mdjasper

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   by mdjasper 3y ago

   I just looked up The Bay of Fundy on Google maps, having not heard of it before. I'm interested, can you explain what about this particular bay will make it interesting?
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   by mdjasper 7y ago

   I've just read the article you linked[1], as well as several others [2][3][4] and cannot find any information about this: >all companies foreign or not must provide unencrypted access to data to the Chinese government and must do so
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   by mdjasper 7y ago

   In an effort to promote transparency and to help new developers with information asymmetry, for the last 3 years I've conducted a survey of web developers and software engineers who are members of UtahJS. The topics are about compensat
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   2019 UtahJS compensation and education survey results(mdjasper.github.io)

   1 points by mdjasper 7y ago|1 comments
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   by mdjasper 7y ago

   There are a million reasons to agree that the data is never actually deleted * need to retain data to fulfill government requests * internal auditing * it's all backed up in some "data lake" somewhere to do internal ml or ana
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   by mdjasper 8y ago

   if account.countries.include(/ir.*an/) account.delete()
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   by mdjasper 8y ago

   Thank you for the correction, yes that was a typo
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   by mdjasper 8y ago

   Thanks!
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   by mdjasper 8y ago

   >Is there a hard ceiling for salaries for developers? Yeah I think there is a limit to what the market will pay for any particular skill, including developers. That limit will be constantly in flux year-to-year (see the 2017 results for
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    by mdjasper 8y ago

    I recently interviewed with a "large SF based social network" and their COL equivalent salary for what I make here in Salt Lake City would have been like taking a 50% pay cut!
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    by mdjasper 8y ago

    It's my intuition that salary increases with experience for that time until you have basically "capped out" what the market will pay for your skills. After 9 or 10 years, talent and skill are probably a more a factor than exp
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    by mdjasper 8y ago

    Yeah I felt positive about this result as well! I believe that pay discrimination does happen and I don't want to invalidate anyone experience if that has happened to them, but I've been pleased to work with very competent men and
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    by mdjasper 8y ago

    That's a good point about potential bias (those making more are more likely to respond). It's my intuition from living and working in this area for a long time that the responses are pretty representative. The surveyed group (Utah
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    by mdjasper 8y ago

    That's a great question. I haven't directly seen any other surveys performed by "the other side" so to speak. But in looking at comparative data online ( https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/utah-comput
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    by mdjasper 8y ago

    For the last couple years, I've conducted a survey of software engineers in my region about their pay, education, and other career related things. I believe strongly that opening up discussions about pay will help everyone overcome som
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    2018 UtahJS Pay, Education, Job-title Survey(mdjasper.github.io)

    69 points by mdjasper 8y ago|72 comments
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    by mdjasper 8y ago

    And have been since the 60's. Here an interesting article about one building, modularly constructed for 1968 World's Fair: https://www.mysanantonio.com/150years/major-stories/article/... And a fasci