googlemike

Someone didn't get an offer!

As a person who came to America legally, as an Immigrant, I seriously do not want this. How is this at all fair to those of us who had to work so hard and wait so long to get in?

Java is a wildly successful language, and I find the title to be rather clickbait-y in that it attempts to be polarizing for no reason. Original sin implies a failure, and the author (of the blog) discusses a nuanced design choice of the language. It is one the most successful languages I know in terms of adoption and scale (alongside Javascript, C++, and Python).

By what measure, if not this one, can we truly compare languages?

Resolution has very little to do with object detection and obstacle avoidance.

(not saying Musk isn't full of shit)

In my experience on services with billions of users - no one knows the whole thing. There are potentially thousands of hops in a roundtrip of a given system from the user to some source of truth and back. The larger companies grow, the more complex these systems get, the higher the load, the more likely we are to see a break. Systems break constantly, recover constantly, and very rarely does the user see it. So perhaps another way to reform this question is - why are the users seeing it now?

Where have I done those things?

I am surprised you learned so much about me from my comment! Let me clarify a little: I am significantly older than 22. I had to drop out of university to provide for my ailing parents and to support my sister. I've spent more than a few nights sleeping in my car around the corner from whichever office or university I happened to be attending at the time.

My Amazon interview was the most ridiculous experience I have ever had interviewing anywhere. That round I got offers from Facebook (insta), Google (team matching said maps), Uber (eats) and a few others but not Amazon. At Amazon, I pulled out and declined with an email to my recruiter from the lobby of the building at the end of the day. My interviewers were broken up into two categories: Engineers who didn't want to be there, and terrible mid level managers that quizzed me on memorization of their company competencies. One of the managers was clearly reading his questions from a list, and did not care at all about what I had to say. That, combined with the sad office (manager's share a tiny office, everyone else sits in grey cubicles without sunlight), and no food or snacks (it matters) really broke it for me.

All that aside (I am willing to chalk it up to luck, god knows my first (failed) round at trying to get into Google went terribly), Amazon clearly does not compete by hiring the best engineers. Rather, they compete by throwing money at the problem and undercutting everyone else, getting by with mediocre engineering.

There are dozens and dozens of ways to migrate data in databases without the (2) choices you presented (alter table and schema change).

Threads like this made me with HN had a 'verification' system for certain (opt in by poster) posts a la /r/AskHistorians/. If you are not familiar, therein any comment not made by a verified user or not following extremely strict citation guidelines gets deleted.

Please provide scientific proof in the form of peer reviewed research or delete your comment. There is no room for these kinds of wild and ridiculous statements without proof.

I've yet to see a single legal use case for bitcoin.

How should one interpret it then?

From wikipedia:

From December 1942 until VJ-day there were relatively few enlistments into the armed forces as restrictions against the direct recruiting of men in the age group acceptable for service (18-37) were in effect. There were, however, 483,605 other enlistments into the Army and Navy during the period July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, but only 1.3 percent were African Americans. Although African Americans constitute approximately 11 percent of the population, aged 18 through 37, only 0.8 percent of Army enlistees and 1.4 percent of Navy enlistees during the period July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, were of that race.

So, sounds like the white part doesn't matter too much? Yes it was terrible that they were excluded from the GI bill, but only a very small fraction of soldiers in ww2 were black. It was very unlikely they would have made a difference in the outcome of such suburbs.

Why does that matter? Why do we have to inject race into everything?

I like how you paint all the companies from a single country with such a wide brush! You are very wrong - A few Israeli startups that have made revolutionary products, off the top of my head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobileye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber

Oh and Apple, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Motorola, and Google have offices there - so perhaps there is some tech talent there? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Wadi)

I found the article to be poorly written and confusing, at least in that it failed to answer the most simple question I had: "What is MMT?"

The Wikipedia article seems far more useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

To quote the intro:

"MMT advocates argue that the government should use fiscal policy to achieve full employment, creating new money to fund government purchases. The primary risk once the economy reaches full employment is inflation, which can be addressed by raising taxes and issuing bonds, to remove excess money from the system.[3] MMT is controversial, with active debate[4] about its policy effectiveness and risks."

You, and opinions stated as facts by ignorant people are exactly what is wrong with the internet. I used to think everyone having a voice was a wonderful, liberating new freedom for the whole world. The last few years have really changed my mind.

Why do they need diversity?

I am vegetarian - I find it a nice balance between the two. In your example, drop the chicken, add some salsa and another kind of bean (whole black?). For extra fun, replace the chicken prep with mushrooms or tofu.

"To be sure, many drivers from Uber are still earning more than they could get in other blue-collar jobs in India. The national minimum wage in India is only about $2.50 a day."

No substantial article here folks. Just negative sounding clickbait because "Uber" is in the title.

Happy to take that bet. How should we do it?

How is it that, no matter what, people will always find a way to blame the US? I think in this case, the country just ran itself to the ground.

I like it at Google!

This is missing so many repos, from so many companies. What a terrible source.

Agreed that markets are very interesting, and agreed that real time price discovery is a thing that happens in markets...

But I still fail to see how blockchain is relevant here? A centralized system for managing supply and demand equilibrium through dynamic price changes seems like the best system here.

I do not feel as though have answered my question - would you mind expanding on your answer?

Can you provide a single problem where the right solution space is blockchain? Ive thought about this a good amount, and cannot come up with a single use case where current established centralized technology is not a better solution.

$50b in revenue last year is nothing to scoff at. They have levers for profit but instead re-invest every dollar. Your argument sounds exactly like what people said about Amazon years ago.

Whats wrong with running ads for condos in a whites-only resort community? If their internal numbers show that this community has a really high chance of conversion, why should they target something else on a finite ad budget? Can't a company decide who it wants to sell to?

Europe has absolutely no innovation culture and tons of problems retaining founders. Anecdotally, I've found the bar for European engineers in Europe compared to American engineers an order of magnitude lower.