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by firstplacelast 5y ago
I’m a gay male software engineer and had the same experience as you, I knew most of those words and the few I didn’t I had heard a few times but couldn’t define off the top of my head. And yes, lots of guys (even gay) just have zero clue ab
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
When everyone on this site quits working at Facebook and Google, I’ll maybe take anyone seriously calling others selfish.
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
That’s the most American-possible sentiment, so what’s wrong with it? In this country we typically don’t care how our actions and policies affect broader society, from NIMBYism to faux-meritocracies to non-universal healthcare. I really can
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
I’m amazed by the amount of resentment and anger in these comments and how off-base they are to my own experience. I had two full-time jobs during the pandemic for 1.5years. One I had been at for 3 years previously and 70% of the time I had
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
Oh well. Then all of these companies will have to start adjusting to the work-force available. Outside of careers like doctor/lawyer, you can do most jobs without a college degree, but currently you can’t get hired without one in many,
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
Depends where you live. My public school education was amazing and I had better instructors than I did at both my name brand undergrad and highly regarded grad schools. But I grew up in a place most of those on this site would not want to l
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
This is so upsetting to me, especially considering that my intro to the Apple ecosystem ~15 years ago was an iPod and how glorious that thing was. Listening to my own local library has been a continually worse experience over the last 2 yea
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
I always thought the point of the coding interview was to promote a meritocracy, if you can do the job then you can have it. Fuck your "credentials" and the class you were born in, just be able to perform the job. Now they very mu
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
The quicker we can reach the tipping point of inequality, the better. I have no faith that anything will fundamentally change until things get bad enough that it explodes. I hope we get to the point where the top 10% of individuals own 95%
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
I'd take a 0 hour day in the 21st century over a 10 hour day in the 21st century...I genuinely don't get the point of your comment.
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
Making the world a “better” place is overrated. I work for a small, non-VC funded, company where I contribute to products that have the potential to help people live longer, healthier lives. And I get paid pretty terribly compared to the CO
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
The guy that made Kazaa went on to co-found Skype.
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
I’m estranged from my dad. I’m not sure the argument of individualism of the child is at fault, so much as the individualism of the parent. My dad barely graduated high school and made a very nice living for himself. If anything is wrong wi
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
Like others have said, if have can afford it and find it interesting, then do it! But maybe look at some other large cities and see if others might be a better fit…and it’s not like you can’t move around every 6-12 months either. I’m a tech
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
In the US there is a Northern Cities Vowel shift going on right now, that this linguist claims is the biggest vowel shift since “The Great Vowel Shift.” See this video starting at 7:10 https://youtu.be/IsE_8j5RL3k Maybe rel
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by firstplacelast 6y ago
I agree with you here, but I was recently in /r/beautyguruchatter and it seems like big-time makeup influencers are increasingly men. From run-of-the-mill influencers to professional makeup artists and drag queens. I found that un
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by firstplacelast 6y ago
No, it does not. It pays better than a lot of scientists in the wet lab, however. I have to do contract work as a data engineer (which pays about 60% more hourly than my bioinfo job) so I can live a decent life. Biotech pays people like dum
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by firstplacelast 6y ago
Maybe it's because of how you grew up, but I've found myself in several different groups/scenarios throughout the years that blew my mind how many people (young people who hadn't worked a day in their lives) had trust fu
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by firstplacelast 6y ago
This is so spot on. I work for a biotech start-up that is obviously very research intensive. It's amazing to see the CEO, who has an undergrad in bio and an MBA, corral the PhD researchers and get them on track. He understands about 40
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by firstplacelast 6y ago
New job nearly doubled my salary and a side-project I had going benefitted tremendously from this COVID stuff. I think I will likely see a 1/3 decrease in my take home in 1.5-2 years.
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by firstplacelast 6y ago
I had my pay triple at the beginning of this year, 75k -> 230k. I’m working a lot more, I have not increased my lifestyle in any way (my rent is now 7% of my salary), and I’m happier. For me it all boils down to a feeling of stability an
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
This thing started with 1 case. Why do people think that waiting 2 weeks or 2 months will solve it? Only way that works is if enough people have it and now have immunity, which helps prevent spread when quarantine is over. We are going to h
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
I work for a start-up that is non-VC funded, I work 5 days a week, but I’m only in the office 5-6 hours a day (there are some weeks where things are very busy and it’s not the case) and I occasionally work a few hours on the weekend. They’r
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
I only have anecdata, but my Dad worked at a total of 2 places since his late 20’s (he retired several years ago). He spent a decade at one company then left for another company where he worked for 30 years and topped out at a VP making 200
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
Many years ago I worked for a lab that was bought out by Novartis. We started running lots and lots of tests for chronic myelogenous leukemia for free, since showing they had a particular mutation indicative of CML would qualify them for Gl
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
Then explain San Diego. Salaries here are notoriously low, even in the tech industry. I know nurses in the Bay Area that pull down 2x what an experienced tech worker makes here. And while housing is cheaper, you still can't get anythin
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
I agree here 200%. People may not want to be “the asshole”, but they want to work under “the asshole” because they think it will benefit them and help them get what they want because their leaders are willing to be cutthroat, which may ben
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
You are correct. I was on an IGEM project when I was in undergrad, didn’t do too well but was amazed by the potential. After I finished grad school, interviewed at 3 Syn Bio start-ups. Did not get offers from any of them, but all 3 failed w
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
Same thing I've witnessed. I was in the industry for almost a decade and worked on the computational side for half that time, then left for a DS role in an unrelated industry. Everyone I knew that had halfway decent programming/ma
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by firstplacelast 7y ago
That's true, but there were several other points of contention too. The guy that interviewed me was the head of the group I would be working in and I could tell the things we valued were incompatible.

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