Good question! Our frequent offsites allow us to get most of the benefits of a tight-knit in-person team, while still having flexibility to bring on teammates working outside the SF Bay Area.
TLDR:
- We have a preference for SF Bay Area-based teammates, but are open to remote – as long as they can work PST hrs.
- And we have frequent offsites to bring the team together.
It's not saying that doing so is a requirement, it's saying that, if you have a degree, the fact that you have one is more important than where it is from.
I dropped out of school, had terrible grades, and ended up going back and finishing, but still got like a 2.something GPA. The subject of school never came up. When I review applicants, I don't rate them poorly if they didn't get a degree.
That's totally fair! I just sympathize with gp as the quoted section and the sentence that emphasizes "completion" from the last paragraph are easy to misinterpret as "you should have finished a four-year degree".
e: hopefully clearer, but tired and still commenting on the internet, so who knows. =)
Looks coherent and well considered to me. Oxide can't really get away with hiring friendly-but-incompetent. I liked this section from the written part, that looks worth doing as a self reflection exercise.
> What work have you found most challenging in your career and why?
> What work have you done that you are particularly proud of and why?
> When have you been happiest in your professional career and why?
> When have you been unhappiest in your professional career and why?
(not a lawyer) What's gut check on how likely this is to succeed? Is this one of those things like preliminary motions to dismiss that are almost always filed but rarely successful, or has a decent shot?
My gut says that Apple will probably get to keep what the Court gave it already (the ability to file two affidavits and participate in the post-hearing briefing) but not full intervention as it originally requested.
District courts have very broad discretion to order their affairs (going to the first point) and Apple’s request likely came too late to be permitted to intervene (going to the second point).
(not gp, and from memory awhile ago so please forgive lack of exact quotes & page numbers)
Bunch of places where the tone masked or downplayed real issues in ways that made other text suspect. As a concrete example, `head [] -> Exception` with something like "of course it errors if you take the first part of something that's not there" and `take 1 [] -> []` with "obviously taking one thing from an empty list gets you an empty list" -- uh, no. Maybe it's a historical wart, maybe there are good technical reasons, but different behavior in these cases is definitely not obvious!
Congrats on the upcoming little one! As someone who also had first infant late last year, consider dialing back your productivity expectations with a newborn (both because it's a wonderful time and because oh-heaven it's so much work).
> The kernel team is absolutely top tier. The kernel itself is of much higher quality than what you'd find on Linux, or MacOS.
Have recommended sources for this or learning more? My experience with Windows doesn't match this at all, though from my perspective it's hard to tell if it's kernel as opposed to any of the layers above it.
Notably Microsoft does not document an API to the kernel, the official userspace interface in Windows is the DLLs they provide. In that since, Wine, which provides DLLs that implement the same interface over the Linux kernel is conforming to the way windows works, and Cygwin, which provided a POSIX-like libc that ran on the Windows kernel is a Windows-centric way to implement POSIX.
(That said, the path of WSL 1, which emulated the Linux syscall interface on Windows, takes advantage of the idea Windows NT had from the very beginning which was implementing "personalities" that could pretend to be other OS, such as the original plan for Windows NT to be OS/2 compatible.)
Windows was kinda a wreck till “windows NT” they brought in David Cutler who did Vax/VMS to help architect it. It was pretty amazing the transition from 95/95/me/vista to windowsNT/2000/XP. They put my old operating systems book appendixes online which have details about windows 2000 (Mach and bsd are the other os covered)
The various Windows subsystems - Windows is built from the start to be able to impersonate other OSes. While the most obvious one is WSL (despite WSL2 being just a VM), there's an OS/2 Subsystem, a POSIX Subsystem, a Win32 subsystem...
Very few things actually run in kernel mode. There exists a almost-kernel-but-not-quite mode called executive mode, which is a much better option than Linux's all or nothing user-or-kernel (and, as far as I know, Mach has the same problem)
NT is a hybrid kernel: not quite monolithic, not quite micro. This allows Windows to do things like swapping your video drivers live as it's running, unlike Linux and Mach which would miserably crash. Hell, it can even recover from a video driver crash and restart it safely, and all you'll see is a few seconds of black screen.
The breadth of devices it supports is absolutely breathtaking. (well, in part because they very much have a hand in forcing manufacturers to respect the standards that they write)
Now, mind you, this is purely about technical merits: the NT Kernel is a miracle of technology. The APIs it exposes, and that most Microsoft products expose are downright batshit insane sometimes. But that's also what happens when you support 35 years of software. Also, the HANDLE pattern that most Win32 API uses is the superior alternative to dumb pointers (https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html)
Oh and a bunch of The Old New Things articles, but I can't be arsed to look them up right now, sorry.
Maybe it will open eyes for people who for some reason acted as if Windows internals were some outdated tech mess just because Windows did some questionable choices when it comes to UI/UX
As an historical aside, I’m 99% sure that the handle pattern had its origins in the 68k Mac system software. It is pretty cool to give the OS liberty to move your memory around at will without breaking behavior.
finehomebuilding, familyhandyman, and greenbuildingadvisor are all valuable resources with a different bent to each.
Counter-intuitively, air sealing is usually the #1 improvement. A good audit with thermal scans is worthwhile, especially if your muni offers a subsidized audit.
Tough to go into more detail without a little more information.
> Counter-intuitively, air sealing is usually the #1 improvement.
I think the hard thing for people to think about is that heat transfer is exponential. But we don't measure it that way. In fact R values are really misleading[1].
Meaning transfer coefficients can vary by orders of magnitude. So it's easy for one source like air leakage to totally swamp every other source.
[1] Figure of merit is really 1/R (smaller is better) not R.
> Tough to go into more detail without a little more information.
Have a ~1800 square foot single family Colonial located in Northeast USA built around 1910. It was partially renovated ~2000 but most of it's still uninsulated (afaict, still very new to this!).
> we know that once surplus white adipose tissue is grown, there's no going back, a modified diet must be adapted for life or those buckets just start filling again
Mind providing more references/reliable pointers on this?
Paper on WAT quantity and its effects on metabolic syndrome. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.12519/pdf . Where this one gets me thinking is that for some people, growing WAT may actually be an adaptation to prevent metabolic disorder from a poor diet.
What we know is WAT can hold about 4x its size in fat before it divides into more. What we don't really know for humans is whether long term weight loss allows us to lose some of these, or whether they just deflate.... some rat studies show there can be a reduction, but for humans it would require repeated biopsy......
