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by kevstev 4y ago
My wording may have been unclear in retrospect- I meant that I would not take a position in a firm that did not have market fit unless it was for whole percentage points. If they have market fit, it's a different story.
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by kevstev 4y ago
I feel the same- I did not have a decent outcome, aside from being able to say I built all of this stuff, essentially myself, with our team eventually only being 5 devs total. I would say that I will not ever work again for a company that d
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by kevstev 4y ago
TBH, I don't feel we really got paid until about 2012 or so- or at least it did not reach me (on the east coast around NYC) until then. I spent the first ten years of my career lamenting my choice, for the amount of effort, both mental
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by kevstev 4y ago
I disagree here- The Palm Treo was arguably the first smart phone, limited as it may have been. I had a 650 from around 2005 or so, and I actually kept that thing going until 2009 when I got an IPhone 3GS. The Treos and "regular"
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by kevstev 4y ago
For me it was that tmux worked out of the box the way I spent many hours getting screen to work the way I wanted. And then from there, just in general the docs were better, it was updated more often, and in general was a bit less obscure in
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by kevstev 4y ago
Have you looked into backing up into the cloud? I used to do this way back in the day, but by using AWS I get legit offsite storage. Its really cheap if you use glacier, and I was actually looking this week, and there is now an even cheaper
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by kevstev 4y ago
I did right before the pandemic coming back to NY from Germany on Lufthansa. I mean I am glad I did it just to have the experience, but you aren't really missing anything. I much prefer the 777. The 747, while having been updated over
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by kevstev 4y ago
Honest question- why does one choose to harvest emails for something like this vs just putting ads on the page? I have seen this model used for several ebooks, but it seems like long term its much more viable to just make the content widely
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by kevstev 4y ago
Mostly because we generally work during the same business hours other people are? If you ever have to deal with an insurance issue, sign a lease, take out or refinance a mortgage, buy a car... etc... its probable that you will have to print
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by kevstev 4y ago
Tbh, in a remote company, I would call this an "on-site" even if you don't have a home office to go to. My previous company, we did the fully remote thing pre-pandemic and had a good culture, but I found meeting up once a qua
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by kevstev 4y ago
Interestingly I am in Hawaii right now and hiked about 7 miles on Mauna Loa. It's part of a national park and it's massive- it takes about an hour to drive from one end to the other. I learned yesterday a volcano is more of a comp
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by kevstev 4y ago
what really exists in phreaking? I used to be interested in the mid-late 90s, but it seems it was all but dead by 2000 or so. Asterix seemed to keep things interesting for a bit, but I haven't heard about that in years.
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by kevstev 4y ago
If this is a recession, its not one I am feeling. 2008, the .com bust, those were recessions that everyone felt acutely. Unemployment is still at record lows. If the GDP dial isn't where people would like it to be then fine, but overal
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by kevstev 4y ago
To expand on why, what often happens after these is there now a round of "cost cutting" which on the surface may look like ok we just don't get as many, or any of the cool perks we used to- which will be true, and you will su
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by kevstev 4y ago
It appears they did not file a WARN notice: https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN Direct link to the list of recent WARN notices received: https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets&#x2F
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by kevstev 4y ago
I am continually shocked at how few people actually care about this. Maybe I am just showing my age, because I remember in college, and even when I got my first cable modem, I could easily just spin up apache or IIS and have a website hoste
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by kevstev 4y ago
I should have added that I worked in prop funds during that period as well, I left finance for a bit to do "pure tech" and then went back to a top N hedge fund until recently (and while there are always silly arguments about these
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by kevstev 4y ago
I did low level C/C++ stuff in the algo trading world until 2014, and since then have done a plethora of other things from node.js for a BIG e-commerce player, python, cloud architecture, SRE type stuff, etc... and every single job has
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by kevstev 4y ago
Not at all. This is a complete falsehood spread most likely by the financial companies themselves. I worked at Investment Banks for many years, doing low level C/C++ type stuff in various flavors of algorithmic trading and high frequen
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by kevstev 4y ago
This is the third comment in this thread along these lines- Isn't this just splitting hairs? Is there any significant percentage of defendants in such cases that have judgements like this against them that don't actually appeal an
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by kevstev 4y ago
Heh I have also had trouble with a higher end model's ice maker. I have donated about half a pint of blood over several stabs at fixing it. Even after I ended up moving and renting the place, the new tenant who also considered himself
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by kevstev 4y ago
Agreed - stock price is irrelevant for the most part - it's the actual business and cash flows that are suffering and I think it's long past time there was some correction in the number of projects and people working on them. Chec
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by kevstev 4y ago
I agree, I mean the businesses overall are very strong. That said, as a shareholder, watching Google and FB's headcount soar over the last 5-10 years to stratospheric numbers, they have to have a point where they sit down and take a ha
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by kevstev 4y ago
Google's profits dropped last quarter, and that is a rare occurrence for them. Metas revenue actually fell last quarter, with profits dropping 35%. IIRC, that's the first revenue drop they have had since going public. This isn&#x2
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by kevstev 4y ago
With open source, the incentives from a maintainers view might look a lot different than what you would think. A friend of mine has a very popular JS framework out there, gets about 500k downloads a week off of NPM. There are lots of user r
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by kevstev 4y ago
10 years ago I was making 150, and relatively underpaid I guess. At least I was not making the sums that others in the algo trading/hft space were.
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by kevstev 4y ago
I have more than quadrupled my comp over the last 10 years, and I have not worked at a F*NG. I have not really climbed the ladder much either, I went from a senior to tech lead and manager back to a tech lead/IC. My comp is almost enti
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by kevstev 4y ago
My FB feed no longer feels like walking down a hall with my friends in it, it feels a lot more like walking through a mall with advertisements constantly in my face and strangers screaming from every store front with their "content.&qu
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by kevstev 4y ago
The market is going to do what it is going to do, I am not sure if you mean that from an employee based perspective or from a corporate perspective, but either should not matter- I guess with a big disclaimer that I am assuming that your co
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by kevstev 4y ago
I actually really struggled with this when taking a class learning to ride a motorcycle. The instructor kept trying to instill this over complicated explanation and mnemonics like "go left look left push left lean left" and IMHO i

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