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by latencyloser 9y ago
Anecdotal, but I have an uncle who, is a very good man but completely illiterate in terms of technology and closely resembles a "Larry the cable guy" stereotype, bought a surprising amount of bitcoin and then called me to ask how
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by latencyloser 9y ago
I too rejected a job at Google after feeling like they just wanted to pigeon-hole me, so to speak. But, as a former Microsoft employee as well, it's not all sunshine there either. While experiences tend to vary, there I was crammed in
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by latencyloser 9y ago
I remember in college reading "Laborem Exercens", despite it's very religious justifications, had a major point that resonated with me about the "dignity of work". In my interpretation of it (as a 20 year old), it a
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by latencyloser 9y ago
As a former Microsoft employee, my experience was that the longer a product was around, the harder it was to figure out who understood any part of it well enough to change something. I would guess I averaged about 10 lines a month on my pro
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by latencyloser 9y ago
To add on: I just moved to Seattle from Chicago where I lived for several years. In Chicago, I used strictly public transportation or walked, it worked great because I never needed or wanted to leave the "city" in general. If I di
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Anecdotal, but my mother was a mechanic, my uncle a cryptographer, another uncle was some type of police on base, my cousin is a drone pilot and just sits in an office like building despite technically being involved in combat I suppose. Se
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by latencyloser 9y ago
I worked on the exchange side(CME Group) and we used BigDecimal (and an in-house version that worked in a very similar way) quite often... Worked just fine for us as far as I know. That being said, I agree with your sentiment that there are
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by latencyloser 9y ago
As a fellow Microsoft employee, my blood boils a bit thinking of CodeFlow. My team has an "interesting" code review process that is 1/2 git diffs (via VSO Pull Requests) and 1/2 CodeFlow through TFS. However, I'd ta
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by latencyloser 9y ago
When I first lived in Chicago, this was _awful_. Even with Chicago's grid system, Google maps would only show like every 3rd street or something--even when zoomed in as much as possible. Not knowing the city, I'd frequently go th
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by latencyloser 9y ago
I suppose I was thinking in terms of the alternative being alcohol. If I were going to choose between a night out drinking, or a night out having smoked a bit, I'd go for the latter. I'd rather feel a bit hazy the next day than be
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Anecdotal, but I can't imagine living a normal life while regularly using though--even if regular is just a couple days a week. It's legal where I live and the handful of times I have used during the week, I can't remember wh
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Also, many companies that are competitors to Amazon in some form or another. Those tend to be the larger customers in my experience. Source: Am MSFT dev on the Azure side of things.
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Yes, I think you're lucky to be in a somewhat unusual position that let's you regularly work with problems like that. I'm merely a junior level developer working on database engines. Most of my day-to-day involves maintenance
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by latencyloser 9y ago
This doesn't align with my experience. I just interviewed with Amazon a few days ago, just testing the waters to see what's going on in the rest of the world, and it was very 'leetcode'-ish. So much so that I ended up ju
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Where'd you learn this stuff? As someone who recently ended up a family man, I'm definitely interested in keeping my place more secure.
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Would remote work help? I would think encouraging or allowing more 'white-collar' workers to be more spread out throughout the country would help increase demand in places other than large cities and tech hubs. I, for one, miss ru
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by latencyloser 9y ago
I'm just above entry level, but by no means a recent grad. Not all of us were lucky enough to land a big software gig right out of college ;) My family probably wouldn't be too happy to suddenly have roommates. Hah. But yes, if yo
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by latencyloser 9y ago
I'd give anything to work remote here. My partner and I have discussed buying a small 'ranch' on the other side of the cascades as a 'weekend home' and downsizing to a small studio here on weekdays. We figure the tw
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Seattle is quickly becoming 'bay area'-ish from what I can tell. Housing is certainly becoming difficult at incredible rates. Here in Bellevue, a colleague of mine bought a house for ~400k, it's now worth well over ~500k only
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Various forms of financial planning was what came to mind. The predecessor to robo-advisers. The guys I know that are really killing it in this have a few dozen clients investing several million each with them. Their commissions from this s
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Depending on the area, finance has many opportunities for "consultant" like work where a significant portion of your income can be commissions or performance based. This is where the real money is and the people I know that are su
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by latencyloser 9y ago
To add on a bit, I frequently have packages delivered (edit: by Amazon delivery) to the wrong apartment or building entirely. I'm thankful my community now is friendly and it just takes a day or so for me to track down who ended up wit
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by latencyloser 9y ago
I think the 'way too plugged-in to email' is what bugs me. I'm the recipient of _hundreds_ of PM emails a day. As an engineer it's easy to see this as lots of talking and little doing. But you're right, it's pr
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Hmm. I can't get into detail. But we use it for things that are mostly 'experimental' for the customer. Let's take the all-to-common TODO MVC app and say I add a caching layer between the app and the database. I would li
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Probably because the salary is comparable to dev, but with potentially a fraction of the work. I still don't fully understand the PM role here at MSFT. At previous companies I was at, the nearest equivalent of a PM was involved closely
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by latencyloser 9y ago
The project I work on at Microsoft uses feature flags. I see it with many Azure services as well. I can testify that it is absolutely if-statement hell, at least in the areas that rely on these feature flags. However, I will say I think &#x
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by latencyloser 9y ago
In my experience, pretty positive. I see Macs around campus frequently. In my team, people mostly use Windows, so there's definitely no alienation there. However, when people notice I mostly use Linux, I usually receive a chuckle for n
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by latencyloser 9y ago
I'm in a similar predicament to OP. I prefer Linux in most cases, it's what I'm used to. But I need or would vastly prefer one or the other depending on what I'm doing. A VM is fine for just checking outlook..or using Sk
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Correct. The project I work on at MS is 3 repos all by itself.
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by latencyloser 9y ago
Definitely depends on the group, but I think mostly just whatever building you happen to be in. The building I'm in is newly remodeled. Meaning entirely open-office. In my opinion, my building/group/whatever does it wrong by

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