dragonzooord

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   by dragonzooord 10y ago

   Salaries are pre-tax in the US as well. People do earn $200k - it is just much much more rare in the UK than in the Bay Area - especially with the pound as weak as it is nowadays. However, glassdoor does put the total comp of a Senior Softw
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   by dragonzooord 10y ago

   The EO is cruel and irrational and is something I'm firmly against. It makes sense to not host your conference in the USA for moral reasons. But, on the other hand, a lot of Americans don't have passports or their employment cont
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   by dragonzooord 10y ago

   Shopify is a public company. You don't need to speculate on their revenue or expenses, you can just look it up. They earned $99.6 million in Q3. They expect revenues in the range of $379 million to $381 million for 2016. And they
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   by dragonzooord 10y ago

   One solution to the 'getting friends' problem is to just live with roommates (And change roommates if you don't get along with them). Even if you can afford to live by yourself. This works a bit better if you're single
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   by dragonzooord 10y ago

   Reykjavik is amazing, but I would get depressed by dealing with 21 hours of darkness in the winter.
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   by dragonzooord 10y ago

   The key is that 'higher status', in this context, doesn't mean what it normally means. It took me a long time to figure that out. 'Higher status' means 'building muscle, confidence, ability to speak calmly an