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TEDxUW - Larry Smith - Why you will fail to have a great career(youtube.com)
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by mdkess 15y ago
I worked at a major tech company, which gave pretty good stock options. The problem was, they then counted their value toward your salary if it went up while determining raises. Stock goes up, no raises this year - look at how much you made
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by mdkess 15y ago
Anyone who did 10 minutes of research (or went to the "Hacker" wikipedia page) would know that the word "hacker" means a very different thing within the technology community than outside of it, yet I see article after article feigning ignor
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by mdkess 15y ago
Broadway Technology - New York, NY and Austin TX We are a tight, fast and profitable ~50 person software company working in the financial software space. We don't trade - we sell pickaxes to the gold miners, so to speak. Our main product is
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by mdkess 15y ago
Broadway Technology - New York, NY and Austin TX We are a tight, fast and profitable ~50 person software company (we were at 30 people a year ago, we're growing fast) working in the financial software space (we don't trade - we sell pickaxe
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by mdkess 15y ago
You don't get taxed on free food at work.
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by mdkess 15y ago
This is somewhat of a tangent, but free lunch is a very important perk for me (note: I don't work at Google). For $15 a day, I could order in food every day and effectively have free lunch, wherever I worked. But I also wouldn't - in the ba
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by mdkess 15y ago
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch22.html
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by mdkess 15y ago
Except that you deduct your state/local income tax from your federal income tax.
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by mdkess 15y ago
To be clear, unless they've changed it recently it is six four month co-op terms, not four. Also to be clear, students do frequently spend two co-op terms at the same company. If you're really ambitious, nothing will hold back your career.
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by mdkess 15y ago
The tragic thing is that software companies in Waterloo don't pay that well. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. are offering new college grads around $100k salary, while companies such as RIM and OpenText in the Waterloo region pay m
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by mdkess 15y ago
I think that's a very cynical misreading of the article. | Poster child for delusional. The developer doesn't own it, the company does. He's just trying to guilt trip them Owning a project means that you get to drive the direction of it, no
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by mdkess 15y ago
This guy has some interesting points, and does seem to be addressing the problem. I was one of those 20-something techies who quit after a year (not at his company, though). Legacy code base, of course is not as much fun. Dual ownership of
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by mdkess 15y ago
Interest has not become a huge issue, but in any case - so what? They got the money for cheap, it has (presumably) fueled growth. Beating 1.5% over five years is not difficult - the idea is to borrow money to accelerate growth - increase pr
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by mdkess 15y ago
That's exactly what I thought the response would have been. Cheap money, low employment - hire lots of people to do stuff. But it seems like the public opinion is that this debt is bad, and I'm don't understand why entirely. I mean, I see a
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by mdkess 15y ago
I am not American, and here's what I don't get: America can borrow money right now at 1.5% for five years. Why is there such a clamour to stop? I would hope that the government would be able to get better than 1.5% return with the money - i
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by mdkess 15y ago
s/theory/hypothesis/g
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by mdkess 15y ago
Do both. Talk to these guys, make a time commitment, and you can pull both of these handily. Just don't count on too much sleep. Some things to consider - there is a certain glamour to the startup life, and certainly you can make it big. St
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by mdkess 16y ago
In the name of fairness, we should be sure to allow China to seize domains it finds politically objectionable, and Saudi Arabia to seize domains it finds morally objectionable.