hunter23

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by hunter23 7y ago
Yea but the root problem lies in Larry's management. Larry gave Vic pure dictatorial powers for Google+ without holding him accountable for real results. They gave him way too much budget, control, engineers, etc. And they waited way w
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by hunter23 7y ago
I find it ironic that the author is trying to detail core reasons why Google+ failed when they themselves admit they don't use any social media. While I didn't work on the Google plus team (I was on a different team), the biggest
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by hunter23 7y ago
Cognizant should be banned from the h-1 program for these type of employee abuses. If they were threatened with something like that, they would actually listen since thats how they make money. There should be some principle like "if we
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by hunter23 7y ago
The biggest problem with slack being used for thoughtful drawn out discussions is that it's UX around recall (i.e. finding a thoughtful discussion you had before) is not good. You want to document these discussions. In my experience, C
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by hunter23 7y ago
If they use part of the money to lobby local governments to remove these regulations, it might work.
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by hunter23 7y ago
The problem is that the local governments are not doing their jobs so private industry is stepping in to address the gap (with obviously a biased interest towards their customers, shareholders, and employees). Literally every Bay area gover
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by hunter23 7y ago
I think the Dropbox announcement is a sign that the enterprise has superceded consumer as the 1st priority for Dropbox executives. This makes sense, as essentially they wanted a 10 billion+ valuation and the consumer market wasn't big
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by hunter23 7y ago
I haven't worked at Google in a while. Is this the same Claire Stapleton that was responsible for doing the quirky Company weekly update / TGIF email? If so, it's a bit sad because when I worked at Google (2009 - 2012) she wa
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by hunter23 7y ago
No, options are not the same as shares. Options are a contract that allows you to buy or sell shares at a certain price. The employees are part of the 72 billion. All employees (current or ex) have a lock up period after the IPO where they
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by hunter23 7y ago
There are 80 billion dollars worth of shares that exist. However only 8 billion of those shares were released for the public markets. The remaining 72 billion dollars worth of shares are held outside of the public markets (insiders, vcs, th
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by hunter23 7y ago
This is incorrect. There are lots of cases where profitable companies want to IPO. Specifically the public markets are where you go when you need to raise money at significant levels. Nowadays this happens less often as their are bigger and
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by hunter23 7y ago
Lol wut, I have a 2 bedroom in the most expensive city in the Bay Area (San Francisco) in one of the most popular neighborhoods in the city and my rent (not rent controlled) is 4300. You can get a 3 bedroom with that budget.
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by hunter23 7y ago
> The system should never had become so complex as to need a program. Actually there were bills in congress that would have made it so a program wasn't needed because the government would file on your behalf ( https://slat
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by hunter23 7y ago
The truth is that almost half of our non-sleeping lives are spent in the workplace. We are inherently social animals (if not the most social animal on the planet). You've pointed out that there are lots of avenues for socializing outsi
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by hunter23 7y ago
Ok, I guess I am out of the loop on the meaning of fascism. However, even if I substitute the word "bullying" the statement doesn't make sense to me: "Google employees protesting the makeup of the AI Ethics council appea
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by hunter23 7y ago
Nothing about this has anything to do with the word fascist.
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by hunter23 7y ago
Fascism tends to have these attributes: * dictatorial power * totalitarian one party state * embrace of political violence as a means to silence opposition * strong opposition to Marxism, liberalism, conservatism * radical nati
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by hunter23 7y ago
What is the correlation between IQ tests and algorithm interviews? Do people with better IQ scores do better on algorithm interviews?
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by hunter23 7y ago
Do you have evidence that Youtube Premium is giving a good ROI to Google? I always thought of it as one of their experiments that they will kill off in the not so distant future.
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by hunter23 7y ago
Obviously you shouldn't log passwords, but what kind of security mechanism have been effective to catch this error? One thing I can think of is have some production test accounts that are regularly used and have a unique password. Then
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by hunter23 7y ago
Of course they do, they just value you differently. When companies announce slower growth it impacts their valuation because it impacts the discounted value of their future cash flows.
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by hunter23 7y ago
Yes, one of the biggest drawbacks in the Ruby world is the lack of strong libraries outside of web dev. Python has scrapy, numpy, pandas, nltk, beautifulsoup, matplotlib, etc. Basically if you want to do almost anything (except high perform
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by hunter23 8y ago
A majority of the airbnb hosts nowadays are professionally managed ones at this point. I would say out of my last 10 stays, only 2 of them were hosts who actually lived in them. Airbnb is essentially a hotel operation at this point.
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by hunter23 8y ago
I don't think the process is any different from flying. You get out of your transport and take a shuttle to the closest car rental agency. There are tons of car rental agencies in LA and if there was a high speed train they would open
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by hunter23 8y ago
As I posted elsewhere - the apology misses half of the equation. Instacart was putting a tip section of the app to fool users into thinking that improved the wage of their workers when it kept to stable. So not only were they stealing from
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by hunter23 8y ago
The apology misses half of the equation. Instacart was putting a tip section of the app to fool users into thinking that improved the wage of their workers when it kept to stable. So not only were they stealing from their workers they were
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by hunter23 8y ago
My guess is this was a top down decision from the CFO/COO or head of product.
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by hunter23 8y ago
Is this the same technology that was used by Yipit to aggregate daily deals back in the Groupon/Living Social days? What languages do you support and how are you different from scrapinghub.com ?
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by hunter23 8y ago
The candidate's experience shows how flawed Bay Area recruiting is. This candidate was clearly strong, as they had a 100% offer rate on companies that they interviewed at and almost all of those companies are top tier(Apple, LinkedIn,
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by hunter23 8y ago
How do you propose getting all the trash to this one spot in America in a cost efficient manner? The logistical cost (and environmental cost) of shipping all our trash to one area would be a nightmare. Also how exactly are you planning on p

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