PebblesHD

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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I can write/speak enough to make a booking for myself but if there would be alot of complex written stuff like histories and things maybe not for me. Thanks for letting me know :)
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I’ll be in Tokyo early next month with work, and this sounds like something I’d enjoy. Is it worth going as someone who doesn’t speak much Japanese? If so, I’ll get myself there :)
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I don’t understand how access to food is not a globally solved problem. We have such high levels of food waste and access to so many resources for other things like militaries and space programs, yet people in quite wealthy countries are st
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
It’s really just a dynamic macro pad in a really polished overall product platform. No more guessing what blank button does what. The killer feature for me is that it can also be an output device with the right tweaks, so for my use case in
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
For these and many other ongoing support reasons, I’ve been giving various Macs to my extended family since about Vista. For my grandfather, my mother in law, her daughter, and the various nephews, I can generally trust that a slightly lock
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I’m an identical twin, and while this particular situation hasn’t ever happened to me thankfully, there are regularly occasions where my sibling and I will respond in exactly the same way, with the same phrasing or detail, to a given situat
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
If they had disclosed their involvement in their profile at least I could give them the benefit of the doubt but in this case, like the other commenters, I assumed he had used the tool as a customer and had a positive experience, not that h
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Great to see other engineers focusing on this space. I’ve spent a good chunk of my career writing in-house clients for various business critical APIs and have always had a giggle that our self-made ones were often far nicer to use than anyt
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I was running a heavily overclocked 970 until about 7 months ago when I upgraded to an ultrawide monitor. Before that, it was more than happy playing the games I played at 2560p at only a few fps slower than my partner’s 980. For the price
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Personally, it would take strong legislation preventing any variation of law enforcement having any access to any of the data, even that of convicted criminals, to make me comfortable to provide mine into the system. Perhaps even constituti
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
TechMoan has a video taking this to its logical conclusion, using almost exactly the adapter you describe (a cassette format mp3 player) in a cassette to 8 track adapter inside a desktop 8 track player. https://m.youtube.com&#x2F
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
A few years ago I would have agreed with this hierarchy but having recently replaced my relatively powerful i7 laptop with an ARM based one and experienced a significant improvement in my use cases, I’d say ARM most definitely poses a threa
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
In Australia, we have compulsory employer contributions to a retirement account called superannuation. Similar to the American concept of a 401k but mandatory.
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
$AUD. These numbers are your run of the mill salaries seen around the industry, someone with specialised experience such as an ex-FAANG engineer might be more likely to end up at the higher end, but in general outside of a few local unicorn
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
As sibling comment says, meetups and conferences are a great way to get your name out there. Working closely with vendors when the opportunity comes up in your organisation can also help build a relationship and reputation if managed proper
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
That’s just not the case in the Australian market. Contractors generally receive a higher rate of pay in exchange for an ongoing risk that they won’t be renewed, and are generally used to fill temporary skills gaps for projects and such. Pe
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Surprised to see Square and Canva in the list there. I’m currently staff level elsewhere but semi-regularly get approached by them with offers lower than $200k for senior roles. Would you say the salaries mentioned are fairly common there o
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Day-rate contracting can get you very close if the last minute renewals are something you can deal with. The telcos are currently going through a hiring period and I’ve seen 1250/day plus super offered a few times recently. For perm ro
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
In our case, we try and be very upfront about the nature of the process and that it works both ways, i.e. if they find the workplace isn’t for them, then theres no hard feelings either. It’s part of Australian workplace law so whether we me
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Yep Australian market. The numbers I’ve talked about above are what I’d classify as ‘normal’, there are of course always exceptions, and I’ve been fortunate enough to exist outside these ranges for most of my career, but ultimately I left t
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
For us, it’s a tiny fraction. I’ve hired around 30 engineers over 5 years and we’ve let go of 2 during probation, both for dramatically overstating their capabilities compared to their actual experience, to such a degree that it was clear i
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I can absolutely see this position, for me it’s more a case of protecting ourselves against the rare but increasing occasions of candidates actually making misleading claims. As I’ve said in a sibling comment, for me I like to be able to ta
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Depends which section of the industry you end up in, but in the big banks which are some of the largest java shops, a cadet/intern will end up around $45k, a junior around $55-65k, an ordinary dev around $80-90k, and a senior anywhere
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Valid question. By that I mean if were looking for someone with experience in X, Y, and Z, we’ve had situations where applicants have done enough research to have a conversation about X but not have any practical or troubleshooting experien
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
For one, this one only requires the candidate to provide an hour of their time, which for me is the main reason I personally avoid multi-round interviews.
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Agreed, it can also be uncomfortable for persons not of the same gender as the interviewer, so I always take a second person and try to ensure we always have a mix of men and women scheduled as that other person depending on who we’re inter
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
These styles of multi-round interviews inspired by the FAANG collective started picking up in Australia before the pandemic, but it got to a point where most of my more talented colleagues and I all agreed it just wasn’t worth the time for
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
A generation of stressed out young people too tired to go out and do anything after a long day and too anxious to make noise at home because their landlord might kick them out sounds like a fairly reasonable outcome of the economic situatio
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Hard to go out and experience things when you have no money left after rent and food. Like really, how long are previous generations going to carry on like we actually want to live like this? I would love to have a house and start a family
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I’ve never understood how some of these executives support the widening income and wealth gap developing in most of the modern world. Is it not incredibly short sighted to reduce the discretionary money available to your customers and price

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