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It's not about the money but the type of work. He seems bored and software dev is something that he's likes but can't dedicate decent amount of time to it because of family requirements. I was hoping an entry level job might give him enough time to focus on learning and pay enough to take care of his family obligations.

Similar to sanderj reply. It's the longest I've been anywhere. I got to work on a team that traveled the world, got to work on features used by billions of people, work on advanced hardware products, on advanced software products that use ML for Speech and Natural Language. It's not possible to work on some of these problems at other companies. So you deal with the operational overhead, sometimes long hours, the uncomfortableness when a mistake from your company causes real harm, etc.

The compensation is also something that is not as clear to someone who had a career arc like me. I've always been able to make money to take care of myself and immediate family, but making consistent FAANG money changes the way you plan and help people. I've been able to help one family member go to school, another go to med school, multiple members to move closer, allowed my parents to retire early so they didn't have to work customer facing jobs during the pandemic, donated tens of thousands of dollars to local organizations, etc

If I was single I might've left and worked at startups or smaller companies, but I wouldn't now that I see how much impact I can have on those around me by just going to work and working hard.

Same I was 32 self-taught with 14 years of experience. After a few failures at these types of interviews I just studied and spent some time learning how to solve the problems companies were asking. I did better and got offers at 2 of the FAANGs and I've been at one for almost 8 years. So it's possible to be a self taught or have spent your entire life at small companies before that but studying is required for the coding part. I think behavioral and architecture are easier for those that have built a lot of things before, but they won't make up for a couple bad coding interviews.

Just random guess but you probably triggered link spam rules. People posting the same link over and over. It looks a lot like a spam attack to an algorithm.

Why are less targeted ads better in your opinion? Just curious because I've read studies that show people prefer ads that are relevant to them if they have to watch ads.

I misread the data. I assumed it was global, but it was US only data I was looking at.

I agree with the grandparent that we aren't worried enough about the large percentage of people that can't work at home but your statement that "would suggest that a worse-than-average flu season" is not backed by any science. There are 12-60k deaths a year from the flu according to the CDC (last year is in the 24-60k range). There are 37k deaths from COVID right now and the number is still increasing at non-linear rates. This is /on-top/ of the flu deaths. So this isn't just "a slightly worse flu season".

I agree with the parent poster. I've spent 6+ years at FB and the whole time I've just worked on what I thought was important. No one was ever assigned a project to me. The process normally involves managers and PMs highlighting problems and potential solutions and then developers picking projects that interest them. It sounds crazy but it is a controlled chaos. We incent people to work on non-sexy work by aligning with performance reviews. So everyone is required to show some better engineering impact (like writing documentation, unit or integration tests, cleaning up deprecated code etc).

It's the longest I've stayed at a company (worked a decade at startups and web dev companies) because of the freedom to constantly work on things that are interesting. For example I've changed the type of developer I am twice since joining.

So if it's worth a look if that's a style that works for you.

Who is lending you $100k-$200k to buy real estate as an 18 year old? Nobody unless you're rich already.

To me, those are the same things. Things you do to become a senior engineer /are/ the things you do when you're a senior engineer. You don't become a senior engineer without exhibiting some of the traits shown and you don't stay a senior engineer without doing most of those things.

Did I say that I didn't want oil to exist or for it to not be made available? I said that we shouldn't just take whatever cheapest solution the company proposes. These companies are not hurting for profits. Making them try a little harder to come up with solutions for transportation that doesn't endanger countless people with far reaching effects. This is about minimizing the risk when something happens. Something ALWAYS happens... maybe not in 1 year or 5 years but in 10, 20, 30 years, something will happen... we need to minimize the damage when that happens.

The fact that there are more evil evils doesn't counter act the argument. What a weird argument to make... It's like the"why are we funding research into X when heart disease kills more people". "Why are we focusing on guns when cars kill more people".

Maybe the answer is we don't ship dangerous materials across vast distances using methods that are dangerous to the local communities. Why does the answer have to be whatever the cheapest most convenient solution for the company? It should be the solution is least likely to cause serious harm and meets the needs of the communities it impacts.

This is why we participated in the protest against the pipeline that went over the Missouri and through tribal lands a few years ago. A crack over the river would be devastating to the surrounding communities. The claims that it is unlikely we're bogus as it's been shown time after time. Worse yet, we can't trust the officials to do the right thing. It's more likely they'd hide or downplay it than make sure it's properly taken care of.

Webp is has lossless and lossy support, and alpha channel. It's also much smaller than JPG and much better looking for small JPGs (like this one).

It's also supported natively on all newish (4.0+) Android devices and Chrome.

This is feature fragmentation, but it's not really the fragmentation we refer to when we talk about Android fragmentation. This fragmentation does not affect developers. Besides AirPlay mirroring, none of the features mentioned have SDKs for developers to use.

We're actually almost done with a similar feature (most searched and available on a particular service). It should be ready first week of the new year. Thanks for trying it out!

Once I built it I realized Crackle and YouTube had good free movies too.

Just added the ability to embed a movie result on your site or blog today.

Let me know if you guys have any suggestions / feedback. We're in the process of creating an API for 3rd party devs to integrate our results into their apps. Let me know if anyone is interested.

Hell, things that work for one PARENT, don't work for another. My daughter acts awesome with me even when I take care of her all day for weeks, but she's a complete terror around my wife.