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by avasylev 9y ago
YouTube is awesome for DIY, I moved to older house two years ago and with youtube helps I've added crown moldings, repainted all rooms, replaced baseboard, built patio, deck - lots of fun, I think without youtube I wouldn't done a
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by avasylev 9y ago
I don't think roofers are good example, not sure where you live, but last summer I got roofers scheduled in a week (Boston area). By locally known construction company, I got estimate and contract by American owner/sales man - he
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by avasylev 9y ago
Funny that comparison with the trees can be applied in a different way - you do need to cut high trees if you want to grow smaller trees in the same place. This spring I cut very high pine because it shadowed my entire backyard and I want t
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by avasylev 9y ago
It's not just convenience for anycast addresses, with multiple pathes and anycast if your round robin packets across different routes, you may end up receiving them in two different locations (ok for UDP, but TCP broken completely). A
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by avasylev 9y ago
I like idea of taxing higher unoccupied homes. If someone wants to make investment, great make investment and either pay high taxes (support folks who do live there) or have to rent it.
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by avasylev 9y ago
In the end iPhone added billions to the company and shareholders, but interesting if all these engineers who spent nights and weekends to make that happen got an extra pay for that. Not much about that in the article, just the praise for ex
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by avasylev 9y ago
For my team you can email me at "jobs.av (at) outlook.com", but you can see from glassdor same salaries at Microsoft,Gooogle,Amazon are hiring in Kendall square.
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by avasylev 9y ago
If you are ok commuting to Cambridge MA, you can get the SF figure +/- you cited as developer (assuming proper skills/experience) and still live in NH. Not a great commute, but I know a few folks who commute from NH. If you'
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by avasylev 9y ago
Mr money mustache After living in US for a year or two, was very interesting to discover alternative view on "typical" lifestyle. While I don't agree with all his recommendation, I did buy cheap small car :)
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by avasylev 10y ago
CEO is just publicly visible example, but at every level in Microsoft there're Indian, VP, managers, product managers, principal developers, regular developers. I think you can just browse/search Microsoft product managers thru li
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by avasylev 10y ago
Yes if you need specificly Ruby dev, you ask Ruby (though only if you need it now right away, may as well hire contractor for a few months in this case). Imho smart developer can pick up Ruby fast (or other stack fast) and that's the b
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by avasylev 10y ago
Yeah I'm not arguing it's suboptimal, but I don't see better suggestion. What are you doing instead? "Assessing the capabiliyt and trajectory, willing to learn and adapt" - that's the intent of the algo/da
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by avasylev 10y ago
Agree process isn't great, if I knew better practical approach I'd use it instead.
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by avasylev 10y ago
You can't make conclusion just from second argument alone. It's not hazing ritual because my first point. But I also think knowing them is useful, but I see a lot of people arguing it not needed at all. So what I tried to say in s
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by avasylev 10y ago
The fact that there're more Russian/Indian woman I think is because they are from immigrant families where husband is a developer. I'm developer and I met my wife at work back in Ukraine. But if you look % of woman developers
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by avasylev 10y ago
I have the same conclusion. The pipeline problem cited in the article is real problem, imho all the diversity efforts have to be directed at schools and parents. This is were the decision is made for college. After that you can't do mu
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by avasylev 10y ago
I'm one of the people who ask those algorithm/white board questions. I've read a lot criticism on this topic, here're my reasons to stil keep asking these questions: 1) Working on algorithm problem requires very little i
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by avasylev 10y ago
I did the same, with me as only applicant, mostly because it was slightly less paperwork. One possible drawback is that you can't count two incomes, just the applicant income. Though "affordability limit" that bank calculates
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by avasylev 10y ago
Could you share more details on how you used historic estimates? You basically described me. I've never found historic estimates useful in practice, of course I haven't tried to hard, but over the years can't think even singl
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by avasylev 11y ago
Does anyone know if most of Xamarin team located in Boston? The web sites has San Francisco as headquarters, but for some reason I always thought company is mostly in Boston. Curios how much this acquisition increases Microsoft's dev
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by avasylev 11y ago
Over long enough period of course each will decline.But within 5 years risk is small.
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by avasylev 11y ago
Stock bonus for Sr Dev at microsoft is up to 30% of base(vested over 5 years). That won't hit 100k even if you are at fifth year. Is it typical for google, facebook to give 100k in stocks per year (assuming they vest more a less over s
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by avasylev 11y ago
Problem with high housing cost is that it drives up prices for all things in the area - from fastfood to haircut and day care. Of course iPhone, cars cost the same, but all the local services would cost more.
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by avasylev 12y ago
Wellesley MA is one of the most expensive suburbs of Boston with home prices above million, most of IT guys would have to work day and night to live in that laid back culture :)
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by avasylev 13y ago
I'm not familiar with the source, but abstract you cited is manipulation. There's no trained militants, nazi, etc. Such texts are used to divide East/West Ukraine, so current regime can survive (classic divide and conquer).
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by avasylev 13y ago
I'm serious, I lived 25 years in Western Ukraine and I don't remember single person having issues because of being Russian. A lot of my friends are Russian and they freely spoke Russian as their everyday language (not just at hom
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by avasylev 13y ago
These protest are against Yankukovich and his regime. Not against Russians. A lot of activists on maidan speak Russian, including Klichko who speaks Russian better than Ukrainian. Plus Lvov is very popular among Russian tourists, still no o
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by avasylev 13y ago
You should have also cited some Russian news... But there's some truth in this - 'Svoboda' is indeed far-right party, but it definitely doesn't have trained militants and I don't recall any "hate crimes against
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by avasylev 13y ago
This is ridiculous... Except of few crazy people no one wants ethnically pure Ukraine. I grew up in western Ukraine and I have never seen single person discriminated for being Russian. I don't know why would you post that wiki link, WW