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by xxcode 7y ago
He can easily get a job that pays 10M a year
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by xxcode 7y ago
Peanuts
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by xxcode 7y ago
Nadella was a Program Manager at Microsoft.
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by xxcode 7y ago
This is the best comment here. Would love to understand more about the 'hollowness'. FWIW, they have a nice new building there now (Maki).
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by xxcode 7y ago
It's investor money
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by xxcode 8y ago
Unfortunately, I always thought Neri's work was BS. Perhaps I am not imaginative enough. But thats what I think. Its BS. Nothing works. Maybe its interesting design, but it didn't appeal to me.
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by xxcode 9y ago
I think you can still do a 20% project. This was about the performance systems, and not about workload. Workload is easy peasy. Its almost a sinecure for most people because all you need to do is to optimize for promo.
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by xxcode 9y ago
Thank you. This is a good point. I deleted a submission that had my email address. Perhaps they will black ball me but I dont think I said anything that was libel or false. I just shared my opinions.
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by xxcode 9y ago
Agreed and I did. I quit Google this Friday.
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by xxcode 9y ago
Why don’t you work for google for a bit and experience it first hand. You can probably go back to your present job later if you want. As senior engineer at google, it is definitely 75%+ politics and project management and 25% technical comp
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by xxcode 9y ago
If you transfer, you don’t get promoted
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by xxcode 9y ago
I work at Google. It is the most unpleasant place to work, largely because work evaluation is almost 80% politics (might be 100%). I am a senior engineer. You get stuck here because the pay you better than elsewhere, but I think it is a ver
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by xxcode 9y ago
Whats wrong with a Google search?
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by xxcode 10y ago
interesting titbit: aaron's dad (Bob Swartz) worked as a patent attorney at the media lab. Not sure if he still does, but he did. some external reference: https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/aaronsw-2013-03-12/
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by xxcode 10y ago
Not sure which Feynman biography you are alluding to, but if you're talking of his anecdotes - "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman", I don't think those are really honest bio. They dont talk about the incredibly hard
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by xxcode 10y ago
Databricks is one the companies that raised money from In-Q-Tel. Given that there are likely to be multiple Turing award winners from that company, I'd say its money well spent.
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by xxcode 11y ago
I would go to Marvin's lectures - they were in the evening, like 7PM or so. This was early 2000's, and I was a grad student at MIT. I went to Patrick Winston, and asked him if it was worth going to Marvin's lectures given tha
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by xxcode 11y ago
Thank you.
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by xxcode 11y ago
Skills: C++ Development (with some C++ 11 experience) Windows Development (Visual C++) Javascript (some experience building reactive pages) learning Android. Speech User Interface Expertise
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CS PhD from UC Davis, Failed Startup, Seeking Job
2 points by xxcode 11y ago|6 comments
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by xxcode 11y ago
For me going to school and majoring in CS was a exceptionally enjoyable experience. I did not think about jobs. I didn't even think of being a programmer. I took a liberal arts view to computer science - it taught me how to think about
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by xxcode 11y ago
btw, huge congratulations to the team there. Really awesome people.
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by xxcode 11y ago
Why would they choose no-name investors? Maybe these investors are the new A16Z
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by xxcode 11y ago
Keep leaning in.
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by xxcode 11y ago
yes - this is the kind of BS that I alluded to because he is working with Neri Oxman. Neri is an architect who says her work is 'biologically inspired'. BS Central.
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by xxcode 11y ago
The problem here is that he is joining Neri's group. Neri is an architect who tries to design articles inspired by biology. It's all wishy washy with her (at-least from the science perspective). So all that enthusiasm is going to
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by xxcode 11y ago
Sorry if this is politically incorrect. I say this respectfully and with the hope that it would be useful to someone who reads it: People typically save money for their kids. The 'mothering' or 'fathering' instincts are
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by xxcode 11y ago
1. Dropbox: NPV is less than 10B. Will probably get brought for 3-4B by bigco if bigco can transcend internal politics. Not sure who will buy them - most probably Microsoft under Ndella. 2. Palantir: I have some experience with working with
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by xxcode 11y ago
I just looked at the Box stock. Google Finance says institutional ownership of 0%. Never seen something like this before - perhaps gFinance has buggy data or else the smart money is not on Box. Perhaps similar story on Dropbox. Not sure whe
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by xxcode 12y ago
We use Microsoft OneDrive which is bundled with our office 365 license. Pretty good. Strongly recommended.

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