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by cesarbs 11y ago
> You can have a long, happy and prosperous career working with a single stack that someone has made work on your OS of choice, but if you don't enjoy feeding the machine, there is a ceiling on your flexibility and problem solving a
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Wikipedia says that the Sweden Democrats are anti-immigration [1]. Your comment seems to imply the opposite. Could you elaborate more? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats
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by cesarbs 11y ago
You have to click on the "1 month" and "12 month" buttons for their respective prices to show up. I was confused too.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
> Government spending on schools is enough; maybe too much. Are you kidding? Almost every public school I know of has to run fundraisers because government funding is not enough to last through the school year.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
I'm one of the authors of QuickSynergy: https://github.com/cesarbs/quicksynergy-gtk I was quite happy to learn recently that it's pretty popular with my wife's team at Amazon. She had a pleasant surprise
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Thanks, I guess I should have deduced that myself. In my case both my wife and I are software engineers making really good salaries, so we definitely don't need both of us to be working. We don't even do it on purpose but lookin
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by cesarbs 11y ago
I guess we're covered then :) We' re still working on building an emergency fund the size we want, but it's already there to cover us for at least half a year. Right now we pay more than what we'd like on rent, but next
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by cesarbs 11y ago
> but two-earner households are often also more economically fragile Can you elaborate on that? It doesn't make sense to me. When we were on a single income in my family, it felt a lot more fragile than now that we have two income
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by cesarbs 11y ago
> Old ideas and old people last to long in this business, they need to be overthrown more quickly. I'm not sure how literally you mean this, but have you considered that old people are still humans, and after a certain point it&#x27
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Hey, same here. I'm in Seattle though. I have no idea were to start... Sure, I can go to a gun shop and get a shotgun, but then what?
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by cesarbs 11y ago
This is the epitome of America's appreciation for avocados :)
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by cesarbs 11y ago
What would be a cultural fit for Seattle? Seems like such a diverse place.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Just today I went to the doctor and had a bad experience, as it is usual since I came to the US. I basically love everything about living in America. I love this country. But one thing that I don't love here is primary medical care. It
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Sounds exactly like what I would say about Brazil. A great country with great people and great potential, but so messed up by it's own culture, attitude and habits.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Yeah, I'm the same and my wife and I feel really awkward compared to most parents we see at our child's elementary school. We really push for her to be independent and be responsible for her own stuff (with a lot of success), whil
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by cesarbs 11y ago
I can't tell - I'm in the Seattle area. I think the Bay area might be great for making connections. Probably adds some pretty good resume weight too, but I'm just guessing here.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
> I would research the terms of the H1-B visa. It isn't all roses and sunshine for the employee, essentially you will be stuck working for them, and if you ever get fired you have to find a new employer very quickly or risk getting
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Still doesn't answer why engineers are let go. It's not like they didn't learn lessons too, and their expertise could be used for "that v2".
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Then everyone in my wife's team must be on their way out. We're talking about 10+ people here.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
I've never said that I work or have worked there. I was not talking about their tools.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
When you can choose the tools you want to work with and still complain about them, then yes, you are at fault. But when you are forced to use a set of really bad tools and there's not much you can do about it, it's legit to compla
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by cesarbs 11y ago
I think the article is really exaggerating on negative points. Get a handful of people who had really bad managers and extrapolate their stories to the rest of the company - I'm pretty sure one can do that for any large company. A co-w
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Yes.
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That's right.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
As others said, Software Development Engineer in Test. She's a dev that writes test automation code.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
I'm curious about one thing: what exactly was the source of your work-related stress, apart form the on-call pages? This is something people rarely elaborate on and I think is very important to get a good picture of the place. I see tw
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by cesarbs 11y ago
My feeling is that these things vary greatly from group to group within Amazon. My wife works there as an SDET and nothing in that article applies to her. Most days she is home by 6:30-7pm, and would be even sooner if it weren't for th
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by cesarbs 11y ago
My wife works there as an SDET and her experience so far is vastly different from yours and from what the article says. Most days it's a 9-5 job. The only times she has stayed late were because she really wanted to finish something tha
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by cesarbs 11y ago
My wife is an SDET there and the article doesn't resonate with her either. Most days it's a 9-5 job. Sometimes she'll work a bit late until 7 or 8pm, but only because she wants to. Maybe SDETs have it easier? :)
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by cesarbs 11y ago
That's pretty much the reason why I asked the question. I feel the same way as you. The problem is, I don't know what else I would do. I've been coding since I was 9 and it's basically my only skill. I love programming a

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