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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Just use ZipCar or SilverCar, they’re great for day trips and very affordable if you don’t own a car.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
This article immediately lead to the mental image of Patrick Star from SpongeBob saying “We’ll take the poors, and move them over there” .
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Who actually uses services like this, honestly? Most people I know with significant wealth and knowledge of crypto keep their money as far away from anything crypto as possible.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Most people I know who make less than $50k a year and are between the age of 19-25 have better money management skills / perception of money than my peers making $100k and up. Many have similar social lives, I think it boils down to pe
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
This is also a standard in Boston and now Austin TX.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Sorry, but this is simply not the reality in software dev interviewing. This is a great story and all, but this kind of media is setting up people to fail.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
This line of reasoning seems to conveniently “forget” that time = money for most people. I’ll prefer OSX or something nonfree if it saves time and is consistent. This is something that differentiates idealists / hobbyists from actual
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
I think Tech Lead has good advice, but the closest you get to any substance in their course outside of some well summarized algo primers is a recorded mock interview of Joma basically failing a NCG interview topic (results that anyone would
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Ask HN: How would you define a “junior” software engineer?
1 points by algaeontoast 7y ago|3 comments
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
They seem dubious at best, at times I’m surprised that people don’t just find ways to have a lawyer break the agreement after they’re hired. In certain cases it could be cheaper to do that than continue being robbed.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
15% of income post tax is incredibly steep. Why wouldn’t someone just pay $8k upfront? If you plan to actually use the service and get placed with a half decent salary, any of the other options are a complete rip-off.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
This show is so damn accurate it gives me anxiety. It’s basically the best sequel to the movie Office Space we the tech community never asked for.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
We all know it’s been Goldie all along ;)
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
At some point it seems like MIT as an institution is going to have to start cutting their losses and save face somehow to retain their academic reputation. The Media Lab seems like a logical first choice for a lab to be axed.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Hi there, I was really into modding and running servers back in the 2011-2013 days of Minecraft. A friend and me ran a handful of “for profit” servers in high school as a bit of a business venture. Curious how the tooling for mods / M
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
It’s really odd to me that 2.5G was seen as the next logical consumer step forward in Ethernet tech. Especially since “consumer” grade 10G cards have been available for some time. Granted, I’m a bit out of the consumer use case for this st
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Damn, I'm switching to product mgmt as soon as I can!
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
I now always wear Ety plugs to concerts, shows or loud convention spaces. I had a bit of hearing damage from a bike accident. I now also double up on protection when I go to my local indoor shooting range. I have rubber ear-plugs and wea
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
I’ve thought deeply about that too. The whole, if I hate practicing stupid word problems so much, why have I convinced myself to spend most of my waking hours doing this software thing? Then again, it’s decent money and in time I do plan t
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
This is cool and really impressive, something just a few years ago I'd have hoped to have created as a 15 year old or someone in high school. However, looking back I'm glad I was screwing around with friends at that age. Setting
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
You could always... pay people more or figure out why people hate working for your company?
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
It’s a shame elixir never really seemed to take off. I’ve been a huge fan of the language and recent Phoenix framework for three years or so. However, it seems like specializing in this Lang would be more of a hinderance than asset. Grea
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Yeah, I’m definitely selling or throwing out my nVidia shield now. I think we should start shaming people who have these stupid “assistant” devices in their homes... I generally turn my phone off when I’m home and keep it in a cigar box. H
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
If I over stayed my visa in most of Europe, especially in Turkey or Russia why would you expect a different outcome? If you break the law there are consequences - welcome to the real world...
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
I don’t.
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
The same could be said about the Bay Area in general... A place where affluent Palo Alto teens made fun of me (an adult) for driving a “2012 VW”...
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Not all too much - I think I’m pretty personable but what kinds of things should I maybe watch for or try to prepare for?
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful advice. I do genuinely enjoy building things, just had a run of bad luck with my team at a FAANG being gutted and losing my job without a year under my belt. Algo was never a strong suit - still trying to figure o
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
As someone who worked for some companies with actually utility in the golden age of ethereum, blockchain is dead and kind of useless. Yes, it’s cool - but anyone worth their weight as a software engineer shouldn’t see value in these kinds
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by algaeontoast 7y ago
File server and plex, that’s about it. I have another server I’ll occasionally run a Kubernetes cluster on, otherwise I don’t really bother with self hosting - I hate dev ops shit for a reason...

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