GFischer

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by GFischer 9y ago
The good old Hedonic Treadmill ("as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem"). I do agree with you, but is private school strictly necessary? (not judging - in your position, I'd want to send them t
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by GFischer 9y ago
I agree that those are important, but money is a HUGE indicator/proxy of how much a company respects you, your talents and your contributions. I've quit a higher paying position because of bad leadership and no growth opportunitie
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by GFischer 9y ago
That is exactly the standard of care I enjoy and expect in my country (Uruguay). It's light-years ahead of what my otherwise far wealthier sister and brother in law experience in San Francisco. You can call an ambulance if you feel sic
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by GFischer 9y ago
Depends on where you'll be working, but in my experience working as a software developer is nothing like competitive programming... Silicon Valley companies do like hashing people on algorithms, so brush them up for interviews, but the
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by GFischer 9y ago
Aside: Are you sure you need a MS? I've known EEs switching to development with no need for a master's (edit: I see you can graduate with a MS with what you've studied now, makes sense to go for it). Hands-on experience might
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by GFischer 9y ago
That sounds like putting the cart before the horse. I wouldn't spend on an LLC or domains before he has to. I do agree investing on trying to build something, but there are a lot of free resources before having to spend money.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Indeed, but it's definitely a hardcore pay-to-win game (at least ladder definitely is). If you play well, you get to a point where your opponents' cards are way overstatted against yours. And that's where the temptation to gi
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by GFischer 9y ago
It's kind of anti-responsive... I've got my browser window at about 600px height, and I see there's some "below the fold" content but I can't scroll down to see it... Maximizing I found out that it said "D
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by GFischer 9y ago
Usually, when doing due diligence, anything that might conceivably be a lawsuit or ongoing lawsuits results in a lower price or funds in escrow or similar agreements. So, even if there never was a big payoff, the mere potential is a big red
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by GFischer 9y ago
Well, we have a national ID here in my country that significantly reduces the bizarreness that is the U.S. system of not being able to verify who actually owes a debt.... (not that we don't have annoying debt collectors, but not in thi
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by GFischer 9y ago
" criminalizing bad parenting " We have an equivalent of Child Protection Services here in my country, and what they do is take away the children from bad parents. It's not a great solution, there's a massive overpopulat
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by GFischer 9y ago
My worry is that Oracle decides to kill Apiary. I wouldn't use it because of that. I used to work for a company that used a product purchased by Sun and killed off by Oracle.. a few years back they deleted all the docs (fortunately we
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by GFischer 9y ago
We have that in Uruguay, and it's no fun (I agree that getting into debt sucks as well). State/national University here used to be 100% free, but now every graduate has to pay, starting 5 years after graduation, until they turn 65
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by GFischer 9y ago
It won't. First of all, I think most are overestimating the effect - as mentioned, many other countries don't have similar legislation. It might make broadband more expensive, and it might make some Netflix-style bandwidth-heavy s
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by GFischer 9y ago
There are definitely unethical mobile game companies that are as bad or worse than online casinos, but there are also wholesome ones.
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by GFischer 9y ago
OP clarified that it's legal where he lives. I believe in most countries online gambling is not illegal per se, but definitely regulated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling#Legal_status
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by GFischer 9y ago
Thanks for the links, I wasn't aware of SpaServices :)
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by GFischer 9y ago
Most large companies like Microsoft have a title called Developer Evangelist or similar whose only job is to know all the newest and greatest and do the conference circuit and have blogs, videos and presentations.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Very cool and exactly what I was mentioning. And the MicroPAD apartments look way cooler than my old studio :) Of course, I paid 200 dollars in rent, not 3500 !
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by GFischer 9y ago
Something I don't understand is that, even with shockingly high rent prices, no smaller units seem to be built. As a South American and having seen European housing, the only city that has something equivalent to what's "norm
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by GFischer 9y ago
Depends on which country's banks. So far I've lost more money to banks in my country than to my mattress, and so has almost everyone in Uruguay and Argentina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito Funds wer
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by GFischer 9y ago
I've heard Excel mentioned as the real reason for the Microsoft Office lock-in and cash cow. Word and PowerPoint can be easily replaced.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Yep, Excel is an easy way to lose a few million dollars. However, development costs are so expensive they might have broken even when factoring the cost of creating a system.
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by GFischer 9y ago
"Know your customer" anti money-laundering laws are growing more stringent. In the U.S. the Patriot Act made it even more mandatory: https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/financial-services/publications/as.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Have you written up your experiences in a blog post or talk or something? I'm on the same boat right now, was asked to build a POC in Amazon Lex, an Alexa Skill, Microsoft LUIS, Wit.ai and Dialogflow. So far I've gotten to LUIS an
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by GFischer 9y ago
I have Alexa at my desk right now in an open plan (I developed a demo skill for a POC), and it does disturb my coworkers. It also isn't smart enough to differentiate between multiple users.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Don't you have an equivalent to football (soccer) wherever you are? I've heard many parents of teenagers complaining that it's hard to get them off their football matches (5-a-side soccer is huge here, and any street can beco
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by GFischer 9y ago
What are you thinking of contributing to? Also, don't think that your contributions won't be "good enough" just because you're a student. I've seen amazing stuff built by students - the React Create App was cre
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by GFischer 9y ago
I've seen that plenty of big companies lay off people with the left hand and continue hiring with the right - usually for different teams on different locations. I'm not as enthusiastic to work in one of those megacorps as I once
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by GFischer 9y ago
Maybe you qualify for Microsoft's Dreamspark or you can sign up for the Microsoft Imagine cup and get some free credits. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/imag... https:/&#x2F

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