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by morgante 10y ago
Presumably your bank is the one sending you statement emails...
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by morgante 10y ago
> I don't think you can support a ridesharing company that by design treats employees as contractors and also be socially conscious You state that like it's a proven fact, when it's anything but. I personally think it&#x27
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by morgante 10y ago
> The idea that the taxis are corrupt and despicable is 100% Uber/Lyft propaganda. Have you ever actually used a taxi? It's incredibly common for taxi drivers to refuse to pick you up because you don't look desirable, or a
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by morgante 10y ago
Tools like this will just force Ops engineers to further up-skill. I live by a simple motto that anything which can be automated will be automated. That includes setting up most generic toolchains. Ops engineers have two choices: adopt a
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm excited to see Amazon entering this space since I think far too much time is spent on setting up and managing devops tools, especially for small and medium-sized projects. [0] I've personally wasted lots of time on repetitivel
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by morgante 10y ago
It varies for everyone, but I personally think $100k is a good goal. It's enough that you can sustain yourself for quite a while and make investments in the business without worrying too much about the immediate costs.
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by morgante 10y ago
It's important to realize that working for someone else can be the best way to prepare yourself for a startup. Sometimes the best way to climb the higher hill is first to climb the short one and then work your way up the saddle. Starti
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by morgante 10y ago
It's no more dangerous than clicking on any shortened URL.
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by morgante 10y ago
> I don't bother with any frequent flyer memberships (even when I do, in fact, fly routes/airlines frequently) and I don't join any other clubs. It honestly pains me to hear that. It's like someone saying "I saw
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by morgante 10y ago
Renouncing citizenship is expensive and non-trivial. The US global taxation regime is a trap.
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by morgante 10y ago
> It is not a fringe practice or a weird setup - almost every business you transact with is set up as a passthrough entity. Citation needed. S-Corps are almost exclusively small and medium businesses.
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by morgante 10y ago
I guarantee you lots of smart wealthy people pay plenty of service fees. The dumb thing is not getting a card like the CSR, which easily pays for itself with the signup bonus alone.
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by morgante 10y ago
Honestly they're really only valuable if your home airport has a Centurion lounge. As much as I love Centurion lounges (and have access to them), I find myself in PP far more frequently.
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by morgante 10y ago
I definitely notice and talk about cards with some friends, but not due to prestige so much as churning.
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by morgante 10y ago
This article seems delusional, either on the part of Amex or the reporter. Chase isn't winning because Amex is too snobby or due to "cachet." They're winning because the Platinum rewards are inferior to the CSR, even af
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by morgante 10y ago
There was: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/redbook/
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by morgante 10y ago
> * Plus a full time salary at roughly $120k/year There's absolutely no way that's correct. It'd basically be pushing csallen to leave (he's an experienced YC founder, MIT grad, and full-stack developer). His mar
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by morgante 10y ago
You're assuming management competence (ie. that they know what they need). I've seen way too many companies where they have 3 or 4 developers doing work which 1 competent developer could do, but they're unable to hire or re
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by morgante 10y ago
I've never worked in the financial sector. The truth is that there's just vast differentiation in how companies treat and pay developers. Some companies basically don't recognize the need for quality and pay all their technic
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by morgante 10y ago
I can't prove that it's never caused me to be bumped down the list, but I don't think it's every hurt. For anyone where I've gotten to that stage I almost always get the offer. Plus, I feel a lot more confident when
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by morgante 10y ago
Or you could have integrity and refuse to answer the question. I've never had a recruiter push back when I said "I can't disclose my current salary, but I'm looking for around $x."
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by morgante 10y ago
> That is a given for nearly any job. If it's your only reason you want to take this particular job, it tells me you have zero passion for your work. Your reasoning seems flimsy. I'm extremely passionate about programming and t
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by morgante 10y ago
> Finance people regularly get paid $400k+ as new grads. Have you ever worked in finance? New grads in any position don't make that much. Don't believe me? There's public data on offers for top schools that corroborates
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by morgante 10y ago
It happens all the time, but I consider that a good thing. It's a waste of my time to interview with a company when the highest they'd ever pay is well short of my expectations.
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by morgante 10y ago
> They work as middleman that have intimate knowledge of a company's range, as well as their candidates' range, without either party knowing. That's comically naive. External recruiters routinely share candidate ranges wit
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by morgante 10y ago
You'd be amazed by how vast the range for developer salaries is. I've had employers think that $80k was a reasonable offer for me (when I was making $200k).
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by morgante 10y ago
Nothing stops you from making your own website now and distributing it. Indeed, there are entire portions of the internet devoted to giving people like Milo a platform.
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by morgante 10y ago
Uhhh, how exactly do you think that tipping is good for the IRS? Tips are far less likely to be reported as income than wages are. Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
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by morgante 10y ago
That's honestly why I continue to use Uber despite all the negative press. They continue to hold the line against the excessive tipping culture in America and I want to support them for refusing to give in to pressure to add a tipping
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by morgante 10y ago
Gladwell never claimed that we're all given equal potential though. Most of the book is focused on the gains from deliberate practice amongst those who already are genetically set up to succeed. In fact, a central point is about how

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