erddojo

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by erddojo 12y ago
Shock me with up to 20 percent over what you believe i expect to pay. Not any more. therefore if you're an engineer and the typical job is 100 thousand, ask me for 120 if you want to play this game. It is unlikely this would shut down
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by erddojo 12y ago
If the product was the ad space, Google would be out of business. The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers.
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by erddojo 12y ago
People tend to forget we are Google's product. Not their customers. Advertisers are their customers. Plenty of tech companies don't sell souls for a living, therefore by working there you may not be required to also sacrifice your
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by erddojo 12y ago
Yes, you are SO enlightened. Gosh I hate when this happens. An American goes overseas, and suddenly thinks they've discovered nirvana and that everyone back home is now inferior. There's gotta be a name for this syndrome. Every cu
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by erddojo 13y ago
Problem is the overtime and pensions. Salary is in the ballpark.
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by erddojo 13y ago
Yes absolutely. I don't think these salaries are completely over the top (though a little high for a first job). The problem I have is with the retirement/pensions. I'm happy to put up with pensions if someone makes $50k a ye
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by erddojo 13y ago
Wasn't intended as venomous, just maybe a little bit of a reality check. And offering an opinion (with real examples) to counter your opinion isn't trollism. Plus your comment never said that any restaurants opened in the past 5 y
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by erddojo 13y ago
This is true. There's a perception that 20/30-somethings are the hot thing in tech because they're building the kind of consumer apps that techCrunch likes to cover. But there are a ton of startups/developers building re
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by erddojo 13y ago
These stories are starting to wear thin. The people in SF/SV building apps are mostly in their 20s-30s. The people building cool technology are mostly in their 40s-50s.
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by erddojo 13y ago
You're speaking of SOMA like you're familiar with the restaurants here. I'm guessing you're not. Perhaps you live here but are too busy coding to make it past the Creamery? At the "everyday eating level", try D
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by erddojo 13y ago
I absolutely think a fire theory would be valid, after all the plane was carrying a large load of lithium batteries. However, that's precisely the factor that calls Goodfellow's fire theory into question (for me). If a fire broke
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by erddojo 13y ago
No. There are plenty of services where your pw is encrypted locally, so your service provider CAN'T access your account to fix something without your password. Many of the cloud storage providers do this. You want your files recovered,