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by fatnoah 4y ago
Ah, gotcha!
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Boston to Philadelphia a closer approximation. The Acela is scheduled for 5h 1m for that trip. I travel between Boston and New York by train frequently, and even the slower regional service takes < 4 hours. Either way, still not a gre
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>As a dev, corp laptops are usually so locked down as to be useless, i.e. unable to install dev tools etc. In a past life writing my company, which was a .NET shop, was acquired by a large company that used Macs for everyone except sales
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I've have a couple hundred CDs, most of which were acquired during my college years of the mid 90's. I estimate that about two-thirds of those CDs came from churning Columbia House and BMG Memberships. I was pretty good about de
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> This is useful in financial services where you have market data baked into a price you've offered to a client, where the underlying market data might have been later corrected by a vendor. A long time ago, I worked on a such a sys
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I agree that these policies aren't driving relocation, but maybe serve more as a form of marketing and to capture a narrow slice of people already looking to move, but without strong opinions on eventual destinations. In that case, ha
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Yeah, that very much sounded like my first startup where someone leaving at 3pm would receiving a some version of a "half day today?" quip on the way out the door.
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>Cared so much that they knew pieces of company documentation by heart, and that nobody wanted to be the first person to leave the office, even on Friday. Wow, this sounds like a terrible place to work combined with some misplaced priori
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I guess I come out ahead with this. I currently have the $19.99/month plan to cover my family in my house and my mom in her house. I guess I can downgrade the plan to the $15.49/month and spend $3 to add a home, so I'll sav
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'm not surprised. I was a double EE/CS major as an undergrad, and earned an MSEE. My career has been mostly software, though, and the economics of what EE vs. SWE get paid makes it very unlikely that I'd ever move back sin
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Yes! Epic Scorched Earth battles happened on my dorm floor. The only thing more competitive was getting into the leaderboard for Mute City on F-Zero.
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> Email marketing in general blows my mind My favorite thing is when the companies outsource the email marketing, so that it has absolutely zero relevance. I've been using the same online tax preparer for 10 years, and I've ha
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Similar. I have an MSEE, but started my career doing embedded software work, and eventually moved to all software (I did carry a double CS/EE major, but never finished CS). I easily make 2-3x doing software than I'd make doing h
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Heck, my upload with a fixed broadband provider in the US was 10Mbps! Starlink's cited performance would match that.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
There were other indicators as well. The office was in an old warehouse building on the waterfront of the city, with massive windows and high ceilings. I walked in to amazing water views from the lobby. When I descended one floor to the d
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>Before reaching this "blackhole" state, I can start to feel when I get tunnel vision.... at which point, I distance myself from the problem. I learned to do this as well after many late nights of making no progress, only to ba
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>If you ask the engineering manager this question and they throw certain folks under the bus then you should run. I one declined an offer for this very reason. I had the option to join one of two teams, and each team's manager took
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I recently left a large tech company. It was very obvious who was "higher up" in the food chain, as the home offices of Director+ level folks were generally larger and much more nicely decorated. At VP-level, they almost resembl
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'm not OP, but I'm a manager that's 100% WFH at this point. I had a spare bedroom to devote to the workspace, and that's been a lifesaver, since (for me) part of maintaining WLB has been the ability to physically chang
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I had a very similar experience when looking for roles in the fall. I explicitly wanted to makes sure there was an office to go to and ended up (via a personal) connection, applying for a fully remote role where there was a local office I
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by fatnoah 4y ago
This is how things were handled at Facebook. Your view of a disputed border depends on your country. i.e. You'll see whatever borders are favorable to your own country's interpretation.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
How about the fact that no one on the team offered to take the shift so that the employee could attend her graduation? Over my long career, I've covered for, and been covered by coworkers more times than I could count. It's neve
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by fatnoah 4y ago
As a long-time C# user who started life with coding for embedded systems with C, graduated to C++ business tiers, and then on to C#, my personal crusade has always been to show that it's very possible to make things go pretty fast with
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by fatnoah 4y ago
True, I was getting 5% interest on my checking account.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>Seriously? Why does the CEO care so much about gender in the workplace? Seriously, if people want to be identified as [X], why is it such a big deal? My only ask would be to plead for patience while I adjust my own thinking to catch up
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by fatnoah 4y ago
The mortgage I got (FHA) in July of 2008 was 6.25%. The house I grew up in, had a mortgage at 9%, and was only that low because my parents won a contest at the local bank.
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My personal opinion, based on what happened in 2008 in my area, is that the exact impact will be local. I think in some traditionally desirable places, prices will level out or only decrease slightly as interest rates rise. Lower inventor
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I've done startup, FAANG, and everywhere in between. Each offers advantages and disadvantages, but I learned far, far, far, far more about building software in my many years at startups. I've done everything from standing up inf
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It wouldn't have to be a PE buyout for equity to be zeroed out. Any buyout could lead to this, even in a non-distressed company (as pointed out by another poster). Source: Me w/options in two startups that were acquired by publi
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Wow, this is the complete opposite of my experience interviewing there. The recruiter typically got back to me the same day, or the next day at the latest. My interviews, system design in particular, were very, very, very interactive (and

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