PhoenixReborn

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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
The ORM works pretty well as long as you only need to do pretty basic CRUD queries, though I do agree that it gets much worse as your queries get more complex. Serializers are definitely one of the worst parts of DRF. Anecdotally, I used Py
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by PhoenixReborn 6y ago
Really depends on the location. I spent a bunch of time with family in suburban/rural Ohio as a kid, and the area where I used to live has rapidly been emptying out over the last 10-20 years. IMO, techies moving to rural areas is good
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by PhoenixReborn 6y ago
NYC being a large city, the story is slightly more nuanced than that. There has definitely been a large exodus from Manhattan and Brooklyn, but less so from Queens (where I live, and which was much less tech-centric even before the pandemic
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by PhoenixReborn 6y ago
This assumes that the market rate is constantly increasing. Given the amount of job losses that have occurred recently, there may be talent available at a cheaper price.
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by PhoenixReborn 6y ago
I strongly doubt that more than 50% of Facebook's workforce is on H-1B visas. This is really intended to stop TCS/Infosys/Wipro from bringing over cheap labor to the US.
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by PhoenixReborn 6y ago
Yes, exactly. It's this line specifically that pretty much drives that home: > Specifically, the bill would prohibit companies with more than 50 employees, of which at least half are H-1B or L-1 holders, from hiring additional H-1B
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by PhoenixReborn 6y ago
Rogan had ads on his podcast even before this partnership, and has had them for a long time now. I don't think that adtech is going away as long as there is a cost for the creator to make the content. Rogan (and other podcasters) have
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by PhoenixReborn 7y ago
Confluent actually has released "tiered storage" which appears to be a similar feature to what Pulsar has. https://www.confluent.io/blog/infinite-kafka-storage-in-conf... It's still up in the air as to w
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by PhoenixReborn 7y ago
Unlimited PTO means you're at the mercy of the company, pretty much. I am lucky to work for a company with unlimited PTO where most people take 4-6 weeks off per year. Other places are far less lucky.
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
It doesn't seem too circular to me. Rent control keeps your rent low despite rising rents around you. So in the case of the OP's friend, her rent is now vastly below market. In a non rent-controlled world she would absolutely have
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
They have socialized health care and better support systems in the form of basic income/welfare. Also, value added taxes exist in many EU nations which fund these programs. The cost of goods is also higher, which generally funds the wa
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
It's a housing crisis by spillover - all the people in the Bay Area who can't afford houses there are going to Sacramento instead. Here's a particularly pointed and opinionated editorial on the subject: https://www
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
Bear in mind that Niantic (company behind Pokemon Go) was originally an incubated project within Google. So they have plenty of reasons to stick with GCP for the hosting. As for Snapchat they were originally on Google App Engine so that inc
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
English skills aren't the best but I don't think that's the issue. Substandard education drives the unemployability and poor infrastructure drives the lack of jobs outside the bigger tech metros (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
Yup, totally valid points. Unfortunately I don't have any better sources of data so Glassdoor's the best I could come up with.
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
I've never heard of GS having a significant software presence in SF. Their technology teams are mostly in NYC/Jersey City. The closest bank I could think of with a decent SF presence is Capital One and their senior SWE positions s
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
Anecdotally - I've always gotten excellent deals in the Bay Area and I've used HT there a lot. It usually gets me prices about 15-20% less than what I'd get via the traditional booking sites. What makes you say it failed at i
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
This view seems somewhat reductionist, no? I don't work at FB and never have, but I could easily see a case for working on projects that contribute back to the developer community (e.g. React). These wouldn't be directly related t
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
> constructed via a polyglot union of taped-together tools and lubricated by the daily tears of a hundred college hires only to regret it after the engineers who designed it have successfully used it as a springboard for promotion and de
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
While it is conjecture, I think this speculation is accepted relatively widely at this juncture. So given the farcical nature of the HQ2 competition, I think it's all the better that NYC doesn't bend to Amazon and allow them to di
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
I've never been asked to sign a noncompete when working in California for any company, including Google. I have not worked at the others so I can't say what their practices are, but most CA-based companies will never even try to g
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
Really depends on your definition of millennial. If we take the [Wikipedia definition]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials#Date_and_age_range... ) then the youngest millennials would be anywhere from 22 to 25. The
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
Indeed. Looking at their OKRs, the only one I can see turning it around for them is "Lead the Way in Augmented Reality". The others are fluff in wording and in punch, and I can't see them gaining ground against IG when IG exe
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
I've not noticed any of this in my local theater, but it's possible that it happens in some locations.
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
I don't know if Alamo Drafthouse is in your area, but it's a movie theater with a very strict no talking/phones policy. If you violate that policy they promptly kick you out of the theater. Watching movies there has really ma
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
I concur, and had almost this exact same problem. I'd be congested all the time and it caused me a lot of problems. Out of curiosity, have you ever tried edibles instead of smoking? That solved my mucus issue almost instantly.
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
Reddit is the only one I know of that has tried a subscription model (Reddit Gold) and AFAIK that did not work out very well for them.
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by PhoenixReborn 8y ago
A key difference with the FB privacy analogy is that FB tracks you off the site. If YT monetized content that isn't hosted on its own platform, then we might see a similar reaction.
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by PhoenixReborn 9y ago
I would gladly fork over money for them and other news sites to keep the servers running in lieu of ads.