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by VRay 6y ago
I used to think that Microsoft/Google/etc only hired amazing super-geniuses and I could never walk among their hallowed halls. It turns out, though, whiteboard coding is a skill you can develop just like most skills. The evil lo
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by VRay 6y ago
Wow, man, and we're living in the dystopian hellscape the anti-Palladium people were worried about I guess it's not as bad as they thought it might be
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by VRay 6y ago
I was under the impression that your TC stays similar as you get rolling RSU grants I got unlucky and ended up on a particularly bad team, so I left before I could get any firsthand experience with it. It's weird if it works that way,
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by VRay 6y ago
Damn dawg, I was there as a level 61 (or maybe it was 62? I can't remember..) a few years ago, and my total compensation was something like $180k in Redmond. I negotiated a little, but didn't push that hard I guess I'm tech
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by VRay 6y ago
Very slippery slope, since you can use that argument to justify anything you want. The bottom line is this: You guys are actively spreading misinformation and profiting from it. That's a bad thing.
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by VRay 6y ago
Actually that happened to me too, it turns out there's such a thing as being TOO confident I'm getting that vibe from you a little as well, where you're refusing to jump through the hoops that companies put in front of new hi
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by VRay 6y ago
It IS bricked if you're a semi-technical Chrome user whose mac is stuck at the question mark screen, though
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by VRay 6y ago
Dude, that is crazy. Wal-Mart will NOT pay someone more than Wal-Mart thinks their pay is worth. If they were doing that, as soon as an enterprising middle-manager caught wind of it they could put together a presentation and earn themselv
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by VRay 6y ago
Where do you draw the line, though? Something that might be a brick to a web developer would probably be perfectly serviceable to me as a firmware engineer Meanwhile, something that's a brick to me is often perfectly serviceable to so
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by VRay 6y ago
+1 to this I plugged my G700s into a Windows machine with the Logitech bloatware suite installed, programmed it, and I've been using it on a Mac for years since then without any trouble
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by VRay 6y ago
> Repeatedly bringing up how much the game is rigged doesn't really do much to change anything. Au contraire! I stumbled across one of these semi-monthly kludgeposts with a comment section full of angry people early in my career, a
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by VRay 6y ago
That's a great point Right now you can save tremendous amounts of tax money by spending 50% of the year in Puerto Rico, but most rich people still don't bother
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by VRay 6y ago
We're still chopping up likely-sentient animals and eating them, so it's probably a ways off..
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by VRay 6y ago
This is ridiculous. Basically every city in the USA is within a couple hours' drive of "amazing nature" The only reason I live in the Bay Area is because my net worth goes up WAY more here per year than it does elsewhere.. I
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by VRay 6y ago
This forum isn't some obscure backwater.. A large chunk of all the world's tech wizards congregate here during boring meetings, bathroom breaks, etc. If someone claims to have done some work with tech, chances are they're tel
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by VRay 6y ago
It was just an exact copy of the famous Apple 1984 ad, except the guy on the screen had an apple for a head and the person who attacked the screen was a rainbow Fortnite character throwing a Fortnite donkey head staff
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by VRay 6y ago
Check this out, it's a 90s/00s-style Web Ring full of interesting indie sites with no marketing/SEO angle to them https://marijnflorence.neocities.org/linkroll/
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by VRay 6y ago
Basically every internet game/app store does this differently. Google's, Apple's, Xbox, PlayStation I think even the Nintendo Switch is more fair about it, but I haven't checked it directly This has burned me really bad
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by VRay 6y ago
Wow, meanwhile Google lost all my vacation photos back in 2014 or so. It was a painful lesson, but I'm glad that all I lost was one vacation's worth of pictures, haha. Never trust a cloud
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by VRay 6y ago
Best system in the world Well, in all fairness, my and my wife's health care in the USA has been WAY better than it was in Japan. It costs like 20x as much, though. That's my theory as to why nobody in power wants to actually fi
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by VRay 6y ago
Keep in mind that $700 a month private personal health insurance isn't going to cover any of your week to week/month to month expenses. You'll end up with a $10k deductible or higher
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by VRay 6y ago
Easy there, Linus
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by VRay 6y ago
I dunno if they can necessarily do a better or cheaper job. A lot of the engineers at these megacorps are super burned out 9-to-5ers who don't particularly care about what they're doing, since it won't have that big an impac
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by VRay 6y ago
Even getting home at 4 PM every day, you only end up with 2-3 hours to do whatever you want per day, vs 12+ if you aren't going to work. You should work a year in Silicon Valley and save every penny, then go spend 3-4 years back in you
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by VRay 6y ago
I was in the same boat as OP a few years back at an old grimy tech megacorp. I worked my ass off, and couldn't make any progress because of terrible tools, terrible teammates, terrible process. It was a fucking nightmare.* If that&#x
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by VRay 6y ago
Compensation is decided by a hierarchy of managers, with each manager giving his subordinates a budget to compensate his subordinate managers, trickling down layer-by-layer to the peons. If your manager's manager's manager is awes
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by VRay 6y ago
The only complaint I have about Apple Maps so far is that it uses Yelp for review information and photos. I wouldn't mind Yelp, except they try to force you to install their app so they can spy on you instead of just letting you view
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by VRay 6y ago
It's kind of an underhanded trick where the guy is redirecting the conversation to something else. I'd probably prefer that people meet him head on and debunk him instead of downvoting him into oblivion, but I don't blame pe
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by VRay 6y ago
That dude is talking the exact way a lot of execs think. If this is due to one person's screw-up, that person is going to get railroaded out of the company's back door. I saw this happen before. A newish IT guy accidentally depl
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by VRay 6y ago
Careful, lads, it's possible to be TOO confident. I interviewed at a few places for some really easy, fun-looking jobs while I was doing freelancing. I didn't care if I got the jobs, but they did look trivially easy compared to w

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