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by Epenthesis 8y ago
Only a single data point, but I was #13 at a (now) unicorn and was offered 45 bps for a new grad role. This was 7 years ago, though, so maybe the market's changed. (I, in my infinite wisdom, traded it down to 25 bps for 15 k$/yr m
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
This is a bit of a silly semantic game. There's "smart" in the sense of "general mental ability" (ie, skill in cognitive tasks), which is usually what the word is used colloquially to mean, and then there's &qu
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
Why would the voters listen to them if they did in fact approve of multiple candidates?
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
YMMV massively depending on what exactly you're working in. I've found when I'm writing libraries that will be leveraged by other programmers, especially in a modern/high level language, insights I've derived from
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
This seems like a classic Simpson's paradox. Suppose that people associate with people of roughly equal "success in life". And suppose both IQ and executive function correlate positively with success. Then, at a given level o
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
> rent will not drop, because the developer has to make payments on loans and maintain a profit So, you're saying that if the developer has costs of X $/mo month, then in a oversupplied market, rather than take, say 0.8X $&#x2F
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
Land is zero sum (which is why a Land Value Tax is such a good idea), but housing , which is what people actually consume is not. We have the technology to build more housing, just not the regulatory regime, which is what this article is a
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
Wait, why would “sending a big chunk of that fat tech money to a landlord” make someone not interested in fixing the housing crisis?
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
Except ternary expressions have the huge advantage that they allow assigning to const . Eg: const var = val == 1 ? 1 : va1 == 2 ? 2 : null;
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by Epenthesis 8y ago
I've never seen a take home coding challenge that had even the possibility of being used as production code. For me it's always been a standardized, self-contained example problem. Maybe there're scummy companies that try to
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
Part of that is South India tends to be assertively anti-Hindi for various historical/cultural reasons. Given that, English is the only realistic option for communicating outside a given linguistic community.
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
> "toward the lake" means "north" Fascinating! Lake Nicaragua (which is what I'd naively assume a person in Nicaragua would mean by "The Lake") is in the south of the country, so that's really unin
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
Right, but given that that's true today, what makes BTC a store of value? Or should I be parsing the phrase to mean "It's not anything today, but in the long term, once the market cap is large enough, it'll be a store of
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
I've been hearing this a lot, but what does it actually mean ? Isn't the most important thing you want from a store of value stability? Ie, that it'll store the value that you put into it? Bitcoin certainly doesn't ha
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
Similar. It's the 401k employer contribution to UBI's defined benefit pension.
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
Are there companies that actually distinguish between these roles? For all the ones I've ever worked at, "software engineer" and "programmer" are synonyms. (I'm aware that there's been some effort to exten
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
But why would I as a person looking for a job want to commit a week or more of my free time to do something like this? Especially since the current job market gives me plenty of much lower time investment options?
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
Do you pronounce those differently? Where'd you grow up? In all the English dialects I'm familiar with, those are pronounced the same. Regardless, it's the "j sound" of "James" (as well as of both "ed
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by Epenthesis 9y ago
...yes? Are you really unfamiliar with how medallion owners used to treat their drivers?
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by Epenthesis 10y ago
Speaking for myself: I'm a massive nerd. I need friendships with other nerdy people to be sane. There aren't that many nerdy people in my middle American home town of 300k people. There are many, many nerdy people in San Francisco
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by Epenthesis 10y ago
> 7 k$ per month in my last remote gig . I'm saving that much on an ongoing basis at my full-time job in SF. I do have a roommate, but, to be honest, the weather alone makes it worth it.
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by Epenthesis 10y ago
So, living in places like that and paying that much is definitely not normal. For 1900 $/mo, you can get a bedroom in a really nice 2 or 3BR place in the desirable neighborhoods or a studio/1BR in the undesirable neighborhoods (
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by Epenthesis 10y ago
To clarify what people are saying: 200 k$/yr+ in base salary is rare (but not unheard of) in SV/NYC for programmers. It usually implies some degree of specialization beyond "Java programmer" ("highly available syste
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by Epenthesis 10y ago
I mean, this is the fundamental crux of these CoL discussions: How much does the quality of your residence matter to you? People try and mechanically translate equivalent lifestyles from place to place, but that's probably not the best
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by Epenthesis 10y ago
That's a... heterodox interpretation of things. The vast majority of the constitution makes no distinction between citizens and non-citizens subject to American jurisdiction (the exceptions, of course, being for voting and holding offi
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by Epenthesis 10y ago
At Google, assuming what I saw was representative, 220+ k$/yr in total comp (salary + bonus + RSUs) was the standard last year for one promotion up from new grad (SDE IIIs). (Note that Google RSUs, unlike Uber's, are convertible t
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by Epenthesis 10y ago
(I realize this is rather tactless, but I ask in the interest of fairly weighing the risk/rewards of startups/consulting vs. big tech) Is it fair to read this to mean that patio11's net worth is < 250 k$? (Based on the fa
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by Epenthesis 11y ago
I always thought a BIG benefit of SoMa is the fact that you can draw employees from East Bay and South Bay (as well as SF itself). On the other hand, a, say, San Mateo -> Oakland commute is pretty much untenable.
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by Epenthesis 11y ago
I'm sad that they don't have executable bodies. That was a key feature of CoffeeScript classes for me, and not having it makes ES6 classes considerably less useful/interesting.
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by Epenthesis 11y ago
It probably helps that dialogs usually use "ok"/"cancel" rather than "yes"/"no". Chinese, for example, doesn't really have a word for "yes", but it does have a word/phras

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