monaghanboy

Do / can expats just hang out with each other?

Can and do the expats just socialize with each other to mitigate the problem?

> It's something they decided to give him after it was decided that he should lose his job over the credible allegation of sexual assault.

Is this true? This is propagating spin, which the authors of the article made quite liberal use of.

I remember the article explicitly stating that they couldn't determine whether or not the decision to pay $90M was made with any relation whatsoever to the HR issue.

Yet they and others seem to keep labeling it as a "payout" anyway. When you keep repeating a thing, eventually it becomes true in the hive mind, which is what's happening here.

EDIT:

From the article:

> It is unclear if Mr. Page or the board knew of the investigation into the harassment complaint when Google approved the $150M grant for Mr. Rubin. Mr. Page, 45, did not respond to a request for a comment; Mr. Doerr and Mr. Shriram declined to comment.

And he got $90M when he was effectively fired, $60M less than the initial grant; see https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

Like others in this thread, I'm starting to believe the NYT is just as bad as FoxNews when it comes to manufacturing opinion and sensation (esp. against Big Tech these days) instead of presenting objective journalism.

>I expected something juicier

What does the quantity of employees have to do with the discussion?

I'm a software engineer that has an MS in Math (ABD actually). I was good at analysis and differential geometry. Any parts of the codebase/deployment I would be best suited to contribute to?

Digression: Terry Tao wrote a book on analysis? That's awesome!

Recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Analysis-Dover-Books-Mat...

I think your ideal exists in backend/SRE roles.

Another major version was again released? Seems like literally just a few months ago when, just after upgrading my team's codebase to Webpack 2, Webpack 3 came out.

Why do front-end application frameworks (e.g. Angular, and even React) and build tools constantly feel the need to reinvent what they just reinvented? Don't people (users and developers alike) recognize and tire of the churn?

Stepping back though, a thread like this appears on HN at least once every few months, so I guess this is just par for the course.

fremont ave., stevens creek trail, sunnyvale saratoga, homestead, and stevens creek blvd. are what I frequent most. I'm never on the road (going somewhere on my bike) for more than 25 minutes.

for safety, i guess i just try to follow the rules of the road (i'm not perfect though, coming from a background of not knowing how to drive).

I've never had an issue with general QoL while reading, people generally seem pretty considerate.

I bike everyday to work in the South Bay, Silicon Valley area. Everyone I talk to here can't imagine life without a car, but I haven't had any issues; lots of bike paths here, and all groceries and the gym are just minutes away.

Sometimes when it rains I carpool, and I see how annoyed and irate most drivers get when commuting. So I don't regret not owning a car.

The downside is not being easily able to take day trips, so I still might buy one some day.

As a small example, I met someone at the gym the other day who told me living in the South Bay without a car would suck. I was surprised; I've never learned how to drive, nor have I owned a car, and I consider this a blessing. I bike 25 minutes to work, 20 minutes to the gym, and less to most other places I need to go. And I'm healthier for it.

I never became acclimated to owning a car, and every time I consider buying one, I just can't justify the value add. I don't even mean that financially it wouldn't net out (it certainly wouldn't), but the cognitive overhead of having to manage yet another thing doesn't really appeal to me. And then there's the thought of passively sitting in a box for about an hour a day in lieu of being out in the open air, which sounds awful.

No, I left a couple of years after my MS degree, while I was starting to do work on my dissertation. While I do think that CS isn't as intellectually satisfying as math, it's definitely more lucrative, so I have zero regrets.

Would you mind sharing what kind of software you write?

This is interesting to me, since I'm self-taught and seem to have done well in my career so far (4 years in), but now I'm going through core CS books and courses, worried that I'll hit a ceiling and wanting to fill the gaps in my knowledge. I work in devops and infrastructure.

I would recommend https://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/.... There's specifically a section on organizing large projects IIRC.

What prompted you to review? Does this somehow indicate that you weren't using the course material in your job(s)?

I've gone through the first few chapters of this book, it's fine. The exercises are somewhat lacking though, in my opinion (the last course I did was nand2tetris, which was project-based, so perhaps I have unrealistic expectations). I started learning C concurrently, and didn't find it a problem.

So far it hasn't harmed me, and I haven't had an active account in 8+ years. I believe this actually helps me, though I can't really quantify or prove it.

I wouldn't recommend Spivak for self-study and a first exposure to analysis. It's known to be notoriously difficult even for good students.

I learned from this Dover book[1]; I think it's pretty good. From there you might move up to Baby Rudin[2], but it might have a lot of typos, or big gaps in the exposition that are taken to be obvious but require several steps to fill in, since that was certainly the case for Papa Rudin[3].

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Analysis-Dover-Books-Mat... [2]: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Mathematical-Analysis-Inte... [3]: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Complex-Analysis-Higher-Mathemat...

I feel the same way. Intellectually it seems like it's been all downhill since leaving grad school :).

Have you found any meaningful correlation between "talent" (engineering or otherwise) and tenure at a well-known tech company?

From my experience, and based on people I know that work at Facebook, e.g., getting your foot in the door is just a matter of studying medium/hard-level problems on Leetcode (speaking verbatim here). I'm not sure you need a strong foundation in systems programming or design, or even a strong track record of building great software to get hired at these kinds of companies. The metric is mostly Leetcode; it's for efficiency I guess, because of the sheer number of applicants.

I've also worked closely with a few people from such companies. I'd say only one was a great engineer. And he definitely didn't have a high opinion of his former co-workers.

The one company whose engineers I'd probably give the benefit of the doubt would be Netflix, because they're so intentional about "performance".

I haven't been on Facebook in over a decade; I didn't see that it had any positive effect on my life (quite the contrary), and I'm definitely not impressed by their lack of social conscience. Despite the excessive pay and "pedigree" that working for them would offer, I'd never do it. I hope that a growing number of people from my and future generations will think the same.

I just signed up. Going meta for a second, this only works if you make using Helix a habit :).

Is there a "long-term" view for Helix where you can zoom out and see a map of your activity? Kind of like GitHub's contribution graph.

I'd use this, looking forward to a V1.

They're completely different in functionality...I've never been able to get quick-scope working FWIW and not sure what the value add is for it (after reading the README many times).

Thanks for the reply.

How do you know the suggested paths are equivalent to a CS major?

Explains it here: https://blog.yangmillstheory.com/posts/vim-snipe/#is-this-a-...

i'm self-taught, ph.d. dropout in math. i work for a unicorn in silicon valley; i've done full-stack development and lately devops and cloud infrastructure. learn enough python/java to go through the entirety of http://nand2tetris.org/; this will help you understand basic computer architecture. from there, you can pick and choose from among the courses in https://teachyourselfcs.com, but i'd recommend taking at least computer networking and operating systems. ds&a is good and a prerequisite for interviewing at most companies.

it would help to do this in parallel with some form of employment, as working will teach you practical software engineering skills that you'll never get from reading books. but you'll be more time-constrained, so you'll have to have really good time-management skills.

also, being around good engineers is a form of education. good co-workers can help expose gaps in your knowledge and skills, which you should strive to amend.

Mine was sadly much more...