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by SubuSS 9y ago
NOTE: This applies only to the Big 5 (Amazon/Google/MS/FB/Oracle). To be really honest, it is hard to distinguish the big companies today based on non-money line items: - All the companies I have and am working for have
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by SubuSS 9y ago
Depending on the lifestyle you want, your choice of location etc, 3.6MM doesn't go far. You also have to take into account inflation / insurance against major changes in future (divorce / health hits / accidents?). Yes,
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At all the companies I have worked at till now (MS/Amazon and Snap) - we always have a hard-time finding good experienced engineers. So I would contend the reverse: It is actually awesome after 35-40. By this age group - I think many e
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by SubuSS 9y ago
I have just barely fiddled with docker/kube - run into vagrant in one instance. I thought it was the reverse - https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Docker-... Vagrant can mimic multiple OSs while contain
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by SubuSS 9y ago
I don't know which part of Amazon you worked for - but this was totally done in Amazon: We had/have major pieces of kindle, aws, payments et. built out of India. I worked for one of those teams for two years. Amazon is so big that
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Haha the reality is that the reverse is the problem: Look at the green card backlog for various of these countries. IOW, most people like me WANT to be a permanent resident/citizen but the system has been keeping us waiting for years (
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by SubuSS 9y ago
I am surprised you think that uprooting your entire living and moving to a different country is that easy: I mean do you do that for convenience sake even inside the USA? These are people (including me) who come in here and build a bunch of
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by SubuSS 9y ago
At least when I used to live in India 6 years ago, A Big mac was a 'fancy' meal rather than the cheapest meal possible. I don't think the index applies.
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My current company (Snap). I have the opportunity to shape huge things and effect millions of dollar worth of changes every year. I personally believe in the innovation potential here. The perks/package etc. have been pretty great as w
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Software engineer starting salaries in companies like Amazon/Google/FB etc are close to 100k or more. So breaking that mark as an engineer is very much possible.
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Very possible and true in general that successful people attribute success to hard work (who wouldn't). I have had trust fund folks defend their situation similarly as well. But my point is to take the focus away from them and their li
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If you meant 90% of successful people's way is paved by those things, I don't agree: It is very easy to discount hard work and forgive our own laziness by zeroing in on 'bad' stuff. If you meant 90% of the successful peo
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by SubuSS 9y ago
All software rots: If they had the ability to run the script this engineer built, there is a high chance the same folks would've noticed the automatability of the job. IOW - I don't understand how the user thinks this will be take
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Boy aren't you looking to get offended :). I said less OR no return, since it wasn't explicit in your comments. Picking only parts that suit you is ginormously dishonest if my logical OR seems 'quite dishonest' to you :)
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You keep referring to the 'moneyed' as an alien entity when in reality it is a lot of index funds, pension funds, 401ks and what not. Are you saying there should be less/no return for investing your money? If so, how do you s
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I am surprised they even have their prod data cloned into test servers: Get to any reasonable size and this becomes a huge no-no. There were major measures in MS/Amazon (where I spent a bunch of time) and now at snap to ensure prod dat
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by SubuSS 9y ago
Whenever we talk about protection, I always harken back to the study that said kids who learnt martial arts with body armor actually ended up getting hurt more than the kids who don't use em. We see a similar effect in case of body imm
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by SubuSS 10y ago
Some background: I have had 3 jobs (not including assistantships) till now - two were at the big companies mentioned below (MS/Amzn) and currently am at Snap for the past year or so. Before joining Snap I did interview around and had o
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by SubuSS 10y ago
The problem with 'freedom of choice' is the assumption that you are equipped enough to handle the information. There is a general assumption among us educated that given time and energy, we can understand anything logically withou
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by SubuSS 10y ago
I believe the next step is expanding our footprint out of earth and colonizing other planets. That will provide people who aren't the beneficiaries of the current economy a new start. There will be fringe planets that are 'uninter
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I think lost login captured it perfectly. I used to hang out late when I was younger, but nowadays My daughter and dog ensure that I am home for the night:)
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- Wake up at 430-5 (Used to use an alarm, now it is a natural thing. I am also asleep by 930pm and usually catch a couple of naps over the weekend). - Take my dog out, hit the restroom, have breakfast - Train on my bike for 1-1.5 hours - Tr
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by SubuSS 10y ago
With some very basic math and assuming an expenditure of about 120k in today's value per year (millionaire remember), taking into account 4% inflation and a 4% return rate, you need about 20MM+ to settle down with 100% financial indepe
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>Your home is NEVER and investment. A house that you own, maybe. But, I repeat, your home is never an investment. Can you expand a bit more on this? Usually it might not directly turn into an investment, but it does act as a 'saving
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by SubuSS 10y ago
In my head, it seems like we are complicating the problem a few times over by trying to operate alongside regular traffic. IMO the breakaway / victory path will be along the lines of expanding vertically and having restricted and autom
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I would try purely emailing / chatting with someone and compare that against the relationship you build with someone who is right there. You probably are not going to be available on video, so there is a lot of transcoding happening be
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I think I mentioned this elsewhere: It is not about the exact stat comparison between self driving cars and humans. It is actually about 1) the perceived and real adaptability of humans. (given an 'unknown' situation, what does th
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All tech debt need not be paid back in full - thinking otherwise is indeed a fallacy like you point out. The catch here though is the fact that rate of business value production is inversely proportional to amount of tech debt. Meaning a to
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I think the bigger worry is not the perfection part: It is the uniformity part. Considering software will be replicated (ignoring the ML ways of driving for now), updated and refreshed en masse, the impact is going to be very severe. A sing
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by SubuSS 11y ago
Actually we have a lot in common :). In addition to KV pairs storage, DynamoDB supports querying, documents, indexing and streaming from a feature stand point and infinite provisioning/scaling from a infrastructure stand point. Give it

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