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by jacurtis 4y ago
Thats a good endorsement. I've seen those and wondered if they were a waste of time. I think I might consider one now if it was that beneficial. I have no problem paying for educational content. But I was afraid that stuff was just ins
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Not OP. But I would say that from my experience (I've avoided FAANG for culture reasons, not interviewing reasons) and I can get comparable offers to my FAANG friends at least in terms of Salary & Benefits. The big difference is bo
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This is almost impossible to answer because there are so many reasons that it could be. But I've been hiring manager and looked through thousands of resumes/CVs and hired about 50-60 engineers. 1. Far under-qualified. People apply
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by jacurtis 4y ago
You don't even need the Red Card. Go into your Target app, go to your account, click on "Target Circle" and then you scroll down to where it says "Vote for NonProfits". I only learned about this a few months ago. I
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I don't have a source, so take this with a grain of salt. But I had heard a story on a podcast once (not sure which one, sorry...) that the CIA was actually very involved within Hollywood in the 40-70s and used it exactly in this manne
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I was thinking $40k x 4 which is $160k. I just did a quick search and found several reputable sites saying the average FAANG salary is $230 (which is 5.75x). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the mean software engineering s
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Pulling the movie from theaters and removing distribution of the movie behind the iron curtain is essentially banning it. This was 1940... there wasn't really any way for them to see the movie if they decided to not distribute it in th
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I was too. Of all the books I read in high school, none affected me anywhere close to Grapes of Wrath. The book is very mature, and I think it is often given to students too early in life before they can truly appreciate it. But this book s
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Im not even sure what value the Chat GPT response provides in this story. So they watched the movie (not reading the book) and changed political parties. Why? No real reason was given. Then they plop a Chat GPT response in there and that&#x
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The median income in tech (most people reading this site) is at least 4x that median, which is even more impactful.
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It doesn't drive wages higher, but it improves buying power which is an indirect raise
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Probably farming karma for posting a real doozie in a few weeks.
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I think its important to clarify a few things. The article is noting that they blocked the downloading of books that use "Kindle Unlimited" which is a subscription, that runs $10 a month, for unlimited of select Kindle titles. Th
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Just to clarify, you can still use the Kindle for books purchased elsewhere or rented at a library. This article is specifically a restriction on "Kindle Unlimited" which is a spotify-like subscription for books. Without this subs
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Exactly this. I hear so many people recommend TOML over YAML. I see the logic in it. For simple Key-value configurations, TOML is superior and more straightforward to YAML. You can add sub-level values and it isn't too bad (if there ar
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Its sad, but it sounds like you have had bad managers. I myself am a mid-level manager. I have 1x1s with my employees. I also have 1x1 with my manager (the CTO). I personally look forward to my 1x1 with my manager, the CTO, each week. I fin
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Exactly this. It receives the email, now what? You need to run some code on it and so the way to do that is one of the compute services. AWS isn't forcing you to do anything here. 99.9% of SES users I promise are only sending mail anyw
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Wow, I struck a nerve. I'm happy to address these points however. > The diagram looks like an ad Lol, Its an architecture diagram. You could swap the AWS-specific icons for generic ones I suppose, and it wouldn't change anythin
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I agree, PirateWeather seems like a misbrand here. When I read it, i thought it was stealing weather data or something. On the web, the term "pirate" generally doesn't mean good things. This name almost implies that it is ill
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I am an Infrastructure Architect (aka "Cloud Architect") so I design cloud systems like this on the daily. The "vendor lock-in" argument always makes me laugh. Its the #1 thing I hear all day long. This diagram is actual
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This ships with your project and is project specific. Sure you could accomplish something similar with direnv to maintain the project-level scope. But Just makes it more explicit.
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This is happening in my area. We have insane vacancies right now. It was nearly impossible to get an apartment in 2020 and 2021. But now my current complex is well under 50% full. I see 2-3 people moving OUT every weekend and I've seen
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Per the article: > Now, many of those same places that shot up in price are seeing slides in demand and rents are going down. Between April and October of 2022, rents fell 3% in Las Vegas, 2% in Phoenix and 1% in Tampa, according to Apar
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by jacurtis 4y ago
$200 isn't even that large of a cleaning fee by AirBnb standards (i'd say that closer to the median for a full home in the markets I travel in). The last 3 bedroom home I rented on AirBnb had a $500 cleaning fee. We were there 4
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I was already losing satisfaction in AirBnb but have been open to it if traveling companions were into it. But the nail in the coffin is these deposits. The last few AirBnBs that I have vetted have had these $1,000+ deposits. There was even
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This is sort of a funny argument. I promise that AirBNB prices have no impact or influence on hotel prices. It is generally the opposite, AirBnB rates are often influenced by the prices of surrounding hotels. The number of travelers staying
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by jacurtis 4y ago
These are some weak arguments against Terraform. > loops and conditionals were impossible for a while Yeah they were, in what version was it? 0.11 and 0.12 I think when those were added? But those have been there for a while. It was admi
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I agree that the thing preventing people for years from making their own Twitter Clone was never the technical hurdle of replicating twitter's microblogging platform, but the network effect that Twitter had. Twitter at its source is a
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I'll share another story as an example. Late last year I started having trouble swallowing. It started as a discomfort, and eventually turned into trouble breathing and inability to eat solids. I went from perfectly healthy (literally
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by jacurtis 4y ago
By that logic basically any Twitter user with a link on their profile should be banned. For example Microsoft would have a link to Microsoft.com on their profile and on that webpage there will be links to other competitive social media. In

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