googlemike

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by googlemike 7y ago
Someone didn't get an offer!
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by googlemike 7y ago
As a person who came to America legally, as an Immigrant, I seriously do not want this. How is this at all fair to those of us who had to work so hard and wait so long to get in?
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by googlemike 7y ago
Java is a wildly successful language, and I find the title to be rather clickbait-y in that it attempts to be polarizing for no reason. Original sin implies a failure, and the author (of the blog) discusses a nuanced design choice of the la
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by googlemike 7y ago
Resolution has very little to do with object detection and obstacle avoidance. (not saying Musk isn't full of shit)
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by googlemike 7y ago
In my experience on services with billions of users - no one knows the whole thing. There are potentially thousands of hops in a roundtrip of a given system from the user to some source of truth and back. The larger companies grow, the more
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by googlemike 7y ago
Where have I done those things?
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by googlemike 7y ago
I am surprised you learned so much about me from my comment! Let me clarify a little: I am significantly older than 22. I had to drop out of university to provide for my ailing parents and to support my sister. I've spent more than a f
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by googlemike 7y ago
My Amazon interview was the most ridiculous experience I have ever had interviewing anywhere. That round I got offers from Facebook (insta), Google (team matching said maps), Uber (eats) and a few others but not Amazon. At Amazon, I pulled
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by googlemike 7y ago
There are dozens and dozens of ways to migrate data in databases without the (2) choices you presented (alter table and schema change).
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by googlemike 7y ago
Threads like this made me with HN had a 'verification' system for certain (opt in by poster) posts a la /r/AskHistorians/. If you are not familiar, therein any comment not made by a verified user or not following ex
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by googlemike 7y ago
Please provide scientific proof in the form of peer reviewed research or delete your comment. There is no room for these kinds of wild and ridiculous statements without proof.
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by googlemike 7y ago
I've yet to see a single legal use case for bitcoin.
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by googlemike 7y ago
How should one interpret it then?
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by googlemike 7y ago
From wikipedia: From December 1942 until VJ-day there were relatively few enlistments into the armed forces as restrictions against the direct recruiting of men in the age group acceptable for service (18-37) were in effect. There were, how
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by googlemike 7y ago
Why does that matter? Why do we have to inject race into everything?
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by googlemike 7y ago
I like how you paint all the companies from a single country with such a wide brush! You are very wrong - A few Israeli startups that have made revolutionary products, off the top of my head: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by googlemike 7y ago
I found the article to be poorly written and confusing, at least in that it failed to answer the most simple question I had: "What is MMT?" The Wikipedia article seems far more useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by googlemike 7y ago
You, and opinions stated as facts by ignorant people are exactly what is wrong with the internet. I used to think everyone having a voice was a wonderful, liberating new freedom for the whole world. The last few years have really changed my
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by googlemike 7y ago
Why do they need diversity?
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by googlemike 7y ago
I am vegetarian - I find it a nice balance between the two. In your example, drop the chicken, add some salsa and another kind of bean (whole black?). For extra fun, replace the chicken prep with mushrooms or tofu.
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by googlemike 7y ago
"To be sure, many drivers from Uber are still earning more than they could get in other blue-collar jobs in India. The national minimum wage in India is only about $2.50 a day." No substantial article here folks. Just negative sou
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by googlemike 7y ago
Happy to take that bet. How should we do it?
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by googlemike 7y ago
How is it that, no matter what, people will always find a way to blame the US? I think in this case, the country just ran itself to the ground.
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by googlemike 7y ago
I like it at Google!
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by googlemike 7y ago
This is missing so many repos, from so many companies. What a terrible source.
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by googlemike 7y ago
Agreed that markets are very interesting, and agreed that real time price discovery is a thing that happens in markets... But I still fail to see how blockchain is relevant here? A centralized system for managing supply and demand equilibri
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by googlemike 7y ago
Can you provide a single problem where the right solution space is blockchain? Ive thought about this a good amount, and cannot come up with a single use case where current established centralized technology is not a better solution.
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by googlemike 7y ago
$50b in revenue last year is nothing to scoff at. They have levers for profit but instead re-invest every dollar. Your argument sounds exactly like what people said about Amazon years ago.
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by googlemike 8y ago
Whats wrong with running ads for condos in a whites-only resort community? If their internal numbers show that this community has a really high chance of conversion, why should they target something else on a finite ad budget? Can't a
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by googlemike 8y ago
Europe has absolutely no innovation culture and tons of problems retaining founders. Anecdotally, I've found the bar for European engineers in Europe compared to American engineers an order of magnitude lower.

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