Tehchops

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by Tehchops 7y ago
What are the correct factions?
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Oh I totally agree. I'm doing this very thing: SF salary, live in Western MI. But that's really only available for a small subset of the population.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
There's very few places where there is an overlap of "jobs that pay $100k" and "homes that can be afforded at $100k salary".
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by Tehchops 7y ago
My total comp is ~250k, in DevOps. My HQ is in a tech hub, but I work remotely from the Midwest. They are out there, you just have to find them. Truly talented DevOps engineers have a niche mix of skills, and are in high enough demand they
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Yea. Also affordable housing on that salary means you will not be living near anything desirable. Essentially means country living and car ownership... not the cheapest thing in Michigan.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
An interesting take on the other side of this issue. There exists a crucial distinction between supporting "war" and supporting "service members". That being said, it feels like the author is ignoring non-trivial aspect
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by Tehchops 7y ago
>It wins over the Mac experience in a fair competition. Define "fair", because I feel like this inevitably means stripping away legitimate use cases.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Arch Linux teaches skills like: - Knowing what happens if I have the audacity to update my computer without reading 3 different forum threads - Understanding how to fix hilariously bad font rendering issues in a terminal, a software paradig
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by Tehchops 7y ago
> Also, in case you didn't know, there's been a lot of thought and effort expended over the decades about the philosophy, morals and implementation of ownership with regards to hardware and software. I recommend starting with a
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by Tehchops 7y ago
How do you reconcile that when it's very likely allowing even a small population of "owners" to install unverified software ends up directly harming the majority of the other "owners".
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by Tehchops 7y ago
I think, inevitably, the saying about work not being a good forum for discussing: - religion - politics - sex still holds true, regardless of how progressive the workplace.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Sour grapes on the part of anecdotally having a non-ideal living space != "remote work sucks"
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by Tehchops 7y ago
I still vastly prefer the flexibility, cost-advantages, and productivity gains from remote work. That being said, you have to invest in it. Have a separate room with a door. Spend some money on good ergonomics. Have a good, stable interne
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by Tehchops 7y ago
If read/listen to MA or BH at any length, they heavily emphasize the value of relationships and a network. This behavior seems absolutely anathema to their stated ideals.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Even if you hadn’t called it out specifically, you’re checking every box for “new finance bro”. Strangely always devolves into a length measuring contest around things like clothes and income. Even stranger is how quiet that space gets when
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Do you really want to burn a bridge with a16z/AH in the tech industry? They may say "well played" in so many words, in public. Privately? They may be marshaling their bottomless war chest to unmake you.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Wow. uBlock registers at least 50 unique blocks, and my laptop still churns trying to load all the extraneous ad content ZDNet tries to jam down the pipe. ZDN stopped being journalism long ago
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by Tehchops 7y ago
>I wonder why tech people aren’t more interested in those jobs. For all the hobgoblins and stories of bad-faith intent by big tech companies, they are still far more progressive than financial companies when it comes to things like hours
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Oracle poached a lot of AWS employees when it was first getting its cloud offering off the ground. Looks like cargo-culting has its limits.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
>I'm sorry, what? "Of a number of different solutions, Amazon has consistently delivered the best UX for streaming, shopping, and wireless music playback. Why would I switch?" I view shows on Prime with multiple seasons al
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by Tehchops 7y ago
I tried that in the past. Unfortunately shopping and multiple FireTV apps would break due to non-trivial data being sent from multiple domains.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Of a number of different solutions, Amazon has consistently delivered the best UX for streaming, shopping, and wireless music playback. Why would I switch?
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by Tehchops 7y ago
How do you deal with it breaking things like Amazon-based UI(Fire, Mobile shopping etc...)?
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by Tehchops 7y ago
I think being judicious about the source of your base images goes a long way towards safe usage.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
The high-achieving SF market may be more likely to select against it. IME it's much more common in 3rd-tier/mid-market tech companies, or even higher-profile companies where tech isn't the primary operating vertical, and loca
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by Tehchops 7y ago
> But, if you look at some of the latest dev surveys, you'll see there's a ton of fresh talent entering the work force and it's only a matter of time before they become mid-level and senior (5-10 years). At that point, the
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by Tehchops 7y ago
> "He then went back to school to pursue a master’s degree in comparative literature at the University of Colorado Boulder." So: * Get degree * Struggle to find steady/career employment in a job market still rippling from
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by Tehchops 7y ago
This is a good call out. Nonetheless, it seems to be endemic to older generations.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
Is all "code of code" inevitably destined for a Lisp dialect?
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by Tehchops 7y ago
This. The first season at least dabbled in a more honest take. Season >=2 went with whatever was palatable and popular enough to get more viewers.

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