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by lk145 11y ago
What tax benefits this move might have is my question as well. It seems like if this were purely about internal organization they could have effectively reorganized Google in the same way without making Alphabet (although I'm not an ex
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by lk145 11y ago
Yeah, if we're talking about JavaScript, the explanation should start with promises. It's a pattern lots of people know, and it's a very real-world example. No need to front-load the explanation with a bunch of complication
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by lk145 11y ago
Yeah the Haskell part is mostly tongue and cheek :P I wouldn't use it for any old project but I could see how the benefits of Haskell could outweigh its difficulties in some scenarios. Personally, I like functional programming, but I&#
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by lk145 11y ago
Certainly, it's one experience among many. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
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by lk145 11y ago
Yep, when I see "flat management" I really hesitate to apply. Especially as a minority in tech, I would rather find a hierarchical place with good managers who value good arguments than trust the herd. Unless you have a team of un
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by lk145 11y ago
Could you elaborate about the kinds of things that constitute a major failure? Also, would you say your experience matches those of people you know on other teams with other managers?
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by lk145 11y ago
As someone from a group that's underrepresented in tech, a co-op structure would make me hesitant to apply. I would be concerned that as a minority my voice would be lost. At least with a hierarchical structure I sign on knowing who th
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by lk145 11y ago
I would like to know how they gauge performance too. Some cultures are about the perception of productivity, some are about actual productivity. Taken to an extreme, either case can make for a miserable work environment.
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by lk145 11y ago
That is precisely the point. People with similar qualifications should have similar salaries. The "not great" trends implies salaries were correlated with something other than merit and qualifications.
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by lk145 11y ago
The public schools I attended were far more economically, culturally, ideologically, and ethnically diverse than both my private college and post-college work environments (and you can throw in gender diversity too wrt my work environments)
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by lk145 11y ago
What is your programming interview like? If it's whiteboarding algorithms, it's likely to be eliminating a lot of good people who get nervous, and selecting for people who are good at studying interview questions and coding under
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by lk145 11y ago
Do you have any testimonials from engineers who have been placed with help from Jobstart?
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Why Exercising Is a Higher Priority Than My Career(time.com)
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by lk145 12y ago
If discussions > broadcast then why disable comments?
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by lk145 12y ago
I have told my designer friends in other areas how well in-house designers are paid in the Bay Area, and their response has always been that they think being in-house would be boring and they strongly prefer agency work (despite, in their e
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by lk145 12y ago
Is the price listed anywhere?
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by lk145 12y ago
I totally agree. Ironically I can't recommend LastPass to the people who most need it because they aren't tech-savvy enough to figure out and tolerate the UX issues. I wish it were easier so I could get my parents using it.
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by lk145 12y ago
> "From 5:30pm-8:30pm, I’m not a startup CEO. I’m a dad." <- That statement right there pretty much illustrates my point. I don't understand. Most of the non-founder, regular engineers with kids I know don't even g
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by lk145 12y ago
In that dish is the rice hot? Does the egg end up semi-cooked? I really hate most convenient American breakfast foods because I don't like to eat sweet stuff in the morning. Egg and rice sounds pretty appealing and very convenient.
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by lk145 12y ago
I agree that these interview questions are going to be around for the foreseeable future, so people need to just learn them. But it's still a waste of time -- you have a limited amount of time to devote to learning new technology. You
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by lk145 12y ago
The problem is that irrelevant whiteboarding questions are far more the norm than relevant whiteboarding questions. Most companies interview this way, so if you avoid those companies you avoid nearly everyone. I'm a full stack develope
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by lk145 12y ago
I actually would not be surprised -- I did neuroscience research at two major research universities, and I handled the lab finances as part of my RA duties. Our grants and the university-provided lab startup funds bought the smaller stuff -
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by lk145 12y ago
Apparently You and the author haven't haven't heard of the Rinzai school of Zen, which is not a Western invention. You're espousing quite a narrow point of view of a philosophy that is about supplanting dualistic closemindedn
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by lk145 12y ago
Large research universities offer things that I think you would have a hard time replicating with this model. For instance, a research-grade fMRI facility costs millions of dollars to run and requires a large number of dedicated staff to ma
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by lk145 12y ago
Totally agree with you. I would just use Linux if I could run Illustrator with out any special setup on Linux. Instead I have a MacBook Pro.
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by lk145 12y ago
Synology released a security advisory outlining the affected Synology NASs: https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/security/bash_she...
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by lk145 12y ago
> This talk discussed coding at far more depth than the vast majority of recruiters could do. How many recruiters could tell you about big O time? Binary trees? Breadth first search? Not many. Source https://news.ycombinator.c
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by lk145 12y ago
No recruiter, out of every recruiter I have ever spoken with from Google down to smaller startups, has ever discussed code with me beyond what languages I know and if I have experience writing tests. It is absurd to talk with someone about
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by lk145 13y ago
I was trying to figure that out too, whether they're making money off the hardware or my data. I found their privacy policy but I am still unsure what they're going for https://onlycoin.com/privacy/ I really
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by lk145 13y ago
"So in essence, this is geared towards a micro-niche of tech savvy SF/NY/LA crowd." I disagree. I sent the Coin video to my technology phobic parents in the midwest. They are hesitant to use most smartphone apps and onli

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