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by joesmo 11y ago
$250k is certainly not a given. I think that includes equity compensation like the other post mentions. My experience is that Google and Microsoft pay around $170-200k to start base compensation for a Sr. Engineer so it's generally a l
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by joesmo 11y ago
From my experience, I'd say the cap is around $150k in the bay area or so for standard senior positions regardless of degree. The degree is absolutely irrelevant and in many cases if you have an advanced degree, (Masters, PHD) it can w
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by joesmo 11y ago
It'd be nice if these categories weren't hidden, but at this point, the Netflix UI has gotten so useless that if the service was a little more expensive, it wouldn't be worth the price. Basic UI features that I'd expect
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And the officers can't even tell the difference.
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by joesmo 11y ago
There's nothing illegal about returning defective products. In fact, there's nothing in the TOS about returning too many products or anything like that.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Please see above comment.
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by joesmo 11y ago
They haven't actually shut down the account, they only sent a threatening email (see below). This was for around ~$100 worth of merchandise when I easily spend (or used to) $10-20k a year and had a paid Prime membership ($100 / yr
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by joesmo 11y ago
The risk of Amazon shutting down your account, even as a Prime member, is too high to justify investment in any of their cloud services or hardware. Even if they don't actually shut down your account and just send you threats based on
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by joesmo 11y ago
No, I said you can't compare people's suffering because you can't measure it, regardless of what's causing that suffering.
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Terrorism? That just kills freedom when we pass laws to stop it. Just as it's partly intended to." So true. I don't think even bin Laden himself could have dreamt of the amount of damage we would do to ourselves here in
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think you replied to the wrong comment.
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Most people outside America are struggling much, much more, to a degree not fathomable by Americans." You cannot possibly know the level of anyone's suffering except yourself. How do you know how much people are struggling i
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by joesmo 11y ago
I'm not trying to suggest that there's nothing that can be done, though I can see how you might interpret it that way, or that it's harder now than in the past, though I can't possibly see where you got that from. I&#x27
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by joesmo 11y ago
"How is civil forfeiture(cash register justice) not a constitutional violation?" It is. But you assume that laws cannot violate the constitution. They can and they do constantly, all the time. The constitution doesn't mean sh
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by joesmo 11y ago
Now that the Jobs' era products have been exhausted, I expect to be underwhelmed by more mediocre Apple products in the future. One would think a CEO doesn't have that much of an influence, but Apple hasn't put out anything b
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by joesmo 11y ago
You mean AWS ignores basic infrastructure components in favor of more glamorous ones? Never! </sarcasm>
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by joesmo 11y ago
Anything that ends up in the yearly budget bill has absolutely no hope of getting voted down. It's not even worth one's breath to call, not even the energy to pick up a cellphone or even to tweet. It's as good as passed.
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by joesmo 11y ago
This would be a huge setback if approved simply because once approved, such things are unlikely to change even when the time comes that human drivers will not only be unnecessary, but the most dangerous component in all situations. I unders
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by joesmo 11y ago
I too think the OO paradigm, at least as implemented in popular OO languages (mainly through classes and inheritance), has few benefits, though not necessarily none. Certainly the idea of modeling real world objects has failed miserably whi
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by joesmo 11y ago
Maybe I have some natural talent (doubtful), but changing under a towel is really easy and convenient, so I really don't see what all the fuss is about. I first learned the "skill" on crowded beaches.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Here's an interesting investigation by Vice, although they don't actually end up using scopolamine themselves: https://www.vice.com/video/colombian-devil-s-breath-1-of-2
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by joesmo 11y ago
Export would be even better, but then I suppose it becomes a completely different tool.
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by joesmo 11y ago
It doesn't even matter if it was the engineers, the fact that management is not taking the blame itself is utterly despicable. I'm certain the claims of this article are true, but let's pretend it was a bunch of rogue enginee
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by joesmo 11y ago
Great REPL, actual debugger, and all the nice IDEA features available to other languages. This is definitely my favorite way of writing Clojure by far.
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by joesmo 11y ago
"If they'd come across the actual criminal and he'd behaved similarly (and lying by producing plausible ID, acceptable home address, etc) and then let the actual criminal go, that'd be terrible." No it wouldn't
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by joesmo 11y ago
I experience failures like this with Time Machine every couple of months. The only thing to do is wipe the previous backup and start anew. This happens on all my Macs so it's not device specific nor is it related to the underlying back
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by joesmo 11y ago
Software is an implementation of an idea, not an idea in itself. Most ideas behind software are extremely commonplace and dull and should never be patented, but because it's done in software (or "with computers"), all of a su
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by joesmo 11y ago
So if the original article and 'not a daycare' phrase had come from any non-religious institution it'd have meant something/more. That seems to be the premise for this critique. It's not an invalid point.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think PHP is a great language, not just a good one, and its competitors like Python and Ruby offer little to nothing over PHP (and vice-versa). They're all in the same boat. Same programming style (OOP), same constructs, same runti
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by joesmo 11y ago
I definitely agree that the most popular languages, tools, frameworks, paradigms, etc. are by definition not the best. These are popular because they're used by average programmers. They get the job done, though not in the best way, an

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