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> That's not true at all anymore, at least not for TC. OP was discussing salary range, not total comp--but I'd be a little surprised to find that even TC at the $350k range at the top outside of SV firms is quite high. I'm
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> Some people say this reduces your negotiating leverage because it reveals your hand too much. I try to get around this by making clear it's a minimum, not a maximum, and anything other than stellar equity/benefits/WLB wi
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4y ago
> If the upper bound of your range doesn't exceed $350k there is no chance that any of the senior engineers I know will apply and honestly to get something to think about leaving a job they are moderately happy with you'd have
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4y ago
> Except for the thing about boys and divine pleasure that just about sounds like the founding of the United States to me. That's probably not exactly true, but obviously universal-er suffrage has been a very long and fraught road.
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> Well, at least the Romans that replaced them had a senate? Not a scholar of the period, but I was under the impression that Greece's democratic system meant that only male land-owners could vote and that the leading philosophers o
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> Is the MySQL backend option fully functional now? Out of curiosity, was there anything about it that wasn't working? When I got married I moved away from GNUCash because the interface was too intimidating...but I had been using th
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The ultra-deluxe DVD comes with subtitles for those who don't like the movie, all taken from Shakespeare's Henry IV , I believe. They're generally appropriate, in my memory. It wouldn't surprise me to find they thought
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4y ago
Read a lot. Best tech writing regardless of domain right now is supreme court opinions. Reasonably accessible, written to be read, usually lucid. Read your own work after a layoff. Read out loud. Write to be read out loud.
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> It doesn't matter if I like the minority or not, singling them out for more political power makes no sense. It seems like as a society we have a complicated relationship with this idea. Rights are in principle equal, but power is
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> I'm not sure what your point is here? While the EC could "erode voting power" of the majority in favor of minorities we don't like, it may also favor those minorities we do like.
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> And why do we give more voice to the rural vote? Sure they would be a minority otherwise, but so are left handed people and we don't give them more vote. There are other minorities that we think a bit harder about than left hander
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> Tolkien's universe is a quite depressing one. It's a series of stable periods interspersed with cataclysmic events that permanently lower the quality of life. I've been sitting in this comment for a day or two now, tryin
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> ... there's a reason why LaTeX never really threatened Microsoft Word. Apropos of nothing, LyX[1] is a pretty good stand in depending on one's needs and tolerance. There are some challenges if you need something that has more
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> After all, nothing would matter if I am gone. To you, perhaps; but I would guess most everyone else would disagree. > Why bother with all of that? It's not for you. Consider that relationships among your heirs and assigns are n
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4y ago
Related: Am I Liable for Murder if my Murder Attempts to Commit Murder[1] [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/comments/ki9gb1/i...
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> Opera Mail was awesome. Among other killer features, the automatic sorting into mailing lists was huge for me: no more filtering, no more clutter. Opera mail was really a great client.
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> i honestly don't like their icons and paddings around the objects Under Appearance is "User Interface Zoom."
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> I'd use it if the browser sync worked at all Out of curiosity, what doesn't work? I've had a few issues where I got logged out, but generally it's been pretty solid since intro.
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4y ago
> Another benefit, which may or may not matter to you in particular, is that the client can handle multiple email accounts without mixing them. This generally isn't possible in a webpage unless there's a single service that has
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> 5. And then the mailing client. I was really excited to try it out so I logged in via Gmail. As email accounts are these days, it contained thousands of emails. The surprising thing was Vivaldi started syncing all of them. Literally do
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> [edit: and RSS feeds. RIP] Vivaldi has an integrated RSS reader and Reading List.
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Vivaldi's predecessor, Opera, actually included an IRC client that I used back in the day. I maintained an interest in Vivaldi because Opera Mail was easily the best client I've ever used, and while Vivaldi Mail lacks a few of th
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> I'd use vivaldi if they improve their ui Suggestions? The interfaces are pretty customizable, so it's surprising to find that this is a particular problem--unless there's something specific.
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> (B) disincentivize cheating. This is tough to do but if someone is motivated not by a grade but by the experience or knowledge gain itself cheating is no longer of interest. When I was in college, the rule in our department was that if
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> That's a unique unit of measure I've not seen before. There are some fun Wikipedia entries on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measu... https://en.wikipedia.
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> Nim goes further there by removing the need for tools like Pandas and numpy. You don't have to write code in "Pandas-style" because native Nim is equally fast and sometimes faster. Can you clarify this? Is there an equi
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> Unless you're referring to something else. Perhaps. Statistics seems like a way for us to quantify uncertainty under certain assumptions. We can formalize this, but I'm not sure that's helpful for me to help articulate
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> Beliefs founded in faith cannot be argued or proven. Is there a continuum here? E.g., with statistics?
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5y ago
Do you use a NIOSH (or other regulatory) approved mask? And, editing here, how do you clean up afterward?
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Read and record yourself. Repeat until you learn what sounds good coming out of your mouth. Write at the same time. Think about your words. Savor both. It makes a world of difference. When you write read aloud. Share. Communication of all k
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