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by freyir 5y ago
Still, they’re likely to readjust your comp back up to baseline. You face the opportunity cost of not working for a company whose stock will rise fast, making it worth much more in years 2-3+ than it was initially priced at. None of us have
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by freyir 5y ago
When so much of your compensation is tied directly to the stock price, you also need to make a guess where the stock price will be in 2-4 years compared to your other options. FB is not cool, TikTok is eating Instagram’s lunch causing IG to
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by freyir 5y ago
To save some people the trouble, here are some top-paying companies: https://www.levels.fyi/2020/ This was compiled in 2020 and Meta might move up the list in 2021. It’s worth noting that Netflix does not have RSUs, an
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by freyir 5y ago
Almost everywhere [1]. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/
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by freyir 5y ago
I wonder if this is a misattribution of Zuckerberg’s quote: “I want to stress the importance of being young and technical … Young people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30?" he asked. "I don't know… Young
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by freyir 5y ago
I worry about this myself. I sought out my first “software engineer” job at 36. At some startups where I interviewed, I was already a decade older than anyone else in the room. I ended up taking a job with a FANG company that skews slightly
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by freyir 5y ago
Japan produced a lot of comic books and films, and nerds like comic books and films? Interest ebbs and flows. Korea is perhaps eclipsing Japan in general interest these days. But their cultural export is pop music and boy bands, and their m
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by freyir 5y ago
It doesn’t seem strange to me. Why would a Japanese artist searching for the soul of France not find it? A lot of art is made by outsiders, who see the distinctive elements that insides take for granted.
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by freyir 5y ago
Yes. “For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guar
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by freyir 5y ago
They haven’t actually been decriminalized. Some crimes have been classified as lesser crimes (through Prop 47, for example) and many crimes the DA has simply refused to prosecute. And the police know that making arrests is often pointless i
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by freyir 5y ago
It’s extremely important if you’re a white or Asian applicant whose parent didn’t attend or donate a large sum of money to Harvard.
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by freyir 5y ago
As a transplant from Boston to California, every instance of “Miami” could be replaced with “California” in your comment and I’d be fine with it.
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by freyir 5y ago
Where would that be?
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by freyir 5y ago
New developers write simple but shortsighted code. It gets the job done, but it will be painful to work with in the future. Intermediate developers, bitten by their past mistakes, decide to future proof their work. But they don’t just look
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by freyir 5y ago
Between this and their employee-hostile changes to equity vesting, Stripe went from the company I was most interested in and one that I wouldn’t bother interviewing with.
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by freyir 5y ago
> Advertising is disgusting honestly Again, they give you the options: subscription model or ad-based model. This covers the cost of infrastructure, paying creators, and paying developers. It doesn’t make sense that they or any other com
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by freyir 5y ago
> assuming you have an ad-blocker, which you obviously should Stating the the obvious, but these features were developed by real people and revenue pays these developers, pays for the infrastructure, and pays the content creators. As a
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by freyir 5y ago
We can’t talk about the lab leak theory for the same reason a third of the country refuses to get vaccinated: it became a politicized issue somewhere along the way, at which point people’s brains turn off and their emotions and tribalism ta
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by freyir 5y ago
While I agree with your comment in principle, is any shopper happy with the utterly useless ranking system that everybody uses now? Ranking a 4.9 star item with 500 reviews above a 5 star item is intuitive to many already, and will become
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by freyir 5y ago
“Luring” implies that you’re tempting someone with intent to trap and ultimately harm them. “Targeting” is more neutral. You might target someone with an ad because you believe in your product and expect it will improve their life. But it w
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by freyir 5y ago
Smart, educated people do things that are bad for then all the time. And eating cereal (in moderation) is pretty far down on the “bad things” list.
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by freyir 5y ago
San Francisco already has among the highest number of people placed in supportive housing per capita of any city in the country. How many more people need to be placed in supportive housing in San Francisco before this problem is solved? If
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by freyir 5y ago
Nothing I said above was refuted or mistaken. You claim that her paper was internally reviewed twice and you chose to ignore evidence to the contrary. And somehow you managed throughout to completely disregard Timnit’s own responsibility in
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by freyir 5y ago
Which makes it more likely to be the truth, not less likely. It would be very foolish to write that if it were demonstrably false, as was claimed above. And I have to assume their lawyers aren’t very foolish. But this is all another deflect
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by freyir 5y ago
This directly contradicts what Jeff Dean wrote: “A cross functional team then reviewed the paper as part of our regular process and the authors were informed that it didn’t meet our bar for publication” (emphasis mine).
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by freyir 5y ago
Did she threaten litigation before or after she posted an angry rant telling her coworkers to stop working? Before or after she demanded that the company release the name of an anonymous reviewer? Before or after she told them to schedule h
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by freyir 5y ago
No, there was only one internal review. It didn’t pass, and it was too late for her to make revisions because it was past the conference deadline.
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by freyir 5y ago
It very much does not evaporate. Her paper got got flagged during internal review. There wasn’t time to revise it because she submitted it late. She then wrote an angry rant to her coworkers that claimed she was oppressed and told them to s
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by freyir 5y ago
She submitted her paper late for internal review when it was too late for revisions. It might be the case that most papers are submitted late for internal review, but most papers don’t expressly criticize the employer’s work. That’s an
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by freyir 5y ago
From what I read at the time, she wasn’t fired for the content of the paper (though she initially made it sound like this before more details became public). She gave the company an ultimatum to reveal the name of an anonymous reviewer or s

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