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by kevstev 8y ago
I found that fortunately right out of school I was very content- I had roommates, but I enjoyed that lifestyle. I had enough to put away each month into retirement and outside savings accounts and life was good. Then I got a serious girlfri
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by kevstev 8y ago
I would take a look at archive.org for gaming/hardware sites. Hardware sites used to be a huge thing back then, when every geek was drooling over the latest gear, whether it be CPUs, motherboards, network cards, sound cards (for real S
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by kevstev 8y ago
Premium economy IME is not just a little more legroom, its more akin to a domestic first class experience. Wider chairs, better meal, better booze selection, etc... Note that "Premium Economy" is a newer term being thrown around a
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by kevstev 8y ago
There are some salty comments here, but I think the context is important. This paper passed across my desk in early 2008 when I was doing HFT stuff. It might be a bit of a stretch to say that the reason people are taught about cache lines i
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by kevstev 8y ago
That is an interesting thought. It might also help explain why we have become far more polarized as a nation over the last 20 years. I think net/net we are better off as a society though, I don't recall the source, but I do rememb
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by kevstev 8y ago
Similarly, I replaced all my bulbs around 2011/2012 after buying a new place and I have yet to have a single one fail on me. These were fairly expensive, about $11 each (the going rate at the time), and were TCP brand, but it was unple
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by kevstev 8y ago
When I was in high school in the late 90s, it certainly wasn't a popular opinion to be an atheist, the few times I brought up that religious organizations were questionable, or seemed to do a lot of backtracking through history, it did
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by kevstev 8y ago
I have long suspected this, I actually discussed this about a year ago in an HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17027287 To restate- I think there are tells you can use to figure out when reviews are being man
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by kevstev 8y ago
At this point you should just have a >20 years ago section on there (I would label it "prior history" myself), and include projects you worked on. That's over 20 years ago. Unless you worked on something you really want to
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by kevstev 8y ago
I actually once had a situation like this- in the village in NYC there is a secret club/lounge my friend took me to one night. That area is just filled with bars that these days are overrun with tourists and the post-college crowd. I w
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by kevstev 8y ago
I agree here. I don't remember price being an advantage at all in the 2000s. I remember it being roughly comparable to local stores, and a refrain was often "but at least you don't pay the sales tax!" Perhaps on certain
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by kevstev 8y ago
Wow! I also used to use that system, for many years my primary email was kevstev@cyberspace.org. I never used the actual shell for much, but I did use it for email until gmail came along. Interesting, that is a blast from the past I had nea
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by kevstev 8y ago
You can sell bounds, they can be fairly liquid, and the yields are higher, with a locked in rate for that time. Personally I am a bit concerned about the safety of keeping money at RH as well after their big F up last week. The real point t
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by kevstev 8y ago
Eh lets not overstate it too much- this isn't the first time it has happened, paypal and a few other "internet banks" back in the early-mid 2000s was offering 5% interest rates when big banks weren't offering much. The b
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by kevstev 8y ago
Probably not then? Restaurants were fine. I am not sure where the line is drawn between a bar and restaurant though, but you can likely see or smell the smoke long before you enter a place, so it shouldn't be hard to avoid.
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by kevstev 8y ago
I was in Berlin exactly a year ago, and it is indeed unberable. Think bars so filled with smoke you can't see all the way across the room. Smoking outside just wasn't a thing, and it was in the 30s when I was there, so while there
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by kevstev 8y ago
go downtown- soho, the west village, meatpacking, Union Square. To a lesser extent, but still noticeable, midtown. You may also find this more noticeable if you are into food, great restaurants getting booted out of their space, only to hav
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by kevstev 8y ago
DFW in my opinion can craft a sentence like no other author I have ever read- and that's not an overstatement, they are real works of art that may change how you view writing. Where I feel he falls down is telling a story. The longer h
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by kevstev 8y ago
> What about that '3 mins away'? They're always 3 mins away for 10 minutes. Unless they fly close to a black hole it's just lies and horrific UX. This is my personal peeve with Uber that drives me nuts. When Uber fi
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by kevstev 8y ago
Do you have any data to support this? I am not being argumentative, I just found that from personal experience the opposite was true- that total rent tended to be higher in SF, but the apartments tended to be larger, at least than those in
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by kevstev 8y ago
They definitely are. I left the finance industry in late 2013 after getting an offer in tech for 50% more. My bosses demanded to see the offer letter- they didn't believe me. I eventually acquiesced- and showed the entire team- to ma
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by kevstev 8y ago
Indeed. And listen every business needs to make tradeoffs, especially when you are just getting started. The job was described to me as running the "front page of Amazon" which of course sounded very exciting. I went to final stag
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by kevstev 8y ago
I knew these guys, IIRC, clojure originally came from an acquihired startup. This grew into a relatively small team working on an e-receipts project that was remote but largely based in Portland. The most interesting thing about that team w
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by kevstev 8y ago
Walmart has been making lots of e-commerce acquisitions, Jet was just the biggest. A lot of it is about growing outside of the traditional walmart customer- High end brands won't sell on walmart.com, and even if they did, high end shop
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by kevstev 8y ago
Interestingly, I had a unique view on the other side of this. I worked at Walmart Labs at the time of the acquisition as well- remotely, from Jersey City. Long story short, upper management had changed, they were no longer supporting remote
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by kevstev 8y ago
In theory we have just as good a recruiting presence on the west coast, and we have an office out there to be based out of as well (I am all for completely remote, but have yet to get upper mgmt comfortable). In practice, I doubt this is tr
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by kevstev 8y ago
Looking at 10ks filed with the SEC for both from the end of 2017, FB reports 25k employees vs Google's 80k. There is no breakdown on how many of those are engineers, but I would assume that the ratios are similar. I was interested in l
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by kevstev 8y ago
Generally low level C++ will do it. I have been out of the game for about 5 years now, but when I left the game was all about speed speed speed. We weren't trading smarter anymore, it was just about trading fast. If you are faster, you
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by kevstev 8y ago
In a general sense, both. I am working in finance at a hedge fund now, but for a more or less pure tech group. My previous job was for a large e-commerce player, but before that I spent about a decade doing various forms of algo trading and
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by kevstev 8y ago
I am in NYC, and hiring for a place that pays very well, possibly above FAANG salaries. I see a lot of resumes. A lot of those resumes are from Google, but very very few are from Facebook, and I find that to be a very curious thing. FBs off

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