lgieron

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by lgieron 10y ago
The flip side of being in the flow is that you're not learning much (the task is literally so easy for you that you can lose yourself in it).
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by lgieron 10y ago
The J2ME phones had physical buttons, with real physical clickey sensation when you press them. That's a world of difference in gaming when compared to a touchscreen.
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by lgieron 10y ago
I think consumerism tends to creep in when your life is emotionally empty (i.e. no meaningful human connections, no true passions), the same way alcoholism and other addictions do.
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by lgieron 10y ago
The central bank can set their rate at 1000%, but if no one has any potential investments that can yield 1000%+ returns, companies just won't borrow money. In other words, no one will be getting 1000% returns on their savings. On the o
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by lgieron 10y ago
Bad idea IMO, he's still very inexperienced and thus likely to not be taken seriously even if he's right.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Cases in point: Tesla and SpaceX. They aren't charities. They are very purposeful. Those are just two companies, ran by the same guy. I think finding even a couple dozen more examples would be very difficult.
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by lgieron 10y ago
There are hardly any (well paid) remote positions in C++ though? So it's the kind of path where your career might dictate where you live.
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by lgieron 10y ago
A retiree.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Wow, contracting taxes are higher in the US The justification in Europe is that governments want to encourage entrepreneurship (and contracting counts as entrepreneurship), hence lower taxes. I wonder what's the logic behind the U
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by lgieron 10y ago
That's true, but at least it shows that people in Japan have enormous amounts of saved capital (if they could finance all that debt).
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by lgieron 10y ago
> but the borrowing to fuel its growth has caught up, From what I've read, the Japanese public debt is mostly domestic, so it wasn't actually foreign money that was fueling the growth.
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by lgieron 10y ago
And, more often than not, these requirement changes are used as excuses for extending the deadline so that project ends up being done "on time". I've worked in management on multi-year waterfall projects and this is how this
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by lgieron 10y ago
What about the financial CEOs who, after the US government rescued their firms with bailout, prompty paid themselves multimillion dollar bonuses with the bailout money? I think people change during the course of their life. While greed will
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by lgieron 10y ago
I'm not sure how typical it is for a grunt level developer to be making >$300k in SV. For that kind of money, you typically need to be a manager (team lead at least). I think you can expect yearly earnings of around 150k pounds when
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Anecdotally, I believe the best-paying jobs are in northern Europe, especially in Germany I think nothing in Europe beats London. Of course, the rents are insane, but if you don't have a family and are willing to live in a shitty
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by lgieron 10y ago
> I was making $300K+ a year in base salary and equity compensation Out of curiosity, when making a total comp of $300k in Silicon Valley, what kind of take home pay (after taxes) can you expect - including pension contributions?
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by lgieron 10y ago
> getting easily bored Getting easily bored was helpful?
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by lgieron 10y ago
> And because of the way the free market works despite the average family working twice as many hours as one in the fifties they're no better off IMO the fifties in the US were a total anomaly and they're not coming back ever.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> then that's unsustainable in the long term I agree that it sucks, but I'm not sure if it's unsustainable. There are plenty of worse situations in the world that pretty long-lasting.
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by lgieron 10y ago
It's a good example IMO. I didn't come to my mind because I see it more as a colony liberating itself rather than internal turmoil - the ruling masters were mostly on another continent, so there was no problem of what to do with t
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by lgieron 10y ago
I'm not sure I call a revolution "a win" - see the French revolution (hundreds of thousands dead in cleansings, country ruled by ruthless dictator) or Bolshevik or Chinese Communist Revolutions. I'm finding it hard to co
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by lgieron 10y ago
I'm in general anti benefits myself, but I think the payments received by a minor on death of a parent are one of the most fair, and best investment for society. They're pretty hard to game (you'd have to kill your own parent
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by lgieron 10y ago
The US would seem to counterpoint that, esp. with tons of people participating in voluntary work and civic engagement (compared to other countries).
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by lgieron 10y ago
> that I believe you're on your own to pay yourself out of the fund. I am specifically interested in that part :) If I'm withdrawing the money myself from the fund, then I have to take into account the small possibility of me l
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by lgieron 10y ago
The role of this project is primarily to showcase your skill in the techniques required for the job. If you can show that you're familiar with technologies required, you're using the right technology for the right problem, can str
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by lgieron 10y ago
IMO you need to decide whether you want to leverage your existing MechEng diploma and experience and go into something like CAD or if you want to be a "generic" software eng. The first route would probably make more sense (there a
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by lgieron 10y ago
It does - both this question and the original question imply something that's not necessarily true.
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by lgieron 10y ago
I'd pay for a pension fund - which takes my money and, when I retire, uses it pay out fixed income pension every month, based on my life expectancy.
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by lgieron 10y ago
You can stop responding now - apparently the surveymonkey has a limit of 100 responses on their free plan, and upgrade would cost me hundreds of dollars. Anyone with a paid account is willing to redo this survey later? (we're already a
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by lgieron 10y ago
If I made it into two separate questions, I doubt I'd be able to make a meaningul report out of it with survey monkey. Plus, I don't think it's that confusing really - if you give your answer for a given field, it means that

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