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by kudokatz 4y ago
FIRE - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-independence-...
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by kudokatz 5y ago
I'm definitely biased towards exactly that frugal-and-bank-the-money mentality ... but if others don't want to be friends with someone who doesn't spend money, that's their thing. I've found it much more rewarding
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by kudokatz 5y ago
I put off interviewing at Google for 2 job changes ... went back for the third just to see. Ended up getting hired. My prior experience in terms of terrible people conducting interviews was so bad that I almost just wrote them off. Compar
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by kudokatz 6y ago
> Google prioritizes code quality over development speed. That's putting it nicely. Based on experience, I'd say it's arguing about preferences while demanding that code be coupled because "that's how we do thin
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by kudokatz 6y ago
If you read between the lines, the article sounds a lot like "I know better", implicitly "because I worked at Google" (as per the "ex-Googler" qualifier in the title). Consider this: > Introducing code searc
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by kudokatz 6y ago
> Why do you suppose these hires aren’t good at learning engineering best practices? I guess what I was trying to convey is different: being good at algorithms doesn't give much of a signal (positive or negative) about other things
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by kudokatz 6y ago
> the skills you need for advancement are not necessarily the same ones Exactly this. I suggest learning how to fabricate (or at least exaggerate) "impact" to get promoted. It's the fastest way to make money once you&#x2
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by kudokatz 6y ago
> You're either naturally adept enough to do well, or ... I'm personally very wary of using algorithms questions as a proxy for how "adept" someone is at software engineering . If I were running a business, I'd
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by kudokatz 6y ago
There has been official training at multiple, large tech companies other than Intel specifically geared towards preventing even accidental use of language that can be taken out-of-context. The practice is alive and well.
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by kudokatz 6y ago
> Devs don't make $250,000 in the US unless they've got some really high profile public backstory. In my experience, this is VERY far from accurate in high-paying markets like Seattle and the Bay Area
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by kudokatz 6y ago
Having used Clojure in production many years ago, I was very satisfied. And solid interop with existing Java libraries really brings in a whole ecosystem if needed. Persistent data structures are really game-changing.
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by kudokatz 7y ago
> financial debt is very easy to measure and quantify but technical debt is not For business school grad PMs I like to see if they can run with an analogy to selling unhedged call options rather than thinking of it in terms of debt with
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by kudokatz 7y ago
> strongest correlating factor with financial independence and overall net worth If the only way people save is "force saving" by diving headfirst into something that sucks all of their other assets in, sure. How could we make
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by kudokatz 7y ago
> even these numbers do not guarantee anything at this point a reasonable response is "there are no guarantees". If the 4% rule was back-tested through the great depression and generally came out fine, it's probably in th
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by kudokatz 7y ago
I totally agree with this. I had a dream job vanish after just 3 months after two bad people came in. If that happens, just quit FAST if you can.
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by kudokatz 7y ago
> sprinkled in between a bunch of stuff that I'm pretty sure isn't an actual problem for anyone I'd push back at this. After starting to use protos (even at Google) these issues smack pretty much everybody right in the fa
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by kudokatz 7y ago
I've found a generally higher bar than places like Microsoft but definitely a much lower bar than other FAANG companies, unicorns, and even tiny-but-potentially-elite startups run by people who know what they're doing.
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by kudokatz 7y ago
> At Amazon, perhaps one of the largest and most successful employers, the solution to this is that when interviewing, everyone's main goal is to hire people better than the current average of the team. At this point it's Kool-
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by kudokatz 7y ago
I did also find the ecosystem to be not-so-mature a few years ago. Compared to something like Rails or various Java collections of tools it feels like things are less available or simply a poorly-made Clojure veneer over and underlying Jav
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by kudokatz 7y ago
> The strangeness of Silicon Valley right now is that if you're lucky you can "retire" long before 40. The entire Financial Independence (FI) movement is all about doing this everywhere (not just the valley) and without lu
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by kudokatz 7y ago
> and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection 29 U.S.C. Sec. 157 Do you think that objecting to a business model or alleged risks thereof falls under the category
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by kudokatz 7y ago
For those that are interested, I was able to attend a talk by the guy that started Graphcore. His experienced approach to customized chip design for ML/AI is a really great thing to tap into. Some of the themes were: maximize power u
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by kudokatz 7y ago
A lot of discussion I heard around writing idiomatic Rails led to really fat models. Given the number of database trips back and forth with ActiveRecord, it didn't end well. Eventually as the system grew it was much better to have bul
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by kudokatz 7y ago
there's also a middle-ground - take lower-paying positions that allow for a great deal of learning and responsibility; it can increase knowledge and employ-ability later.
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by kudokatz 8y ago
It's not as much about your "experience". IIRC there was scarring in heart tissue after running a marathon distance in a large majority of runners independent of training. This could plausibly impede blood flow if the hea
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by kudokatz 8y ago
> There are likely tens of matches for me within a 5 minute drive, I just don't know how to find them. I have found meetup.com to be exactly this. Not everybody at a meetup will click personally, but they're much more likely t
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by kudokatz 8y ago
> Even more paradoxical ... running a marathon As a runner this feels like a statement that shows some (very reasonable) ignorance of feelings and motivations. Achievement through empowerment of hard work can be a very healthy way for a
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by kudokatz 8y ago
> if an exit were to happen, which could make the founders very rich, the early employee gets nothing Depends what you mean by "early". The first engineers should be getting 1% or a bit more and getting diluted along the way.
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by kudokatz 8y ago
> one shouldn't use it as a guaranteed safe rate of course not - there are no certainties > It included massive bull runs that may not be repeated it also worked through times like the great depression; on aggregate it's ama
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by kudokatz 8y ago
> The trick to being happy all the time is doing new things that make you happy all the time. Achieving "Financial Independence" -- when a portfolio meets all basic income needs -- can greatly enable this. The question is why

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