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by gajjanag 4y ago
Not really true anymore unfortunately, and the system is converging with other large organizations. For example, to keep compensation in line with market and reduce attrition, there were definitely more people who got promoted to ICT5 last
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by gajjanag 4y ago
One interesting question that isn't really addressed in the article or the comments here is what advice applies to folks who don't really want to move beyond the staff engineer (IC track) or senior manager (management track) level
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by gajjanag 5y ago
> Turns out every company has issues. Eventually you come to accept what the company is in your small pocket of it, and take it or leave it. +1. I used to think there were some generalizations that could be made based on company size, et
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by gajjanag 5y ago
There is one aspect that helps with this in certain cultures, namely grandparents. Grandparents are usually thrilled to spend time with young grandchildren. This is an age old mechanism that mostly alleviates two problems simultaneously - o
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by gajjanag 5y ago
> Apart from charging for membership, these sites also abuse lax privacy laws and sell the individual profiles to data brokers and marketing divisions of various industries. Am curious - do you think the Match group is any different? The
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by gajjanag 5y ago
> More on that, I think this insistence on “financial literacy” is a very dirty play by today’s middle class (of which I’m a part, I confess) so that it won’t accept responsibility for the condition of the poor classes, it’s a sort of “i
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by gajjanag 5y ago
Yes, it will self-correct eventually. However, one thing that is easily missed is how shipping lines have been operating at a loss/narrow margins for years, e.g., Hanjin bankruptcy: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sou
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by gajjanag 5y ago
Some airlines are offsetting carbon emissions, e.g., https://www.jetblue.com/sustainability/climate-leadership . Aviation is also a sector where emissions are pretty much unavoidable (long distance electric flight is un
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by gajjanag 5y ago
Maybe Dropbox's is the best out of a bunch of mediocre syncing solutions. However, I do wish to add that Dropbox struggles with scale: lots of small files slow down sync to a crawl and spin CPU at 100%. Concretely, I had a certain fold
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by gajjanag 5y ago
And companies wonder why loyalty is hard to find... Far easier to jump ship at opportune moments for fast tracking a career than fighting dysfunctional internal incentive structures.
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by gajjanag 5y ago
A developer is worth whatever the local market pays at the time to retain them. If you have a look at housing costs in the bay area/Seattle (close to work 2000 sq ft ~ 2 million US dollars), you will understand why anything below 200k
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by gajjanag 5y ago
This is an excellent question. The math is pretty easy to do and very few politicians want to seriously confront this reality. I did a calculation for a Toyota Camry Hybrid vs a Tesla Model 3 in another comment ( https://news.ycom
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by gajjanag 5y ago
Politics today doesn't care about nuances like this. The stove question covered by the article is an egregious example. A much less egregious but still valid one is buying a sports/lower mileage ICE car today, and driving it less
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by gajjanag 5y ago
Seconded. I did this first with a first gen iPhone SE that I got for $100 on ebay from a seller with good reputation as a trial. Been happy enough, so I bought a like new second gen iPhone SE for $250.
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by gajjanag 5y ago
> It turns out that "discipline doesn't scale", and programmers have not been able to write substantial amounts of reliable and secure software using pointers. Not Linus, not the BSD maintainers, not the OpenSSL team, not
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by gajjanag 5y ago
This right here. I am fairly new to driving, and Apple Maps has been great for my driving confidence. Such crisp, ahead of time, clear directions in major metro US. It also does a much better job at rerouting than Google Maps. I avoid rush
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by gajjanag 5y ago
> Its by far the most expensive purchase in peoples lives, vital to our needs just like food and water... And I really dont agree with not tracking it in CPI. Please stop spreading this false information. CPI absolutely does track housin
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by gajjanag 5y ago
> lower level SWEs should be a more active part of the conversation rather than a Jira ticket consumer. All fine, though in practice I have found that building the "_right_" thing equates to building the vision of the loudest&
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by gajjanag 5y ago
So much this. Until a company adopts a no-BS policy towards meetings, I do not see the point. 80% of my time in company meetings is just wasted. I have talked to my colleagues about this - they feel the same. At least with remote work, I ca
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by gajjanag 5y ago
Also, the ability to tune out of useless meetings by muting audio/video is great.
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by gajjanag 5y ago
I have heard anecdotally that the situation was quite different in the past. For example, Google became what it is today in part because their early offers were outstanding for the time, compared to what the typical VC/IPO gives today.
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by gajjanag 5y ago
Tesla also has a carbon footprint. I won't deny that it is lower, but it isn't some "order of magnitude" improvement over a hybrid vehicle. Rather, it is approximately 35%: https://electrek.co/2020/0
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by gajjanag 5y ago
> If you purchased a model 3 with both state and federal rebates a year or two ago, in a number of states the short range RWD model was the sticker price of a nice civic. And Biden has frequently floated massive tax breaks for EV purchas
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by gajjanag 5y ago
You should define "better" carefully. Even today, there is no Tesla vehicle that comes close to, e.g., a Toyota Camry/Prius on the cost per mile front once you account for depreciation and maintenance.
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by gajjanag 5y ago
Not necessarily. Migration of jobs is real - for example, Seattle offers the same FAANG pay and opportunities with beautiful geography, with at least 30% cheaper housing. Migration that is already taking place will continue until housing re
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by gajjanag 6y ago
I couldn't find a good comment here about how property taxes work in Canada, so I dug up: https://torontoist.com/2016/12/how-property-taxes-work-toron... If this is indeed the case, Toronto's housing wil
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by gajjanag 6y ago
I have seen a fair number of submissions regarding information theory on Hacker News. Here are my personal favorite resources: 1. "A Diary on Information Theory" by Alfred Renyi: https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x2F
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by gajjanag 6y ago
> And sure, moving to another FAANG isn't necessarily going to help, they all have those skeletons. But there is a ton of tech that isn't done by Fortune 50 companies. There's a ton of tech that is for the good of humanity
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by gajjanag 6y ago
The issue (for me at least) is not the idea of microservices itself, it is the granularity at which services get defined/split off. What usually happens is that companies go all-in on the microservices idea, and force it upon all teams
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by gajjanag 6y ago
You should have a look at MotoGP. 2 wheels as opposed to 4, but it delivers on many race weekends.

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