delphinius81

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by delphinius81 10y ago
Absolutely! I feel like once you get out of your 20s, finding the right work-life balance and general quality of life becomes more important. You can also better appreciate cost of living - gross salary isn't as important as what you h
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by delphinius81 10y ago
Agreed. I interviewed a few QA candidates at a previous company that used a term completely differently than we did. When I rephrased the question from defining the term to "what kind of test would you run in this situation" I got
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by delphinius81 10y ago
8% less than a Bay Area market-rate salary to be able to work from wherever I want? Sounds great. There are co-working spaces all over the place now. Get a floating desk at one of them and you can still get that office atmosphere when you n
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by delphinius81 10y ago
I dunno, I've personally spent on average half a day (3-4 hours) with on-site interviews as a candidate. When on the other side of the table, it's been about the same (~3 hours). With a tractable enough problem, I think you can fi
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by delphinius81 10y ago
Once you have an engineering job, a typical project tasking involves: some team design discussion, some engineering research, some work, some review, more work. The requirements are either known upfront, or determined as a team. I do not un
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by delphinius81 10y ago
On the engineering/product side of things, a lot of it boils down to the technical challenge of their interview process. Essentially, getting a job offer from those companies (and others of their ilk) show that you have very high capab
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by delphinius81 10y ago
That's a good point. I would hope to see evidence of the increased responsibilities on the person's resume then - whether it is through project leadership or personnel management, depending on what they are applying for.
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by delphinius81 10y ago
It gets much, much harder the later in life you get (and even after retire, you just can't travel/live the way you did when you were young). Some get lucky and can swing remote work while living in another country for a bit, but t
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by delphinius81 10y ago
re 5: Or they live in the SF/Bay Area and that one job pays them enough that they can afford to pay their mortgage (if they are lucky enough to have one), children's school/college, car, etc. and still have money left over fo
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by delphinius81 10y ago
> Curious why someone would place an upper limit on time served? If the person has the same title at a company after 4+ years (unless they are already in a lead/senior role), it's a bad sign. If this is in the first 10 years of
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by delphinius81 10y ago
I think that's one of the problems with traditional resumes/CVs. They focus on work experiences, and not the entirety of your experiences - work/social/etc. Because here is what leaving a job to go backpacking tells me:
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by delphinius81 10y ago
There are companies that already let people go before their 1 year cliff (or do other types of restructuring that results in the vesting period to reset). However, I think it would be appropriate to give fewer options as a consequence of th
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by delphinius81 10y ago
I worked at a startup for 2 years (left without exercising my options). I objected to options right from the start and during negotiations with the CEO said they should max out my salary in lieu of options. Options are funny money to trick
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by delphinius81 10y ago
Also, if there is anything officially linking you as an officer in the company (you state you were CTO), you could be held partly liable for the tax/wage fraud if you don't report it. (IANAL) Even if that were not the case, I say
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by delphinius81 10y ago
Check out InstantVR [1] as one input integration solution. I'm experimenting with it for switching between Kinect, Leap, and Hydra for hand/arm support. A completely native solution would be much better, but this is a decent stop
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by delphinius81 10y ago
I'm waiting on that as well. But things are so early on and some of the SDKs Unity has to integrate haven't even hit v1., so it's a bit hard to support. Also, even if they do automate handling the rendering and input aspects
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by delphinius81 10y ago
That's what I figured. Still better than tapping my forehead on the GearVR.
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by delphinius81 10y ago
The fact that there is a controller for input instead of having to tap my forehead will increase usability a ton. Though I hope they provide a way to clip the controller to the HMD when not using it.
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by delphinius81 10y ago
Was anyone able to glean from the video if the controllers/HMD provided positional tracking, or just orientation tracking? Either way, a more open mobile VR platform sounds great (though a little disappointed in that Daydream feels lik
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by delphinius81 11y ago
This has potential to be a really engaging and useful platform, especially if you can connect with the various partners/affiliates. One of the things that I always try to do when traveling is stay in more local friendly neighborhoods t
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by delphinius81 11y ago
We spent a few days investigating alternatives and then decided to just wait and see what happens over the next few months. We want to switch to DynamoDB instead of MongoDB due to cheaper hosting costs through AWS for the amount of data we
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by delphinius81 11y ago
How are you a junior developer after 10 years of experience? That's pretty mid/senior level at that point.
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by delphinius81 11y ago
My satisfaction as a programmer comes and goes with the project and the team. While I love building programs and working through the logic, the thing that I am building matters more to me than solving the problem. So as long as I and the pe
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by delphinius81 11y ago
I totally agree with this. Tech waves can come and go so quickly that you could be obsolete before you even finish building something with the popular tech stack from last month (ok, a bit of hyperbole, but it sometimes feels like new thing
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by delphinius81 11y ago
Same. If you get the impression management feels threatened by your skills and experience, it is not a place you should work at. Management should recognize what you can bring to the company at an individual and corporate level and groom yo
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by delphinius81 11y ago
In the magazine industry, those are the only "jobs" at all. There are very few paying jobs (and those that do pay a non-livable wage) so you have people with degrees and a year plus experience still working for nothing (or next to
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by delphinius81 11y ago
Some PhD programs (at least in Psychology) require a certain number of peer-reviewed journal articles. In some cases, the dissertation is just 3 or 4 journal articles linked together. It's completely up to the graduate program to decid
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by delphinius81 11y ago
Research papers funded by US Government agencies that spend more than $100M on R&D requires that the papers be made publicly available within 1 year after publication. Unfortunately, this does not apply to works published before 2013. N
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by delphinius81 11y ago
I think there is still an expectation to stay up to date on technology, even if you do have a long tenure at a single place. You will very likely work on multiple projects over a 4 year period, let alone 10 years, and requirements will chan