i think it’s perfectly fine to invest public money on things that improve everyone’s lives. for me and and many others fiber provides a much higher quality of living even if it doesn’t bring extra growth economically.

for what it’s worth i did triplebyte as well and it was actually a really good interview process. I didn’t end up accepting an offer from any of their companies but I thought they asked very practical things instead of just algorithms.

in my experience a lot of the younger people spend a lot of the day at work messing around. (socializing etc). they also come in for breakfast and dinner and go to the gym. and then stay late working since they didn’t get much work done during the day. If you naively count the hours spent at the office it does indeed add up to 80

i think you meant an M not a B

are you joking? tokyo is inspired by marin county? i can name better food cities in the same state (LA) let alone country or world

their parents were most likely smart and educated because of their genetics which they then passed down

Smart and educated is not enough. That's my point. Many of those geniuses had children who inherited genius genes, and yet have not became geniuses. Why?

Regression to the mean.

You only get 50% of the genes from each parent. It's not likely both parents are geniuses.

And genetics only accounts for half the variance. The other half being non-shared environmental differences. The kids and their parents have completely unique experiences.

that’s cool! thanks for the write up. i learned a bit

isn’t that how most companies launch products now adays? test it on 1 pct of users before full launch?

The issue is picking the users that are manually checking for updates. This used to be a precaution people applied onto their system, now it can actually make your system less stable.

Isn't that the point of nightly/beta opt-in builds? Shipping to 1% of stable would be more for testing scale-handling, whether people like it, etc, but the software itself should be relatively stable at that point

Yes, the modern practice is to treat customers as cattle.

why? university faculty isn’t all that impressive? they are usually just people who made the choice to stay in school longer while others wanted to do something useful right away. many google engineers are phds. but once again this doesn’t mean anything

i work at google but have no idea what solid is. but i can do dynamic programming. i guess it’s what they select for