mahyarm

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by mahyarm 11y ago
Another thing about startups I've realized is you want to start with something small, but you could also see being expanded further. For example, snapchat started with LA teenagers. Facebook started with harvard, then ivy league colle
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Wow thank you! I'm not at that level of pain myself, but I've started to notice symptoms that started to worry me, one of them being that numbness you originally described. I want to prevent a disaster before it happens, since m
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Do you know of a resource that explains all of the causes of various RSI symptoms and how to avoid them? Like how did you learn about the ulnar issue? I've found that there isn't an RSI doctor you can go to easily or look up on y
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by mahyarm 11y ago
I find software can actually be pretty social as you ask your peers for code reviews, go have lunch with each other, ask each other about their opinions about things, have planning meetings, just chat randomly about stuff at the water coole
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by mahyarm 11y ago
You can just give uber drivers a cash tip if you feel so inclined.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
When they give you those options and if you exercise right away they are taxed at whatever the current market value of the stock is, as income. It's only once you exercise and hold that you get the LTCG tax rate on the rise of price o
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by mahyarm 11y ago
It's more like 1 hr a day on a train if you're close to a bart station. It's closer than living in the sunset for most jobs!
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by mahyarm 11y ago
I always snort at what people call luxury in the bay area. 'luxury' here is the honda civic equivalent of new housing elsewhere in the USA. This is luxury housing: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-27
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by mahyarm 11y ago
No it's not. Tech industry workers are minority and some of the NIMBYs are tech workers on top of that.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
No, quite the opposite. A 500k house becomes 12 $250k 1000sqft condos is the actual math in SFH -> highrise conversion.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
I live in oakland, which is like living in beacon hill in seattle if your commute was driving to microsoft. Rent for me is only a few hundred dollars a month more, and I get paid better in the bay then I would working in seattle. You can
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Why not move to oakland or similar? Rent is like half in the nice areas, and even less in the not so nice areas.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Engineers might stay up until 2am, but they stay up until 2am at home because nobody else is bugging them. If they eat, it's gonna be cheap stuff or frozen trader joes food from the freezer, more time efficient.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Uber & co are good for tourists who don't want to get scammed. Locals might not be scammed, but it's very common for the tourists to get scammed. Also helps that you can enter addresses without having to know the native lang
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by mahyarm 11y ago
About 6 round trips, which gives you about a 30s latency on EDGE networks. Doing a key exchange once, retaining it and then doing future communications with just 1 round trip is significantly faster.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
It was just a trend I noticed, or maybe a difference in cultures. I notice my coworkers sometimes spending 15-20 minutes going over my code sometimes in phab. While at my past place they didn't dive deep into the code. People also d
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by mahyarm 11y ago
At a place I worked at, we did over the shoulder code reviews. You go to someone in person, ask them to do an OTS and you go over the code with them explaining anything. It meant most code reviews took about 5-10 minutes and was pretty fa
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by mahyarm 11y ago
The transbay busses are slower because they get stuck on the bridge. 8 minutes for bart to cross the bay vs 1hr for a vehicle on the bay bridge during rush hour. If I'm wrong, I would be pleasantly surprised.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Kind of like a salesman trying to sell you something... Enterprise software companies don't get paid until they say buy, and in the mean time the company hasn't been paid anything.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Big successful tech companies don't have this problem. Eng recruiting is it's own org, who works extensively with engineers and engineering managers. Recruiters basically keep a database of engineers and contact them to get them i
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by mahyarm 11y ago
The company is paying you money. The company is the customer of your services. This is why.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
So use GPIO?
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Decentralization although can have a hard time competing against more efficient centralized entities. A large amount of semi-cooperating smaller entities will not necessarily lead to less corruption, because small town corruption is a very
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Why not let people directly put in account numbers then? Lets users avoid online bank account liability but has the same effect.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
I think there is a tax deduction for paying off your student loans? Or is that just interest?
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by mahyarm 11y ago
They have been building, a lot actually. Condo prices as a result have been staying pretty stable until recently as a result. They need to build large condos that can take families although, something in the range of 1300-2000 sq ft and
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by mahyarm 11y ago
It isn't but it is a hedge. You put that down payment in some other asset class (stocks?), pay about half of what a mortgage would be currently and then profit when the RE asset bubble pops and buy when it's cheaper. And while y
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Well ironically, even when alberta was in economic boom mode, it was more affordable to buy a house there than it was in vancouver. And it's still more affordable. Also montreal. The big RE bubble areas of canada are Toronto and Van
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Most people are suggesting things like a non-occupied housing property tax, so people rent out unoccupied properties. And stronger money laundering enforcement so kleptocrats don't use housing as a bank account.
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by mahyarm 11y ago
Whats even funnier is how those same crack shacks are now $1.5mm to $2.4mm in price.

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