dreaminvm

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by dreaminvm 11y ago
I am assuming we are talking about base pay here. ~110k software engineering, SV, <1 year out of school.
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
Children are the future. Companies and society as a whole invest in the next generation because they will need more workers and support for an aging population. A company without paid maternity leave is directly discouraging employees from
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
My advice would be to try both before you decide. Spend a day going through a RoR tutorial and another on a Py/Django tutorial. Pick the one that will accomplish your goals in the shortest time possible (your words).
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
This is just untrue. Plenty of high performance products are Python based, just look at Instagram, Dropbox etc.
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
Agreed. The level of productivity for most of us who need 8 hours drops substantially when we go above or below that threshold.
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
Even easier to misinterpret the $5.5B profit without the context of 6% decline in revenue, and net income decline by 27%.
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
That is lower than most non-technical positions for medium to large companies. For startups I can understand if it comes with a chunk of equity, but for $70k, you will have a hard time meeting living costs.
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
The Oracle comic made my day. I've despised their software since forever.
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
If you are interested in web projects using python, you should check out Django. There is a large, mature community and great documentation to get you started.
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
He set the tone at the beginning of the article with the following: "There’s a particular sinking feeling that comes when the candidate starts on one of these problems and immediately writes a for loop"
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
I don't agree with the author that iterative code is bad (within a certain context). In fact, I tend to write iterative solutions first when I am just testing something out and develop more elegant, recursive solutions when I have a be
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
A good practice for me is to begin with pseudo-code that outlines the logic of what I want to do. If the pseudo-code makes sense, its usually trivial to implement.
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
Its ironic that a lot of developers feel the opposite of what the OP is describing. Developers think wall street pays more and wall street (OP) thinks developers make "way more". Like others have already pointed out, OP you seem t
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by dreaminvm 12y ago
There are incentives that come with working at startups like broader job ownership, stock options (long term investment), and agile development. Then there are incentives that are inherent in all Big Corps. like the large bonuses you mentio