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by dasil003 4y ago
Ugh, the vapidity is off the charts here. Mental models don’t make you successful, they may be useful to give perspective in specific scenarios, but not in a context-free listicle. What can you make you successful is focus on deep understa
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by dasil003 4y ago
As valuable as a routine can be, IMHO you're putting the cart before the horse. The root of your question is "What should I be doing?". That can't be answered by adopting a routine. Better to start with your goals (no
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by dasil003 4y ago
The Pen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1pO-tZbYA
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by dasil003 4y ago
Like a lot of things in life, judgement is required. To dismiss levels as "having no meaning" is to misunderstand their purpose and limitations. Someone being promoted to Staff, Senior Staff, Principal, Distinguished at top tech
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by dasil003 4y ago
Wait, you take it easy for six months when onboarding? That’s an interesting strategy but can’t say I’d recommend it to a junior to mid-level engineer.
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by dasil003 4y ago
The two variables aren’t independent though. Your agency is affected by your own beliefs about luck. Similarly, luck is created by choices. Trying to quantify these things is a fools errand and I would argue tilts towards social justice n
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by dasil003 4y ago
The coin base is almost certainly total comp, especially since they give annual (rather than the standard 4-year) equity grants.
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by dasil003 4y ago
The last part reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H25ve3qts4
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by dasil003 4y ago
Of course, but that's a different problem. There are plenty of engineers earning $250k at FAANG who were good enough at grinding leetcode to get their foot in the door but aren't producing anywhere near that much value. Or NNPPs
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by dasil003 4y ago
Wouldn’t it be harder to believe that an individual who does produce something could generate that much value? There’s a limit to what one person can do. However I’ve definitely seen projects fail with hundreds of high salaries wasted fo
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by dasil003 4y ago
Isn't it obvious? Software scales globally with effectively zero margin, so if you combine this with network effects and blue ocean, unregulated markets in user data, that meant a massive high new ceiling for software engineers set by
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by dasil003 4y ago
It's subtle, but the headline feels a bit like low-key class warfare clickbait. No one feels underpaid because their salary is six figures, it's because of what they're paid relative to their peers and workload. The artic
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by dasil003 4y ago
Your first paragraph rings true, but I have to disagree that the second is the solution. I’ve seen engineering management play this game to justify headcount without acknowledging the strategic or product definition problems and it just lea
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Half life of knowledge in our profession is more or less a year and a half. Only if you define your profession as knowing the latest front-end frameworks. In terms of concrete technical knowledge that half-life lengthens as you go do
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by dasil003 5y ago
same
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by dasil003 5y ago
Wait, what? Twitter is still primarily (other than ads) content from people you follow, the main change is screwing around with non-chronological order. Unless you are talking about the Trending sidebar or something?
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by dasil003 5y ago
It's interesting how much truth, insight and self-awareness is in this article, and yet ultimately how vain the entire line of thinking is. The reality is, people who do great things (however you define great!), tend to achieve them t
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by dasil003 5y ago
Sorry I meant to say "false positive", total brainfart from me.
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by dasil003 5y ago
You don’t. Restoring a backup is rare. If this happens to restore a deleted data, the deletion request is part of the lost data. Trying to work around this with a separate delete request log doesn’t solve the problem, it just shrinks the l
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by dasil003 5y ago
Indeed! But it's generally much harder to reach consensus and actually remove someone at large companies. Especially for a startup with limited runway it's existential, whereas at a large company there is far more to lose from a
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by dasil003 5y ago
Hard disagree on this. Large companies can't afford false negatives because false negatives can hide out and move from team to team without detection. At a small company if the same thing happens it means leadership is incompetent an
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by dasil003 5y ago
> In west coast cities [...] ... outside of Berkeley.
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by dasil003 5y ago
True, but the GP's phrasing of "equate dollar values" implies a sort of cut and dried interpretation. A mechanical calculation of a short-term price snapshot is not the only thing that matters. If the board has good reason t
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by dasil003 5y ago
Self-driving cars have huge technical risk, and some public opinion risk, but what trumps that is massive indisputable upside that has been a dream since the automobile was created, and has seen active research and prototyping for decades a
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by dasil003 5y ago
The part about donating stock to “avoid taxes” is poorly explained. Yes it reduces taxes but it does so by giving away 100% of a liquid asset to a charity. They could sell the same amount and only pay the top marginal rate plus taxes on th
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by dasil003 5y ago
IANAA, but my assumption is that that is why they update the tables every year— we always have young cohorts with incomplete data, so the best we can do is extrapolate from the past. Given a fixed cohort, over time as new tables are gener
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by dasil003 5y ago
You are absolutely right in terms of resume credential, but in terms of engineering experience I don't think it's so cut and dried. The ability to work on large systems, and access to mentorship is unparalleled, but you also miss
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by dasil003 5y ago
I think this is largely a social media phenomenon. Twitter flash mobs can destroy people’s lives in a vary offhanded, drive-by fashion simply because people with actual power are scared of them and capitulate to unreasonable demands. But i
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by dasil003 5y ago
Loyalty is for people, not corporations. I also don't think generalizing about what "companies deserve" is super useful, and definitely not something to internalize. Personally, I feel a moral duty to do my best work whereve
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by dasil003 5y ago
Of course it is! Without Instagram Facebook would be irrelevant for anyone under 25.

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