morgante

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by morgante 10y ago
It's by far a worse strategy. The median outcome for a startup is much worse than the median job search.
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by morgante 10y ago
Personally the Googleyness thing is the most cult-like aspect of Google by far.
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by morgante 10y ago
> The Google study emphasizes what Google tests for, not what you need for the profession. While it's applicability to actual software development is debatable, the Google interview is not substantially different from other top tech
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by morgante 10y ago
> In the USA, obviously SF against NYC, you need to get information from Americans. I can't help you. Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I'm based here and making those comparisons myself. Specifically, NYC has both finance and
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by morgante 10y ago
> $100k in SF = $70k in London = £55k in London - is that what you're saying? Yes. You're right that European developers (even at the big 4) make far less. My comparison was more with SF/NYC salaries, where big 4 developer
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by morgante 10y ago
Yea, if you're not going to give any numbers I'm calling bullshit on the notion that finance pays better than big tech. From my experience in NYC tech, finance developers ( not quants) make less than big tech by far. With $100k y
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by morgante 10y ago
Can you throw out some numbers? I almost never hear of London developers making >$200k.
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by morgante 10y ago
Be careful of all the stereotyping though. I'm 23, have heard of Extreme Programming, and absolutely want my own private office (and, failing that, a silent shared work space).
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by morgante 10y ago
I don't need my own office, but I'd sure love to have one.
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm skeptical of the claim and suspect it might be (yet another) case of an older developer blaming young people for things. None of my friends (all in their 20s) prefer open offices.
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by morgante 10y ago
It's questionable whether you'll make more money as a developer in finance than at Google. It'll certainly require a lot more politics and careful planning.
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by morgante 10y ago
> What makes Google better than, say, Dropbox? Github? Facebook? Etc? Nothing, but they all pay well and are extremely rigorous in interviews.
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by morgante 10y ago
Google doesn't need to be magically different from all other companies to make it a desirable place to work. They just need to pay more than everyone else. Which they (along with a select few other giants) do. Attracting droves of appl
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by morgante 10y ago
A union in this case would actually be more likely to protect the harassers than the victim. Unions exist to protect employees in general even when that hurts specific employees. You can find plenty of cases where union reps have disputed
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by morgante 10y ago
> OK, it all depends on what the cash flow looks like I was making $150k/yr, which is pretty standard for a developer in NYC. > Also, the average apartment in Manhattan (if you do rent without roommates) is pretty close to your c
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by morgante 10y ago
Just because the suck isn't surprising doesn't mean it's not there. Like I said, if you're interested in the Microsoft ecosystem then Azure is probably great. I'm not. For running an open source stack, Azure is not
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by morgante 10y ago
"Cloud" storage is orthogonal to HTML. Most mobile apps also store their user data in the cloud.
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by morgante 10y ago
It's been a while since I last used Azure, but here are some of the bigger problems I remember: 1. No managed option for MySQL or Postgres hosting. 2. Hard to find resources in the panel and lots of confusion on security practices. 3.
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by morgante 10y ago
> I got the impression from my time with Google's offerings that their culture of "we're consumer focused, not devop focused" (anything from API's to reporting) Huh? What does "consumer focused" even me
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by morgante 10y ago
> I don't see how anyone could possible claim GAE or similar offerings from Google compete anywhere close to what Microsoft or Amazon is providing. I think your information is quite out of date. GCP is competitive with AWS for many
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by morgante 10y ago
I've played with Azure and it's terrible. If a client wants me to use Azure instead of Google or Amazon, I literally charge a premium because it's so much more painful.
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by morgante 10y ago
Sure, but my point is that Facebook is no under obligation to allow you to post that stuff and is free to remove it whenever they feel. They could delete Breitbart's page tomorrow if they felt like it.
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by morgante 10y ago
That was a typo. It should be: > There can't be a long history of documentation for something which is unproven.
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by morgante 10y ago
You dropped the most important part of that quote: "to millions of people." You're free to go on any street corner and rant about the moon landings. Facebook just isn't under any obligation to give you a platform to reac
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by morgante 10y ago
There are tons of other bars. What exactly has Facebook done to close other bars? Twitter is still around and very popular. So is Reddit. Heck, there's even a social network built just for people like you: https://gab.ai&#x2
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by morgante 10y ago
You claimed that you make an average salary for your experience, now you're admitting to being lowballed. Which is it? If you're not a new grad and you're only making $110k, then yes you are making under-market. I'm not
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by morgante 10y ago
To some extent, I agree that Politifact's ratings are bad because they're inherently subjective. Thankfully Facebook's system will allow you to click through to the original article and read the evidence for yourself. The lat
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by morgante 10y ago
> Hillary Clinton did attack her husband's mistresses and accusers, and there's a long history of documentation of that > But Politifact labels it "mostly false" because it was never proven to have come directly fr
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by morgante 10y ago
You are gas lighting. It is not "opinion" on whether the Pope endorsed Trump. It is unequivocal fact that he did not. Reporting to the contrary is fake news.
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by morgante 10y ago
> I have no problem with that. I have a problem with them choosing what I can share with my friends, and more generally what people can share with each other. They're not policing what you share with your friends, just what you can

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