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by fsk 11y ago
$100k in pre-tax income comes to only around $60k after taxes. (varies by state) It also depends on rent and your lifestyle. I'm able to save 25%-50%+, but I live cheaply.
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by fsk 11y ago
The big lesson is to keep an emergency fund of 6-12 months' living expenses. He shouldn't have been buying a leveraged investment property until he had an emergency fund. With $100k+/year in income, he should have been findin
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by fsk 11y ago
Actually, your brain/gut is a parallel supercomputer. If your "gut" tells you that this is a bad situation, it probably is correct, even though you may not consciously know the reason. Your gut is processing a lot of inform
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by fsk 11y ago
How would you even know that you've lost a job due to a back-channel reference check? Several times, I thought an interview went really well, and then they never got back to me. They don't give a reason.
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by fsk 11y ago
>Go to your bank and ask to borrow $400K "because you think google's shares will go up". They will say no. You could buy call options, which include a leverage component. An at-the-money 1 year call option (LEAPs) is a hug
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by fsk 11y ago
Many employers have a policy of only giving job title and dates of employment, to prevent any possible lawsuit. However, if you say it with sufficient disgust in your voice, it'll be obvious that you're giving a negative referenc
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by fsk 11y ago
The stock market will, on average, do better than 10%/year. There will be some -50% years along the way, though. To get 10% with zero volatility, you have to invest with Bernard Madoff.
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by fsk 11y ago
Just do a the best job you can for a couple of years. After you've been at Google for a couple of years, lazy hiring managers will assume you're a genius, whether you actually have any talent or not. You'll have many more op
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by fsk 11y ago
It seems that every post on "how to fix hiring" was written by someone who has a product that claims to fix hiring.
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by fsk 11y ago
Michael O Church once lost a job due to a "back-channel reference check", so that explains why he's so hostile to them. Also, in the USA, there are rules limiting what you can say about a former employee. By giving a negativ
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by fsk 11y ago
Those weren't 10x people, they were /10 people who were good at tricking other people into thinking they were 10x.
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by fsk 11y ago
"Top 5 percentile" is more than 5 people. You can be in the top 5% of programmers without being world famous.
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by fsk 11y ago
If you're a 5-10 person startup, don't you want to have the person who can write version 1.0 of your product by himself in a couple of weeks? Then, when you start having customers, have a bigger team and redo things cleanly. Ther
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by fsk 11y ago
The thing to really fear is the toxic hire, the /10 or /100 worker. He'll ruin your business while deflecting blame to others, driving away your best employees. Don't fear the mediocre worker, fear the toxic worker.
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by fsk 11y ago
My rule is 15-30 mins max for a pre-interview coding test. For an onsite interview, I'll also do some with the interview.
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by fsk 11y ago
Your view should be biased by the rejection. "Apply again in a year" is their standard rejection script. Google has so many candidates applying that they can act like the attractive woman who has 100 people asking for her number
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by fsk 11y ago
The problem in our system is that, when the police break the rules and get caught, the only penalty is that the evidence is excluded. "Parallel reconstruction" lets police evade even that tiny penalty for breaking the rules of ev
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by fsk 11y ago
+1 for Piwik. It's better to have the raw data on your own server. I also like Piwik better than GA.
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by fsk 11y ago
It is abuse for someone to use "downvote" to mean "I disagree".
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by fsk 11y ago
You still don't know that's the reason he got caught. The real reason could be something else, and this is just "parallel reconstruction". "Parallel reconstruction" means that you catch someone using an "
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by fsk 11y ago
Even if there was a technology that halted aging and let you live indefinitely (barring accidents), there's no way that treatment could be given to everyone. For all you know, the technology already exists in some military research lab
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by fsk 11y ago
Even when the law has a mandatory minimum, the prosecutor still has discretion for charging. "If you go to trial and lose, we'll convict you for a Felony II, but if you take the plea bargain we'll only charge you with a Misde
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by fsk 11y ago
So they're financing it out of the money they earn in their regular job? It sounds like they have a startup hobby rather than taking it seriously. It sounds like a dead-end to me. They're going to blow through 3-12 months worth o
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by fsk 11y ago
When startup founders ask for an NDA before talking to you, that's another red flag. So they have another full-time job, and they're doing this on the side without full-time effort? You're the startup's only full-time e
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by fsk 11y ago
Most of these interview questions can be summarized as 1. Have you heard this question before? or 2. What number am I thinking of? I.e., any answer other than the one the interviewer is expecting is wrong. I had a recent interview with som
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by fsk 11y ago
Based on my experience interviewing (both as a candidate as as a non-boss watching my coworkers interview), it makes me want to start my own business so I can get some great people at a bargain price. When my employer was interviewing, the
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by fsk 11y ago
http://www.jumpedtheshark.co.uk/ Also, it wasn't just a major character, it was The Fonz. The Fonz was originally a minor character, but he was so popular with fans that he became a main character, and is the most memo
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by fsk 11y ago
>> Yes, up to and including blatant lies >I wasn't suggesting that people lie on their resume or cover letter. Suppose a job ad asks for 10+ years of node.js experience. They get 5 resumes that claim 10 years of node.js experi
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by fsk 11y ago
I thought there was such a restriction, I read the license and there isn't. http://mamedev.org/legal.html I thought "open source" just meant "you can read the source". Some people take a stricter d
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by fsk 11y ago
I'll look into Codebug. I haven't found a PHP editor I really like yet. I've been using dev-PHP and emacs. I'm using Netbeans at work and don't like it. Oh nevermind, Mac only, forget it.

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