mine does) and can understate comp at bigtech by ~60k (entry level) to ~150k (mid level) to ~300k+ (senior+).
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by cairo140 10y ago
> This is really terrible. Since nobody's name is actually on it, I assume their marketing team wrote it. The founder put his name on it https://mobile.twitter.com/stewart/status/793811616760496128 Agreed
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by cairo140 10y ago
Thank you for the reply again :). I saw your comment previously and I think you make a great point. As much as I criticize the chart for being unfairly pessimistic about equity returns, there is far too much literature suggesting you can ge
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by cairo140 10y ago
To reiterate my comment another time this was posted in a comment thread: I feel this graphic, while informative and delightful, is insidious in its choice of scale and its lack of comparisons. On scale, it colors +3% to +7% real returns as
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by cairo140 10y ago
I feel this graphic, while informative and delightful, is insidious in its choice of scale and its lack of comparisons. On scale, it makes it seem like +3% to +7% real returns is "neutral". This makes it seem like the stock market
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by cairo140 10y ago
I work at Google on the main website as an SWE (non-lead). I have about 1.5 to 3 hours of scheduled meetings a week.
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by cairo140 10y ago
From reading your post, I feel the biggest issue you are facing is that there is nothing differentiating you from the common "wacko" inventor who thinks they have the next great thing. We'd get nowhere if we followed each per
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by cairo140 10y ago
> While Google does make a lot of it's earnings from Ads, Google Cloud is supposed to surpass it's Ads business in the next 4 years. Where do you hear this goal? Google Q2 Ads revenue was $21.5B. AWS Q2 revenue was $2.6B. Googl
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by cairo140 10y ago
When I was recruiting programmers I always read them, though maybe 1 out of every 10 applicants included one. Most companies (including the one I was hiring for) cannot compete on price[1], so they only way they can hire a particularly desi
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by cairo140 10y ago
My numbers (n=1, though this is widely true among the transplants I know) worked out in spite of the cost of living. Here is my math, though obviously the number will vary based on individual. My rent went up by around $2000. At a marginal
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by cairo140 11y ago
I've found nytimes.com content to be great and exhibiting great technical, artistic, and journalistic merit[1]. As a result, I visit it daily and and it's the first time in my life I have a paid recurring news subscription. Howeve
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by cairo140 11y ago
I believe the way Google's hiring and compensation committee's work makes it so that short of bluffing your current compensation, not disclosing your comp is equivalent to saying you currently make $0. In my case, I was already be
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by cairo140 11y ago
We gave candidates an option of a take-home screen (build a web app that consumes our single-endpoint JSON/XML API and renders content) or a live coding exercise (implement a least-recently-used key value cache to store 100 entries). F
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by cairo140 11y ago
Yeah "hit the ground running" was decidedly not the standard for bootcamp grads. This was our more senior unicorn hire. Like any shop though we did have simpler more isolated work that was still needing doing, so we pared those of
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by cairo140 11y ago
Roughly, someone who at the start can work independently on an existing business-critical[1], medium-sized[2] app to first fix bugs without adding major tech debt[3] and then take features from planning to deployment/maintenance, and t
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by cairo140 11y ago
I felt similarly incredulous when we first started searching. I'll add some details for color. Our hiring needs didn't feel too crazy to me. We were a multi-million dollar a year e-commerce shop, I was the first in-house technical
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by cairo140 11y ago
Just sharing my experience here: I've been hiring in SF and found some boot camp grads, usually stronger but still far from mid-career, with expectations around 90-115k. Most of these folks got hired (some of them to us/away from
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by cairo140 11y ago
Can you just have person A supply to personb.com the path to person A's sharing service (in this case persona.com) and craft share links to person A's sharing service pointing to the content from personb.com you want to share? Let
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Kris Bryant, the Baseball Players’ Union and a Lesson for Labor(nytimes.com)
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by cairo140 12y ago
TATCHA - San Francisco - Full time - Full stack web developer We are looking for a Web Software Engineer to join our dynamic, fast-paced team in San Francisco. We are interested in intermediate to principal-level candidates, both as individ
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by cairo140 12y ago
TATCHA • WEB SOFTWARE ENGINEER • SAN FRANCISCO, CA Email careers@tatcha.com. ----- ABOUT US TATCHA is a young, innovative luxury beauty company based in San Francisco with a focus on E-Commerce excellence. We're growing our web team to
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by cairo140 12y ago
WEB SOFTWARE ENGINEER • SAN FRANCISCO, CA Email careers@tatcha.com. ----- ABOUT US TATCHA is a young, innovative luxury beauty company based in San Francisco with a focus on E-Commerce excellence. We're growing our web team to build ou

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