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While senior engineers don’t make NFL wages, the executives do (including some former senior engineers). Would it be fair to compare execs to NFL player instead? (While engineers are those work behind the scene to support the game)

It is mostly Java now. Backend ones are migrated to C++

YT is migrating more and more low-level infra to Google wide support now. But many core “middleware” infra is still maintained in-house.

Golang doesn’t have a proper generics support at its beginning. It is too late now.

Typically publicly traded companies have trading window limitations for its employees, and one purpose is to avoid insider trading risks. But that works for “normal engineer”. Executives who have more privileged info might need to consult their lawyers case by case.

Both options work, but you have to choose one style depending on the stage and type of the startup.

If you are founding a new coffee shop, or a trading company, probably you should spend more time working on the actual problem. But if you are founding a future tech (eg SpaceX at its beginning) or anything that requires huge capital or fast scaling in team size, you should spend more time on getting everyone buying the story and provides you with talent and capital to actually solve it.

There is no need to "respect" the process, but just to be more thoughtful:

> What's not in a Linux inode? > My answer was: Lots of things...dinosaurs, the moon...

You can answer that you want more clarification, or even answer that "we can google this".

The "dinosaurs" thing might make the interviewer feel that you are being unprofessional since the interview is to test one's ability to perform in a professional environment. You don't help your colleagues by answering in this way when asked similar questions in work...

The content on/recommended by TikTok has two main interesting characteristics as I observed:

- Being very "personally relevant": It doesn't only recommend generally popular stuff. It can be very quick at picking up some niche interests of yours.

- Feel very authentic. TikTok makes it easier for "ordinary people" to get millions of views "accidentally". And as a result, many popular video feels very authentic, which might be preferred compared to curated content like in Netflix or even YouTube.

Not to dismiss this course since I never tried it, but my personal experience is that I procrastinate a lot when I don’t enjoy my work, have a lot of FUD around the project, or simply not passionate about the profession.

On the contrary, when I got motivated by my work and feel excited, I just naturally stop procrastination. In fact, it becomes difficult to pay attention to things beyond work at that state.

My advice to people who suffer from procrastination: first think about the root cause, that is whether pivoting from current job is what you really need to do.

Can’t agree more. Chinese branch of KFC/McDonalds not only has many delicious specials you can’t find outside China, even the basic fried chicken is much more juicy and flavorful. I can only find similar fried chicken in some very niche brands in US.

That is a valid use case despite being small and incremental. I think it will still be helpful to some people.

The easy part is the copy-paste-from-SO part ;)

It doesn’t calm to solve the bottleneck either. On the contrary, it clearly states that its mission is to solve the easy parts better so developers can focus better on the true challenging engineering problems as you mentioned.

> Apple announced that FaceTime is going to be available on the web so users can call in from Android devices and Windows PCs

From the article.

Or “next week’s Friday”