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WhatsApp recently launched hosted API [1] for faster and easier integration for small business

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/01/whatsapp-brings-its-busine...

> the driver really is to blame though

Yes, I know I'm responsible. I do not want/need car/manufacturer to be responsible, I just want technology to help where it could.

> Manufacturer's job is to make things affordably

This maybe is your opinion, but that's not how it works. There is plenty of manufacturer's who manufacture things which are not affordable and plenty of people buy it. Pretty much any industry has luxury segment which also tends to be most profitable

> This mentality that the car should make up for fundamental defects in safe driving is horrifying

Humans are imperfect. Stress, distractions, tiredness etc could make anyone to make mistake, even yourself. Why would adding safety features be horrifying?

I think what they are implying is that car with so many safety features should be able to handle this situation. Volvo has lot of "collision avoidance" safety features, so one would expect that they could handle this as well.

This is common feature in other cars - I rented mazda few years back and it did automatically stop when I almost reversed into another car.

I believe it's reference to new Disney movie Encanto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWRMAU6V-c

> Polish allies did nothing until France was invaded.

On the contrary [0] - "Germany had started low-intensity undeclared war on Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938. In reaction, the United Kingdom and France on 20 September formally asked Czechoslovakia to cede its territory to Germany, which was followed by Polish territorial demands brought on 21 September and Hungarian on 22 September."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

I think you are overestimating Putin's abilities. I'm not sure it was such a smart move with the war in the Ukraine.

Ukraine used to be divided in perception of Russia and it never had strong national identity. Eastern half of country was very pro-Russian. People spoke Russian, watched Russian tv and longed for Soviet times. Now it is very different, see [0] on how perception has changed and lot more people identify as Ukrainian. Side effect of the war in the east of Ukraine is that their defense budget more than tripled and its army is much more experienced and bigger than before.

Lost their hearts and made them much better in defending themselves in the process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Ukraine_relations#In_Uk...

Chart on the bottom here [0] seems to confirm parents assertion - cases for under 18s spiked after school reopening, but are now decreasing. Though atm schools are closed for two weeks (Easter holidays)

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/08/covid-uk-coron...

Your total compensation at FAANG is base salary + bonus (usually % of your base multiplied by your perf and company perf) + stock.

When you get promotion your base salary will increase, your bonus will also increase (due to being % of base, but also higher levels have higher %) and your annual stock refresher will be higher, as you are now on new level.

She would get annual stock refresher even without promotion, but with promotion refresher would be bigger and total new comp could have compensated for drop after initial grant has finished.

You can check levels.fyi for comparisons of total median comps between levels at Google.

L3 - $189k[0], L4 - $265k [1], L5 - $350k [2]

[0] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

[2] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

Oxford A/Z vaccine was developed at Oxford university and AZ joined later to manufacture it (after UK gov intervened, Oxford team was originally in talks with US Merck). This article [1] has back story.

EU paid millions to pharma companies (€1.78bn), that's true. However UK paid more than that(€1.9bn) and US invested even more €9bn.[1] I personally do not understand why EU bargained to start with and why it did not invest more, when damages are much bigger.

I do not think EU can break any patent, they do not own it. "Vaccitech owns intellectual property used in the Oxford vaccine's development" [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/29/we-had-to-go...

[2] https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-professor-oxford-vac...

It's pretty good, obviously not as good as high end speakers, but for the price (I got mine for £200) it's really good value and effortless to use. Main feature is it can adjust to any room or place you put it. I find it bit bass heavy, though I prefer more neutral sound. I bought it just for listening of music while I work and I'm very happy with it. I want to get another one to pair them into stereo setup.

Some reviews:

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&i...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16976906/apple-homepod-rev...

This and more stories about origin of coffee was recently discussed in In our Time [1] podcast from BBC.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c4x1

They definitely have enough capital for nuclear. Their neighbours, Slovakia and Czechia, both have quite significant nuclear installations. Czechia generates 34% [1] of electricity from nuclear and Slovakia 52% [2]. Slovakia is finishing expansion of one of their nuclear power plants (Mochovce), which will add 2 more reactors - each with ability to deliver 13% of total country consumption [3].

Both Slovakia and Czechia are bit more "richer" than Poland (if you look at GDP (PPP) per capita), however Poland is much bigger economy - 5x size of Slovakia.

My guess is that because so far they had so much coal (largest reserves in Europe [4]), it was no brainer for them. However they are now in the process of commissioning nuclear power plant and plan to generate power from nuclear by 2033 [4]

[1] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetika_v_Česku#Výroba_elek... (second row - Jadro - is nuclear)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_energy_in_Slovakia

[3] https://www.seas.sk/mochovce-3-4-npp

[4] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

How do you get errors to other services in Segment? Did you write some custom code to catch errors and then send them as segment's track calls?

We use Sentry with Segment, but on client segment just loads sentry and the errors are caught by sentry only, they do not appear in other integrations.

I felt similar and the price increase was last drop. I use it mostly to store originals of pictures and video however that also means that they are little bit forgotten. Whole family is on iOS so after I found out that Apple Photos can merge raw and jpg into single item in their UI, it was no brainer to switch to iCloud and import all the images/videos into Photos and rest of the files into iCloud. As a bonus I can share storage with whole family in iCloud, which is not possible with Dropbox.

Seems like - https://functional.works-hub.com/jobs/?tags=ocaml

If interviewer has any clue, then they will know that and will account for that in their judgment. Almost everyone is nervous and will not perform at their best.

My process is pretty much same as above, with the difference that I let them choose whatever framework/language they feel most comfortable with (with obvious caveat that I might not be able to help them if they get stuck).

If you are good dev, you will pick up any language/frameworks quite quickly if you want to (there are exceptions, like switching to completly different paradigm e.g. from JS to Haskell, but that is not our case).

Yes, we do [1]

We use GET for queries and POST for mutations. Though we are not caching our GETs atm.

[1] https://functional.works-hub.com

Clubhouse [1] It has flexibility of Trello and features of Jira. We have been using for a year and we really enjoy it.

[1] https://clubhouse.io

Not everyone is great at interviews. One of the best engineers I worked with was very bad at interviewing (even I wasn't initially sure whether we should hire him). The problem is that most of the interviews are very different from actual day to day work. Candidates do not perform same tasks in the same way as they would while working. Same goes for evaluation of results - very rarely is candidate rated using same criteria as it would in his performance review.

Would you mind sharing more details how you measured performance of your team? Thanks

Being 5 miles from Windsor castle and also from Eton college might have something to do with it. Heathrow is only 15 miles away on motorway. Bray has about 300 millionaires and Windsor around 900 [1] (few other villages from that list are also just short drive away).

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10054043/Top-te...