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by fatnoah 4y ago
I assume it comes from this line: 12,336* managerial and professional staff There's a more granular breakdown here: https://irds.stanford.edu/data-findings/academic-and-non-aca...
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Frontend seems to involve visual design, which backend obviously doesn't (usually). Other than that, I don't see the difference My thought, from a long career or full-stack development, is that front-end is very much about ho
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> e.g. whether it’s okay to harm a dog, harm an animal, eat a dog, and eat an animal. Many years ago, our child briefly panicked my wife and me. He was about 5 years old and we were driving around on a Sunday. After a lengthy period o
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I had an inside view of things, but all of the work being done is actually a long term roadmap towards building AR devices that don't suck. There many complicated issues to deal with, including batter life, processing power, input and
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> If I was managing 30-50 people,... I directly managed 22 people at one point. 1:1s were an every other week affair. While it was possible, it was not sustainable. Keeping track of everyone and their goals & growth, flogging the
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Slightly tangential question: what value have people derived from LinkedIn in their careers? My past 3 jobs came via LinkedIn. Two of them were from recruiters reaching out to me, and one was from something I applied to via the site.
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The Meat Shack is legit!
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> As a system programmer who used VB6 as a glue or ochestrator (early 2000s) of low level components I say the only important flaw I found was on its single threading model. As a developer cutting my professional teeth in the late 90&#x2
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> I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of cloud customers that do a simple lift and shift. I've done exactly that at a previous startup. Granted, it was 10 years ago, but going from racked infra to AWS ended up
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> can make my own coffee, I don’t need on-site baristas doing it for me. Hey, some FAANG offices require you to make your own coffee. I had to make my own espresso on one of the $5k+ espresso machines in the microkitchen. Of course, I
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> The banker there practically sneered at me, acted exasperated like I was wasting his time and he had much bigger clients to tend to I had a partial version of this experience with Charles Schwab. (I've been a banking customer for
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Don't forget the energy needs of the people that make the cars. My favorite point, however, is that for my car, 100% of the energy used is for purposes of propelling the car from point at to point B. For a human, the energy from walki
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My own experience at the end of last year was my first job search in the remote era. In the past, I'd look for local jobs in my East Coast City and see a handful that felt like a good match. When I applied to those, I was one of a sm
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by fatnoah 4y ago
For someone who joined at the peak of September 2021, let's assume an L6 offer of $240k + 20% bonus + $1.1M in joining stock over four years. With no stock movement and meeting expectations, they'd make $298k cash + $275k stock,
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Some part of it was highlighted with the mention of an org chart that is both deep and sparse. Many managers had only 2-4 reports with the expectation that the org chart would fill out with hiring. Now that hiring has slowed dramatically,
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> This seems like a bad move for Meta, just leaving the axe up in the air ready to strike like this. That may be intentional. I could see a scenario where voluntary attrition helps them get reduce size more organically and with lower cos
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I think the Lego analogy is perfect, actually. When I think about the evolution of Legos from my childhood to that of my own child, it's a journey of ever-increasing specialization. My Legos were pretty basic, with maybe a wing shape
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Audio is hard. Your ears are weird. Basically this. In the interest of disclosure, for my senior project in college (a full-year capstone project), I was on a team of students that built an analysis rig for a company that made club&#x2
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Sure stirring grounds to break up clumps seems like a good idea. I definitely stir my espresso grounds after grinding for this reason, but the symptom of not doing so is very evident in how long it takes to pull the volume of the shot
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This is basically the current "holy war" among some audiophiles. There's measurement-intensive approaches likes audiosciencereview and then there's the more subjective things like "soundstage" and "depth&
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Those will also increase the horsepower of your car, so it's really like getting two products in one.
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My company started with a PM acting as Project Manager, Product Owner, and Product Manager. That was a necessity due to size, but as we've grown we're starting to build those out into distinct roles, and the positive impact it&#x
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> I remember binge watching _House MD_ in college, really liked the beginning, and felt disappointed as the characters grew increasingly comical and less nuanced in later seasons This was Friends for me. The character Joey was the &quot
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by fatnoah 4y ago
The hierarchy was very sparse in many orgs. As an M1 (first tier manager), I managed a team of 13 people. My manager only had 3-4 people, and same for their manager. There definitely was a lot of room to flatten the hierarchy.
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The meals were stopped entirely. I also wasn't in charge of anything, so I was just as annoyed as everyone else.
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People were generally working.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
This doesn't really feel like much of a revelation. Retry w/circuit breaker and cache-aside are things I was doing almost 20 years ago, and others long before that.
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My first startup did something like this. They got rid of 6pm dinner because people were staying until dinner and then just leaving. After the company got rid of dinner, people just left at 5pm instead. The net result was that the company
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Yeah, I think it's the former, so it'll feel more like "sell to cover" for the employee. I'd have to imagine that paying it as a perk would trigger its own tax liability.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
They way I'm reading the article is that there are employees that would incur large tax liabilities by exercising their options, but have no way to sell those option, so Stripe is looking to cover those taxes. Whether those employees m

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