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siggenon Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense"

If you pay a “living” wage, prices of goods will go up, and soon it will no longer be a “living” wage.

siggenon U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

Did they mention copying photos from your phone to a PC via USB? This is intentionally crippled and such an unpleasant experience in comparison to the experience if you have a Mac, for me at least.

siggenon Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows

> - Upgrade to Windows 11, our most secure operating system ever!

This one should be in comparison to Windows 10 wrt benchmark.

siggenon Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

What he said probably cannot be verified, even. On another note, has anyone noticed how Pichai likes to take pictures in front of others’ work for the media [1]? To me, it’s a weird feeling—- like someone taking credit for others’ work.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/10/23/google-quantum-computing...

siggenon Ask HN: Do companies hire principal and staff level engineers from job postings?

To your last question, I suspect neither. I think screener was inaccurate.

siggenon If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation

Yes. I was responding to the question about how the employees feel, and they feel great, precisely because all time highs (let’s ignore openai’s impact for now). Wrt openai, why should msft employees feel bad to have openai colleagues who can help further increase share price?

Wrt whether it’s just the market itself or openai, note that news of sama’s firing caused ms shares a steep drop. Then news of sama’s employment with msft help set the share price at least back to where it was before.

siggenon If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation

I would think they feel great. Share price is going through the roof purely based on hype.

siggenon If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation

No raises for everyone but they did give promotions out.

siggenon Google cuts dozens of jobs in news division

Yes, in the past they would find positions internally.

siggenon Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic

Packet-switched. :P

siggenon U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high

> The most sloppy driving I've ever seen is in the us. People weaving in and out of their lane staring at a phone, people driving into ditches, driving through building walls in parking lots you name it. The reality is that many people just should not be driving a car but are forced to by abysmal american infrastructure and even worse city planning.

Likely in some case they were driving under the influence vs being on the phone.

siggenon The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs

What I am saying is when I last ran this experiment a few years back word .doc formatted files (didn’t check .docx) returned the most calls from recruiters in comparison to .txt or .pdf or .html.

siggenon My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)

Correct. You have unethical people now, you are probably “cheating” at work by taking credit for ideas not theirs.

siggenon The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs

Speaking from experience, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) work only ideally with Word. Don’t use LaTeX unless you know for sure the individual receiving appreciates it.

siggenon Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs

Isn’t using James Gosling example as a question a fallacy in argument (i.e., loaded question)?

Also, some folks may dislike Java and this example may also convey why Sun failed in their minds.

siggenon The day Windows died

I have thought about this myself quite a bit: Should I or should I not filter the world for my kids? Back then, as a kid, computers/Internet allowed me to access an unfiltered world. It was great! I didn’t like adults restricting what information I had or didn’t have, nurturing their own agenda in me. I am leaning to not filter what my kids will have access to... but I suppose this fulfills my agenda.

siggenon Google denies destroying 'chat' evidence in U.S. antitrust lawsuit

Do you happen to have a reference?

siggenon Ericsson to lay off 8,500 employees

My sources are folks who have been in these layoff discussions for six months. I should have said “some” or “many” instead of “all” since I don’t have sources in “all” these places.

siggenon A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview

Pretty much this. You can have experience and also perform well in a system design interview. However, passing some of these rounds involves chance. Some interviewers are looking for specific answers. For example, some interviewers are looking for you to be knowledgeable about recent papers specific to the heavy-hitters problem. Or the two ways to best support lynchpin objects. It’s not so much as dropping well-known building blocks to construct a system but rather the interviewer asking you to design a system requiring specific characteristics you might not have any specialization in building.

siggenon Ericsson to lay off 8,500 employees

All these layoffs we’re seeing were planned well over six months ago. It’s not coordinated or copy-cat. However, it may be that all the bean counters learned the same lessons in the same schools. So, given certain scenarios, their best answer is: layoff people.

siggenon Errors for the Twilio Rest API impacting multiple services

Does not. Probably not legal in the US, but IANAL.

siggenon Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff

> I really get the feeling that many companies are just blindly doing whatever other companies do.

They’d all have had to collude in December for this to happen. Laying off people in large companies takes a sufficient amount of planning, and isn’t accomplished in days. They need to hire external consultants to help, even.

siggenon Dan Russell, senior research scientist at Google, was laid off

Yeah.... Going to work at 4 am.... He must have seriously been coasting. /s

siggenon “Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees

Let’s see what shakes out of the town-hall meeting next week.

siggenon Teenage suicide rates dropped during lockdown due to respite from bullying

1. Terrible kids grow up into terrible adults.

2. You’re among your kindred, which is why you’re now bullied less.

siggenon Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring

Are you able to add a reference? I am curious about the mention of Romans. Thanks!

siggenon ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location

Mainly due to different government systems/markets. Each nation applies certain rules to protect interests and favored companies. An article that described some is here [1].

[1] https://time.com/6139988/countries-where-twitter-facebook-ti...

siggenon FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Summertime Render?

siggenon Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

This was more to reduce headcount but to increase drama, which in turn makes you visit Twitter more, which in turn leads to more ad impressions and money for Twitter. As EM tweeted, more people have visited Twitter now than ever before. I just deleted my account when I understood what was going on.