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New comment by mrowland in "How I ship projects at big tech companies"

mrowland — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:14:45 +0000

> no matter the project goal, your leadership team (the people in your reporting chain who care about the project) will always have basically zero technical context about the project compared to you.

This is not universally the case, and I've been much happier when I find teams and orgs where this is not true.

Good leaders understand the details. Find them. Be one.

Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?

mrowland — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:59:14 +0000

Article URL: https://paygo.media/p/25171

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26165809

Points: 825

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The Moving Middle

mrowland — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:41:07 +0000

Article URL: http://mikerowland.io/2020/11/17/moving-middle.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25256478

Points: 1

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What I miss about working at Google

mrowland — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:54:11 +0000

Article URL: https://mikerowland.io/2020/07/05/miss-about-google.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981965

Points: 4

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New comment by mrowland in "Start before you think you’re ready"

mrowland — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:20:41 +0000

"Weeks of coding can save hours of design"

New comment by mrowland in "Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies"

mrowland — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 02:24:55 +0000

On a personal level, children are optional; on a societal level they really aren't.

New comment by mrowland in "Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans"

mrowland — Sat, 16 May 2015 15:04:41 +0000

There's evidence[1] that there's no difference in intelligence between races at a very young age, and that tested differences only emerge later. This suggests that the IQ differences seen later are a result of societal factors and not something innate.

1: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/testing_for_rac...

New comment by mrowland in "Parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 will pay no tuition"

mrowland — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 04:31:47 +0000

Here's my math:

15 weeks / semester * 2 semesters = 30 weeks. $5000 / 30 weeks = $166 / week. At $8 an hour, that's 20 hours a week; at $10 an hour it's 16 hours. (Ignoring taxes, which are low but still push the hours needed higher.)

This is not accounting for summer jobs, but my original point was that having the student contribution at that level will make some students take a paying but dead-end summer job over an unpaid internship or other opportunity that would benefit them more in the long run. (Another reason unpaid internships are questionable ethically...)

New comment by mrowland in "Parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 will pay no tuition"

mrowland — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:25:17 +0000

I've had on-campus jobs throughout college, and making $5000 from those jobs alone would require working somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 hours a week. Certainly possible (and many do it), but at that point it starts to have a pretty noticeable affect on your schoolwork and personal life.

New comment by mrowland in "Parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 will pay no tuition"

mrowland — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:07:08 +0000

Agreed. Student earnings requirements aren't much of a problem for CS/engineering students (who can get paid summer jobs related to their field), but they are difficult for students trying to get into industries where unpaid internships are effectively a requirement. You would think Stanford would have made a change to this as well.

New comment by mrowland in "Working at Netflix"

mrowland — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:02:26 +0000

For what it's worth, the solution to that question was an open question in computer science for over ten years, so I would guess that people who get it quickly in an interview are more likely to have heard the answer before than successfully invent the tortoise-and-hare algorithm on the spot. Further reading on that question in this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7953725.

Show HN: “Black and White”-style Game Prototype for the Leap Motion

mrowland — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:35:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8XASkvWddI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735648

Points: 4

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