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by byoung2 10y ago
Not DC proper, but UnderArmour (Baltimore) uses node and react. I just did 6 months of node/react contract work for them.
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by byoung2 10y ago
Is the poll locked to your organization's domain? I can't access it. Do you have enough karma for https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll ?
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by byoung2 10y ago
1520/1600 and 2280/2400
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by byoung2 10y ago
They go hand in hand...small countries (geographically) like Singapore or Estonia can arrange themselves in a single layer, where the central government controls everything down to the police and parking meters. Large countries like Canada,
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by byoung2 10y ago
In many ways it is much easier for a tiny country to achieve what Estonia did (fast internet, teaching every kid to code, gov't services online, pay parking meters by mobile phone). When the central gov't is in charge of a country
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by byoung2 10y ago
https://www.google.com/amp/gizmodo.com/anton-yelchin-death-j... A possible theory about what happened
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by byoung2 10y ago
That's what we used at my last job, the enterprise version.
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by byoung2 10y ago
There is usually at least WiFi everywhere you would reasonably expect to get an FM radio signal. When not on WiFi, even with capped data you can stream some form of audio. Barring that, you can store quite a bit of music on a smartphone, an
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by byoung2 10y ago
depending on how the program was structured, it would likely cost at least twelve to thirteen per cent of G.D.P. None of the studies seem to have explored the possibility that given a salary cushion, people who would ordinarily have taken
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by byoung2 10y ago
The rise of HD Radio (which I assume phones didn't support), streaming audio (Pandora, Spotify), and even radio apps like iHeartRadio made it obsolete?
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by byoung2 10y ago
Wait until you have a job offer and then give 2 weeks.
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by byoung2 10y ago
Any way to verify the claims from the article? I can't find any mention of Rivalta or its sale to Salesforce. Seems more likely the Tesla is leased (business expense) and he spends more time as an UberBlack driver to pay for it.
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by byoung2 11y ago
I have negotiated my salary 90% of the time, and I've been successful 100% of the time. It can be as simple as they offer x, and I immediately counter with 1.2x, then silence. 25% of the time they will just agree to break the awkward s
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by byoung2 11y ago
It is a developer option in Android 5. Go to Settings->About Device. Tap Build Number 10 times (you'll see a countdown for the last few taps). When it says you're a developer go back one menu. You will see developer options. In
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by byoung2 11y ago
This is similar to what the IRS has been doing for a few years now. The IRS is allowed to review publicly-accesible social media profiles (but not to friend you or create accounts to get access to private data). I know someone who was audit
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by byoung2 11y ago
Going from $55k to $110k looked like this: In July 2009 got a raise to $58k at my company (Internet Brands, formally CarsDirect) so I started looking. I applied to a bunch of places and within a week I had an offer for $65k which my company
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by byoung2 11y ago
I should put a disclaimer on that...under $175k I was a software engineer, at $175k director of engineering, $250k I had to become a freelance consultant, which is variable but averages $250k+ for me. This is all in Los Angeles, CA
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by byoung2 11y ago
No. I've been pretty aggressive at getting raises and the fastest increases I've been able to get are from $55k in 2009 to $110k in 2011, to $140k in 2013, to $175k in 2015, to $250k in 2016. These are base salary figures, no bonu
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by byoung2 11y ago
Wells Fargo used to have a service like this [1]. You could get up to half your regular direct deposit amount or $500, whichever is less. You were charged $2 for every $20 of the loan amount, and it was automatically deducted from your next
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by byoung2 11y ago
USA should not be at offset 0 from UTC
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by byoung2 11y ago
The smartphone is a new, always-connected delivery method for email. Remember a decade ago you could close outlook or set send/receive to every 30 minutes, and if you were in a meeting or away from your desk collaborating with a cowork
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by byoung2 11y ago
The median rent for a 1 bedroom is $3460? I knew it was bad up there, but that is almost double what it costs in Los Angeles.
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by byoung2 11y ago
I can attest to the frustration of having forms expect first middle last. My daughter has 4 names, and we were forced to concatenate 2 of them to fit the form. I can only imagine what Filipina singer Sheree must go through (real name Cherry
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by byoung2 11y ago
Either of those would be preferable to what our company had, which was 3) Poor sales guy with no concept of technology. Even the engineers were were begging for basic marketing concepts like focus groups, A/B testing, user personas, et
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by byoung2 11y ago
This company was past the point of no return as far as convincing goes. The founding CTO quit for the same reasons. We built an amazing product that nobody wanted. The tech was impressive, but customers don't see the tech, they see (or
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by byoung2 11y ago
I just left my job a few months ago because I wasn't happy. These responses apply to that job. 1. The money was good ($175k as director of engineering in Los Angeles) and the hours were 9-5. 2. I wish I had more autonomy to manage my t
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by byoung2 11y ago
You're right it was a budget decision made by NASA, but the engineers should have stressed the point long before Jan 28, 1986. I think the term for that is normalization of variance. If my buddy has driven drunk many times and not kill
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by byoung2 11y ago
Excuse me, but as a Sr. Engineer, the Thiokol engineers should go to the grave feeling guilty. I think you're right they should feel guilty, not because they didn't argue hard enough to stop the launch, but for knowingly allowin
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by byoung2 11y ago
It would seem that every website on the internet violates these patents: https://www.google.com/patents/US5961601 https://www.google.com/patents/US5796967
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by byoung2 11y ago
1. Health insurance is covered by most employers for full time salaried workers. 2. Preexisting conditions and chronic conditions are not an issue since Obamacare was launched. 3. If you are not covered by a company plan you

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