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by fma 8y ago
I know latte is the common reference but I'm shifting my mindset lately, especially having a family. I brew my own coffee at home and pretty frugal. But now if things cost a but more and is convenient, I'll pay for it. For example
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by fma 8y ago
I think back in the day people created websites really for fun and can do whatever they want. Now you are judged against the best websites. Probably the only remnants of the old web are professors who publish academic websites and are based
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by fma 8y ago
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less I'm only through the first chapter. Might be a good read, but harder to implement. So far it's, you gotta say no to things that aren't important. How often has your boss asked you
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by fma 8y ago
I've started an audio book on essentialism. "I can do anything, but not everything" struck out at me.
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by fma 8y ago
I've thought about getting a 1-900 number and putting that as my cellphone number on my company profile. Any weekend or night production calls... I'd get some extra $.
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by fma 8y ago
I also have terrible memory. If I'm coding something and forget some pattern (not sybtax, because the IDE handles that...) I just do a quick search of my code within my IDE. I have a One Note for frequent queries.
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by fma 8y ago
I have a Samsung phone. Wife has Apple. We can charge using the same charger.
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by fma 8y ago
I read the same story from NY Times, which had a more detailed write up. She likely inherited the genes from her dad. "Likely" because they can't test her dad's genes since he's deceased. Her dad didn't really
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by fma 8y ago
I'd think the "What keeps you up at night" is in reference to what difficult problems are you encountering at work. I'd asked my previous CTO this question (when I was working for him already) and his response was "
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by fma 8y ago
I've done something similar, automating a similar process. Essentially the screen was split on half. The left was the actual image, the right was the data of what the program thinks it is after OCR and some magic interpretation. The us
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by fma 8y ago
I always wondered who represents home owners who have cheap houses... Like a $50k house. Whether you are selling a 50k house or 500k, there's a similar amount of work. But those houses do get sold. Also as a rental property owner I hat
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by fma 8y ago
You don't pay anything to the agent, directly . Why do you think for sale buy owner homes are cheaper? The seller can knock off a few percentage points because they don't have the overhead of paying 6%.
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by fma 8y ago
Statistically, per freaknomics, a realtor selling their own home lists their house 10 days longer so they can get a better offer. https://www.bankrate.com/finance/real-estate/real-estate-age... Levitt and Dubner f
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by fma 8y ago
Also, if the realtor is part of a bigger company, they don't keep all 3%.
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by fma 8y ago
Honestly, time to leave SV if you want to provide for a family. I'm in Atlanta. 10 years experience, 135k base, 150k total comp (401k and bonus). You can easily provide what you parents provides you here for 100k salary, which can be e
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by fma 8y ago
What's a promotion after BI architect? Manager?
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by fma 8y ago
#1 on that list is enthusiasm for the company. Really...? So, you gotta be a good bullsh!tter? I can see this for small startups, because passion will take you to places. But for large companies, their software products are so diverse. I wo
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by fma 8y ago
The first 2 years of college is usually your core competency, including high level mathematics, statistics, and other things like ethics, technical writing...and other general education like history, foreign language to make you a more roun
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by fma 8y ago
I used to live a few hours from Atlanta and would decide to visit at the last minute. I've heard about HT in its infancy and thought it was a great idea that made sense... But all these years they've never been cheaper. I gave up
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by fma 8y ago
I'm in the same boat. Default was Oracle, but now we have more options. The order of preference per management is Postgres -> SQL -> Oracle. New applications need a deviation to use Oracle.
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by fma 8y ago
General Motors has built 2 data centers. Each one costs about what Lyft spends per year on AWS ( https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content... ) Article says it takes 20 people to ru
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by fma 8y ago
Look at the Equifax hack. Vulnerability was known but no one cared to apply the patch. In engineering, you chose 2 amongst being better, faster or cheaper. It's clear in IT we always choose faster and cheaper. No one went to jail for t
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by fma 8y ago
Every Walmart I've been to has fresh produce. But to your point, if you want a large variety of fresh produce for cheap you go to an ethnic food store. Around Atlanta that would be the Asian and Mexican grocery stores, which are as lar
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by fma 8y ago
Not OP...but I had plenty of group assignments. The ones I liked, I maintained as friends. I'd imagine if someone graduated without knowing other engineers, the school didn't value group assignments, their teammates all stunk and
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by fma 8y ago
So, a question coming from a guy who's been doing Java backend processing for a long time and thinking of making a side project. Was going to go the Angular route, but I'd like to have good SEO. I'd also like to get a POC&#x2
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by fma 8y ago
I happened to watch a conference talk on YouTube by the director of infrastructure at Netflix. He closed it out by saying, yes we open source everything, and yes this solution works for us. But just because we do it doesn't mean you sh
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by fma 8y ago
Nice concise read. I think many lessons are well known but not acknowledged. For a high quality product...Test a lot, experienced people, do things in house. Meanwhile software industry is... Ship to prod ASAP, hire junior devs to reach hea
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by fma 8y ago
Looks like lots of comments here are negative. I hope it doesn't deter you or get you down. It's tough to leave a high paying job to pursue something different and I wish you all the best. It's interesting timing to quit now.
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by fma 8y ago
My smell is pretty good. Taste...meh. Example: Things that my wife feel is salty, like can soup, I don't give a second thought to.
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by fma 8y ago
I grew up in the US, but my wife, inlaws did not. I have a daughter, who is only 2. Sams Club started offering juicing at the store last year. You see them fill up a machine w/ oranges and it cuts, grinds, and does whatever...and out c

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