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New comment by siggen in "Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense""

siggen — Sat, 11 May 2024 13:48:41 +0000

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

New comment by siggen in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

siggen — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:55:26 +0000

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.

New comment by siggen in "Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows"

siggen — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:53:15 +0000

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

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

New comment by siggen in "Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'"

siggen — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:27:18 +0000

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...

New comment by siggen in "Ask HN: Do companies hire principal and staff level engineers from job postings?"

siggen — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:17:04 +0000

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

New comment by siggen in "If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation"

siggen — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:45:34 +0000

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.

New comment by siggen in "If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation"

siggen — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:34:51 +0000

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

New comment by siggen in "If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation"

siggen — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:33:22 +0000

No raises for everyone but they did give promotions out.

New comment by siggen in "Google cuts dozens of jobs in news division"

siggen — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 14:40:29 +0000

Yes, in the past they would find positions internally.

New comment by siggen in "Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic"

siggen — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:30:50 +0000

Packet-switched. :P

New comment by siggen in "U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high"

siggen — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:53:35 +0000

> 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.

New comment by siggen in "The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs"

siggen — Wed, 10 May 2023 12:57:06 +0000

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.

New comment by siggen in "My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)"

siggen — Wed, 10 May 2023 12:53:39 +0000

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

New comment by siggen in "The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs"

siggen — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:02:25 +0000

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.

New comment by siggen in "Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs"

siggen — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:50:31 +0000

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.

New comment by siggen in "The day Windows died"

siggen — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:00:30 +0000

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.

New comment by siggen in "Google denies destroying 'chat' evidence in U.S. antitrust lawsuit"

siggen — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:56:08 +0000

Do you happen to have a reference?

New comment by siggen in "Ericsson to lay off 8,500 employees"

siggen — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:16:41 +0000

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.

New comment by siggen in "A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview"

siggen — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 10:52:25 +0000

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.

New comment by siggen in "Ericsson to lay off 8,500 employees"

siggen — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:53:26 +0000

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.