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by metabro 4y ago
20k is 240k a year. That’s not an atypical base salary for someone fairly senior at a faang. Then there bonus which brings cash comp to around 290k. Rsu is the largest part of comp for a senior person so more that half. So add another 30
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by metabro 4y ago
Isn’t that the case with education in general. Most of it is online for free now. Why do we pay for college?
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by metabro 4y ago
I’m assuming you aren’t Japanese based on your Other comments. How has dating and your social life been in Japan.
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by metabro 4y ago
There just is so much work that I don’t get how working 4 days will workout. The work isn’t going to scale down. The deadlines I don’t think will change. At my company which is a very typical big sv company, no one is watching how long you
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by metabro 4y ago
I want to buy a home so I can provide security for my wife and I as a hedge against inflation over time. I don’t want to end up a renter when I’m retired. Buying in california in theory locks in housing costs until I decide to sell. In my m
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by metabro 4y ago
I see, you were talking about closing costs. Yeah I fully fund retirement plus I bonds plus sick some away in after tax account and kids 529. So I think I am investing the difference now. But I still have the couple hundred grand that was e
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by metabro 4y ago
I agree. Could have done without the “just”.
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by metabro 4y ago
>Keep in mind that instead of feeling bad about losing possible equity in a house you could invest that money instead of spending it on closing costs. So in a short term situation you can potentially earn more money by NOT buying a house
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Ask HN: Should I buy a home?
3 points by metabro 4y ago|9 comments
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by metabro 5y ago
Doesn’t this read like “just invest in anything”? OPs q is “what” to invest in given that one can’t hold cash when inflation is rampant. I’m just continuing to buy us equities with a tilt towards the nasdaq 100. But I have no idea how that
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by metabro 5y ago
Why not?
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by metabro 5y ago
You ever consider that the truth is pretty simple and fb does actually care about privacy? It also creates a moat for them as implementing privacy well is expensive.
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by metabro 5y ago
As a bad programmer who only really knows Python. I agree.
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by metabro 5y ago
Brazil has WhatsApp pay
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by metabro 5y ago
You are right. Upi is something unique to India so WhatsApp pay in India can’t leverage the Fb pay infrastructure. However, it can elsewhere including the us.
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Ask HN: What is the shortest path to making web apps for a data engineer?
3 points by metabro 5y ago|4 comments
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by metabro 5y ago
Yes there is but I think esp for sale it means different things at different places. Big tech companies do hire a ton of data roles but they might not align with what people assume the role to be.
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by metabro 5y ago
There’s a ton of non web dev work at big companies. Anecdotally all my work has been in building data warehouses and data lakes. Having said that, there will be some cross over with web tech and it’s not a bad idea to start there and end up
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by metabro 5y ago
It’s before taxes and it’s typically total comp: base + bonus + equity
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by metabro 5y ago
Assuming you mean income? 330k usd data engineer 10 yoe Bay Area