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by mr_tristan 9y ago
You can find estimate calculators from various banks, realtors, etc. I just did a basic google search and checked out estimates from Zillow, Chase, and RE/MAX, and they range from 4% under my home price to 11% over. That's a prett
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Well, there are a lot of complicating factors in the US when a remote worker moves out of state. Health care seems to be a big one. Few HR departments are frequently equipped to provide another kind of health-care package, and health care e
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
And this is why tech jobs are going to continue to lead the charge to being mostly remote workers. Major tech hubs are crazy expensive, and the jobs are pretty amenable to remote work. At some point, there's going to be another inflect
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
DevOps to me was always just "software development for operations". Sysadmins always did some form of it, but in some cases you want someone just focused on a larger software solution and not really chasing down the latest request
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Yeah, leading 500 is a pretty different animal then 50. New hires are probably not going to expect to be "changing the course" and more focused on stepping in and keeping it. Turns of phrase from the leadership can frequently bewi
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Many companies frequently build a hierarchy of "direct reports". That hierarchy really loves having people they oversee being local. It's kind of a cultural thing, but it requires a very, very patient and rational manager to
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
I've found swagger codegen to be really, really inconsistent between different implementations. A few of them - I recall we had a team using Qt - didn't even generate compilable code. When I looked into the infrastructure of the c
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Just let them know early on in clear terms: "This is an early stage startup, and we're very likely going to need everyone to work beyond traditional hours." It really is that simple. But you have to understand that some peopl
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
I have had startups expect more then the typical 40 hours a week, and yep, I burned out pretty fast. But that's an easy filter: don't work at an early stage startup. Otherwise, it's amazing how little managers actually pay at
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
At no point do I recall Netflix promoting this rating system as anything but way to get better matches. The fact that so many comments are about losing a system for criticism, just confirms that it was the wrong metaphor to use in the first
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
People seem to be missing that he was complaining more about the tooling around React then issues with actually coding in React. Or at least that's what I read when I read this: > However the tooling is maddening. ... After I was s
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
I also forgot to mention: - The homework assignment wasn't open and public: it was an option after doing a brief (30 minute) phone interview. - The other option was basically coming in for onsite technical interviews.
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
My current company used a "homework assignment" and they bought a lot of my trust with it. 1. The "assignment" took me about 4 hours, which they expected and told me off the bat. 2. It involved mostly relevant code with
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Um... because that person might actually lose their job or a significant portion of their income in order to "express their opinion". In many places lines were several hours long . If you're a hourly employee working retail,
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
> support of roughly 50% of the population "Didn't vote" was roughly 43% of eligible voters. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were only able to garner support around 26% each. Thus, it's not like either party is close
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
While yes, it's important to quantify, I'm not sure the article is that actionable for most startups, or even businesses that don't have large HR departments. Most software development managers I know would just pull estimate
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
The first 100 days is actually a tradition for new US Presidents to create a plan (and a litmus test), which started with FDR in 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_100_days_of_Franklin_D._...
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
I don't believe JavaScript will be "un-experimental" until Kotlin 1.1 is out.
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My sense is that we need more journalism that can relate the dangers here to everyday people. A tech company complaining about a gag order probably won't garner a lot of interest to the average joe. Sadly, comedians seem to be the only
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Oh yes. We're splitting up a large monolith into a bunch of different services. Completely amazing, though there's a ton of tools (like Netflix's Hysterix, etc) that make it much, much easier to do. I wouldn't, however,
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Anecdotally, I've noticed a very big difference in elderly people who have lived in several places, especially abroad, versus those who have mostly spent their life in one home. They are usually much more lucid and easier to communicat
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
At least I'm starting to read about inconsistent measurements. I'm always baffled how the only really consistent metric in use is body weight or BMI, which is pretty useless to pay attention to. I mean, you can just starve yoursel
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Heh, funny to read this on the day my moving van arrives to get my things outta here! It's a little sad, but we simply got fed up with the standard of living here. And, the Bay Area just feels mismanaged. Getting around is a royal pain
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
I just wonder if we're seeing Apple try to slowly move away from being a "devices" company and identify itself in terms of "general computing", so including software and services. So yeah, everyone has this super-s
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I think you mean "don't expect to do CD to these people". CI is "developers check in code and everything is integrated daily". CD adds "and then we push it out live if tests pass". I've worked on soft
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The American story, reinforced regularly with research and articles like this one, has no category for professional or vocational training. The story is simply "how much university education do you have". If you go and train to be
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by mr_tristan 10y ago
Ummm... SFO landlords have huge demands for their apartments. It's pretty common for them to demand you pay for them to do a credit check just to apply to rent their apartment. So I seriously doubt there are many that decide "you&
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by mr_tristan 11y ago
There are a lot of people living further away from the city commuting in than people that live near BART or caltrain stations. Anecdotally, half the office (in a small startup) I worked with drove to a BART station, then took BART the rest
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by mr_tristan 11y ago
Right, I felt like the report just basically said that standing all day was not going to improve your health dramatically. Which I agree with. Standing is a sedentary activity. But the article made it seem like "your standing desk is a