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fucking lol, that is how it usually goes with deprecation.

Cider-V is very nice. It's VSCode so all the extensions just work - Vim mode, themes, etc.

It's also nice that it stores all my preferences in the cloud, so switching machines is seamless (helpful when my macbook broke a couple weeks ago and I had to use a loaner chromebook for a day).

It's also well integrated with google3 and codesearch, and seamlessly runs tests on remote machines with tmux integration and all.

Not all of google tooling is my favorite (like their source control), but the IDE is great.

It tests for multiple things, at its best: A basic work ethic to understand fundamental CS concepts. Sure maybe plenty of people can't write a binary search in two minutes unless they practice live coding a bit, but plenty of people do study, so it self selects for that type.

There are also people who, no matter what, could not live code simple tree traversals or bin search or something, and it filters on that.

Finally, there's a pattern matching aspect to it. Some of the best interview questions I got involved very simple algorithms, but it was obfuscated by the problem. So the 'trick' was to just think through the problem and ask questions. Not to have memorized something obscure.

This is so fucking dumb you're going to hire a candidate who got A/B tested into the 'smarter' SoTA model or something.

I've interviewed at many large tech companies including Microsoft, and Microsoft Azure was mostly a clown show. So, yes I judge the talent there. I'm sure there are some superstars that I'd love to work with, maybe I'd even work there and try to fix it for the right price, but god damn was it a stark contrast to other companies.

you don't even get a severance that way. People moved for a job, then got stranded without even getting a first paycheck.

Coinbase famously rescinded offers days before people joined when they did a previously huge layoff. That's absolutely diabolical and I sometimes fantasize about accepting a job there and just ghosting them.

Ok, well, I work on systems quite a bit larger than Github, and I think they have a major reliability issue.

eh...

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/oct21-post-in...

They tried to scale MySql and turn it into Cassandra and then they lost customer data (that they claimed to later recover).

Yes google cloud is actively hiring.

yes I would tell them "you're underpaid, if you can, come to a company that appreciates your talents more".

Executives have made a choice to not pay for top talent at Microsoft Azure and Github.

Every big tech company gives massive amounts of stock. I would guess more multi-millionaires have been created by Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple than any other companies or industry ever.

The fastest way for anyone hear to make 7 figures right now would be to join a series D startup and with some luck their stock grants will 2-5x in a year or two.

Levels.fyi did some analysis where it showed the average software engineer who joined Anthropic 2+ years ago are going to be making 10M this year given the valuation increases (and yes they have liquidity events, you don't have to wait for an IPO).

Even for less hocky-stick growth companies, people can make life changing amounts of money for RSU growth.

Personally, even working for a well established company, Over ~3 years, I've made an additional 500k in equity from stock appreciation (not from holding the stock, I mean when granted) beyond what my target compensation was intended.

He forgot one other big company that uses TPUs besides Anthropic...

OpenAI uses GCP. I don't know if they use TPUs.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-taps...

Yes it does, it applies to any ownership of shares that are not traded on the public exchange. This means the shares the Google founders have, or Zuck, or the owner of SNAP, or any number of large companies founders would have to sell a significant portion.

it's not an arithmetic error, it's literally written in the tax bill to value voting ownership shares as a percentage of the company if they are not available on the open market.

Section 50303(c)(3)(C) says "For any interests that confer voting or other direct control rights, the percentage of the business entity owned by the taxpayer shall be presumed to be not less than the taxpayer's percentage of the overall voting or other direct control rights."

Sergey Brin is not 'hoarding' anything. There is not a bank vault of jewels or wheat that the rest of the world is deprived of having. Stock 'wealth' is not a fixed quantity of wealth. To think that divesting people of ownership is egregious and immoral.

You are advocating for laws you do not read, regarding concepts of which you have not read about nor seem to be able to comprehend, and people like that are my enemy.

It does apply, because Sergey's shares are not the same kind available on the public exchange.

No, Sergey owns non pubic, shares that are not available on the open market that have move voting rights. So the tax 'values' those at the % of voting rights as a percentage of the company valuation.

Likewise, Evan Spiegal would have to sell 100% of his SNAP stock the first year because of how the voting rights work.

Wealthy people pay the vast majority of taxes in California. Meanwhile, at least 20% of the population are complete freeloaders.

Ford probably made 3k profit on that car. Given the falling costs of inference, what are the chances your neighbor gives anthropic 3k in profit over the next few years? Not terribly bad.

It's a little weird. I work for Google, but I spend way more time helping get Anthropic serving and running than anything to do with Gemini.

Not at all my experience in big tech. Are you maybe extrapolating from working at Microsoft or IBM or something?

Airpods? They make more than most SaaS decacorns. How can you not credit that as a massive success that came out of nowhere?

Unions protect existing members at the expense of people breaking in. You can look at teacher's unions to see how this plays out. Older tenured teachers cannot be fired, new teachers have to fight for the few open positions for a fraction of the pay, and are allowed to be laid off.

This is not unique to the teacher's union.

Can you tell me more? 25 years ago I was only a high school getting paid minimum wage 'cosplaying' as an office worker writing SQL and VBScript.

So, my view is skewed, but I got the impression software engineering was not a place people were retiring 'early' from, unless you made it in management. It seemed like a pretty standard office job, maybe with a little more perks due to the eccentric nature of the majority of workers.

Do I have the wrong impression?

Is it possible this has things backwards?

When I was in high school 25 years ago, unless you got lucky with an IPO, tech didn't pay all that well. (I worked in software while I was in high school, so I know some of this first hand).

It was office space. It didn't matter how smart you were, if you didn't go into management, or join Apple/Microsoft at just the right time, you weren't going to live a rich lifestyle.

Not only that, you'd probably be reporting to some MBA type biz guy who has no idea how software works, you'd not be well respected, and your perks were drip coffee and occasional donuts on friday.

Of course brilliant, hard working, talented engineers said "fuck that" and go build something awesome themselves. Things have changed drastically. Now, brilliant hard working people can literally make millions at dozens of companies .

You will report to another engineer who has slightly optimized for soft skills, you get lavish perks (except amazon, but at least you get paid well there), and real equity.

There's a whole spectrum of options for ambitious software folk that didn't texist ~25 years ago.

resume link doesn't work btw.

WTF, i'm going to get paged because some Iranian dude wants to take out a fiber line?

Amazon empoloys 300k corporate employees. Apple has 170k. How is this a significant correlation.

It seems there's literally no correlation between people and what is accomplished.