Disagree here - I recently took delivery of a BYD Shark 6 and was especially impressed with the build quality and interior quality. I'd say on par with the BMW X5 we had, and slightly better than the Polestar 2 that we…
And of course the Sydney Ice Berg https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_sydney_iceberg
It appears to have that mode they call "Body Anchor" - limits the device to 72Hz with "minimal latency". https://www.xreal.com/air2/
Yeah I see your point where it just doesn’t matter, especially back the the original point where it may not be at scale now, but you don’t want to go through the budget / approval process when you need it etc. I think…
I think it completely matters - yes these orgs are a lot more wasteful, but there is still an opportunity to save money here, especially is this economy, if not for the internal politics wins. I’ve spent time in some of…
Scaling _if_ needed has been the death knell of many companies. Every engineer wants to assume that they will need to scale to millions of QPS, most of the time this is incorrect, and when it is not then the requirement…
> Java from Oracle Oracle acquired Java with Sun Microsystems, it was originally designed for embedded systems and the dream of “write once, run everywhere”. The idea of a “hardware JVM” always fascinated me, I seem to…
I don't think you can do better than a binary search here, so log2(1000000) questions, which happens to come out to 20 with rounding. I tried thinking a bit outside the box for other questions that would break down the…
Congrats on the completion! I graduated from this program in May of 2021 after about a 15 year gap from my undergrad, coupled with two young kids, a job change, moving across the world, and military service in the…
I remember there being a browser beta version, but I thought this was pulled. Has it come back? Because that would be wonderful!
I joined MSFT as a manager 18 months ago, and honestly think their remote policy is one of the better ones out there. Up to 50% remote time with no approval, up to 100% with manager approval. This of course is modulo…
I would love a feature in Teams that was "never, ever, ever, open a link in teams - use the default browser". Like you, I can't fucking stand it, and I make the same mistake at least once a day. Disclaimer: I work at…
I recently moved my passwords from an expired 1Password account to Bitwarden (right at the time they announced linux support actually, which was always the biggest thing I missed). Bitwarden has a FF extension and…
There's no need for a browser extension, you can enable it as a setting in your profile if you're logged in.
I left GOOG a year ago to join MSFT, both have excellent work-life balance. I also spent 5 years at a well known startup that went public - I think I averaged nearly 12 hours a day over the 5 years there. In my…
Yes we’re only a small SWE office, working on Azure Infrastructure. Though we are hiring and growing :)
I don’t think it’s an unreasonable expectation to have a candidate write some code in a screening interview for a software engineering position. When a candidate flat out refuses to, then this is a huge red flag. It’s…
I run an engineering group at Microsoft in Australia, we have a reasonable though not (IMO) difficult screening / interview process. However despite this, we find it hard to get candidates through our pipeline - even to…
TC (total comp) does not include super - it's made up of base, stock and bonus. It allows you to somewhat compare against sites.
Google Australia health insurance is about ~10k/year for a family (2 adults, 2 kids) to replicate outside - BUPA Corporate Platinum 90.
Awesome work - I ran into an issue with spaces in the TZ_LIST config and sent a PR https://github.com/oz/tz/pull/14
I agree - I already use an extension for emacs key bindings that mostly works. With such a rich extension ecosystem I'd rather see them invest in enabling extensions to do this, rather than adding the functionality…
This depends on the hiring manager and the org - I'm hiring for a couple of roles in Australia and have explicitly marked them as remote (in AU).
Yeah I've used a hololens for a building walkthrough (showing a new fitout) and whilst it was a cool experience, the resolution was really low, and the field of view was tiny - just a small square in each eye. The…
Yes, thank you for the addition. The book was the first thing I read after we received the diagnosis for my son - although a friend had recommended it prior to this. It also helped me as person feel less different and…
Disagree here - I recently took delivery of a BYD Shark 6 and was especially impressed with the build quality and interior quality. I'd say on par with the BMW X5 we had, and slightly better than the Polestar 2 that we…
And of course the Sydney Ice Berg https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_sydney_iceberg
It appears to have that mode they call "Body Anchor" - limits the device to 72Hz with "minimal latency". https://www.xreal.com/air2/
Yeah I see your point where it just doesn’t matter, especially back the the original point where it may not be at scale now, but you don’t want to go through the budget / approval process when you need it etc. I think…
I think it completely matters - yes these orgs are a lot more wasteful, but there is still an opportunity to save money here, especially is this economy, if not for the internal politics wins. I’ve spent time in some of…
Scaling _if_ needed has been the death knell of many companies. Every engineer wants to assume that they will need to scale to millions of QPS, most of the time this is incorrect, and when it is not then the requirement…
> Java from Oracle Oracle acquired Java with Sun Microsystems, it was originally designed for embedded systems and the dream of “write once, run everywhere”. The idea of a “hardware JVM” always fascinated me, I seem to…
I don't think you can do better than a binary search here, so log2(1000000) questions, which happens to come out to 20 with rounding. I tried thinking a bit outside the box for other questions that would break down the…
Congrats on the completion! I graduated from this program in May of 2021 after about a 15 year gap from my undergrad, coupled with two young kids, a job change, moving across the world, and military service in the…
I remember there being a browser beta version, but I thought this was pulled. Has it come back? Because that would be wonderful!
I joined MSFT as a manager 18 months ago, and honestly think their remote policy is one of the better ones out there. Up to 50% remote time with no approval, up to 100% with manager approval. This of course is modulo…
I would love a feature in Teams that was "never, ever, ever, open a link in teams - use the default browser". Like you, I can't fucking stand it, and I make the same mistake at least once a day. Disclaimer: I work at…
I recently moved my passwords from an expired 1Password account to Bitwarden (right at the time they announced linux support actually, which was always the biggest thing I missed). Bitwarden has a FF extension and…
There's no need for a browser extension, you can enable it as a setting in your profile if you're logged in.
I left GOOG a year ago to join MSFT, both have excellent work-life balance. I also spent 5 years at a well known startup that went public - I think I averaged nearly 12 hours a day over the 5 years there. In my…
Yes we’re only a small SWE office, working on Azure Infrastructure. Though we are hiring and growing :)
I don’t think it’s an unreasonable expectation to have a candidate write some code in a screening interview for a software engineering position. When a candidate flat out refuses to, then this is a huge red flag. It’s…
I run an engineering group at Microsoft in Australia, we have a reasonable though not (IMO) difficult screening / interview process. However despite this, we find it hard to get candidates through our pipeline - even to…
TC (total comp) does not include super - it's made up of base, stock and bonus. It allows you to somewhat compare against sites.
Google Australia health insurance is about ~10k/year for a family (2 adults, 2 kids) to replicate outside - BUPA Corporate Platinum 90.
Awesome work - I ran into an issue with spaces in the TZ_LIST config and sent a PR https://github.com/oz/tz/pull/14
I agree - I already use an extension for emacs key bindings that mostly works. With such a rich extension ecosystem I'd rather see them invest in enabling extensions to do this, rather than adding the functionality…
This depends on the hiring manager and the org - I'm hiring for a couple of roles in Australia and have explicitly marked them as remote (in AU).
Yeah I've used a hololens for a building walkthrough (showing a new fitout) and whilst it was a cool experience, the resolution was really low, and the field of view was tiny - just a small square in each eye. The…
Yes, thank you for the addition. The book was the first thing I read after we received the diagnosis for my son - although a friend had recommended it prior to this. It also helped me as person feel less different and…