monaghanboy

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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Thanks for elaborating, was genuinely curious.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
>We have a shortage on one side of the market. It will be relatively short lived. Can you support the latter claim?
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
It's good, but a huge chunk of this will be lost to taxes because he's in SV (I know because I live and work here as well, have been in a similar situation, and his numbers are plausible). So it's something to marvel at, but
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
>I am willing to bet that many of them do not share her drive The flip side to this: I'm self-taught and I've worked with plenty of CS graduates from good schools who didn't strike me as particularly driven or value-adding
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I thought his points were thoughtful and honest, even if a bit personal. Bias exists, in all parties (even you). No point in shaming him.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I'm always surprised when people try to connect math and physics to CS/programming. I studied differential geometry in grad school, wrote proofs and read dense textbooks daily (very rarely missing a beat), then taught myself progr
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
>That doesn't mean every individual should feel the need to contribute... You're reiterating what I said above. >...outliers like that tend to be self weeding anyway; no reason to shame the individual over it. I'm not s
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Our existence is what we make of it. It might be your purpose, or even most people's purpose, but there are plenty that frankly just aren't that interested.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
How often did you switch jobs? At 3.5 years of experience in Seattle I was making in the $140-150K range base, and this is at a struggling startup with an non-viable business model. I'd think that if you stayed at mostly the same jobs,
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
This can happen outside AppleFaceGoogSoft; as well I worked at a smaller public company getting 70K-100K a year outside of base salary with 4 year vest and annual bonus, and I know people with 25% more RSU than I had.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
>I guess startups only recruit the irrational? There are plenty of rational and not necessarily fiscal reasons why someone would prefer to work at a startup than at BigCo.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
True, SF is not "the valley". 4K a month is ridiculous for rent; for reference I work in MTV, live in Sunnyvale.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Non-career things can also factor in, sunshine and weather were important to me.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I almost think a better post would be "Learn Computer Architecture and the rest will come". For that, I can't recommend http://nand2tetris.org/ enough.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I agree with the last statement. I think it's best to learn basic computer architecture before learning C, which assumes a close relationship. I took http://nand2tetris.org/ before learning C; starting from a single l
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
You don't actually have to become a farmer to adopt the latter viewpoint and reap all the resulting life benefits.