You pray everyone can make the choice freely and not be coerced into a decision they did not want. Let's pretend that your family is from the USA and has been the beneficiary of slave labor, that without slavery, your family would not have the generational wealth that it has been able to pass onto you. Do you pray for these slaves also and do you also want them to not be coerced into making money for you?
Every government on earth since the beginning of time is not without injustice. The Aztecs enslaved and brutally dominated their region which is how the Spanish were able to conquer them - the enemies of the Aztecs joined forces with the Spanish in order to destroy a society they saw as a great evil.
The African slaves themselves were sold to the slavers by African kings, such as in Benin, who profited from the export of their enemies.
Where do you want the self flagellation to end? Injustice has been happening since the beginning of civilization.
Can I get a source on this please? In particular I would be curious about what is the breakdown in the % of female engineers and female management in Meta.
Almost all upper castes are vegetarians. Brahmins definitely will be vegetarians. There will be exceptions for first generation immigrant kids I suppose.
1. Find the limit of your abilities.
2. Push yourself to exceed your limit slightly. If the most you can bench press is 40kg, push yourself to bench 40.5kg. If it takes you on average 5 hours to fix a bug, push for 4 hours and 55 min next time.
3. Get a good night's sleep.
4. Repeat.
Are you not able to solve leetcode easy questions? Even if you are, you can keep trying for a while, and if you feel like you really can't solve it, go look at the solutions for that question from others who have solved it (in the language of your choice). You can see how others solve it and also different solutions and also you can start to learn from them and decide for yourself what makes a solution "better" than others.
Market is crazy right now and salaries are exploding. You should really put yourself out there and check out the opportunities.
>Steve recommended investigating Systems Engineering as a distinct subject. Specifically, reading the engineering histories of the Gemini and Apollo projects, and especially about the culture clash between the experimental aircraft guys who built Mercury, and the ICBM teams.
Not a book, but MIT OCW has a class on Aircraft Systems Engineering 16.885J (focusing on the Space Shuttle) that is an excellent example of this. The class starts by looking at the requirements for the system, then examines every single subsystem on the Shuttle, and explains, in detail, why it was built the way it was. Almost always the answer is "because of the constraints placed on the system by the rest of the vehicle" + it has to be as light as possible.
I initially watched the lectures because of an interest in aerospace and it is a fascinating historical series in its own right with some incredible speakers. The lessons for systems engineers are numerous too.
Can you talk a bit about how facebook measures impact from their employees? How is it defined? How closely do you think it tracks real impact. How often do people figure out how to game it, and how is it usually gamed? Do you think it is possible to modify the definition of impact such that an ethical component can be added to it?
I'm not GP, but I did work at Facebook until just over a year ago (two teams over ~3.5 years). For practical purposes, impact means measurable change of some metric(s). That can be latency, reliability, number of interviews done (really), efficiency, whatever. In theory non-measurable impacts are valued too, but in practice only if your boss and their peers org-wide who participate in "calibrations" are sympathetic. It's an uphill battle TBH, and not unrelated to why I left.
And yes, everybody games it. At the end of every half there's a flurry of "brag posts" about everyone's impactful projects. Better braggers get better results. Sometimes the metrics and measurements and analyses are pretty obviously suspect, but who wants to be the one to say so and never get positive feedback on their own review from that person or their friends ever again? Again, it comes down to consensus on whether the claimed improvements are real or not.
I was in infra (storage) so I don't know how it might be different in more product-oriented parts of the company. However, when the fundamental philosophy behind measuring and rewarding impact is questionable that sets an upper limit on how good things can be over there.
It's still mostly contained (most cases are connected to existing clusters) but the government is foreshadowing that containment is becoming a major problem without being able to rely on geographic travel screening. Many imported cases (UK, Italy, Thailand) in the last few days.
The curve is still very much bent when we look at how early this started in the country and it will continue to be flatter than in any place not putting distancing and testing in place on time
Why do you believe that the optimal point for a business is maintaining the employees on the edge of quitting? What are the pros and cons of doing this?
It seems to be a very simple way of looking at it: squeeze out as much as possible from the employee without losing the employee - hence on the edge of quitting.
However, I think it is way too simple to be useful. People who are happy and relatively less stressed are way more productive on average. (Yerkes - Dodson Law applies here)
No. Your response is the reasoning that every non-asshole makes as they get converted into an asshole because of their interactions with assholes. The response to someone being an asshole to you shouldn't be to be an asshole back to them. That is how assholes spread. It is possible to disagree without being an asshole. Just watch some videos of Obama responding to republican talking points for some examples.
