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by pbrb 8y ago
I guess I'll have to brush up on whiteboard interviews. It just seems goofy that 350k is normal! I'm a sr engineer in chicago, and thought there was no way I could command the salary needed to make COL worth it.
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by pbrb 8y ago
That's to keep ppl from rubbing one out my man.
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by pbrb 8y ago
Which city? I'm in the midwest and would need that comp to relocate to SF or NY ;( didn't think it would actually be viable. Actually, if you have some time for some questions, can you PM me?
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by pbrb 8y ago
what company?
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by pbrb 8y ago
This, times a million. I'm partially FIRE, because I think of it as partial retirement. I still plan to produce income, just not as regularly or as much as I do today so I have time to do the things that I want to in life.
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by pbrb 9y ago
This is the only option. Also, you should any changes to your employment contract reviewed by outside counsel.
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by pbrb 9y ago
It's pretty easy to do - sell for fiat on any exchange that trades in it, and deposit fiat to your linked bank account. Unless you're unloading millions, then you're better off doing an auction.
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by pbrb 9y ago
There really aren't any major benefits/downsides anymore regardless of what you'll read. To clear one thing up, you should compare Rails/Django/Sails (each language's "full" web framework), and Sinatr
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by pbrb 9y ago
Yeah that's what I was thinking - most anything that's going to consistently pay better than a direct development role is still going to require an understanding of programming. Outside of management roles, I've really only s
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by pbrb 9y ago
And for those who don't love it... there are lots of jobs that are not programming, but are still in the industry. Quite a lot of them even pay more than programming! Seek them out. Out of curiosity, what roles do you think pay more
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by pbrb 9y ago
Another interesting story about the bar (Brehon) - a guy started a successful pharma advertising agency out of that bar! They actually used the pay phone as their phone line. The business is still successful and located about a block away,
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by pbrb 9y ago
Ripple is a member of NACHA: https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-labs-joins-mainstream-nac... There is huge potential with what Ripple is doing, and their technology very much has a lot to do with ACH and cash settlemen
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by pbrb 9y ago
Paypal has nothing to do with ACH or cash settlement. Totally different.
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by pbrb 9y ago
Same day??? Check out Ripple... 2 seconds, from anywhere in the world.
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by pbrb 10y ago
Same. I've maxed my 401k since my first job. Now just breaking into 30s... decided to move some of what I would be contributing to 401k into RE investments. Huge tax advantages in this space, and with 15 yr loans you can be cash flowin
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by pbrb 10y ago
Is this UChicago's program? I did a masters there without a CS background, and it was amazing. Incredibly hard, but amazing. The beauty of it is that they ramp you up on the mathematics and programming if required with a few additional
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by pbrb 10y ago
Still useful, but yeah, adding the console output would be even better for said sections. Either way, I'm loving this write up. I saved it to run through the entire tutorial, starting tonight.
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by pbrb 10y ago
The sections with ES6 vs output compiled with babel is amazing. Javascript really has come a long way.
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by pbrb 10y ago
i came to say pretty much the same thing... so true
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by pbrb 10y ago
It's pretty much a 'bend over and accept all the learning you're going to do'. Agreed w/ both of you though, that school changed my life in a very, very good way.
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by pbrb 10y ago
Your last sentence pretty much nailed it. I believe that is exactly the message they are sending. I went to UChicago, and this is a core ideal that is part of what makes the school so great.
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by pbrb 10y ago
I would also be willing the bet that the build/ops team wrote their puppet scripts to mirror the current way that the application was configured and deployed (shittily). To really make configuration management work, you need to need to
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by pbrb 10y ago
Repo men use these setups to find cars to repo, and they can sell the slurped up data to companies who in turn sell it to insurance companies, law enforcement, banks, and security companies. First result from google on subject: http:/
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by pbrb 10y ago
Yeah, it's a constant fight to keep things that way. For teams that need to be more reactive/responsive to constant change (like my own), scrumban has actually been a pretty good fit. We're a small 3 person team who is expect
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by pbrb 10y ago
This is so true. I see Agile be incredibly effective for teams with a single focus, and no (or very minimal) matrixing of team members across other teams. Once you start matrixing team members or adding additional focus, you start getting t
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by pbrb 11y ago
Yeah I came in thinking it would be easy after crushing the programming pre-req tests. Was in for a complete surprise - they don't mess around at UChicago. In the masters program you can somewhat build your own degree after taking thei
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by pbrb 11y ago
Hahaha, I went through the masters of comp sci program there. Those commits mentioning Borja cracked me up, and I swear "i love the smell of segfaults in the morning" was written on the wall in the big lecture room in the physical
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by pbrb 11y ago
This is awesome! If only you had made this change about a yr ago we would be running Gitlab instead of Stash/Bitbucket. The new pricing plan will put you guys ahead of both GitHub Enterprise and Bitbucket Server.
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by pbrb 11y ago
This is the reason I'm still in Chicago. I have wanted to move to SF since 2010, but it just doesn't make sense for my (now) wife and I financially. Recruiters who have called me with job offers in SF just don't have a big en
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Not sure what's next in career – need a mentor, where to find one?
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