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by codeonfire 11y ago
Google's words: "The new logo’s reduced file size avoids this workaround and the consistency has tremendous impact when you consider our goal of making Google more accessible and useful to users around the world, including the nex
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This exemplifies everything that is wrong with tech today. Google and other tech companies have really lost their way if the file size of their logo is important enough to brag about. Is this what passes for technology in 2015?? This is
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Trying to flatter an employer by doing a lot of pointless work is dumb and says something negative about the employers who respond. The "typical" way to ace a phone screen is: 1. be young and just out of college 2. pay more money
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Yeah, lets pretend there is a perfect process and also punish people who own up to mistakes. That is stupidly what most companies do: add more process, make developers stand on their heads. The fact is that certain types of logic errors a
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No, I don't recommend anyone but students attend hackathons. The first problem is they are usually badly executed with limited seating and very bad food. Secondly, no professional is going to allow themselves to be compared with amat
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They might pay a lot but the apartments next to their HQ cost $3300 for a 1 bedroom apartment. That only works if they don't have a family. Housing near Netflix is going to be $5k per month. Employees also have to factor in the cost
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One thing where the Netflix system breaks down is for some reason managers are never found to be useless or relevant. It becomes a small number of individual contributors trying to support a larger and larger management base. The real rea
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First: "I'm sorry I'm on a plane right now." Second: executives don't build presentations. Lower level managers build presentations for executives. Same with spreadsheet analysis. Third: The only reason an executi
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Sounds like a nice stress free, paid 12 hour break lounging in first class to me.
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Management usually thinks engineers are expendable, re-hire-able, and fungible. They think they will just hire some new ones if a need arises.
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You have to understand that the company makes most of its money by selling stuff. One of the easiest ways to get your project approved there is to say "we'll increase sales by xx million." If you just tell the executives th
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If jobs involving coding did not pay as much money as they do, you would see no interest in promoting diversity in coding. There are no 'diversity in construction', or 'girls who pour concrete', or 'hispanic ladies
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Uh, fine? 2008 was banks and people with money sweating. I remember seeing a report that the company's 401k accounts had lost two thirds of their value. Oops. Developers are the plant matter of the business world. Developers creat
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The only thing I would consider a PhD level question would be something that one would see on a qualifier exam. Usually they require specific and deep knowledge that goes beyond what one could get out of textbooks in the field.
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Well, businesses are not as honest as you think. Google would be reading Microsoft emails in a microsecond. The only reason individual people allow a third party to maintain their data is that they usually don't have anything of mone
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Who is stupid enough to give away all their financial information into a random web form for nothing.
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It is a huge deal even if you're competent. No one knows if they will have cancer, and even competent people are impacted by bad policies such as no maternity/paternity leave. This argument that people that don't allow them
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At most companies, the only way managers know how to lead is what they learned with their children at home. They go into the workplace and just do what has worked for them before. They are the parent and the employee is the child. It&#x2
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I'm a software engineer, currently unemployed. I graduated from a smaller engineering school in the US in Math. Yeah, 15 weeks or so of probability and 15 weeks of statistics. Hardcore professors were a good way to learn. I almost
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Yeah just the books I used in school: Ross - A First Course in Probability Rice - Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis Casella - Statistical Inference
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Well I was going to suggest several textbooks but they are all $250 now. Are you interested in just popular math?
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Oh BTW, India has 13.9 million slaves right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_India
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The liberal guilt trip isn't going to work. Liberal guilt is over. It's played out. There are no minorities in tech. That's why any sort of supremacist or exceptionalist tone by anyone is going to be met with criticism.
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Your point? Are you also trying to make a point about the supremacy of the Indian race/nationality/culture?
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So we're doing racist fluff pieces now? Look, generalizations about a race of people, positive or negative, are just wrong. We are going to need an international code of conduct for the industry because people from outside the US obv
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They had 400 employees. So with $5.5MM investment they could operate for a month or two. EDIT: Oh, low wage jobs. Still overhead for W-2 employees is going to be some log_x of payroll.
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You would be surprised to learn just how few people run your favorite web service.
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I'm about to do it because I recognized early on that the vast majority of people in tech don't actually do anything except try to ride the backs of software engineers and other technical people. There are so many people that jus
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Yes, I as a layperson can see all sorts of differences that impose large problems. More mass = larger moment of inertia, slower roll, larger "barrel", and more energy needed. The roll could take 3x longer in a large plane, but o
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Caffeine and "forest therapy." Caffeine is only a stopgap. Impulsive feelings, I believe, are due to the body not getting something it wants like food, exercise, sleep, toilet, etc. Forest therapy is a two hour block of distrac

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