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I think maybe we're not on the same wavelength here: we were provisioning to end user devices, through this. Doctors had iPhones? Here you go, just click this link and now we can install anything we want. Nobody asked if it was legit, they just clicked.

Making this worse would be an Android-level disaster for end user safety.
Why is equality of outcomes desirable? And how is it measurable? Or sustainable?
The metaphor that biological systems undergo continuous renewal and so therefore code should be rewritten not edited i think is actually off, code is the dna and thus undergoes evolution not replacement
Everyone deserves respect. But not everyone can be accommodated in speech. As a woman, I understand the cat-calling issue. It's annoying, and is often disrespectful and uncomfortable. I do often feel unsafe. However, I do not vilify men, and I do not try to pose this issue as a "man's problem". This, for me, is not a men vs women issue, it is cultural and often personal and individual. Some women like being catcalled, most men do not catcall. So, I deal with it on a personal level with my peers.

I specify these points because I do see an "us vs them" mentality in our current social atmosphere, and this is why my comment above illustrated competitive groups.

However, going back to my anecdote above, safety is important in society and we should all work towards allowing others to feel safe. However, when it comes to speech everything goes gray. So, necessarily, some people wish to sort it and make speech black and white. But it's not so. If a man yelled to me on the street, "Hey, beautiful!" I don't feel unsafe, but I will ignore it because I'm not interested and the dude will probably get the hint. If a man comes up close to me at night and says, "hey, you're sexy, where you going?" that man has something else going on and he probably can't be fixed by society screaming at him that he sucks for being a man. But then there's the in-between-- broad daylight, walking down the street, bro yells, "Nice ass kiddo what's your name, where you going?" I'll probably feel uncomfortable (the statement is too sexual and probing), maybe I'll go to the other side of the street. BUT I'm not going to insist that men stop vocally noticing attractive women! Societies always have a sexual component, people will always express sexuality. So it's case by case.
Also, remember there are tax brackets. So you won’t be taxed at 9% for all your salary. If you made 180k, your CA tax rate is 7.53%.
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The author wrote twelve paragraphs, yet didn't care to mention explicitly which nine nations reached a deal. The answer according to NY Times[1] is the following:

> To take effect, the agreement on a high-latitude fishing ban must be signed by all the countries involved: the United States, Norway, Denmark, Canada and Russia, which all have Arctic shorelines; and South Korea, China, Japan, the European Union and Iceland, which operate ocean trawling fleets.

Thank you NY Times for actually listing the countries involved so succinctly. Unfortunately I have to fault your reporting too. Treaties don't take effect domestically until they are ratified by the involved countries legislatures, not are merely signed. Additionally some treaties have clauses so that they don't take effect until the treaty is ratified by some subset of signatories or by all signatories. It isn't clear which is the case here, but the treaty certainly won't take effect from merely being signed by the nine countries and the EU. It may take years to get the various countries legislatures to ratify. US for example has signed but hasn't ratified the Forced Labour Convention of 1930 [2] or a more recent Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989 [3].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/europe/russia-arcti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_Labour_Convention

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_th...
I suspect there's a huge amount of halo effect happening in this discussion. Company makes good product, company gets funded,company hires good designers, company spends a lot on marketing... people go "wow, amazing design!". Other designers write blogs about it, analyzing and glorifying minute details.

Another company makes good product, no funding, unknown, no brand, hires good designers... no one cares.

So, what do people here think of the design of https://draftsend.com/? (I have no affiliation)

Can someone break it down into the absolutely incredible design that it is?

Rant over, here are my points:

- Lots of good designers out there, creating well-thought, delightful experiences.

- Lots of good marketers and copy-writers out there, creating smart, thoughtful copy that makes sense to their target audience.

- Someone asked, "what are other websites that are in the same league as Stripe's?". Oh, tons of them. See the websites of advertising agencies, design agencies, go look up "beautiful websites list" on a search engine of your choice. And, I'm sure everyone here realizes there's no objective measure of "same league as Stripe", or even Stripe's league.

And finally:
Stripe's design isn't great design. It's design that a certain people like. If you're saying it's great, then define for whom.
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Interesting, thanks for the write up.

My post came from the fact that as an engineer in Silicon Valley about 45% of my salary goes in taxes, which is more than if I were an engineer in my native European country (where obviously the pay would be much less).
I've been doing something similar. I name the new method Method, rename the old one as MethodOld and in Method, before the return value, I put an assert(MethodOld(args) == return value). It's one of the things that when I do, I appreciate the value of, but I'm not disciplined enough to do as much as I would like to lol.
As I see it, this episode showed that the humans are also just normal stupid people, and not some high ethical gods travelling space like Star Trek it often displayed. It was not the best script, but given it's first season.
> You tell a CPU what to do, while you tell an FPGA what to be.

That is the shortest and best description for the difference I've ever read. Kudos. From now on I'll use it to answer questions about FPGAs for accelerating.

I used to tell people that you don't design algorithms but a network of operations and pipelines where you stream your data through.
I had a similar idea some time ago, that all the code should be write only. That is, you should always write new functions (and give them new names) instead of trying to rewrite them (if the spec changes, this assumes they were correct in the first place).

I think it's only really doable in purely functional language (like Haskell), though. It sort of means versioning of individual functions, and also types. It's very similar to rebinding values only as opposed to modification of variables.

But naming is a problem. Maybe.. There are two kinds of names of types and functions - intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic name only describes what the thing is (e.g. array.search()). Extrinsic name relates to the problem being solved (e.g. product.findByPrice()). Maybe the functions (and types) that have only extrinsic names should be versioned and short name should be assigned to the latest version.

All in all, I think it's a concept worth researching.
What is CTCI? Search engines didn't return any results that make sense.
I think having a tier 1 college degree matters the most even in getting an interview, atleast here in India. This is from my experience of seeing increasing job posts having tier 1 college degree as requirement and colleagues I know having good college degree having no difficulty in getting interviews(github code, portfolio etc really doesn't matter)
I get where you're coming from and I see that Orville is deliberately trying to be different, often in a good way but even taking later episodes into account, I think this one really stands out in a bad way.

> They SHOULD have lost the trial, and they DID, unlike TNG where everyone can quickly become an expert legal representative within 48 hours.

This isn't about becoming lawyers, this is about the otherwise shown as brilliant and logical crew throwing all their judgement out the window and making arguments like "all these other species lack the issue you're describing, that means yours does too" and making emotional appeals without looking for _any_ kind of evidence.

Look at their approaches to other problems. They're generally pretty rational and apply logic and reason.

> They argued like regular people argue, not lawyers.

But they're not regular people, they're highly trained explorers, often charged with diplomatic missions and making contact with other cultures. Plus they have a ton of science staff and a superintelligent walking computer.

They don't need to be lawyers but they _do_ need to act like they can do their jobs, at least somewhat.

> I agree with your assessment, but suspect that the aloofness was intentional

I agree with you too that it was intentional but I really don't think it made sense. Am I really supposed to expect that the crew I saw in episode 3 is the same crew I saw in the other episodes?

I could believe it if they showed that the admiralty was so disappointed in their performance that they made them undergo additional training between episodes 3 and 4 but that wasn't the case.

> Totally cool if you don't, but if you keep watching you might enjoy it more if you associate the cringeworthy moments with the writers telling you to think about the scene more. At least it worked for me.

I've kept watching it and I've mostly liked it but that episode just really stood out to me as bad.
Many people understand the seriousness of transferring money. Fewer understand the seriousness of installing random stuff. There’s a reason pop up ads mostly promise to clean your computer, not transfer money to your account if you give them the number.
And...?

How did the courts rule on reselling the disks separately?
Other people on blind don’t know who you are when you post.
Usually when I want to simplify something I do a copying garbage collection of code. Manually shifting the good stuff from the old version to the new version, this means all code gets reviewed, and poor code gets left behind.
Because sometimes you have to explore a space to figure out if it’s any good. No point arbitrarily adding stuff to the language if it doesn’t turn out to be that useful.

That’s how you end up with situations like ‘null’.

Some of these extensions are nuts, too. They can make the type system behave in ways where it basically has to multivariate solve or do things that are overly clever. You probably don’t want that most of the time..
I live in Europe so things are different. As such the maximum dosage that is allowed in food is 0.1mg per kg of body weight and per day.

Thusly my argument on dosages in final food products hold and I feel fairly comfortable. I suggest either petitioning the FDA to introduce food safety standards or moving to another country with food safety standards.
Because Walmart has to play nice with the studios to keep their supply of wholesale movies coming.

The difference is, in this case at least, RedBox is buying their movies retail. So Redbox buys Disney movies just like you and I do, from a store shelf.
How is this going to be achieved? As far as I know, programs have no say on whether a DLL can be injected into their module list / address space by an elevated process.
Where are you in Texas? I'm in Houston, and those numbers don't jive with my experience (since 2000, making $30 an hour in the lowest paying jobs, and making well more than that on a regular basis)
http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/
Hah, that assumes their current employer will let them go to conferences.
Huge as in like 7-9% of their sign on bonus for living in SV.
I think I'll put it on my last will that if I was to be crushed by a truckload of cherries, the phrase "the dosage makes the poison" must be mentioned during my funeral.
The basic idea is so awesome. But to see that someone does this close before his regime ends, oh well.
None of these things are true at Google, Facebook or half the other places on OP's list. These companies will not fire you at will. You will go through at least 2 cycles of poor reviews and a performance improvement plan, it should be obvious at least a year out that you're not cutting it.

All of those companies have great benefits and generous holiday time. Some people have an oncall rotation, but they know what it is ahead of time. Others don't.
Yeah, same impression here. Though it seems slightly aggressive for two years non-ivy.
Can someone explain what RSU's are? I'm assuming its something specific to being American and since i'm not i'm afraid i'm not familiar with the term.

Thanks
For sure warp would seem to count!

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/warp
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Which is in my opinion dangerous, the payer of the money is your average consumer who are regularly falling for spam mail from nigerian royalty.
Check out the builds here [1]. I used this mobo for a NAS build recently since it has ECC support.

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True, if big.

Anyone could write up such a Blind post. And when it comes to anonymously bragging via lies on the internet, there is no shortage of prior art.

To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if the growth rate of engineering applications to these bigcos has declined over the past few years. A decline in the supply of candidates relative to demand, among other factors, could lead to an increase in compensation per offer.

That being said, I'm still leaning towards this post being BS.
Keeping everyone equally poor and miserable is an easy way to achieve this
I still find it a little hard to believe... When I was a new grad, I got offers from several of the companies you listed, and the comp didn't come close to OP's post. I can't imagine 2 years of experience and some negotiating changes the compensation that drastically.

Google, for example, offered a base salary just over 100k. Is the difference between level 3 and 4 (what I assume 2 years of experience gets you) really ~60%? The annual RSU difference is also drastic, as OPs offer was 100k in stock annually.

Note: I'm calculating the 60% by looking at annual salary + stock + target bonus each year.
One tangential point is that earning a scholarship seems to increase your chances of winning another. I recently heard on the local news that X student had earned a prestigious scholarship, and that he had previously won multiple others. What's the use of giving away a lot of money and recognition to someone? When is is "too much"?

Scholarship resources being limited, you should maybe get less chances to win another scholarship after winning one. Then you'd get more people with scholarships, and maybe some of them would get the confidence boost they need to actually perform instead of work stupid jobs.

One particular case I always thought was especially unethical is for some people to win scholarships and then change branches entirely. I.e. to use the scholarship for an application to med school, or law school, or whatever other program they didn't get into.
Is working in a company with 70%+ men really a bad thing, or are you just leaning on existing cultural biases?
If you added a button to Firefox (or Chrome, or IE, ...) that gave JavaScript access to your filesystem when it was switched on, would you expect user security to be unaffected because nobody would be tricked/pressured into turning it on by web pages? Remember there are many people that not only don’t know what JavaScript is, but don’t even know what a filesystem is.
> Texas probably isn’t going to give you much room to grow in the tech world.

Outside of Austin, Texas definitely isn't a tech hub, but there's tons of work in energy and health care, and the pay isn't bad. Your average tech worker in Dallas or Houston is probably on par with the average SV tech worker, when you adjust for cost of living.
How does this jive with the Silicon Valley trope that ideas aren't worth very much in and of themselves, but the people and teams who can execute on them are?
>We have a shortage on one side of the market. It will be relatively short lived.

Can you support the latter claim?
These are insane compared to the UK.

17 years ago I started out on £21k, which was considered pretty reasonable. Two years later I switched job and got £35k and over the next few years until I hit the 10 year mark I pushed it up to almost £50k. At that point AFAICT I was actually doing better than average.

I'm now contracting in the financial world, earning well over twice that figure, but while I can match the salary the various otions, bonuses etc put a guy two years out of college in SV well ahead of the game.

I like the bay area, too...
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"Restricted Stock Units" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_stock .

It's basically company stock you get after you've been there awhile.
Or working in a coal mine with over 90% men?
> We do a pretty good job at identifying the kids who are good at throwing a football or playing a trumpet

The number of kids who are trained in sports yet never reach the professional level is absolutely enormous, and it has far-reaching consequences for them.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/oct/06/football-bi...
"Restricted Stock Units". Company grants you the $$$ worth of stock, but access is spread out over time (i.e. 1/8th of it every 6mo over 4 yr)
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Cracking the Coding Interview. It's a book by a software coder about how to pass code interviews at places like Facebook and Google. I suspect the author makes more money on the book than she ever did as a coder.
If so few people want to live in a city that there’s no contention for housing or presssure to increase density, then it isn’t healthy. Even without newcomers, a healthy city would be reproducing at least slightly above replacement, so it would still need to grow.

Granted, most American cities are this way. That’s because they are shriveled ruins of their former selves thanks to White Flight and deindustrializaton.
The Don Berwick December 1999 speech mentioned in the article is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00aa6xcOXf4
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If you are applying local you can go to meetups and meet people and easily get in to interviews. The hard part is if you want to go to another city and have no contacts or networks. You can't really go to meetups there before you move. I've had to move twice for my wife's job, it's brutal losing two networks. Luckily I was able to work for my previous companies remotely. Then when I wanted to move on I attended meetups and got connected with the right people. Finding work remotely is also an option but it's really difficult getting responses. They get flooded with so many applicants you probably won't even get a reply.
Most people/families in the US don't hire nannies...
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Not entirely true, if you buy products for commercial use you might still be able to get something that will last and be possible to, and worth repairing.
That trope is sort of bullshit. Both matter.

It does apply when the idea is some kitschy social media thing but not so much when it's a real key innovation.
Google in Australia does pay AUD 130k base with USD 80k in RSUs for someone with 2 years of experience. Not comparable with US figures, but still pretty decent.
LD_PRELOAD is a pretty decent tool to have in your toolbox when debugging, and you can't fire up lldb/gdb.

I've used it in the past to get an overview of what gets passed to SSL_write, SSL_read: https://github.com/sebcat/openssl-hook
Thank you to those that replied.
As a percentage comparison to your salary, what are you getting in benefits (including healthcare coverage)?

If you're making $200,000 and getting $60,000 per year in total non-base-salary benefits, that makes a meaningful difference in the taxation percentage picture. In my experience, Europeans properly always talk about what they get for their taxes (eg healthcare), while Americans rarely discuss that they get an entire other compensation set to go with their salary and it's excluded from income comparisons (which is extremely relevant, because of how very expensive US healthcare is, ie that it's not cost comparable to other developed nations).
It was pretty miserable - walking the (Vegas) strip was faster than conference shuttles, it was hard to get into sessions you wanted, etc. Even so, I felt I got more out of it than conferences where none of those issues existed. (I learned a few tricks on how to maximize value next year - mostly boils down to better planning)
I think it’s quite dangerous to rely on such simple logic. Great ideas are not worthless and it’s not only execution that matters.
The issues can probably be fixed by writing a bit of a better compiler, HolyC2 maybe?
Given with multiple offers, he didn't drive hard negotiation like this guy. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552780
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I have sent them an email to opt out and received the following response :

"Hi,

Sure, we will record your user ID and your details won't be transferred to other CA, as the alternative CA option is for those who need it.

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No, they are not, and some are useless

Edit: I guess not useless, but over time rendered as anti-features
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/869320/how-do-i-prevent-...
You might enjoy this read: https://medium.com/@chopeh/the-state-of-design-ff5142fb806
Probably won't pop up anymore, he quit TempleOS, deleted most of the website, went on some trip to nature and has been arrested last I checked.

It's quite sad to not be able to see such dedication to a project.
> When I watch a movie, I don't care if the camera was pointed at real events, or if it was CGI.

We call something conscious because it actually thinks, not because it can fool human beings into believing it does.

The foolishness of a human audience is not the measure of all things. Whether neo exists or not matters.

We have moral obligations to thinking things, we have none to non-thinking things. etc. We have none to fictional things.
You're as wise as your username.

To add to your points, money used to invest in experiences with loved ones will certainly add to happiness.
Google base is 110K for a new grad L3. This isn't a 70% difference, its a ~30% difference.

Total comp for a new-grad Googler who doesn't negotiate at all will be 110K base +18K bonus + 25K stock annually = ~153. That's without negotiating at all. Negotiation can push that across 200K annually in extreme cases. From that perspective, its not as gargantuan a leap. And similarly, I expect that this person was able to negotiate their google offer, so it would be higher than the "default" for an L4.
I'm in the southeast. 24, self-taught, no degree (I was able to make it through Triplebyte, though I'm not persuaded that actually means anything). 2009-2015 IT/helpdesk/sysadmin, and 2015-2017 more dev/devops, all with a local medium (~350 employee) retail-ish business that grosses about $30m annually if I had to guess. I quit this year for a number of reasons (depression), but I mainly worked on automation. A collection of scripts I wrote (and documented!) saves about 30 days' worth of the team's time annually. I made $22.50/hour. The numbers in this post are unfathomable to me.