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by alex504 5y ago
Hi, I am very interested in doing this. I am wondering if you have any advice for making the switch from full time? I know that my resume and experience are what these companies are looking for but I don't have a very good network and
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by alex504 5y ago
Spotify has the most frustrating and bug-ridden UX of any software I have ever used, by far.
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by alex504 5y ago
From the article: >The social-work school was contractually required to share about 60% of revenue with 2U and ran into financial trouble. My impression was that most of what 2u did was marketing, I might be wrong about that though. It s
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by alex504 5y ago
The school spends 60% of its revenue selling itself as an elite education to people who don't qualify or need an elite education. They employ salesmen and incentivize them to be as aggressive as they legally can. They then deliver a su
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USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts(wsj.com)
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by alex504 5y ago
When was the peak in your view? What market is this? Thanks
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by alex504 5y ago
Would the act of regulating Tether and other stablecoins in and of itself crash the market? If the government shut Tether down, wouldn't that cause the run they are afraid of? The money is already missing, it is only a question of when
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by alex504 5y ago
Another anecdote: I did Dev Bootcamp in NYC in 2015, during what was probably the golden age for these bootcamps. I had a very very good experience, as did about 80% of the people who went through it at that time. The program was hemorrhagi
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by alex504 5y ago
On Apple's website, see the notes below the battery consumption claims. https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/#footnote-23 They are using the m1 pro to get their battery claim numbers. I ordered an M1 Pro ba
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by alex504 5y ago
Just to be clear, I am not vaccine hesitant, or whatever they want to be called, in the slightest. 94% and growing is not true, it is quite the opposite that the data is showing that vaccine efficacy is growing. Lots of good data shows that
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by alex504 5y ago
Your way at arriving at 99% is quite dubious, as it assumes that from the beginning of the pandemic an equal number of Americans are vaccinated and unvaccinated, and that they are equally exposed to the virus, and that they are in equal ris
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by alex504 5y ago
> Biden's recent speech blaming unvaccinated people being directly responsible for killing the vaccinated, a nonsensical supposition. Can you explain how this is nonsensical? There is quite a bit of data showing that those who are u
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by alex504 5y ago
> GM has said the fires are a rare event and are the result of two uncommon defects that stem from a manufacturing problem in LG’s plants in Michigan and South Korea.
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by alex504 5y ago
There are a huge number of engineering jobs paying less than FAANG level, and some that are paying near that, where it is not nearly as bad as you've described. Personally those jobs still burn me out / depress me because I hate t
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by alex504 5y ago
This works about 75% of the time, about 25% of the time it restarts the podcast and I have to go through the ads again. This is on android. There is also a bug I experience pretty regularly where the podcast will restart when I resume it so
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by alex504 5y ago
Dont feed him processed food for breakfast and pack him lunch.
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by alex504 5y ago
Well I guess I have some egg on my face. They must know the market in London isn't competitive so they just pay a competitive rate in the market. It seems like salaries are generally going to go up everywhere for top talent but down in
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by alex504 5y ago
Terrifying
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by alex504 5y ago
Are these engineers working at the same company?
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by alex504 5y ago
Yes there are tons of companies working at scale with "cheaper" engineers, in fact the vast majority of companies in my experience are doing this. But the types of companies in these specific markets where salaries are crazy need
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by alex504 5y ago
Engineers in the US are much more expensive but they have experience working in high scale environments that isn't widely available in the markets you are talking about. FAANG companies and well-funded startups aren't going to sub
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by alex504 5y ago
Without a better description of the requirements of the site it is hard to give an answer about your specific situation with regards to what is taking so long. Technologies have improved, and requirements have gotten more complex. It sounds
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by alex504 5y ago
I agree with this 100%, just want to add that the key is to be proactive and take the forks. If you are a halfway decent programmer and can navigate the job market in a halfway decent way you will end up with a high paying job. Some people
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by alex504 5y ago
The right answer is for everyone to get vaccinated as soon as it is available to them, preferably with the mrna vaccines. Then we don't have to worry much about treatment because the disease will no longer be a part of our daily lives.
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by alex504 5y ago
You are right it does ignore it. I would be fine to make an exception for someone who has natural immunity. It might make it needlessly complicated which explains why businesses are making it simple and mandating vaccinations.
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by alex504 5y ago
I haven't looked at it much but it doesn't seem like a reliable enough treatment that one wouldn't want to be vaccinated. It seems like there are a bunch of different drugs that have shown to be effective but none are in the
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by alex504 5y ago
> I think waiting for long-term effects to be clear is a defensible position. Unless you get infected, in which case you made a pretty big mistake. So then your basically saying you don't want to get vaccinated or get covid. I'
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by alex504 5y ago
The effects of covid are far from completely understood. We do know that it kills a decent percent of the people infected with it and gives long term symptoms to another relatively large percent. The long term effects are unclear but they a
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by alex504 5y ago
I was in the same boat as to thinking vaccination should be an individual decision but I have come around to the idea of mandates in the last month. As far as I can tell there is no reasonable justification for an individual not to get vacc
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by alex504 5y ago
This is the key takeaway. This guy didn't do anything that the majority of meditators in the West aren't doing. Taking such a serious piece of advice from a book by some random guy (who seems like a nutjob) is a particularly fooli

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