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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Your double hourly rate for contracting might be gross, and after taxes (covering both sides of FICA), health insurance, and other employer-provided benefits, the net delta could be smaller.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
The sooner we can accept that most people don't have the skills or the desire to work in the knowledge economy, the better off we'll be. We are, today, perfectly equipped to handle that reality. It's true people need purpose
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
The world is far too big for anyone to care as to a minute detail of "Developer John Doe didn't meet my productivity metrics". That's worthy of a (mental) eye roll. Workers in this industry, at the moment, have the lever
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
I'd be curious how much of their revenue is ex-US. It's an interesting stat, but if we've expanded the cohort massively to include a bunch of exclusively free users, then it's less so.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
It seems inaccurate as well. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=duolingo,l... duolingo - 49, learn Spanish - 16 That's slightly over 3x, nowhere near 9x.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
This is intriguing. I don't want to reply (in b2b situations) because I feel the salesperson might try to 'use me' to get to some other key decision maker within my org. I don't want that process taking up my limited tim
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
The telemetry for Windows is a frequent topic here, could anyone clarify/compare the story for Mac OS?
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Doesn't every new innovation (produced by a corporation), good or bad, generally come from the experimental arm of said corporation (e.g, R&D division)? You have teams dedicating to maintaining the core business, and you have teams
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
I share your conclusion. The feed is so horrendous these days, the only choice is to be part of it, or not. Having left the app over a year ago, I don't feel I'm missing anything. Anyone who wants to be part of my life can text, c
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
> SWE can pay upwards of $500-600k after 5-10 years of experience. Just like stores have "up to" 70% discounts. One item is marked off that much, and the rest are given modest discounts. We shouldn't normalize this number
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
The block concept doesn't cleanly carry over to services. Bugging Notion for exports, brings them here: Step 2: Import blocks to {Some other cloud service} Which just isn't realistic. Having step 1 changes nothing.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
My suggestion would be to stop using Notion. It's a novel approach, but 90% of what you want is achievable with Google Docs/Drive, Office 365, etc. My suggestion might be different if the business side was in a healthier shape.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Nobody should be genuinely surprised a trillion-dollar company is trying to defend it's walled garden. If only portable computing devices arrived before the business models evolved. I would love the flexibility of a desktop operating s
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Houses are larger because we don't have a choice or the public policy to promote building modest, affordable housing anymore.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
As someone who's experimented with varying degrees of carbohydrates in my diet: I've had issues with high-carb diets (bloating). I've had issues with low-carb diets (emergency runs to the bathroom, to put it mildly). My next
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
When people are done with their tech tours, Rochester is an absolutely fantastic city to consider for your post Silicon-valley life. Biggest challenge is the weather: embrace the cold by picking up winter sports. There is a coziness to that
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Correct, but the number of shares outstanding isn't infinite: it's always a fixed number. Just like there's a fixed number of square miles of land. And you can make and remove land. Lots of dredging along coastlines is done t
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
There's a finite number of shares. You can look up the market capitalization, divide by the price, and get the number of outstanding shares, though it's also a reported statistic on its own.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
That statement implies, in no uncertain terms, that the expectation is more work for less pay. It's a flowery way of telling the candidate they're getting a bad deal. If you the scope is X+1, and you pay me X+1, we have no issue.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
> you'll get automatically promoted at the end of the next quarter Unless it's in writing, you should never, ever, ever take a statement like this at face value.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
I can make great money working in tech without subjecting myself to a work environment where 6% of my colleagues will be forced out. So, in a competitive market where tech talent has its choice in the best employer... why Amazon? I've
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
You could start with a large, non-zero value for the initial key, to obfuscate the true number of records in the collection.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
As a candidate, I'm willing to put up with sometimes shoddy interview outcomes (e.g., ghosting) if my funnel is far greater and consequently leads to a more competitive offer, which is the end goal. A narrower funnel, that pre-selects
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Biden and Schumer can't unilaterally decide Manchin's vote for him. This is a democracy, after all. Conversations are likely happening behind closed doors. So we shouldn't critique Democratic leadership just yet.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Election reform seems like a meaningful issue to tackle: what could be more fundamental to our Democracy? Democrats seem poised to make their best effort, but it's extremely difficult to do with 50+1 votes in the Senate. I wouldn'
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Thank you. In retrospect, I had a feeling something was off about my thinking, but I couldn't articulate where. Importance and profitability are different domains. They might penny pinch weather reports, and risk management probably ch
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Seems like a profit center to me if the company is 100% shut down without it.
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
It's a more tax efficient way to return value to shareholders without forcing shareholders to realize taxes immediately. Shareholders can choose to sell on their own timeline, thereby choosing when to realize any capital gains taxed pa
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Vercel being a profitable entity is what encourages them to continue supporting Next.js. It's a fine line. The product has to be built in a way for free users to easily pick it up without any immediate, tightly-coupled unavoidable lock
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by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Sign-up lists self select for parents who are most motivated to get the best school, which has the risk of maintaining roughly positive correlation with the parent's socioeconomic status.

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