Hacker News: czhiddy

New comment by czhiddy in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

czhiddy — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:09:45 +0000

Roughly double the amount of pixels = "slightly higher resolution"?

Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees

czhiddy — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:18:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/google-nixes-paying-out-rest-of-medical-leave-for-laid-off-employees.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35206040

Points: 98

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Google is reportedly cracking down employee travel and team meetups

czhiddy — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:37:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cracks-down-employee-travel-happy-hour-cut-costs-2022-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32758802

Points: 6

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New comment by czhiddy in "Clip control on the Apple GPU"

czhiddy — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 01:48:47 +0000

I mean, the other poster "guaranteed" it, so I don't know who to believe here.

New comment by czhiddy in "Ask HN: Should an experienced engineer join a startup?"

czhiddy — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 23:04:31 +0000

$1M in W2 earnings isn't that unusual for senior engineers at companies that have seen significant stock growth. Suppose you had a $200k salary, $500k RSUs over four years, $50k/year bonus offer mid-2017. The last batch of stock vesting in 2021 would have pushed total stock adjusted compensation close to the 7 figure mark.

NVDA has seen over +500% stock growth during that time. Apple has gone up close to 400%, GOOG over +200%.

What's interesting is that even if we ignore the recent dip, FB has only gone up +150% since mid-2017. If you held through the recent dip, that falls to something around +60% over four years.

New comment by czhiddy in "Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)"

czhiddy — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 08:27:53 +0000

By that logic, WebUSB is a bug specific to Blink-based browsers, since it doesn't work on anything else?

New comment by czhiddy in "Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus"

czhiddy — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:19:33 +0000

I was looking forward to seeing some of the games that would have only been possible on Stadia's architecture. Imagine a Battlefield-style game with a larger map and over 500+ simultaneous players.

Hopefully the games that SG&E do finish showcase what's possible when a developer targets Stadia's strengths.

New comment by czhiddy in "The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned"

czhiddy — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:57:41 +0000

OP: "In-N-Out is my favorite fast food restaurant." You: "No, you're wrong."

New comment by czhiddy in "U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests"

czhiddy — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:06:46 +0000

The stark difference in the response to these "protests" vs the DC BLM protests:

https://twitter.com/RedR1dngHood/status/1346908557560537091

New comment by czhiddy in "M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness"

czhiddy — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:05:40 +0000

Those 2000+ scores are from hobbyist enthusiasts overclocking the Zen 3 CPUs, with elaborate liquid nitrogen cooling setups at the highest scores.

Stock Zen3 single core scores average around 1650: https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks

New comment by czhiddy in "Apple, Epic, and the App Store"

czhiddy — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:49:01 +0000

If Apple has a monopoly on the iOS App Store market, then it follows that Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite add-on market, right?

New comment by czhiddy in "ARM Macs and Virtualization: It's going to be great"

czhiddy — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:27:45 +0000

If 16GB of memory isn't enough to run a text editor or glorified IRC client, then the problem is probably the horribly bloated software.

New comment by czhiddy in "Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android"

czhiddy — Tue, 21 May 2019 07:24:49 +0000

Proper wide-gamut colorspace support has been around on macOS since 2015: https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/

New comment by czhiddy in "Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug"

czhiddy — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:58:12 +0000

What makes you think this was the first audit? Shipping a bug doesn't imply that zero QA was done.

New comment by czhiddy in "Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone"

czhiddy — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:34:51 +0000

“The difference with this device is that we started from the beginning,” says Dave Burke, who runs Android engineering.

Started from scratch, yet the end result looks like a iPhone knockoff from a random Chinese shanzhai company?

http://i.imgur.com/LlqaAPO.png

iPhone 7 Display Technology Shoot-Out

czhiddy — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:02:18 +0000

Article URL: http://displaymate.com/iPhone7_ShootOut_1.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12532872

Points: 1

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Uber is in the sub-prime auto business

czhiddy — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 19:46:38 +0000

Article URL: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/outside-the-boardroom/article/Uber-is-in-the-sub-prime-auto-business-7955561.php?t=4ca09c1fff&cmpid=fb-premium

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11825480

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Google is letting celebrities and businesses post directly to search results

czhiddy — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 03:04:44 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/4/11164046/google-posts-search-results-self-promotion-advertising

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11228238

Points: 1

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New comment by czhiddy in "Ask HN: Where are 150k to 200k salary job in Silicon Valley?"

czhiddy — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 04:45:31 +0000

For software engineering at least, any of the big companies here (FB/GOOG/AAPL/LNKD/TWTR/etc) will easily pay $150k+ for someone with 9 years of experience. If you perform well the first year or two, your yearly RSU package will easily equal the salary.

Just apply and be firm during negotiations.

The Former and Current Employees (FACE) of Amazon

czhiddy — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:45:50 +0000

Article URL: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035661

Points: 3

# Comments: 0