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by freyr 10y ago
> To be fair, you're no longer "programmer" Yes, that's my point. To travel your "software engineer track," you need to stop being a software engineer and climb the management ladder or become an entrepren
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by freyr 10y ago
While the average attorney makes a comparable amount to a programmer, the ceiling on attorney pay is much higher. If you work for a reputable law firm in a large city, you can expect to make $150,000 base, with significant raises annually
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by freyr 10y ago
A non-specialist physician apparently makes, on average, $195k/year total compensation [1]. This is, as you say, much higher than what the compensation of the vast majority of programmers. While salaries in the Bay Area can be comparab
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by freyr 10y ago
> Go was originally written to replace the things C++ is usually used for. Go was originally written to replace the things C++ is usually used for within Google . C++ is used for many other things (embedded programming, games and grap
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by freyr 10y ago
> Acquisitions are notorious for shutting down service and products that customers depend on. Yes, this can happen. But it doesn't hurt to consider a particular event in context, instead of writing off every acquisition and blindl
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by freyr 10y ago
Despite Android's market share, some developers still write for iOS first and port to Android later (if at all). By moving to Swift, Google could reduce this friction and help prevent Android from being a second-class citizen among dev
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by freyr 10y ago
The acquisition isn't the result of a Mayer-esque spaghetti-against-the wall buying spree. Withings doesn't represent an existential threat to Nokia, so it's not something they'd like to watch whither on the vine. And it
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by freyr 10y ago
Nokia exited the consumer market, so they fell off most people's radars. They've continued as a multinational network equipment company with over 100,000 employees, so they do still exist. As far as I know, this is their first ree
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by freyr 11y ago
She might test out of all the BS requirements.
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by freyr 11y ago
All that says is she was admitted to Stanford as an undergrad, and lasted there till she was 19. That alone doesn't make someone a scientist.
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by freyr 11y ago
Yes, I meant to say that the VCs are asserting it's a winner-take-all game. And, yes, Uber is playing a winner-take-all strategy, which I agree is questionable.
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by freyr 11y ago
> Your statement is tautological You want to label fields that have both scientific components and non-scientific components (in varying proportions) as "science." The point of my statement is that some of those fields have s
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by freyr 11y ago
This article is built on the premise that Uber "won," but fails to define winning or back up this premise with facts. Does winning mean beating its competitors? In San Francisco, at least, this doesn't seem clear at all. Most
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by freyr 11y ago
Usually helps if you have another offer in hand.
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by freyr 11y ago
I thought I was intelligent, but I probably wouldn't recognize a single Saudi diplomat.
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by freyr 11y ago
The closest point in a comet’s orbit to the Sun is called “perihelion”. The most distant point is called “aphelion”.
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by freyr 11y ago
The most interesting ATAP-related news so far this year is its director moving to Facebook. I worked previously on an ATAP project when I was a university postdoc (much of the engineering work gets farmed out to universities and subcontract
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by freyr 11y ago
AmazonBasics provides a nice counter-balance to all the garbage that's currently being sold on Amazon and propped up by fake reviews. They're offering a solid no-frills product at a good price.
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by freyr 11y ago
Those fields have scientific and non-scientific components. The non-scientific parts are not science.
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by freyr 11y ago
Because it's more selfish?
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by freyr 11y ago
If someone pays $X million for a house in San Francisco with a view, you can assume it will hurt when an affordable-living highrise is constructed next door that blocks their view. Now, perhaps the happiness of the people who live in that h
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by freyr 11y ago
I appreciate San Francisco's aesthetic, and I'm not rich. Many of my friends appreciate San Francisco's aesthetic, and they're not rich. Many tourists come to San Francisco every day to admire the city's aesthetic.
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by freyr 11y ago
Yes, it's somewhat a matter of perspective. Although I'd point out that it's not just rich people who appreciate San Francisco's aesthetic.
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by freyr 11y ago
On the one hand, you have established residents pushing back against expansion, construction, and denser housing -- perhaps to preserve what they value in their community, or perhaps out of personal interest and to drive up their property v
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by freyr 11y ago
Any scholars who aren't directly affiliated with the Mormon church who would corroborate these claims?
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by freyr 11y ago
"Dumb fucks."
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by freyr 11y ago
In addition to being treated better, my Lyft driver yesterday claimed that he preferred Lyft because the software is better, with more efficient routing and fewer bugs.
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by freyr 11y ago
That's a great theory, but in the real world, certain professions and job roles have categorically enjoyed much higher compensation than average over long stretches of time. Upper management is an obvious example; it's been well c
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by freyr 11y ago
> If he had gone into leadership, he might now be looking at examples such a notch, who got rich from dev work without becoming a 'manager' A well-paid manager saying, "But I could have made more developing Minecraft!&qu
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by freyr 11y ago
It's not necessarily great. But for a variety of reasons, the momentum has been in SF's favor as the world's dominant technology hub. We might wonder what will happen this momentum is deflected. Technical talent will disperse

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