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by fatnoah 6y ago
I played every Ultima from IV through UO. I have such fond memories in VII of finagling a cannon into the back of a cart and driving around with my own artillery. Aiming was tough, but it was fun. I had a great time in UO and spend a surp
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by fatnoah 6y ago
As an "old person", I feel like I often have an advantage in the types of interviews they give nowadays, since they frequently involve implementing basic functionality that was relegated to a library or made far easier by some oth
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Since I'm an SWE, I actually wrote a simple program to help calculate total compensation that factors salary, bonus, sign on, initial RSU grant, RSU refreshers, and expected company stock bonus. It generates year-by-year compensation
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>If you're going to the trouble of being agnostic, then you might as well deploy to a way cheaper bare metal datacenter and enjoy market rate storage, compute and egress. Interesting. I wonder a which scale this becomes true. It&#
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by fatnoah 6y ago
(Note: My son has diagnosed ADHD, non-hyperactive) There isn't a blood test, but you can do a neuropsychological evaluation which assesses cognitive functions. We had one done for my son, and it was a 2-day affair. As a non-ADHD pare
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Hah, I didn't take offense. I've seen and worked with quite a few Principals where I questioned what they actually did. Lots of them produced many documents and zero results and coasted based on that.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>Principal engineer means “you’ve made a lot of money, so you don't need to work for money any more, but we’d like to have you around so that our staff engineers have someone to look up to”. Having been a "Principal Engineer&qu
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>I think personally I have a capacity of 55-60 focused hours, and some people might have more, maintainable indefinitely. I think you hit the nail on the head about it being a personal situation. I'm the type of person that has tro
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by fatnoah 6y ago
They do, but perhaps the IRS has since changed things, since what I see on that link is not what is pictured in the article. (Ok, I see the article is from 2019, which is why it's so different)
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I totally agree that making you pay to file when it should be free is scummy, but the linked article completely ignores that the first non-ad result is from the IRS page on how to file your taxes for free.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>I'm just curious, what would you have done if it was never approved? Honestly, we would have just submitted it as a different app until it was approved.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>The lawsuit isn't about Robinhood encouraging gambling but rather about the UI/UX being catastrophically misleading. The Guardian article cited misses some key details that are contained here: https://www.cbsnews.co
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by fatnoah 6y ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-kearns-robinhood-trader-su... The article in the top post is missing details. Robinhood actually demanded $170k from him to settle his account. It wasn't a UI issue.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
The article has less information than some others. Here's a bit that's probably a key to the family's lawsuit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-kearns-robinhood-trader-su... >Later that night, at 3:
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Yeah, any technical expert in a trial concerns me. I was an alternate juror (meaning I had to sit through the trial but was not allowed to take part in any deliberations) in a trial that involved the testimony of a computer "expert&qu
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Having had the pleasure of shipping stuff in the Apple store, I can say that the review process is tremendously inconsistent. In one case, we submitted two white-label apps which varied only in the logo and color palette. One was approved
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I wonder if bug tracker and other reports would be part of discovery in this case.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Are you saying that the RSU portion of the compensation is only taxed at the rate of long term capital gains? If so, that's not the case. RSUs are taxed as ordinary income at the time they vest. You won't realize a gain or loss
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>Nothing about this document is saying go use Apple. It also explicitly says this on page 6, with a number of "If John had used [Apple Product]..." statements, covering everything from Apple Apps, to Apple Hardware, to Apple Cr
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>It does feel like a watershed moment regarding hedge funds. Agree. I think we're all seeing that hedge success for many is more about market influence than actual market prediction.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I was in the "slowing going nearsighted and avoiding glasses" phase for quite some time and the result was regular "ice-pick" headaches and migraines. Getting glasses fully cured all of that. My prescription also hasn&
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>I feel this very acutely, though as a parent of a small child I have an early teen w/ADHD and the two days he's in school are fine, but the three days he's learning from home are a challenge. Each home day is a struggle
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>Now burritos is not where most money goes Speak for yourself!
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by fatnoah 6y ago
"the cops really hate the homeless" I'm sure there are cops that live for this, but I'd be willing to wager money that the sweeps, etc. come as the result of some external pressure from local governments, citizens, and t
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>The data lifecycle is waaay overpopulated with Data Scientists who are not empowered or knowledgeable enough to work with product designers and engineers to do everything that empowers Data Science and ML. Reading this thread has made m
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I appreciate the offer to help, but my general success rate is high enough that I don't want to mess with stuff. I do target my pursuit of opportunities, and I ALWAYS rewrite my resume so that it prioritizes the experiences and skills
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I find this interesting. As someone with over 20 YOE, I've always eschewed the "2-page" resume guidelines. My full resume ends up being 4-5 pages, even with rigorous attention to only a 1 sentence description of each role,
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I live in the US, in a major East Coast city. FAANG level income lets me live a fairly worry-free life in a nice neighborhood, including a nice 2-3 bedroom flat and a private school. It's a tremendous luxury, for which I'm great
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>If you see someone in the office at all hours, especially when wfh is an option, odds are good things aren't going great for them It's definitely something I keep a sharp eye out for. Sudden increases or changes in hours defi
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by fatnoah 6y ago
As someone that had to handcraft client-side browser experiences in the early 2000's (think drag and drop, elements of single page applications, etc.), I basically had to write two versions of everything in order to support Netscape an

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