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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Makes sense, thanks for your understanding! As I alluded to, I think you can make a convincing projection that the future state will be worse. It’s just that the current situation is still within the bounds of expectation, so it’s not itsel
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Being laid off isn’t sufficient to make this a bad situation for high performers. If they’re getting new jobs quickly, it’s just a short-term setback. Note that I’m not commenting on how high performers are doing in terms of getting new job
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
HFT, prop trading, market makers and the like are also finance firms right? They are still pretty coveted by those who are aware of their existence. Jump Trading, Citadel, Jane Street, DE Shaw etc are considered highly prestigious and compe
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Agree that strategically lock in is a concern, but getting on AWS at least removes the inertia of moving to cloud. It’s probably much easier to go from on prem to cloud to multicloud than on prem to multicloud directly - especially at the t
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I interned there a couple years ago. It was nice to use tech that was more standardized than proprietary / internal so that the skills were easily transferable. From a business perspective it takes you out of the business of managing y
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I somewhat agree with the demotivation aspect, but you don’t need to change your process. 10x is a descriptor of productivity not time spent. You can still do what made you a 10x (e.g. read docs from scratch to get an understanding of every
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
As someone who's always heard that US pays much better but never verified it, this was interesting to look into. According to levels.fyi, 90th percentile in the Greater Seattle area [0] is $344-363k USD while 90th percentile in the Gre
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I think your implication that there is some unspoken upper limit is valid, but as long as said upper limit is more than what you would have gotten for vacation days (8 weeks, or 40 days, seems way beyond the normal amount. Microsoft started
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Holy cow, you had hundreds of thousands of dollars of assets and couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to cash out before they lost value? You are on a different planet of financial management than most of us.
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
How did you get started in this kind of role? Did you first create your own content and then publishers reached out because of it?
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
If the vast majority of applicants from one bootcamp claim to be employed by them then I can see why you would be suspicious, but I’d be hesitant to throw out all bootcamp grads who say they’ve been employed by their bootcamp. There might b
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Sorry for the wording, I see how it can be interpreted that way. Seems I skipped a few details on accident.
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
That’s a good point! However, there’s still things Python could do to help make the experience better. The package I was using had multiple artifacts per version, including the raw zipped source code and wheels for each ABI they built for.
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Not sure what you mean. pex is the dependency lock, at least from a version perspective. To be clear, it broke after I intentionally upgraded the offending package to the later version. I admit to being unaware of "versions inside vers
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Agree. I had a build pipeline pulling down an internal package to build into a `.pex` [0] file for running a Python program in a release pipeline that did not have access to the internal package repository. I came up with this solution beca
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
You bring up a great point! I was in a rush because the opportunity was sudden and didn't think through all the information that would be helpful to share. Unfortunately, the business' financials weren't great, so we've
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Thanks for the tip! This is a useful resource and I can see small business owners getting value out of it. Unfortunately, the business wasn't listed and I don't think there is a way to generate a projection for an arbitrary busine
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Thanks for the info! We did meet with the owner and evaluated the books. You are right that a lot of money was left on the table, especially due to poor inventory management and overhiring in this case. Unfortunately, even with rosy project
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Ask HN: Does anyone have experience purchasing a brick and mortar business?
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
You’re right, I don’t think their exercise is public. I just wasn’t sure if you knew about it and felt it was good enough to call out. This is awesome to hear! I did check out your website but wasn’t sure how closely it tracked with the Git
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I interviewed for a backend role and the problems were greatly simplified versions of day-to-day backend SWE work. For example, use a server to complete a task. The focus was on how you make the requests and handle any edge cases that might
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I hard disagree with your disagree :) 1. Some candidates only need to brush up to be in interview shape. 2. To mitigate the need to spend time to prepare, simply use initial assessments to get back in shape. That is, apply to and interview
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
While this certainly sounds like reasonable criteria for rating a take home, does this truly account for general candidate reluctance to do take homes due to the time commitment? Even 2-4 hours is more time than conventional Leetcode-style
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
There’s a surprising amount of undeveloped land privately owned even close to populated areas. On a recent tour of Stanley Park in Vancouver, the guide gestured at the mountainside to the northwest and told a story about how the Guinness fa
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
To be honest, I didn’t entirely mean it as a comment on the search quality. But you would expect a search engine to return results about itself, and it was amusing it didn’t!
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
As the underlying project discussed by this post is a search engine, I searched for “mwmbl” on mwmbl.org [0], and no results were found! Relevant results like the main site and GitHub repo show up when searched on Google or Kagi. [0] - htt
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I think versioning in Volvo and Polestar are somewhat in sync. For Polestar, CarPlay has only been retracted in 2.2 for US (which some hypothesize includes Canada) and UK. When the version was first released there was a bug where speed is s
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Well, I couched it saying it was an overestimate. Besides, having $1,000,001 technically makes you a millionaire but I don’t think that’s what people are referring to when they’re talking about “millionaires and billionaires”. 4 years of $8
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Is it safe to characterize those who would pay full price as only the children of millionaires and billionaires? I filled out the FAFSA just to see and my EFC (when I first started college) was 91,000. I doubt my parents were millionaires;
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by noisenotsignal 5y ago
There are certain classes of websites where the proposed solutions aren’t a great fit. For example, a shopping site hiding their catalog behind paywalls or authentication would raise barriers to entry such that a lot of genuine customers wo

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