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bluedevilzn

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    Comment #48336748

    He specifically mentioned that Geoworks got Acquired shortly after he was already at Amazon So, he actually did go through the multi-stage interview pipeline. Just because you can’…

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    Comment #46792434

    This is AI slop. >This isn't just a cute analogy. The octopus nervous system genuinely solves the same problem. >Let's talk real numbers.

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    Comment #45175771

    The stock on the other hand…

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    Comment #45115579

    Yes… If you read the comment, you’d notice that there were no loans involved whatsoever. If you can’t rent or buy a car without a credit score, you should only be allowed to buy a …

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    Comment #45109774

    I moved from Canada to California for a new job with a mid six figure salary. I had a very difficult time finding a place to rent as I had no credit score. Only places that were av…

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    Comment #44691889

    That too for $1.5 million. 99% of Americans would picture a mansion when they think of a $1.5 million home.

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    Comment #44411929

    Jobs created iAd. He hated bad ads. Here’s him announcing and talking about ads in WWDC: https://youtu.be/eY3BZzzLaaM?si=Dttc5eJJ1B7Zf3sB

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    Comment #44201485

    > And all that with wages well below even the local market in our crumbling Third World economy. With no exciting research positions nor self-managed time nor compensation, what wa…

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    Comment #43860994

    Yes but this exists - ads.apple.com

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    Comment #43826166

    It begins...

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    Comment #43666067

    The biggest mistake tech companies have done over the past 2 decades is not spending enough money lobbying. Every other industry manages to stay under the radar by continuing to pa…

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    Comment #43563810

    Except paying more for a service doesn’t guarantee better service. I have hired local handymen at $75 per hour and they have been equally bad with fake reviews.

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    Comment #43219209

    Except the movie came out in 1989. Trump wasn’t really well known in the media when the movie was written. There wasn’t even a trump tower.

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    Comment #42650242

    Parent comment is the quintessential example from the article that most people who know git didn't learn git properly.

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    Comment #42581630

    This is due to ad blindness. The Previa ads were always there but that was the first time you noticed it because it was on your mind.

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    Comment #42148563

    Many thousands of Sr. Staff engineers+ and Sr. managers+ across FAANG. Google alone has 4000 directors all making a million at minimum. I have only worked at FAANG across my nearly…

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    Comment #42148552

    Working 40 hours and making 7 figures, gives you plenty of time to have a life. The key here is not to categorize as a “language developer”.

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    Comment #42148251

    I think you a missed a 0 there. $100 is insultingly low for a 4 hour assignment.

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    Comment #42148201

    It’s lucrative if your bar is 6 figures. No engineer that makes 7 figures calls themselves a ruby developer with the exception of DHH.

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    Comment #41112344

    This must be the first real world use case of HE. It has generally been considered too slow to do anything useful but this is an excellent use case.

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    Comment #40716485

    Helen Keller is the counter point to this. She’s obviously intelligent and had no sights or sounds as input but only texts.

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    Comment #38796918

    Also Canadian here. PhD might be a stretch but there’s absolutely a large number of Uber drivers with a foreign masters.

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    Comment #38674409

    Ownership is good and it helps but that’s not what’s actually required to get promoted to L4.