GoatOfAplomb

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by GoatOfAplomb 3y ago
Also - I don't recognize Jerry, but I do recognize many of the other names on the threads, and they're VPs or SVPs. So there's no argument of "this is just some random Googlers talking before their bosses got involved&q
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by GoatOfAplomb 3y ago
For a quick visualization, I like Rich, Broke, or Dead ( https://engaging-data.com/will-money-last-retire-early/ ) For in-depth planning, I like ficalc.app, and cfiresim.com is good, too.
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by GoatOfAplomb 3y ago
Adding on to ambicapter: Get the high-performing devs their good ratings and promotions. Get the low-performing devs moving better or off the team. Bring in more good devs.
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
Read, obviously.
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
You could do bench press instead of overhead press. They have a fair amount of overlap. Some beginning strength programs alternate between them.
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
Abortion may be the most politically prominent among reproductive rights, but "Women's reproductive rights may include some or all of the following: abortion-rights movements; birth control; freedom from coerced sterilization and
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
I meant that: 1) The statement "you matter" (call it X) is not the same as "you deserve a job in radio." (Y) 2) I expect (but do not have proof) that the readers of Hacker News, or a sample of western society generally,
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
"You matter" is distinct from "you deserve to have this job." I think you'll get a lot more support on the former than the latter.
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
That's the quandary with sock puppets, though. The comment is written well enough to withstand a quick skim, and if no one rebuts it, it may convince some skimmers.
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
Nearly 30 years after keyboarding class, if I tried to change now, I think I'd spend the rest of my life tripping over the keys.
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
Gemstone (now Gemstone IV instead of Gemstone III) is still going strong, with 549 characters logged in as I write this comment. Simucon, the annual convention for Gemstone and Dragonrealms (sibling MUD), happens this week. I expect aroun
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
My understanding is that it was classism. That is, only the "right" people could dedicate themselves to becoming a world-class athlete without any financial support, and they didn't want to complete with the "wrong&quot
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
"Assume scale and sometimes incompetence" means basically the same thing to me as "they don't care about you." In either case, it's "we're okay with not making things right for a number of people who
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
Amazing how many hotel rooms can fit into a jumbo jet. See also El Avion bar/restaurant in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica ( https://www.elavion.net/history ). That plane was involved in the Iran-Contra affair and was abando
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by GoatOfAplomb 4y ago
It would be great if promo wasnt such a big deal. But when I look at the comp for an L3 software engineer, and the comp for an L5 software engineer, I have a hard time seeing how you could make people pay less attention to promo. I guess y
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
Agreed, but I think there's probably a profitable business to be made out of 1% of Google Search's users.
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
I'm curious about how often a term sheet is renegotiated after due diligence, for say, a Y Combinator startup, or a tech startup in general. Is it kind of rare? Almost expected?
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
> Where are the examples (with actual numbers)? In upper-level undergraduate math, I made a game of seeing how many pages I would go before seeing 7 printed anywhere. It was usually 10 pages, if I included the page numbers.
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
I should also say my explanation assumes we're in last betting position here. If we're first to act, the logic is somewhat more complicated than I can successfully conjure up here without going back into the books - it's bee
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
I don't really think of thin value betting and semi-bluffing as the same concept on different betting rounds. Thin value betting gets its positive expectation (versus checking) entirely from getting called with a worse hand. It doesn
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
The distinction is that semi-bluffs are for when there are still cards to be dealt.
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
The meeting management tactics in this post are highly applicable in other situations as well, whenever you are presenting to a group of approvers/overseers. For me, that's launch reviews or program reviews. It takes a lot of ti
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
Thank you; I recognize that you're correct regarding cryptocurrency here and I was not. And yes, a company would have to pay dividends, which is what I was hiding in my "in principle" parenthetical.
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
Stocks represent fractional ownership of a future income stream - the profits of the underlying corporation. You can (in principle) buy a stock, never sell it, and get back more money than you put in. So you're not completely depende
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
Individual contributor- not a tech lead or manager.
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
One of the top results, Accenture, seems to have evolved to provide a very wide range for Colorado instead: "As required by the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for role
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
I started to write this out but realized a more polished explanation might be more useful: "Snorkels constitute respiratory dead space. When the user takes in a fresh breath, some of the previously exhaled air which remains in the snor
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
I graduated from a very respectable but not elite university, with a respectable but not noteworthy GPA and internship. (I do feel I took to algorithms and data structures somewhat better than most of my classmates, which helped with inter
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by GoatOfAplomb 5y ago
Some years ago, the official ladder descriptions changed to reflect what was already unofficially the case in (most of?) the company. Roughly: you can hang at L4 pretty much forever, as long as you're willing to keep learning new thin
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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
Gemstone is still going strong! There were over 1000 characters logged in at times during the recently-concluded festival. It has profited a lot from a pay-to-be-uber kind of model. You can level up just fine with ordinary gear, but peopl

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