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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
> Trading with you (a retail investor) has a lower cost basis because retail investors are reliably less sophisticated than institutional investors It's not about winning or losing, it's about getting "run over" by ma
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
You're kidding yourself if you think SF is a magical land where knowing to reverse a B Tree gets you promoted. Realistically managers promote people based on tenure, who they get along with, and what they ship. Being able to communicat
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
In my experience the ops team will be constantly changing things and upgrading to keep all those customers happy, and they don't really care about your personal risk tolerance. They probably screw up a smaller proportion of the changes
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
And the residents of DC who despite being citizens are denied representation
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
You're already behind the times, everywhere I look now lambic beers are the next big thing. Which is great because I love a sour. They seem to have largely supplanted APAs as the trend to chase.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
That's not correct, it sounds like they got rolled.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
A lot of people seem to think that having one stay at home parent is the ideal - surely both parents working and having no time to be involved in their kids' lives is not the solution?
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
I live in a small semi-detached house that's walkable to the downtown of our city. I can bike to dozens different places to get take-out, we have a small private back garden where we can host guests, and we have enough space for two of
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
I'm pretty sure "an NVidia" is grammatical here.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
The Netflix philosophy is basically that the job sucks and they will drain the life out of you but they pay above market. YMMV
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Bands are usually per level - if someone is sufficiently good you bring them in as a Principal/Staff/Magic Unicorn/whatever. This leads to the same phenomenon where you need to work for 2 years to get promoted but if you jump
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
My first job out of school was doing product verification for the cameras that were used in those Cisco systems! It was pretty impressive, I think they managed to squeeze 1080p at 60fps over USB2. Had a lot of fun building jigs and testing
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
This is extremely neat but the name "gash" is... a poor choice. Gory in standard English, worse as a slang term
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Salaries working domestically in Canada are quite a bit lower, but CoL can also be good. Shopify for instance pays ~150 for senior devs but in Ottawa or Waterloo houses are pretty affordable. I've had some luck working remotely in Cana
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
a) it is absolutely conceivable to write a cheque to yourself. For example, to move cash between bank accounts b) the bank has a big database and a system of clearing cheques that ensures you cannot double-spend money by writing yourself a
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
My experience with engineers who made too much money in an IPO (not at MSFT) was the opposite - they mostly wanted to sit in the corner and play with whatever cool toys and have no clear job description. They didn't need to threaten le
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
People can be outraged at more than one person at a time.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Wait, to be clear you mean the language "Congress shall make no law" which clearly doesn't apply to Twitter? I agree it's unambiguous the constitution doesn't allow the government to restrict Twitter's rights
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
I doubt the Romans actually had any influence on the design of these systems. The reason the author says the concept is "unfamiliar" is because it's immediately obvious and doesn't warrant a name.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
You basically need to have a revocation list or rely on the expiration time being sufficiently short. JWTs are neat for a lot of things but I don't think they make sense as a replacement for sessions for that reason (where you control
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
A lot of Shopify's competitive advantage comes from being a giant, Canadian tech company. Similar to Blackberry before it, the government is extremely generous and investors price the stock accordingly. If Shopify moved to the States o
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Ask questions and be willing to discuss your thought process with people. Don't be afraid to try and improve things even if they've been like that a long time. Try and find something to work on you're genuinely interested in.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
The Odd Lots podcast is very similar and Tracy and Joe are also very funny. Matt actually appears in a couple episodes (he has a really deep voice I didn't expect)
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Pseudoephedrine in Canada has to be mixed with acetaminophen, which is difficult to separate back out for meth cooking.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Sales tax fails to capture the accumulation of capital, so (1) is kind of bogus. If you make 100 billion dollars and invest it you and several generations of your family coild live comfortably without ever working and your tax burden would
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Underspecified tasks. Companies like to pretend that devs should "own the solution" but in reality there's a lot of coordination involved and you can't just make things up. Trying to find a way to get feedback from every
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Looking forward to the cyproterone shortages after people start trying to suppress testosterone to avoid catching covid.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
You could absolutely work on Shopify without a CS degree. There's probably a 10:1 ratio of people churning out features versus people doing infra and tooling to support those devs.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
Shopify will wait until a partner builds it on their platform, see if they're successful, then acquire them. They've done it a couple times, they have tons of cash and don't need to take huge risks.
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by blahbhthrow3748 6y ago
You've never heard a Justice Breyer hypo

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