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by akavi 8y ago
...I don't think so? Or at least, it's totally alien to me as someone who's spent ~6 years in SF tech. 1,200 $/mo is more than enough to get a room to yourself in the nice neighborhoods; admittedly, you'll need to p
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by akavi 8y ago
These are orthogonal issues. It is in America's interest to suck up economically productive people from all over the world. This is solved by the wage lottery system It is also in America's interest to increase the number of skill
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by akavi 8y ago
So, I work at a startup. But, to echo what literally everyone else has said: The money is better at big companies. There are exceptions, but you almost certainly won't work for one of them. You will make more money at Google or Faceb
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by akavi 8y ago
I think there's some value for swapping out one semantically opaque word that seems intimidating/"engineer-y" for another equally semantically opaque word that instead connotes "hey, I'm on your side in helping
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by akavi 9y ago
> Unlike Amazon, no one would want to work at Flexport except people focused entirely on money, and those aren't the best people. I'm a dev at Flexport, and it's pretty funny to hear I chose it for the money (Not my most l
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by akavi 9y ago
What is with Yankees and the persistent myth of the singular "y'all". There may be some small, isolated spots in the South where that's true, but they're not common, and, as someone born and raised there, Dallas is
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by akavi 9y ago
Am I crazy, or does the article only list 4 digraphs? I don't see any vowel ones
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by akavi 9y ago
Work for Google and be promoted once. SDE III (a promotion up from new grad) has typical total comp in the 210 - 240 k$/yr range.
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by akavi 10y ago
I feel like solving a lot of these questions are just a matter of either domain knowledge, or not being intimidated by unfamiliar vocabulary. I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of people who got through a college CS degree wo
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by akavi 10y ago
For the first part, who decides what a hate group is? For the second, you've merely provided (what I assume are) non-exhaustive examples.
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by akavi 10y ago
Sweet, Alf seems to be exactly what I wanted! Shame it no longer seems to be under active development, but it seems to be pretty mature?
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by akavi 10y ago
Only tangentially related, but this reminds me of something I've wanted for a while: Are there any languages for relational queries, but with improved syntax (composability, epxression capture, static typing?) and which "compile&q
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by akavi 10y ago
I got a pre-senior year internship at PagerDuty through a Who's Hiring post back in 2011. Ended up converting to full time the next summer and working there for nearly four years. A+ experience, would apply through HN posts again. The
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by akavi 10y ago
> If this really bothers you, use zhuyin, or double pinyin. Double pinyin is still pinyin. Zhuyin works, but I suppose, on reflection, I also want the benefit of reinforcing my knowledge of how to write a character by hand. > There is
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by akavi 10y ago
I'm a non-native/hobbyist Chinese learner, and I'm liking it so far. I wonder if this could end up suiting the purposes of people in my niche, even if it can't supersede other methods among native speakers? Personally, I
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by akavi 10y ago
Then they become commodities, the price falls to levels we could never imagine now, and use cases open up we could never imagine now. At the limit: ubiquitous, cheap, smart, connected displays. Seems like it could be pretty cool.
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by akavi 10y ago
Does anyone have hard numbers on what the cohorted attrition is for programmers? Ie, of the individuals employed as programmers 10 years ago, what percent are still employed in programming? 20 years ago? 30 years ago? I've tried to sea
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by akavi 10y ago
This isn't true to my knowledge (I work at google). It's usually just another person from the interviewer pool. Decent chance you'll never see them or any of the other interviewers again after joining.
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by akavi 10y ago
If I've understood correctly, it feels like what the author wants is a DSL for event-driven FRP[0]. If so, I'm 100% on board. It's something I've wanted for a long time. I've found it easy enough to implement a naiv
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by akavi 10y ago
I wonder how much of this is cultural/emotional. I'm ethnically Indian, and grew up with white rice as by far the dominant carb in my diet. To this day, I'm not particularly fond of bread (though I like crusty, soft-crumbed b
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by akavi 10y ago
I do know two people making over 200 k$/yr in base salary as pure programmers. They're very good at their jobs (Interestingly, as far as I can tell, neither of them are "brilliant" technically, merely "good". T
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by akavi 10y ago
Interesting! I'd read an interview where he claimed his proficiency was noticeably non-native[0], but maybe he was just being self-effacing. [0] http://www.linuxveda.com/2011/11/02/which-is-linus-torvalds
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by akavi 10y ago
Since the sibling comments already explained the Finland-Swedes, I'll just add a bit of trivia relevant to this crowd: Linus Torvalds is one of them. His first language was Swedish, and apparently he's never spoken Finnish particu
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by akavi 10y ago
Would you be ok with permitting murder on the basis "people will always do it."? Because if you take the arguments of pro-life advocates on good faith, that's what you're saying. You can't make your case against pos
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by akavi 10y ago
I "induced" the effect several years ago (At least 3 or 4, but probably more), and to this day the grating has a faint, but noticeable color tinge. At least for me, it seems to be truly permanent.
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by akavi 10y ago
The problem is that those are post-hoc rationalizations. "Morality" in day-to-day life, it seems clear to me, is a set of mental heuristics (a la Kahneman's System 1 thinking). It produces good enough answers for individual-s
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by akavi 10y ago
The IRS has stated that being under audit does not prevent someone from publicly releasing their tax returns[0]. [0]: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/...
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by akavi 10y ago
As somebody whose bio checks all the boxes Suster mentions, but without any particular drive or ambition, it seems like I could do cracking business renting myself out to real entrepreneurs as a face for these pitch meetings... You hear peo
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by akavi 10y ago
I readily confess I don't know many legally blind users, but the handful I do know all use graphical browsers with screen readers. Is that not typical? (That said, if you're using webfonts for icons you should be using the unico
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by akavi 10y ago
Why do you have less context in writing than in speech? I'd be willing to bet heavily that the vast majority of those "homophones" are primarily writing-only, domain specific or archaic "shorthands", which are refer

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