artemisyna

> No. "Something was missing" because a boss above my boss could come in at any time and make changes to the team, project, or anything beyond my control.

Not to be callous, but sounds like you ended up on a team with a crappy management chain and bad insulation from your manager?

I know it's a behavior that definitely happens, but - and admittedly, this is pretty rare - there are teams that exist out there where you do have those freedoms. Out of the 3 teams I've been in so far in industry, I'd say 2.5 of them have had that -- where the higher ups don't really interfere with what you're doing as long as you're intelligent about not going completely off kilter.

The emotional attachment here is your perception of power. :)

You're emotionally attached to a perception.

Teams like the one the other poster described definitely exist. They are also rare but and take work to find. Are you sure the times where you felt like "something was missing" was more of a factor of being on a team that advertised themselves as fast paced while not actually being one?

I'm curious to see what the long term implications for this technology are. While game streaming is a big market, I can't imagine it being that big of a market, so it'll be interesting to see what sort of longer term plans they're aiming for.

Ditto to the other comments. It's waayyyyyyyy too early. Just because articles exist about "brain-computer interfaces" doesn't mean it isn't hype.

Did you read the article?

The article claims that inflammation is both a symptom of other problems (when in reasonable ranges of signalling) and a causer of problems (when signalling too much).

I know the title of the article itself is a bit sensationalist, but I would assume that any tests aiming to determine if inflammation is the cause of a problem in specific would also check to make sure that the inflammation was in the "starting to cause harm" range rather than merely in the "signalling" range.

I know of at least one big tech company that has and it informs the ratio of different types of interviews for each level.

I imagine it'd be really hard for an academic research institute to do so. Firstly, they'd have to focus on technical interviewing in specific. Secondly, they'd have to get some big tech companies to share information about trajectory and whatnot for employees once they've been hired -- I imagine the extra work of building those pipelines/anonymizing the data/etc probably wouldn't be worth it for a lot of companies.

I think what the other poster is saying that the bi-products of the inflammation response in themselves can also cause a problem. Yes, the obesity is probably the "cause" in the first place, but telling a person to go on a weight loss diet is going to be a bit late if that's not going to save them before the inflammation kills them.

If you've got 2 or 3 different things killing you at once, you're gonna have to deal with the "most killing" one the most, so to speak.

Why? Alphabet is more than happy to fund the venture.

All of this moderation stuff feels like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation for Facebook.

People have been crapping on Facebook for making judgement calls on what's allowed on its platform. When Facebook does so without government backing, people get up-in-arms saying that it should be the government's role to decide free speech. But when the company goes and requests that government start doing that, people get up-in-arms about how it'll be "regulatory capture".

I can't predict what the outcome of all of this will be. I can however, predict that there will be an angsty article (Bloomberg? New York Times? Wall Street Journal?) decrying how Facebook is awful, evil, and incompetent.

..add "Seattle" to US cities with decent numbers of software engineers making $150k+.

Act of software engineering overall probably no, aspects of it yes.

Just like how industrial jobs are increasingly becoming "human manages machines doing labor" rather than "human does labor", I imagine the same will happen to coding. A computer won't be able to write all your code for you, but it will become more efficient to work in conjunction with one.

That's already happening with lots of existing tasks related to software engineering. (Searching through code, linting, etc.) ML will mean there will be more of them.

https://www.facebook.com/Oculusvr/videos/272240096742532/ - Go to about 1:15.

Maybe not 20, but having a 10 year goal and being able to give direct updates 2 years in isn't bad. :)

The author of this article makes an interesting argument based on historical fit, but I do wonder how his perspective would change if he viewed the Oculus acquisition in the lens of a 20-year investment for FB.

Among other things, the author completely neglects to consider how the projects being open source contributes to their success in the first place. He also fails to consider the goodwill that it generates for the developer community and the ways in which that helps other aspects of Facebook's business (recruiting, hiring, culture).

Also, you'd think that someone talking about money would have some notion of how big a price differential "free" and "having to pay" is for a service, but that seems to have completely not been a consideration.

Well. I wasn't exactly expecting my "most myopic article of the day" to come this early, but here we are...

Or, for better time complexity (with a bit of extra space) making a map of char -> frequency and comparing the results.

You sure your friend hadn't previously logged in to her FB on whatever browser your email happened to open things to?

Any likelihood we could get some white hat hackers on this... Including marking things on the day of, if necessary?

I should've included an extra clause or two there.

Showing up with a junker with the explicit purpose to pick up chicks. And doing this repeatedly/bragging loudly about it.

On one hand it doesn't necessarily speak to the guy's technical capabilities. On the other hand, I at least wouldn't trust the guy to be principled enough to not pass this stuff over to <insert x group here>. (Especially if it was at the right price.)

I can't actively say too much about the security of Protonmail.

However, I do know a lot of people that know the founder (Andy Yen) socially and they all uniformly think he's a scumbag. (Doing things like going to car shows with a junker saying that his nice <insert car here> is in the shop, other generally sketchy/manipulative actions.)

Overall, I'd say Protonmail is good at being a hype machine and while there may be some technical correctness in what they're doing, it's not a business you'd want to rely on.

I just hope Musk doesn't end up suiciding cause of all of this. =/

Don't quote me on this since it's partially hearsay. However, this isn't a "trying to get $$ out of businesses" measure as much as an anti spam.

I also don't quite understand why "adjusting their privacy settings "is a metric for people changing how they use FB.

FB threw an interstitial in front of people for GDPR. It'd be weird if people didn't change their privacy settings then?

Turns out, Facebook employees are people, span the whole gambit of opinions, and have a couple of flame-war baiters?

Ditto this one, though perhaps from a slightly different angle.

Consider when most of our economic and political systems were first founded. Information was sparse. Game theory wasn't even a thing yet. None of the founding fathers (of our nation or any other) could have possibly fathomed the sort of interactions happening today.

At some point, we're going to have to face the fact that, over the years, the underlying rules of how things works has shifted but that the laws on the books haven't matched.

Of what I've heard of Zoox (admittedly 2nd or 3rd hand), there definitely has been some precidence for "engineering to fit design goals" rather than "fitting design around engineering realities". Wouldn't surprise me if this non-technical CEO was part of this.

...and so does every other big tech company that needs to deal with spam. (Ie, any social media half worth their salt.)

Next FAANG in what sense?

If you're talking about "next technology-first unicorn that's going to make it big in the next 10 years", good luck. That's what everyone and their mother has been looking for in the past 10 years. These tend to get eaten up by an existing FAANG if it looks like there's a good fit.

There are also plenty of other companies that have FAANG-levels of name recognition but probably won't get to the same size. These are your VC-driven, trying-to-dominate-a-market-but-it's-hard (ex. Ubers/Lyfts, bikeshare-of-the-week) and doing-well-in-a-niche-but-not-as-large (ex. Square) companies.

It sucks that we're in such a bad place right now, but I'd probably bet money that there are going to be some big geoengineering startups in the next couple of years.

Ah yeah, misread that there.

Express p(k) in base k. Those are your coefficients.

Pretty cute. :)