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They can, and they do.

And right around the time they laid off recruiters. It seems like they want to downsize their workforce.

These hands are so memorable and well-known not because they’re great reads, but simply because it’s so unlikely to win back to back championships with the same lousy cards.

Whether those particular hands are examples of great poker doesn’t really matter because poker isn’t really about any single hand, but performance over many hands. In both cases, Brunson outlasted the competition and whittled away his opponents’ stacks until he had them against the ropes and increased the odds that they would make a desperate move. Those are examples of great poker playing.

PhD in EE. Moved to software for better pay and more job openings. Now I optimize button colors.

> I didn't not find this book useful. Somehow it managed to confuse me more.

And now you’re carrying on the tradition.

The rate of unsolved murders is about 5%.

Do people miss the Google of old, or the Web of old?

The Web used to be very information dense. It was built from the ground up by specialists and enthusiasts, educational and governmental institutions, and groups of like-minded individuals.

Then it became commercialized and commodified. Entire industries popped up to shovel mass-produced crap to masses of people through Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. Forums became subreddits, blogs became tweets, homepages became Facebook profiles. And we’ve hyper-optimized the attention economy to keep us hooked on clickbait headlines and 30 second videos. The Web just bears no resemblance to what it was 10-20 years ago, and web search results are a reflection of that.

Maybe there’s a way to restore the Web of old. But that seems like putting the genie back in the bottle. More likely, IMO, something will eventually replace the Web, and Web search along with it.

I’m supporting of privacy, but it’s amazing how heavy-handed European regulation can be, and how difficult it can make understanding even basic metrics about our business and how those metrics have shifted over time. I suppose their intentions are good though.

For me, it’s two days of productivity and three days of non-stop distractions. It’s hard to think that we were doing this five days a week.

Maybe I just need a bit more time to adjust, but so far it’s an unequivocal downgrade in getting work done.

Reminds of a CEO’s tweet yesterday that software engineers making $400k+ are the real problem, and it got lots of likes. Today we day a billion is too much. Where do you draw the line (obviously, start with the billionaires and not with the workers), and who gets to decide?

> Uber has adopted Golang (Go for short)

Uber has adopted Go (Golang for long)

That’s not true at all. Papers come from industry all the time. I know of independent researchers who make up an LLC name and use that as their affiliation.

Most people who publish in journals are affiliated with academia simply because that’s where the vast majority of basic research happens.

It’s like Swish because it’s the solution backed by the banks and you can pay someone using just their phone number.

So instead of selecting people who can do algorithmic problem solving well (under pressure), you’re selecting people who can bullshit well (under pressure).

I’m not convinced it’s really an improvement. I’ve worked with too many people who are great bullshitters but terrible engineers, who sailed through on their charisma.

But that’s why most companies have a mix of technical and behavioral interviews.

We have something like that in the US and it’s called Zelle.

I’ve used it to transfer money to family, but friends sometimes use Venmo, Cash App, or others. I don’t think it ever gained critical mass.

Guessing finance.

People in finance make a lot money and fantasize about having another job. People in medicine make a lot of money and play golf.

I’d be more impressed if they could predict market conditions 3+ years from now, when the bulk of the Amazon employees’ shares are actually vesting.

Maybe they can, but I think that’s a very generous assumption.

Netflix pays cash so engineer comp is fairly insulated from market fluctuations. In the past few years, that may have seemed like a negative, but right now it’s a blessing.

So is it time for Hastings and Sarandos to get cut from the team? They’re clearly not achieving dream team results lately, and it has nothing to do with the worker bees.

Google is currently building its largest non-US office in Hyderabad.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/go...

Down 71% from the recent peak, still up 264% in the past 2.5 years.

Probably an adherent of modern monetary theory.

Also, the author grew up in the Bay Area (early exposure to how the SV ecosystem works), went to an Ivy league school (opens doors to top internships), landed those internships, and got a masters. All those things, but especially the internships, can help fast track your early career.

I’d take some things here with a grain of salt, like “low 7 figures compensation (staff level)” at FAAN (can eliminate G because they’re not likely to hire him back at L+1 immediately after he quits). ML is still somewhat hot, but 7 figures is an outlier for staff-level comp.

AAPL: ~$450k https://www.levels.fyi/company/Apple/salaries/Software-Engin...

AMZN: ~$600k https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...

FB: ~$600k https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En...

Nobody there is reporting $1M+ offers for staff level. While I’m sure it’s happened, it’s pretty far outside the staff pay band (excluding equity gains during the 2020-2021 market run-up, which are sadly behind us) and would be a truly exceptional offer even in the current climate. That, plus the fact that it sounds like he didn’t get many formal offers (“I did not initiate the formal HR interview process with most of them”) and wasn’t pitting offers against each other, makes me skeptical.

> there are plenty of locations with very few people that might be an hour from a city like Boston. Boxborough, MA is an hour from Boston while covered in forest. I'd think of it as "suburban", but it might the rural/pastoral feel you're looking for while still being within commutable distance to everything.

This is a good bet. There are many towns in the vicinity of cities where houses are spread out and you have a rural feel, even if it’s not strictly rural. Often they are inhabited by people who can afford to move out of the city, or just want more space. On average, people are educated and have decent incomes, as opposed to many cities, where you often get extremes of poverty and wealth and an eroded middle class.

You’re right, Seattle is much more livable for families. My perspective is from SF, and it adopts similar policies as Seattle (which is why I unfairly lumped the two together) but SF has implemented them with much worse effect. I think it’s partly because SF is more compressed and usually lacks clear boundaries between neighborhoods that are good for families and those that aren’t, with a couple exceptions (e.g. Noe Valley).

> Would you send your 5 year old self down the streets of San Francisco or Seattle

No.

And I would avoid raising my kids there to begin with. Those two cities in particular have done everything within their means to alienate families.

I get that some parents believe that exposing their kids to people living in squalor on the street due to mental illness or addiction is an enriching cultural experience, and maybe it is. But I’m going to pass on that.

I was referring more to the CWV thing mentioned in the footnote. It sounds like it doesn’t require AMP.

Does Brave Search not rank slow and bloated sites lower for mobile users?

If you do introduce such signals into your search ranking in the future, should we assume you have bad intent?

Not a fan of AMP in general, but if the data is signed, is this much different than, say, static assets being cached and served by Cloudflare?

I’m currently subscribed to a bunch of streamers. I usually turn first to HBO or Hulu, then YouTube or Amazon Prime, then Apple TV+ (which has less content overall but really good shows lately), and finally Netflix as a last resort.

In fact I rarely open Netflix unless I’ve already heard about something I want to check out. I really don’t like wading through their recommendations.

With the frequent price increases, it’s getting harder and harder to justify.