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by SubuSS 5y ago
I think that’s a software engineering dilemma spilling out to the rest of the world: how many ‘new software’ have you seen that are just a rehash of something existing already!
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I really like the promise of green energy source. I do see the huge advancements made in terms of safety. I have a question around waste management though: Do we know if there are big improvements here? IOW - https://apnews.com&#
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I don’t know op’s situation - but visa/green card is a big monkey wrench in those plans. Also consider the wealth expatriation tax of your host country-they can really sting.
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by SubuSS 5y ago
Are you talking about buying one or traveling in one? Latter is very accessible at least according to projections.
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by SubuSS 5y ago
If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on. Richard Hamming
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I don’t know your exact situation - but I precisely started working full time in 2003. I have many peers who have grown to vp levels from that time. Without more details, any points I make / advice I give will just sound like platitude
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by SubuSS 5y ago
Have you seen the efforts in chrome around the home page with ‘Discover’? There is too much value in the curation business for an entity like google to ignore.
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by SubuSS 5y ago
Please see my answer above. I really hope it makes you reconsider that opinion. Most of us are just regular Joe’s looking to make a good life and have an impact.
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by SubuSS 5y ago
How do you figure I am in that bucket? (Fwiw - I am not).
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by SubuSS 5y ago
Well I was a part of SqlCE efforts which was the first storage engine tuned for flash devices during a time when flash meant you had to account for wear in software etc. I launched dynamodb - tech lead for storage engines. I’ve been a part
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by SubuSS 5y ago
Well, again from personal experience and what I have seen, going the extra mile exactly like you said (not to) is what enabled many to grow both professionally and financially. For many, that’s exactly what put them on the faster track to a
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I totally agree with push back when necessary: my own career has seen lean times and heavy times as well and thankfully I had built enough work-equity with my employers that they gracefully helped me tide over them. So that’s not what am co
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by SubuSS 5y ago
Again I think there is a curve :) There is a point beyond which earning potential stops being a differentiator: you both have enough that it doesn’t matter. I agree there will be some hard conversations to get out of the preset habits thoug
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I know of so many folks in fang and my current job who’d disagree that you can’t get rich from a day job. Most of them got there by not being cynical about their employer’s goals and working with the team to make those happen. I guess I’ve
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by SubuSS 5y ago
How high? There is a point where you hire help and this becomes moot. Below that point, it comes to how you want to solve the finance problem as a couple IMO: if both your salaries are required, then obviously it means a full split. Anecdot
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by SubuSS 5y ago
No you didn’t call them evil: you just called them >Very, very toxic things for society, like human behavior modification (ad) systems You didn’t say those points about people’s intents, you just said you won’t hire them / won’t wor
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by SubuSS 5y ago
Lol isn’t it odd you consider the defense confrontational while the op started with calling a bunch of folks morally challenged? Fwiw - I don’t work on ad systems. I was just stating my opinion about how borderline ethical considerations fr
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I see two issues with that way of thinking: - morality and ethics are a gradient and are fluidly getting defined as we evolve. Are you still immoral or apathetic if you use electricity generated from coal? Or are you saying we are all apath
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I think there is a bit of goal most moving happening here: - you started with ad systems as example of evil: they patently aren’t. They are more of a result of the deeper cause - folks don’t want to pay for things if possible. So now the bi
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by SubuSS 5y ago
Sorry dumb question: what are the dimensions of the board? I am not able to find this anywhere on the site.
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by SubuSS 5y ago
When people talk about comp, they usually talk about the # of $$ they took home last year - anything else is magic money so to speak. For the same reason a manager isn't going to value a $10MM grant in company that ended up being a pen
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by SubuSS 5y ago
There is definitely a class of staff/seniors making seven figures in FAANG - this may be because of stock growth, 'special' bonus stock awards from extreme performance or retention, matching offers etc. But yes - these won&#x
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I think you may be over-defining what 'work' means. The OP is a clear example of something that actually works, s/he even mentions some money being made. If you set the bar for success at 'only an unicorn' - I can s
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by SubuSS 5y ago
My browsers are stuck loading :( - tried two (Chrome/Edge). Any specific requirements?
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by SubuSS 5y ago
But are the trade offs equivalent? There is a reason folks flock more to SF rather than to nowhere state. If you save 10%, it is still 20k saved compared to 8k. If you lose your job, there are 10 choices compared to one (or none), access to
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by SubuSS 5y ago
The other catch I see is how ‘life changing’ your job as an engineer can be in us vs rest of the world. US definitely is the better bet for the young and risk taking. You can always go back and settled wherever you want after making a ton o
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I remember someone trying to justify college over self-educating (quality varying all the way from coursera to Wikipedia to YouTube to Facebook): you just don’t learn the same way anywhere else. Being with your peers, having your ideas cro
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by SubuSS 5y ago
I have the reverse question: if you have bandwidth to be able to do 20 interviews and you already know they do ask these inane leetcode questions, why wasn’t it possible to sink a month into solving a few of those and then interviewing? It
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by SubuSS 6y ago
So in the world you describe, if a parent wants better education for their child (than what the government provides uniformly across the country) - is the only recourse private schools? So I come from India where the above model is in place
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by SubuSS 6y ago
What do you think should be the government's role in protecting the gullible and easily seduced? Most of these drug laws are about this in essence: We are fast approaching a world where low level labor becomes more and more superflous.

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