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by matt_s 6y ago
There is little advantage for a company to list the salary, ones that do commonly state up to $high_figure for the right candidate. There are other factors in total compensation though, benefits coverage, bonus, perks, etc. As an applicant
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by matt_s 6y ago
I worked at two Fortune 500 (> 50,000 people) public companies and now work at a medium-small sized private company (~500 people). I prefer medium-small company. Also - what number would be small? like < 100? The only advantage to lar
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by matt_s 6y ago
Paper by mail voting should be our standard in the US. There is absolutely no need for real-time efficiency when it comes to potentially changing political office seats. There usually is a month or two before the successor takes office so
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by matt_s 6y ago
I think a lot of folks may succumb to a 1-up mentality to become the most knowledgeable, best at something, to keep pursuing that interest to no end. Maybe folks like that just enjoy the pursuit more than the activity. I suspect that peopl
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by matt_s 7y ago
I think most of the intermediate to hard concepts, best practices, etc. are usually learned on the job as you run into problems and solve them. I would also guess that more of the advanced things tend to be on the backend. A todo list app
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by matt_s 7y ago
For more recent history, Alan Kay gave a couple talks at Stanford that are on Youtube. He goes over much of the work done at PARC. It might spark an interest in one of those topics to dive deeper into.
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by matt_s 7y ago
I think initially it was because they didn't want masks to disappear from the market causing a shortage for hospital workers that 100% need them. From what I've read, its also early on so there weren't a lot of studies about
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by matt_s 7y ago
I didn't state I was advocating for it, just that it is a solution. Others in the media have said if we could freeze everyone in place for 14 days this virus would not have as much impact, if any. People are blatantly ignoring instruc
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by matt_s 7y ago
If you don't have the ability/skills to work on epidemics and are not a health care worker of some kind, stay home. A church in Florida held a service and 10's of people are infected now, which knowing the exponential spread
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by matt_s 7y ago
I'm not familiar with MongoDB to know if it has peculiar behavior so my experience is with traditional RDBMS. You could write the backend/middleware and front-end to handle both situations of if a column/data field is present
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by matt_s 7y ago
Control freak companies that don't trust their employees to work remotely or don't have any empathy for employees during this pandemic aren't going to change their ways if someone alters a word or two in a document. Face-to-f
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by matt_s 7y ago
Do you have recommended resources or advice with the online high school? For some of us in states that cannot legally move forward with instruction, it might be an option to apply for an online high school.
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by matt_s 7y ago
An unscientific observation about "summer" is in the west, schools aren't in session. That might be a very large contributor to the spread of all viruses. I think there are too many variables to approach this scientifically
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by matt_s 7y ago
Simple things go a long way. An easy one is abstraction. If you are writing an interface to another system of any kind (DB, API, etc.), abstract that interface one layer from other parts of your app. Then when that other thing changes you
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by matt_s 7y ago
It seems driven what the local government is doing which (at least in US) is going to be dictated by how much federally funded relief money they can get. In some states it will take a legislative act to cancel school and/or significant
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by matt_s 7y ago
A problem with TV news is that there are very few facts to be found. I haven't once seen them show a chart with ratios on death rate per age bracket per country. This is commonly found online for this outbreak with many analyses about
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by matt_s 7y ago
Duplo - larger Lego that they mostly can't put in their mouth. Be prepared for about a decade of being bored with kids toys. Also realize that your child may not be interested in anything you are interested in, its ok. They are their
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by matt_s 7y ago
Last week I did some napkin math on numbers published and came out with a 2.5% death rate. I assume gathering statistics globally can be difficult since each jurisdiction may count/report numbers differently and have different detecti
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by matt_s 7y ago
A REST API typically does the mundane CRUD operations on data so you would definitely need a database. More importantly, who is the customer? Companies w/o developers wouldn't probably be building an API, they would be looking at
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by matt_s 7y ago
Voting should be done via paper. It can't be hacked at scale, requires little to no QA (get senior citizens to test layouts) and can be validated manually. There is absolutely no need to have immediate results of any election in the U
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by matt_s 7y ago
Lots of good suggestions here. You mentioned Ruby so I am going to assume some usage of Rails. There is a good presentation from ElixirConf 2019 about learning Elixir first before diving into Phoenix. Keep that in mind as you think of pe
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by matt_s 7y ago
Talk to your manager and see how they think you are doing. You might be too hard on yourself and/or in awe of co-workers. It sounds like you are in a good spot to soak up knowledge from people that are highly respected in their fields
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by matt_s 7y ago
If you read accounts from actual war veterans that saw combat, they clearly state FPS games are nowhere near reality. War games make game companies money, fighter jet games, battlefield, FPS, doesn't matter. The stories vary from thin
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by matt_s 7y ago
Something others haven't mentioned might help along the way: see if you can get an office-type job at a construction company while you are self-learning and/or going to school. It could even be volunteering where you currently wo
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by matt_s 7y ago
Step 1: Watch Alan Kay's talks at Stanford: How to Invent the Future I - CS183F (2 parts, 2 hours) Step 2: Realize that in the last 40-50 years there hasn't been many huge revolutionary inventions/ideas like those in computin
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by matt_s 7y ago
#1 way: vote. Pay attention to issues that you care about and research where candidates stand on these. Research can be done a day or two before voting (primary or general) read up on them.
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by matt_s 7y ago
Similarly, I bet the mechanic is going to be held to their work and dropping in a new engine shifts the responsibility to a warranty item vs. them finding there is more work needed after digging in and replacing a part.
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by matt_s 7y ago
An aside but ... > "mechanic suggested a $20,000 engine overhaul, I spent the next two weeks researching the issue on my own, called multiple friends of mine and it turned out I just needed to replace a $300 part" Do you think
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by matt_s 7y ago
Rapidity of feedback for some means constant interruptions for others. Ideally you would want a way for engineers to have private spaces but also have team rooms. That takes a lot of floor space so open-ish cubes surrounding an open space
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by matt_s 7y ago
A funny outcome, possibly intentional, is a cheesy activity may force the common bond just because they are all going thru the miserable activity.

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