Xeronate

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by Xeronate 3y ago
I've never met anyone that thought the LPs were meant to imply Amazon "really cares". I like Amazon because it seems more straightforward than other companies. It's a business and it wants to make money. The only way I&#
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by Xeronate 3y ago
Horrible take. The aesthetics and user experience of an app has a direct correlation to whether the average user (which includes me, a programmer at Amazon) will use a tool.
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by Xeronate 3y ago
I think both situations are unsustainable. I'm not financially stable because I hate my job and might quit at any time and he doesn't make enough money. But I think my main point is both of us have a way of becoming sustainable so
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by Xeronate 3y ago
I'm 29 and have 500k saved up (live in Santa Monica which is quite expensive), but yes I think I will quit my next stock vest which is Friday. And idk. My best friend from high school moved out here with me and he's a waiter makin
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by Xeronate 3y ago
There are a lot of ways to make money. Picking a job based on money is a good way to be absolutely miserable. My parents pushed me towards making money my entire life and there is nothing I regret more than following that advice. Every day
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by Xeronate 3y ago
Seems wrong to influence your son's decision based on your financial situation rather than his desires/passions. Of course if he's naturally interested in the trades then sure.
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by Xeronate 3y ago
Nice work, but seems like WSD accomplishes the same with a nicer syntax and hosted interface https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
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by Xeronate 3y ago
I’ll believe it when I see it. Heard this sentiment 100s of times. Also housing is really only out of reach ina few highly desirable places. Many of the places that are now super desirable weren’t that great when the previous generations w
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by Xeronate 4y ago
I make lots of money but I feel 10 years of CS and programming turned me into an emotionless robot so idk if it was.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
Bias obviously. It's commonly known that during the pandemic Amazon was the highest paying FAANG (besides maybe netflix). SDE2s were getting 400k+.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
Your sentiment is nice in theory, but in reality it's just a recipe for getting taken advantage of.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
If you already know the javascript ecosystem then it's probably fun. But if you don't its heavily draining. Also Go is decidedly antifun so maybe not a good comparison.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
My team at Amazon still uses spreadsheets and I much prefer it to Jira.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
The other secret is CS faculty don't care because if they wanted to study math they'd have gotten a math PhD instead of a CS one. =)
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by Xeronate 4y ago
No because I would never do that. If my choices were work in Santa Monica and drive 2-3 hours a day or live in Ohio, I would live in Ohio.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
I think many people would consider Tokyo an overbuilt hellscape and never want to live there. I much prefer Santa Monica.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
People need a place to live but does that place have to be in California? It doesn’t make sense to talk about living in Santa Monica as a need.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
People didn't realize they would be poor if they were a barista their entire life?
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by Xeronate 4y ago
Maybe at the entire country level that’s true but why is it important what people that don’t share your values care about? The people I’m surrounded with care much much more about creativity and the ability to have unique and interesting id
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by Xeronate 4y ago
Maybe you live in a world where high pay = status, but that’s not my experience. I think you at least sort of agree because you note that SWEs don’t have much proximity to power and are lower status because of it. I could have guessed your
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by Xeronate 4y ago
I don't think on call is a sign of low status, but I think OP is correct that programming is a low status job. People respect the business guys with the big ideas, not the implementors and tbh I think that's fair. It's still
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by Xeronate 4y ago
Making contributions to the foundation, profitable parts of the business is one of the best ways to be a hotshot.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
I'm fine with the argument that its not rational and not a good process because the outcome will be bad (firing people that you should have kept). I'm only pushing back against the idea that a business should put protecting people
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by Xeronate 4y ago
The ability of the process to prune dead weight and the emotions of the people affected are kind of unrelated. It's a business not a charity.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
I see you were right, but I think both choices (loathe and likely) are acceptable. I originally thought jack was saying "its unfortunate to find" or "it's disgusting to find".
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by Xeronate 4y ago
It is good advice. My job is way better knowing I can leave whenever I want and don't feel pressure from unreasonable demands.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
Sorry I wrote this on my phone at the gym and should have proofread better.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
Disagree that sports are a form of brotherly conflict. Maybe within the same team but definitely not considering the win/loss dynamic between teams. You can approach disagreements with the idea that both people are working together to
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by Xeronate 4y ago
Sports are better, but I think encouraging competition and tribal urges are a waste of time in general. Better to encourage collaboration and self expression.
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by Xeronate 4y ago
I'm going to add a second data point of deep regret over time spent gaming and playing sports in high school and college. They contributed negatively to my life and put me so far behind where I could have been socially and intellectual

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