I_AM_A_SMURF

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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
5? more like 10. Servo was in development for 8 years before Mozilla pulled the plug and it was nowhere near production ready. And the people working on it were experienced browser engineers already.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Don't EF-S lenses need to produce a smaller image in general? I always thought that if you somehow put an EF-S on a full frame sensor you would get a circle image similar to a fish eye.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Note that in a lot of major cities, crosswalks are explicitly _not_ the only places where you can walk across the street. In Seattle for example, any intersection has a "crosswalk" in it, some are marked, some aren't, but the
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Just to put into perspective, maintaining a full browser (with its own engine etc) costs at minimum $300M/year (judging by the size of Chrome/Firefox/Safari's teams). That means that 300k users would need to pay more t
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Most mathematics paper will define the symbols they use beyond the basics (and sometimes even the basics). If you are thinking about extremely common symbols then... it's like complaining that somebody not trained in music cannot rea
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Math does not describe reality, Physics does. Math is just pure thought. If anything, Math is an abstraction of how we think about things, but not the things themselves.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
I think that's the joke.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
I luckily still get to write code (not that common at my level), mostly gnarly undocumented bugs where you need to read the linux source code because the behavior is not documented anywhere else. But most of my time is usually split halfw
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
> surely the folks who are pulling those kinds of salaries are working on really interesting problems > ... > The really hard problems that my org faces arent the same league of hard problems that someone at a FAANG company (or sim
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Just for comparison, I'm a staff ~ level engineer not at FAANG, not in California, similar experience to yours and this year I will make about $400k.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Other people's wires :-)
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Americans are used to much bigger homes than (I presume you are) Europeans. Also in bigger homes there's a lot more "wasted" space so a 335 sq mt home is not three times as large as a 100 sq mt home, e.g. in my house there ar
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Same, life was unbearable to me in the before smartphone times.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
What I've been enjoying lately is purposely not taking my phone off when I have a minute or two to kill. Just look around, think about things, it's very relaxing to me. I do remember however being bored to hell as a teenager, I wo
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Maybe I'm very lucky then, but I have: - 400k salary - 4 weeks of vacation + 12 holidays (low by EU standards but not by much) - Free top tier health insurance for family I agree 6 weeks is nice, but usually employers will let you take
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
Same here, if you don't hide the thread then what's the point? Some technical discussions in our team board last for hundred of messages, without threads it would be really hard to follow the channel, especially with multiple disc
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 5y ago
> Eh the salaries are alright. It seems to me like the salaries are higher in America, while in Germany they're lower but include things American end up paying for: pensions, insurance, and education. While that's true, above-a
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
Yeah I started the interview process with Apple and they mentioned that we would have to relocate to the bay. Wife and I looked up house prices and we were like NOPE.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
Yeah but the houses nearby are not that much better, look at this: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3561-Park-Blvd-94306/hom... $2.7M for a 100x50 lot and a 4 bedroom? That's mansion money pretty much
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
Engineering Manager
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
I think they don't consider it self-hosted because only the front-end is written in rust, rustc uses llvm as the back-end, which is not written in rust.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
Are you sure? 130k is fresh out of grad money in SF/Seattle (not sure about on the east coast, but presumably is similar). For reference senior is ~300-350k (this is for big tech companies)
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
Yep same here. Medication finally made me understand the anger issues that I have due to ADHD.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
My completely ignorant theory is that it's still about "can only do the things I really like to do" part of ADHD. I also like to clean up my place because of the sense of accomplishment that it gives me (especially when at wo
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
I used to be able to fall asleep anytime anywhere. Then I got diagnosed with Sleep Apnea. Now that I'm treating it and actually getting a good sleep it's very hard to nap, maybe these people are just sleep deprived? or a lot of th
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
Yeah, my work pays me the same whether I work 40 or 60 hours, so I cut my day short whenever I know I'm not gonna be productive. Usually it saves me a few hour of struggling and the solution comes to me first thing in the morning. I&#x
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
Agreed. Although trials don't have to have a placebo control, e.g. drug trials for diseases that already have treatment available often use the in-use treatment as control, so what you're trying to prove is that the new drug is be
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
Business meetings are explicitly allowed under ESTA rules. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/business...
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
If anything ADHD medications (ritalin) make me _more_ prone to burning out, not less. Just FYI. It does help with "boring" tasks a little bit, in a sense, but they're still boring an uninteresting. It's not like I get a
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
As long as the manager is not the one making technical decision, then there's nothing wrong with a non-technical manager. That's why you need IC tracks with Principal and above engineers, so that the person that _knows_ stuff is i

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