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Neither the iOS app nor the web app use Kotlin at DoorDash. Kotlin was picked for other reasons (consistency with the Android app wasn't mentioned): https://doordash.engineering/20…

Starlark, used in Bazel, is in that vein, though goes a bit further by supporting functions (with many restrictions): https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/tree/master

Yes, they're exempt.

In adult language learning, practicing pronunciation early is far, far easier than fixing it later. Correcting bad pronunciation habits is extremely hard once engrained, but learni…

EA isn't limited to utilitarianism. A very substantial amount of people in EA would not consider themselves utilitarians. And of those who do, it's very rare to find a "pure" utili…

> suburbs are perfectly walkable anywhere in the northeast. Cities less so due to crime This isn't true. I've lived in and visited plenty of northeastern suburbs and cities. The su…

Curious, does this apply to romantic partners too? Personally, I'd be sad if my wife didn't share things troubling her that she didn't need my help solving. I like knowing how she'…

Layoffs do sometimes happen this way. I was an EM at a company with layoffs where line managers were not told at all about layoffs or included in deciding who to lay off: all discu…

That's what the article is arguing for -- delay school start by 1 year for boys, which they call "redshirting." Key argument is towards the end: > One striking study, by Diane Whit…

Why not both? Work is ~40hrs a week, so it's nicer if you have the option to enjoy it. There are other software jobs with similar pay to Google, but with more rewarding work. Win-w…

> at a time when cities are in decline Do you have a source for that? Here in NYC things seem as popular as ever, with record-breaking rents due to high demand. Is it different els…

This doesn't really match my experience for my own career or as a manager. Plenty of great engineers don't have a plan beyond "learn and get better," including those that have trad…

Most of that is growth, not churn. Alphabet has hovered around 20% net headcount growth per year for awhile, per their earnings reports.

IIRC the rumor leak around that was more nuanced: the leaks reported someone allegedly saying that market economics may not ultimately be able to support more than 2 leaders, becau…

Princeton tried exactly this while I went there ("grade deflation"), and it didn't go well. They sent a letter to places like med school admissions alongside transcripts, but it wa…

The taxi industry had it figured out only on a smaller scale. Rideshare reaches more people and rides than taxis did. In most of America, taxis were never a serious option outside …

If they're issued as double-trigger RSUs then you're only taxed when they're liquid. That's because they aren't really yours till a liquidation event.

All major US tech company diversity initiatives I'm familiar with measure diversity as percent of the workforce that is black, Hispanic, or female. Asian men don't count toward the…

This might help: https://microservices.io/patterns/data/database-per-service.... Varies by actual DB but: with this architecture, if the DBs are NoSQL then you didn't lose as much …

You only need one promotion, L3 (entry level) to L4 (mid level), to not get fired at Google. And the company is quite generous with how long it gives you to get there. L3 to L4 is …

Caring about anything is inherently emotional. Take human suffering. There's no logical reason to care about it. You can't take someone with sociopathic tendencies and logic them i…

Diversity initiatives in tech have a strong bottoms-up component from a subset of employees. "Self interest" isn't really the point. One motivator is societal good and fairness to …

I think you're making a mistaken observation there. It's a skewed data set: of course people who like living in cities will talk about policies they'd like to see to make their cit…

> There are prices to pay for living in city centers These are the prices we pay today in the US, but they don't have to be. Other countries like The Netherlands and Switzerland ta…

I think there's one nuance to add: the test is based on your base rate expectation for how likely the given individual is to have the rare disease. The more evidence you have that …