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by kevstev 7y ago
A coworker gave me an Awair as a housewarming gift, I actually tried to return it, but had no idea where it was purchased- I finally gave up and just set it up, its somewhat helpful- it made me aware of how much cooking and cleaning affect
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by kevstev 7y ago
Absolutely- For a few years I was traveling over 100k miles annually interestingly mostly in the back of the bus on United's 757 fleet between EWR and SFO, and if I had a choice, I would choose a double aisle over a single aisle any da
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by kevstev 7y ago
I feel you as someone who was in the same boat at that time. The reality is, these people are being let go at a time of historically low unemployment, they will be just fine and likely be able to get higher salaries elsewhere. I know a guy
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by kevstev 7y ago
The Zune was a great product, IMHO better than the ipod, if for no other reason than you didn't have to deal with itunes. The hardware may not have been as sexy looking as the ipod, but the software was far superior, and it was better
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by kevstev 7y ago
A late reply, but I was just rereading this thread and it reminded me of a few recruiter pitches that seemed to seem it was a positive that a company just had a series E round of funding. I mean on the one hand, they do have enough of a bus
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by kevstev 7y ago
I was the third employee at a startup. I was young and stupid and thought "20,000 shares" was a lot. I worked my ass off, it was immensely stressful, but we built and launched a product. I later found out it wasn't much of a
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by kevstev 7y ago
I have to carry around a helmet- yes I find this burdensome. Real estate is hard to come by in NYC- and my commute requires a partial subway commute. When I rode a motorcycle to my job and had a cube I was annoyed by the MC helmet, but felt
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by kevstev 7y ago
Do you also wear boots, an armored jacket and pants? Gloves? I bike to work every day, and spent a good part of my childhood on a bike- mountain biking on trails in the woods. I have had countless banged up knees, elbows, ankles and hands,
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by kevstev 7y ago
That must have been in a LCOL area... 37k was not enough to move out of my parents house comfortably... 55k was, at least I could live with roommates and still save a bit- I was in NYC though.
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by kevstev 7y ago
Interestingly, I was just on linked in and saw what appeared to be a car advertisement on my feed, and I was annoyed- but then I looked at it more closely and saw it was a guy that had become "head trader" at a financial firm I wo
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by kevstev 7y ago
My experience was very similar- I was working on my resume the morning of 9/11 at the start of my senior year. My friends and I all boasted about how we would refuse to even entertain any offers below 75k prior and several had already
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by kevstev 7y ago
Thanks :)
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by kevstev 7y ago
There are ~250k employees at JP Morgan, not engineers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase
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by kevstev 7y ago
I don't think its fair to say that living outside a city has to be boring. Many value and enjoy being among nature. My ex-coworkers who live in rural areas seem to have a good time on their quads, tending their gardens that sometimes a
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by kevstev 7y ago
I looked into this years ago when I worked at investment banks and was astonished to learn that 70% of the IT Department were actually contractors. I may be inaccurate on the precise accounting terminology, but essentially a full time emplo
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by kevstev 7y ago
I generally agree- its a clear shot across the bow that the company no longer wants you there. A funny story though from about 10 years ago (IE financial crisis): A sales person my wife worked with was put on a PIP. It had very clear revenu
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by kevstev 7y ago
If you take a look at their quarterly production numbers, things don't look so rosy- they jumped from ~25000/quarter in Q4 2017 to 80k/quarter in 2018, but have not really moved the needle that much since then- this past quar
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by kevstev 7y ago
The way this would work is that people work out a target price based on that estimate, and the price should rise accordingly. In any case, they are only a few percent off, the fact that its a "miss" or a "beat" needs to
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by kevstev 7y ago
The operational problems can't be understated either. Customer service experiences that are all over the map (Ranging from they came out to my driveway and fixed my car to its been in the shop for 3 months with no end in sight), produc
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by kevstev 7y ago
I saw a role open at a competing company for a bigger job that I would have been perfect for. They wanted me to take a personality test, which was supposed to take an hour, but could be paused/picked up again, and then a coding test wh
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by kevstev 7y ago
It has a lot of echoes of the .com boom, with a modern twist- the pitch has changed a bit, its not just about losing money at scale, its about changing the world while doing so, with a nostalgic dose of delusion- saying their potential mark
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by kevstev 7y ago
Technology has advanced, but the product has changed little. I don't want to pay a monthly subscription and pay for all of the content on 300 channels, 280+ I will never ever watch. Despite paying $200 a month, I still don't even
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by kevstev 7y ago
>Uber definitely over hired in 2016 That's interesting, I interviewed with Uber for an engineering management role in 2016, and was blown away when my potential boss said he had a "hiring target" for next year of close to
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by kevstev 7y ago
Indeed. I work in finance, and it does appear that we may already be in a place where an unhealthy amount of capital is in index funds and ETFs. How this will all play out is not really clear to me, but its somewhat concerning. I have been
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by kevstev 7y ago
Remote workers can often get some budget for a coworking space. Not enough to work there every day. But enough to get out of the house every once in awhile. There is also just the contingency aspect of it- I had a scheduled power outage in
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by kevstev 7y ago
I first heard about this year ago, and was also amazed that the numbers could work and RDP lag would make it viable. I can't find the reddit post at the moment, but we had a few exchanges where it was explained that latency is not an i
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by kevstev 7y ago
You might appreciate this twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/clueheywood/status/10896997623312...
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by kevstev 7y ago
I have long been a fan of Synology NAS's for this type of thing (I have been using one since 2007). They offer CPUs these days that should be beefy enough for a CI use case, unless you have a very large project. QNAP offers similar pro
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by kevstev 7y ago
I think most will agree that is a "fair" competitive advantage. What myself and I think most find problematic is that the USPS is actually subsidizing Chinese packages inbound to the US, to the point where its somehow cheaper to s
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by kevstev 7y ago
_Nothing_ This is the key "problem." WeWork is a boring real estate business that is trying to frame itself as some massive scale startup. Add in growth fueled by a ton of VC money (not earnings), tons of leverage, not even for ow

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