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by byoung2 10y ago
In a way, that's true and false. A house may be worth $500k, and you might get a dozen people to offer $500k, but if someone comes along and wants to buy back her childhood home for $1 million for the sentimental value, isn't the
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by byoung2 10y ago
Exactly...looking at a neighborhood of $500k houses, a fixer-upper vs a recent remodel could easily change the price by 20%, and Zillow obviously doesn't have attributes for the condition of the house.
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by byoung2 10y ago
The biggest cost is labor, so if they could theoretically shift to self-driving cars soon, fares would pay for more than 100% of ride cost. What that timeframe is would be the $69 billion question. Given that self driving car technology is
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by byoung2 10y ago
How about a reissue? http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/03/13/new-164-12-ford-mu...
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by byoung2 10y ago
I work remotely and I spent a month in the Philippines working. The big unknown is fast, reliable Internet. Try to get an unlimited 4g hotspot or get the fastest dsl or cable if you have an apartment or house. WiFi was hit or miss as far a
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by byoung2 10y ago
That is true but in this last case I became that manager and suddenly there was no such set pool for raises.
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by byoung2 10y ago
As director of engineering, I gladly gave generous raises to retain people, because it cost way more in lost productivity to read resumes, interview candidates, and onboard new devs, not to mention the $30k check you have to write to the re
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by byoung2 10y ago
Honest question, did that affect your working relationship with your manager / their manager, or did it work out well long term for everyone? It worked out well for all parties, depending on how you look at it. Management was a littl
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by byoung2 10y ago
Definitely true, but in software engineering it's typical to have short stints anyway. If you change companies every few years, why not play this card all the time before jumping ship?
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I've never seen it happen successfully. I've done it at least half a dozen times in my career. I was told "the maximum we can give is a $7k raise since there is a fixed pool for raises in the department." I said if I q
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by byoung2 10y ago
If you're remote, then why should someone pay you a high salary vs. paying a lower one to that bright guy in Romania, who can still live like a king? Companies will pay a premium to have someone in the same timezone who speaks the la
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by byoung2 10y ago
For centuries, the notorious Bermuda Triangle — located between Miami, Puerto Rico and the island of Bermuda — has been linked with a high number of unexplained disappearances of aircraft and ships in its waters. The "Bermuda Triangl
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Are these legacy services? I haven't come across anything recently that doesn't use the json api/sdk pattern I described.
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I think the current trend is a rest api with json input/output, and an sdk in the popular languages that wraps the api.
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In Quebec they literally have a french word to replace all common english expressions and prevent borrowing. I met some ladies from Quebec while in France, and they were horrified at how tainted the French spoken by the natives had become
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by byoung2 10y ago
But rather than providing an advantage for employees, Penn State’s Golden warns that services such as PTO Exchange may exacerbate the underlying problem. It will provide further incentive for overworked employees to cancel vacations or go
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You would have to block more than just Amazon...how about buy.com, Walmart.com, Google shopping, etc? You'd end up blocking the whole internet, and in the end people would still go home and buy online.
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A quick search reveals that the highest precision should be used for storage and calculations, and rounding just for presentation. So it shouldn't matter what rounding rule you use for display purposes. I did find this explanation of
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by byoung2 10y ago
She works for Kaiser in the DOU (direct observation unit, ICU stepdown). To get a calendar month off she schedules it almost a year in advance. 2 weeks off she can do with a month notice. A week off usually only requires switching a day or
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by byoung2 10y ago
She said that neither she nor anyone else at her recruiting firm would work with me ever again, which lasted about a year before they started emailing me job listings again. Be prepared if you accept a counteroffer after working with a recr
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I am quite good at negotiating raises, and I know when I can push and when to hold back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122526
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by byoung2 10y ago
Why did you quit to freelance? I have a daughter (turning 4 this month) and I wanted to work from home and have a more flexible schedule. I applied for a few companies that offered remote work, but the schedules weren't that flexible
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by byoung2 10y ago
I agree on many levels...the coworker was an idiot and a project manager, not an engineer, but had an MBA, which likely appealed to the founders, who were both "business guys". Also, it was silly to have sensitive info on a shared
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by byoung2 10y ago
$117k to $140k with perks sounded like a win at the time and I didn't want to push my luck. I really wanted to stay at that point so it was a calculated move to not look too greedy. A year later when I was promoted to director (and rai
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by byoung2 10y ago
My recruiter practically broke down in tears when I accepted a counteroffer in 2013. Counteroffers can be great tools to increase your salary, whether you accept or reject them. In my case it was purely about money. I was making $117k and I
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by byoung2 10y ago
on $175k married filing jointly put me in the 28% bracket federal (21% effective tax rate), 9.3% California tax rate (7.6% effective tax rate), 5.65% FICA, for a total of $60k tax liability. I reduced this with mortgage deductions, business
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by byoung2 10y ago
My last salary as an employee was $175k at age 35 as director of engineering. 8 years of experience.
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by byoung2 10y ago
The economy we’re heading toward could offer millions of people more free time to do what they want to do instead of what they have to do to earn a living. Looks like Keynes wasn't far off with his prediction in 1928. http:/&#x
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I can't help but wonder if these businesses are capitalizing on the hostage-like nature of data recovery & are price-gouging based on that. You answered your own question. They don't charge based on the labor involved, they
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by byoung2 10y ago
I use Dropbox...I find search to be lacking. I would also prefer a system of tags instead of a folder structure.

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