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by angarg12 3y ago
Nah, I already did the "do what you love" shtick during the first half of my career working as a researcher living paycheck to paycheck. After I got my first job in the private sector I figured out that, you know what? actually I
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by angarg12 3y ago
Much of CBF can be explain simply through rewards and incentives. See, when I joined my current company, I was full of energy and I did BF. I fixed broken builds. I made our abandoned test suite green. I refactored our deployment pipeline.
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by angarg12 3y ago
My hometown was founded by romans, and during the last 10 years the local government has made big efforts to make the city more walkable and pedestrian friendly. If a 2000+ years old city can do it, surely American towns can.
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm from a Spanish city that for the last few years has invested heavily in infrastructure. One of the most controversial decisions was to pedestrianize big chunks of the old town. Despite concerns about traffic, I have yet to meet a s
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm not sure our observations are consistent. What I'm saying is that I've seen many times people who crush the DSA problem, but struggle to define clean APIs, write clear, maintainable and extensible code, or just design sys
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by angarg12 3y ago
Am I the only one who finds these "I've been programming since 6" posts silly? I mean, I used to mess up with computers since I was a child, but I wouldn't call that "programming". In fact if I'm completel
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by angarg12 3y ago
On one side we have things like the efficient market hypothesis, that says that people are rational, they make logical decisions, and there is no room for inefficiencies. On the other we might think that people who runs companies are blithe
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by angarg12 3y ago
> Somewhat related, I noticed a surprising correlation between programming skills in the small, and programming skills in the large. You can solve a problem in five lines of code, or, if you try hard, in ten lines of code. If you consist
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by angarg12 3y ago
When talking about affordability there is always someone who uses this argument, like everyone can freely move around. I work for a company that forces me to go to the office in a hub city, and I'm in a work visa that doesn't allo
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by angarg12 3y ago
Offtopic but relevant: TL;DR if you break long posts into pages, at least have an option to see the whole thing in a single page. I use a browser extension to send websites to my Kindle. It's great for long-ish format blog posts that I
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by angarg12 3y ago
Let's be honest, how many people on HN (or elsewhere) have a VP level job? Even if it is true that jobs are the very senior level are filled this way, that's a very small % of the total (in my company, much smaller than 1%). So th
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by angarg12 3y ago
> Almost all jobs are filled through personal connections. I see this repeated online, but is there any data to actually back this claim up? In my experience only a small number of jobs get filled through referrals etc.
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm going to somehow contradict some of the comments and agree with others. Every time I changed jobs in my career, whenever I grinded Leetcode I ended up in a better position (more and better job offers) than when I didn't. That
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by angarg12 3y ago
Longer reply above, but I really like https://lethain.com/
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by angarg12 3y ago
Will Larson [1] is a favourite of mine. Some parts os his writing are still "one person's opinion" but a) has credentials to back up his opinions b) often he triangulates with other people to give more weight to his arguments
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by angarg12 3y ago
The vast majority of literature in management (definitely in the tech sector) is essentially a long form opinion of a single person. I personally only started to take more seriously the writing of people who a) have been managing for a long
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by angarg12 3y ago
My team does ML for a Big Tech co. Considering how much we spend on hardware, and multiplied by all the teams doing ML in the company, we are easily spending millions a day training AI just on business as usual. This seems reasonable for an
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by angarg12 3y ago
>People feel that they paid double, which was actually not true That's some serious gaslighting.
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by angarg12 3y ago
> CEO says firm is smaller than ideal but positive for margins Well, that explains everything.
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by angarg12 3y ago
The most useless career advice I've received is variations of "do a good job and you'll be rewarded". No one ever told me the outsized role that context and other stuff outside my control can have on your career progress
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by angarg12 3y ago
The equivalent financial advice would be "win the lottery". Not very actionable.
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by angarg12 3y ago
Growing up poor-ish and coming to a high income later in life (nearing 40 now) I believe growing your income is almost a prerequisite to accumulate wealth. Sure, I wish I had known this advice earlier, but even if I did, now I would be only
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by angarg12 3y ago
I know this rate is too low because it pays less than the base salary of my current job (not counting stocks and bonuses), for a limited time contract and with less benefits. I simply find the economics of freelance/contract work in th
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by angarg12 3y ago
I find this particularly interesting because I am in the US and I am also looking to move back to the EU, but the massive salary difference is a barrier. I was on talks with a company hiring for Spain for e90k, which admittedly is very hand
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by angarg12 3y ago
Unfortunately my L1 visa doesn't allow me to have any other source of income than my current employer. But definitely this is something to look into once I get a Green Card.
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are trying to get at with this comment.
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We moved to the US and my wife is doing freelancing, and the market rates here are ridiculous considering the cost of living and FTE rates. For example recently I got an offer for a 4 months contract role at Microsoft, hybrid (so partly on
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by angarg12 3y ago
This is exactly the info I was looking for, thanks for sharing!
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by angarg12 3y ago
I also almost 20x my salary in 15 years, but I went from e16k in Spain to $350k in Seattle, so when adjusted by inflation/cost of living it isn't that impressive. Care to share more about your salary history and how you got there?
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by angarg12 3y ago
I am a Sr. Dev at FAANG in America, but I yearn to go back to my home country in Europe. However doing so would result in a massive paycut, even with prospective high paging jobs. One possibility is to transfer internally with my current em

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