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by donretag 5y ago
I have a friend from Croatia that lives in NYC. Does not earn much, especially by NYC standards. He loathes returning to Croatia because everyone thinks since he lives in the USA, he must make a lot of money.
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by donretag 5y ago
My parents still insist on paying everything, and they earned relatively little in their lives.
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by donretag 5y ago
Here is my take: content creators are the problem. When Friendster, MySpace,Facebook, et al started, it was about connecting friends online. People that already had a connection. When you shared something, you wanted to share something pers
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by donretag 5y ago
It is pure clickbait
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by donretag 5y ago
Why are lead engineer salaries lower than senior engineer's? Senior Software Engineer Average: $126,000 Lead Software Engineer Average: $109,000
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by donretag 5y ago
While the taxation due to US citizenship has occurred now for a hundred years, only now is the US govt enforcing it, mainly due to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) signed into law by Obama.
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by donretag 5y ago
Countries such as Italy and France have instituted this policy as a national level. Many countries have/had lockdown policies far more strict than the strictest locale in the US. I do not like the government placing the burden of enfor
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by donretag 5y ago
How many engineers leave for salary as opposed to other reasons? When I started my career after the dotcom bus, salaries were quite low. At one point, I was making less at each position after yet another layoff. Then the market improved, an
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by donretag 5y ago
"You can choose your friends independently of your work" I have met the majority of my friends at work. Once you pass your 20s, your exposure to strangers diminishes greatly. And many of us do not have kids.
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by donretag 5y ago
I have taken a year off before and a couple of months in between jobs. I think many of us have undergone once-in-a-lifetime type of stress in the past year that few would consider taking some time off as toxic. We all processed the events o
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by donretag 5y ago
"I'll add that Apple operations engineering appears to function in a way that is more or less divorced from Apple support staff. Support staff appear to have to go begging for a coherent answer from systems engineers, who appear t
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by donretag 5y ago
The controller[s] were probably just as powerless as the pilot (considering the fighter escort). Get that plane to land, period. Were they reading from a script and did they improvise?
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by donretag 6y ago
mRNA is a decade in the making, which is why they were able to target/isolate a COVID-19 vaccine is a very short time. Two weeks I believe, someone please correct me.
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by donretag 6y ago
Years (er, decades) ago, while in college, I was tasked with hooking up a primitive stationary bike with a virtual reality headset. The CRT monitor no longer worked for some reason, but the bicycle itself was still sending out signals, simi
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by donretag 6y ago
" situated [snip] about 20 miles (32km) away from the capital city of Reykjavík. ... relatively low danger as it’s far from civilization." My main takeaway is how 20miles/32kms is far from civilization. Not population, but c
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by donretag 6y ago
Senior: we need to give them a promotion, but with no new responsibilities.
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by donretag 6y ago
I find it curious that the headline was written to say "Forc cars" when Ford has pretty much exited the car market and will focus (no pun intended) on the truck market. Ford vehicles would be more accurate. I forget the Ford lineu
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by donretag 6y ago
I had meetings lately with AWS regarding the license and was told about the fork. They mentioned something to the effect that Elastic was being greedy with open-source software. I am an early contributor to Elasticsearch. I probably have m
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by donretag 6y ago
I have been using Elasticsearch for over ten years and have seen a few of the hosted versions. For many years, AWS was running way behind. A few major versions behind, almost no options. No one used it. The ES version was not great, but it
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by donretag 6y ago
"I documented my findings, and sent an email to my ISP. I quickly got a response back acknowledging that this is a bug on their side, and thanking me for my research." I am actually shocked that: a) the ISP has an email or any sor
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by donretag 6y ago
"there is a light at the end of this fucking tunnel and we will get through it." As someone that was lonely before COVID, there is no light at the end. Makind friends when over 30 is incredibly difficult. Being an big extrovert in
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by donretag 6y ago
The author fails to mention that many message boards were built on various forum software, both open-sourced and not. Many were installed and never maintained, leaving them exposed to hackers. Moving the discourse to places like Reddit alle
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by donretag 6y ago
"bans the sale of new gas cars and trucks by 2035" I still do not see how they can role out charging infrastructure in just 15 years. Not everyone lives in a house. I was in San Luis Obispo last December and the backup on I5 force
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by donretag 6y ago
Not the OP, but I am over 40 and I only sleep 5-6 hours a night. I am never tired during the day, never drink caffeine. I do a TON of cardio, especially massively long bike rides on the weekend.
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by donretag 6y ago
I am a good developer, and even better communicator. That said, I have no interest in social media. It just seems so forced.
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by donretag 6y ago
My industry has been heavily affected by the shutdowns. While I have been safe from the cuts and will probably not be affected in the near future, I am looking into changes. Location: Los Angeles Remote: only for the right company (have ton
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by donretag 6y ago
My industry has been heavily affected by the shutdown. While I have been safe from the cuts and will probably not be affected in the near future, I am looking into changes. I do not have a recent resume, something to work on this weekend. L
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by donretag 6y ago
"they had a hard time judging work estimates" They had a hard time justifying their existence.
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by donretag 6y ago
This sentiment is precisely why I have returned to an office job (now remote like everyone) after years for working remote as a full-time employee. I have specialized in a niche which made employers allow me to work remotely since they coul
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by donretag 6y ago
I live in LA, and I barely turn on my AC, even during all the years I worked from home. LA does not get that hot and has low humidity. Working from home, no AC. Too lazy to get up from my code and turn on the fan. Then again, I moved to LA

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