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I don’t like most thing FB/Meta does. But, I must admit they are the only big tech sharing so much openly. Other big tech should take Meta as an example here.

I thought I’d never say this : good job Zuck on AI!

Yes, but in majority of cases you still need some legal entity that can convert crypto to fiat so you can actually buy stuff with real money. Would be enough to forbid that and crypto is pretty much done.

To cleanup the history before asking for a review.

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I don’t watch Netflix anymore because there is no content worth paying for. I kept it for a while because my kids were watching cartoons now on paramount+. So I cancelled Netflix and now enjoying some quality content on paramount like start trek.

I stopped using Uber since they started ramping up prices.

Parents should chillout; my kids go to private schools, they have a great math program but even that is not enough and most of their friends end up taking additional math class outside school.

I refuse to do that for my kids.

The amount of stress and expectations parents put on their kids is staggering.

Obviously, these kids will inevitably get bored in any school.

We are staring to see the effects of the layoffs…it can only get worse from here…

Negotiation is all about leverage. More often than not leverage is on the employer side.

People look for a job because they most likely need one; unless they are in the fortunate position of working for fun and they don’t want to retire just yet.

Negotiating means you should be ready to walk away: let’s be honest … how many with their first offer at their dream job (e.g: FAANG) would be ready to walk away from it?

Unless you have very specific skills and knowledge, you are rarely in the position of bumping the numbers much.

That said, you must negotiate the first offer (usually low), then you counteroffer much higher with the goal of usually settle somewhere in the middle.

Recruiters know how to play the game.

Also, I believe everyone should have a good idea on how much they should be paid. I usually give the first number, if asked (high) I don’t see anything wrong with that.

I already know they will lowball me and then we will settle somewhere halfway.

weekly questions from people about how does this work

reading the spring documentation usually help :)

Annotations are a great way to get rid of boilerplate and noisy code. For instance, I find Spring @Transactional a much more effective, less bug prone and productive way of dealing with db tx vs having to manual code and handle exceptions, rollback, connections etc .. Same goes with JAX-RS.

I would choose annotations over having to code all that manually any day.

You can easily test and debug. Yes, it will cost some time to understand how aspects work and how it is all wired up, but it is worth learning.

What makes faang special are rsu refresh, that makes a huge difference.

I don’t think 225 or even 300 would be enough. Especially if you have kids. I don’t think people truly realize how home ownership has become completely out of reach for most, even for tech workers.

The only reason I still pay for the most basic Netflix subscription is my kids, otherwise I would have cancelled it.

I really hope this is the end of complicated reactive frameworks! I love the old blocking spring controller paradigm, thread local and so on. It makes things much easier. Never liked webflux, so complicated and hard to debug. Simple things become a project!

Virtual threads to the rescue!

Prices are driven up by people’s inability to be financial savvy.

People keep overpaying for things like cars and houses. Any drop in prices by few % makes it look like a great deal, and people fomo into it; when in fact prices are still insanely high and completely disconnected from the real economy.

More and more people will be house poor. Many ex-FAANG bought into $8k mortgage depleting a good chunk of their saving for insane downpayment, thinking their income would go on for the next 30y.

I believe we will start see the effect of this in the coming years.

There is no way around it, people must stop buying and stop paying $5 for a coffe.

Especially for seasonal trips, people will start cutting out abnb. It is advantageous for both parties. Airbnb fees are outrageously high, plus I have to basically cleanup the entire house before leaving. They are like car dealers, they get in the way without providing any real value. I bet, eventually people will be able to search for places directly on Google.

Also, good luck if you need support.

Still, I don’t see OpenAI having a strategic advantage.

Until today, Google still has a defacto monopoly on search. Their secret sauce made them leader in the space and so far no other company has been able to come up with something better.

ChatGPT does not have any special secret sauce, Google can just build something better. So if I have to bet, long term, I will still bet on Google. That said, it is also not obvious that leadership at Google will be capable of delivering. That’s all different story.

What’s OpenAI long term strategic advantage? Google, has already shown they have something like ChatGPT. They just need a new CEO and to feel enough pressure to make it a company priority. I think it is just a matter of time and all other big players will catch up.

The big problem for Google is not the tech per se, but to figure out how to make money out of it, without destroying their ads cash cow.

If people keep spending $40k for a car a millions $$ for a house … well it is definitely not gonna end up well…

You should have read my first comment where I said that it is not convenient _unless_ you can charge it at home. And here you are … “thanks to solar panels” … you are the exception not the rule. Many people don’t live in houses, let alone have the possibility of installing solar panels and pay premium for an EV car.

Let me guess … you have a Tesla…

I will just wait perhaps in the next 5 to 10 years. For now I am happy with my hybrid.

When you start getting closer to $0.20/kWh https://www.fueleconomy.gov/ then there is no much different between EV and hybrid. If you then account for the fact that EVs can easily go for a +$10k over the hybrid equivalent...then you should come to the conclusion that EV is not that convenient, if at all.

Also, many have mentioned the possibility of charing at work ... good luck with that.

I am in favor of EVs, but infrastructure is not there yet and as said they are still too expensive. Also, given the pace of innovation, I think EVs depreciates faster than Hybrid equivalent.

EV are still too expensive and if one does not have a charger at home, it does not save that much money over ICE, plus it comes with the inconvenience of wasting time waiting for charging. It is that simple.

Exactly!

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Aside from the IP? IP nowadays is all you need…

I find this very invasive and I am glad I never used homebrew and always used Macport instead.

Google has shown they can build amazing AI that can play chess and go, nice … then what? They built borg and gave k8s to the world and then what? OpenAI took the stage on ChatGPT and AWS dominates the cloud.

This goes back to way promotions are handled: clearly people are incentivized to build stuff but no one cares if that would have any path to profitability.

Does the world really need fucsia? ChromeOS?

A business needs both and needs to incentivize innovation along with long term commitment.

How much of their revenue came in because of acquisitions like Segment? That said, sustainable growth is ok, Twilio's head count growth was "wild" to put it mild.

sometimes attractive salaries and roles at these places

yeah, it is a lottery. Though more often than not is paper money that never realized into actual $$$. I did my fair share of it, but eventually went for steady long term income, slower growth but sustainable.

I see it as investing in single stocks or boring mutual funds.

That's insane! I think a good future indicator before joining any company is their hypergrowth ... avoid at all cost. Smoke and mirrors. When you hear CEOs blathering on doubling, tripling etc .. headcount ... run ...

they can only launch things that are capable of serving billions of requests per day

They did not have to launch something like ChatGPT at full scale. I understand very well the cost associated with it. But, they should have been the one setting the stage and the narrative. Building expectation releasing cool demo, experimental features backed into Docs. Things that could show where "potentially" Google could have taken the technology in time ..

But, it seems like, that while they were working on the "perfect working money printing AI product", they completely left the stage to OpenAI and friends.

I think, that was definitely a strategic error.

Perhaps Google will come ahead, who knows. I hope this was a wakeup call for them.