flachsechs

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by flachsechs 9y ago
i'd say money has a larger impact than in the UK but it's still secondary.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
yeah maybe not quintiles then. but i think there are 5 distinct classes, and probably not another number.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> the rate of downward mobility among my young, bourgeoisie 20-somethings friends in NYC is shocking i dunno, i'd argue these people aren't downwardly mobile because they were never upper middle class to begin with (bourgeois
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by flachsechs 9y ago
having to deal with e.g. php-fpm, fcgi, tomcat, and unicorn separately in the same stack is a nightmare. even if they run in separate locations/clusters/nodes/machines, it's still several different configuration and dep
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by flachsechs 9y ago
because you can work with individual microservices across clusters without a ton of overhead (or use a monolithic app server), aiding in deployment, rollback, debugging, development.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
yeah they are. i've worked for 2 of them. the problem is you think there's "special" people and "special" businesses... there aren't. there's just successful, and not, and you can't determine a
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by flachsechs 9y ago
yeah, the biggest problem with a starting a company is you actually have to start it. it totally sucks.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
get up earlier, or do it in the evenings. if you can't do one of these things, you may want to consider what it actually means to own your own company.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
just a second voice to add -- i do drink, but still don't appreciate alcohol in the workplace or cultures that are focused around after-work drinking. it's something i do with friends and family, not coworkers, and especially not
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by flachsechs 9y ago
serious question: who is tasked with collecting and classifying these awful photos?
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by flachsechs 9y ago
stop wishing you would do something great, and do something, period. nobody talks about their crappy first or second attempts, because they almost always are not worth talking about.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
nah, because you'll just redefine 'community' to mean something else.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
live on the coast for a while, build/augment your career and social circle, and then move somewhere else and keep your job(s). note this plan actually involves dedicating years of your life to something without a guaranteed payoff or c
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> A strip in downtown LA LA has a fairly extensive and rapidly expanding network now, including expo line which goes all the way to santa monica. like most people who don't actually live here, you're working with decades-old
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by flachsechs 9y ago
"call our sales representatives" means they'll tell you if you call. i'm guessing you never call, because you don't actually want to talk to anyone, which is exactly what they're trying to do: filter you out.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
smaller companies avoid interviewing like this out of pure practicality, it's only the larger ones that can afford to waste $100k filling a position.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> I know it's considered bad negotiation it's not. the more assertive you are with your compensation requirements, the more likely you are to get paid what you want. i don't know where this crazy idea of "don'