kudokatz

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by kudokatz 9y ago
> We need to move to companies seeing that data as a liability, not an asset this could lead to serious limitations on legitimate future progress including on anything built using statistical methods that require large training data sets
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by kudokatz 10y ago
I'm in the same boat ... except I ended up buying to insulate myself from a ridiculous housing market since there are lots of jobs within a 30min trip of my place. The glorification of home ownership really baffles me, although I still
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by kudokatz 10y ago
for those that are more curious about this, a google-able term is "Roth IRA Conversion Ladder". An alternative is "substantially equal distributions" if I recall properly.
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> Can someone explain in a few words Live extremely frugally, invest all savings in the S&P 500, live happily-ever-after on that same budget for the rest of your life. IMO the key is being happy on a very small budget.
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> The odds of getting a six figure payout at a startup is lower than the odds of getting a six figure annual salary at bigco. Well-funded, small start-ups that are high growth can still get to 80% of "bigco" salaries--well into
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> What does the value of your work have to do with your salary, though? Delivering more value can justify more compensation. But unless you're on contract for a percentage of the take, you don't necessarily get compensated bas
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> If I can't crush it, I don't want to play. It's really worth it, IMO. There's really a HUGE element of luck: from the personality and opinions of those interviewing you to the questions they happen to choose that d
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> So I wouldn't recommend winging it in a Big 5 interview unless you're comfortable with the possibility that a bad performance might blackball you there. After going through "interview training" for one, they do blac
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by kudokatz 10y ago
Yes, this. Also, if you look at the source of the output that is publicly available, you find that the overall quality is actually much lower than one might expect if they were hiring people that were truly great at making software more of
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> It can take a good 8 minutes to build, optimize, tree-shake, AOT etc. a modern SPA application. Can't you break your SPA into modules that are versioned and build independently to help solve this problem? With additional infrastr
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> I feel like I've spent way too much time working I'm genuinely curious why you feel this way. What would you rather do?
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> But what is that financial security for if you might not be around to enjoy it? It changes your whole outlook on life. When there is a reasonable amount of financial security, one can truly focus on the important things without consid
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> You could hide all async in a procedural layer if you accepted the constraint that once an async call starts, none of your own code will run until it returns. It wouldn't block the browser or OS, but it would block you ... I have
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by kudokatz 10y ago
Financial Independence Retire Early Everybody in the community has a different view of things, but for many "retire early" simply means "work on what you want to" rather than "bum around the beach all day for the re
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by kudokatz 10y ago
I feel this argument is taking things to extremes. There are many intermediate states between living in a vehicle without heat and insisting on eating out, buying nice things, having vacations, expensive phones and plans, etc.
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by kudokatz 10y ago
> having to slave away 10-12 hours a day Well, part of that is a choice to consume at a rate that requires such work. It's somewhat easy to have a nice financial position by delaying kids and not pouring money into cars and shoppin
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by kudokatz 10y ago
It's true I haven't used NodeJS for actual projects, but writing entire apps in Javascript where other languages are available does not appeal to my personal aesthetics or technical sense on many levels. Simple namespacing in JS
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by kudokatz 10y ago
If you want webapps, it's good to understand Javascript. I love clojure to death so much I write it in my spare time as a developer working on other stuff. But the reality is that its surrounding community is tiny, and that makes