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by VRay 6y ago
Amazon's a fucking pit of vipers anyway, dude, you're better off. If your potential future teammates were so busy putting out fires that they couldn't meet up with you on time, that team was probably in bad shape too
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by VRay 6y ago
I agree with you for the most part, but Google goes out of its way to force the interviewer to just hand in an emotionless, gender-neutral description of the candidate's code and coding performance to a hiring committee that makes the
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by VRay 6y ago
I think you're projecting I've never heard of someone not liking the term "Individual Contributor" before
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by VRay 6y ago
Tangential: Does Lookout actually do anything nowadays? Last I checked a few years back, it just scanned package names against a list of known malware
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by VRay 6y ago
Yeah, dude, there's a site "Levels FYI" that gives real data. If anyone's having trouble wrapping their brains around it, just keep in mind that every business needs to send a sizable chunk of its revenue through Silico
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by VRay 6y ago
Hearthstone and some other online games only allow you to say a handful of positive messages to your opponents. Of course, what happened is that this somehow made interactions MORE toxic, since any time I say "Good game" or &quot
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by VRay 6y ago
I don't care about career growth, but I do care about adding an extra 50k/year to my net worth for the same work with the same standard of living (or living in a crappy little hole-in-the-wall apartment and saving even more) If I
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by VRay 6y ago
Anything involving cars is probably the biggest ongoing nightmare in our society. People have no appreciation for the danger they're constantly putting themselves and everyone around them in, just to save a few minutes a month in comm
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by VRay 6y ago
Another fun factoid about The_Donald's love of free speech is that they immediately and permanently banned anyone who disagreed with anything said on that sub. Good riddance
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by VRay 6y ago
My favorite analytics trick is to prove that every time a bug or complaint crops up, it only has a 1% chance of happening in any given month, and then slack off on fixing it .. Woopsies, if there are 200 bugs that happen once a month, that
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by VRay 6y ago
So they're using it wrong? /s
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by VRay 6y ago
Yeah, man, this looks like a beefed-up version of Excel macros Anyone who can write working spreadsheet macros could probably just learn to actually program. Maybe they aren't going to be making the next RTX Voice or proving P=NP, but
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by VRay 6y ago
It's really mind-boggling to me that anyone in the USA can hop online and talk to people from all over the world, yet we still think that stuff they take for granted elsewhere is impossible.
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by VRay 6y ago
We can't send a strong enough radio signal to be detectable at any other nearby stars The Three Body Problem is great, but it assumes the existence of weapons of ludicrous destructive power.. The only other time I've ever seen a p
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by VRay 6y ago
evan_ is thinking in terms of "What would it cost to get a bunch of depressed FAANG engineers to code this as part of their day job?", and you're thinking in terms of "How many packages of instant ramen will a motivated
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by VRay 6y ago
Firmware engineering and IOT is a huge mess At least in my experience, there aren't many opportunities for career growth in that area unless you switch to regular app/web development, or you move to a snazzier company like Microso
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by VRay 6y ago
I think it's fair to say that someone is going to contribute less to society working on HFT than they would by using the same skills to work at NASA or SpaceX, though
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by VRay 6y ago
I've rented apartments from giant corporations 4-5 times, and every single time I got screwed on the deposit on the way out. Presumably because they ran the numbers, and knew that they were better off nickel-and-diming people every ti
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by VRay 6y ago
Me: laughs in firmware engineer
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by VRay 6y ago
My first real software job was at a 10 person firmware consulting shop. Some guy from Microsoft got burned out and joined us, and it was mind-blowing. The dude barely came into the office. Even when he was there, he was half-aslseep at h
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by VRay 6y ago
You have to compete with the same Amazon, Twitter, Google, etc whether you're hiring 5 star engineers for $300k+ each or 3 star engineers for $100k and under. I don't buy into the theory that one engineer is innately 100 times as
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by VRay 6y ago
If there are space aliens hanging around, they likely wouldn't contact us Just seeing them would give us a huge technological leg up. Right now we don't know that interstellar travel is readily feasible, but if we did know that t
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by VRay 6y ago
haha, too bad those .io domains are so expensive, would make a hilarious joke
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by VRay 6y ago
I'm surprised that the %APPDATA% folder is so mysterious and confusing for someone posting on HackerNews in good faith..
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by VRay 6y ago
The Efficient Market Hypothesis is complete BS. It's only relevant in academia, and it'll stay that way since there's no profit to be had going to academia and arguing with professors on their home turf about it. You can see
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by VRay 6y ago
If you think you can count on YOY 12-15% returns on the stock market, you should be buying 10% OTM LEAPs instead of shares. You'll be the world's first trillionaire in a decade or so
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by VRay 6y ago
At any of the big corporate jobs I've held, it's been pretty easy to get life insurance for 8x my yearly salary I think my wife could take 8 years of Silicon Valley salary and retire off it in a lower cost of living area, although
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by VRay 6y ago
Sounds like a waste of time to me. If you feed 5 different location streams, you'll just find those same 5 streams for sale.. What a f---ing nightmare we're living in
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by VRay 6y ago
Where do you get your news and stuff without JavaScript? I think HackerNews is just about the only website I regularly use nowadays that works without JavaScript
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by VRay 6y ago
EDIT: Wait a second, I wasn't able to read TFA originally since it was overloaded with traffic. It's back up now, and I can see that Tim Bray was a VP.. This will probably have some impact on him getting more jobs as a VP at FAAN

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