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by ceras 3y ago
Neither the iOS app nor the web app use Kotlin at DoorDash. Kotlin was picked for other reasons (consistency with the Android app wasn't mentioned): https://doordash.engineering/2021/05/04/migrating-from-
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by ceras 3y ago
Starlark, used in Bazel, is in that vein, though goes a bit further by supporting functions (with many restrictions): https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/tree/master
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by ceras 3y ago
Yes, they're exempt.
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by ceras 4y ago
In adult language learning, practicing pronunciation early is far, far easier than fixing it later. Correcting bad pronunciation habits is extremely hard once engrained, but learning it the right way early isn't as hard as people think
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by ceras 4y ago
EA isn't limited to utilitarianism. A very substantial amount of people in EA would not consider themselves utilitarians. And of those who do, it's very rare to find a "pure" utilitarian with no deontological bent and th
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by ceras 4y ago
> suburbs are perfectly walkable anywhere in the northeast. Cities less so due to crime This isn't true. I've lived in and visited plenty of northeastern suburbs and cities. The suburbs are largely not walkable: no sidewalk, lo
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by ceras 4y ago
Curious, does this apply to romantic partners too? Personally, I'd be sad if my wife didn't share things troubling her that she didn't need my help solving. I like knowing how she's feeling about things. But at work, I u
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by ceras 4y ago
Layoffs do sometimes happen this way. I was an EM at a company with layoffs where line managers were not told at all about layoffs or included in deciding who to lay off: all discussions happened at the director level and up.
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by ceras 4y ago
That's what the article is arguing for -- delay school start by 1 year for boys, which they call "redshirting." Key argument is towards the end: > One striking study, by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach of Northwestern and Eliz
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by ceras 4y ago
Why not both? Work is ~40hrs a week, so it's nicer if you have the option to enjoy it. There are other software jobs with similar pay to Google, but with more rewarding work. Win-win to switch, if that's what you're looking f
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by ceras 4y ago
> at a time when cities are in decline Do you have a source for that? Here in NYC things seem as popular as ever, with record-breaking rents due to high demand. Is it different elsewhere? Regardless, even if it's true that some citi
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by ceras 4y ago
This doesn't really match my experience for my own career or as a manager. Plenty of great engineers don't have a plan beyond "learn and get better," including those that have traditionally-successful careers (e.g. direc
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by ceras 4y ago
Most of that is growth, not churn. Alphabet has hovered around 20% net headcount growth per year for awhile, per their earnings reports.
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by ceras 4y ago
IIRC the rumor leak around that was more nuanced: the leaks reported someone allegedly saying that market economics may not ultimately be able to support more than 2 leaders, because the economics will make #1 and #2 able to profit at price
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by ceras 4y ago
Princeton tried exactly this while I went there ("grade deflation"), and it didn't go well. They sent a letter to places like med school admissions alongside transcripts, but it wasn't enough. Ultimately, they abandoned
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by ceras 4y ago
The taxi industry had it figured out only on a smaller scale. Rideshare reaches more people and rides than taxis did. In most of America, taxis were never a serious option outside of niche use cases like getting a ride from an airport. Even
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by ceras 4y ago
If they're issued as double-trigger RSUs then you're only taxed when they're liquid. That's because they aren't really yours till a liquidation event.
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by ceras 4y ago
All major US tech company diversity initiatives I'm familiar with measure diversity as percent of the workforce that is black, Hispanic, or female. Asian men don't count toward these goals because they aren't under-represente
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by ceras 4y ago
This might help: https://microservices.io/patterns/data/database-per-service.... Varies by actual DB but: with this architecture, if the DBs are NoSQL then you didn't lose as much by splitting up the database
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by ceras 4y ago
You only need one promotion, L3 (entry level) to L4 (mid level), to not get fired at Google. And the company is quite generous with how long it gives you to get there. L3 to L4 is basically about writing good code on your own, and isn'
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by ceras 4y ago
Caring about anything is inherently emotional. Take human suffering. There's no logical reason to care about it. You can't take someone with sociopathic tendencies and logic them into caring about humans - it simply doesn't m
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by ceras 4y ago
Diversity initiatives in tech have a strong bottoms-up component from a subset of employees. "Self interest" isn't really the point. One motivator is societal good and fairness to ensure that great opportunities are as equall
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by ceras 4y ago
I think you're making a mistaken observation there. It's a skewed data set: of course people who like living in cities will talk about policies they'd like to see to make their cities better, and not complain about ways that
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by ceras 4y ago
> There are prices to pay for living in city centers These are the prices we pay today in the US, but they don't have to be. Other countries like The Netherlands and Switzerland take noise pollution more seriously and show it's
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by ceras 4y ago
I think there's one nuance to add: the test is based on your base rate expectation for how likely the given individual is to have the rare disease. The more evidence you have that this person is more likely to have the disease, the m
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by ceras 4y ago
It's the reverse at Meta: they reward you with more money more quickly than a promotion. This happens when you quickly have very high impact, but it's unclear if you can sustain it. This similarly happens to more junior who seem t
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by ceras 5y ago
Google distinguishes ads on their own properties from ads on other properties in their revenue filings, but they still call this ad revenue. Google Search ads are bucketed under "Google Search & other" in financial statements,
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by ceras 5y ago
That reminds me a bit of Tokyo. It's full of small streets[0] that cars can drive on, but they tend not to because they're narrow and don't have sidewalks, so making cars move slowly. Cars then naturally flow through to the l
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by ceras 5y ago
In a walkable neighborhood, the result may be different. For instance, NYC has a lot of local shops, enough that NY state as a whole has the lowest per-capita rate of fast food chains in the US. And I see multiple local coffee shops here fo
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by ceras 5y ago
No strict SLA is unrealistic for many businesses (imagine NYT going down for an entire weekend), but follow-the-sun could work if employees really want it.

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