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by programmertote 1y ago
Agree with all you've noted. I'd also add that 'Exit'/'Close' buttons sometimes don't work (I use Firefox btw). Worse, you have to click so many different buttons to buy just one index fund. In contra
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by programmertote 1y ago
That's true. I currently work for a boutique real estate consulting firm. A senior guy, who has been working with Census-sourced data for two decades or more AND has good sources within the Census bureau--of the firm told me that Censu
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by programmertote 2y ago
I didn't downvote your comment above. But I think you might be interested to watch this one (of course, the video is made by a Canadian YouTuber, but I think he can back up his claims in the video from what I observe): https:/&#x
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by programmertote 2y ago
I unfortunately don't know much other than knowing that SOME community colleges [ like this: https://www.hccfl.edu/academics/subjects/engineering/electro... ] offer intro classes (you need to know some c
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by programmertote 2y ago
Before you go full in on mechanical (ME)/electrical engineering (EE), I'd suggest you to try taking a course or two on it. For me personally, EE was a challenge and although I aspired myself to be a conventional engineer (either a
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by programmertote 2y ago
Not relevant to what you are discussing related to attention to detail (which I agree with). This is my imaginary scenario -- if Steve Jobs were to tell me in a meeting, "I see air bubbles coming out of the phone", I (as an engine
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by programmertote 2y ago
When I read "cracks superbug problem", I thought AI solved how to kill superbugs. From reading the article, it seems like AI suggested a few hypotheses and one of which is similar to what the researcher thought of. So in a way, it
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by programmertote 2y ago
That is what people like trump don't understand (not surprising). Instead of gradually rebuilding the manufacturing capabilities of the US while supporting essential industries (like steel production) to create competition, they think
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by programmertote 2y ago
>Crash a wedding. You are not a nuisance; you are the celebrity guest! ... They will usually feel honored. You can offer the newlyweds a small token gift of cash if you want. You will be obliged to dance. Take photos of them; they will
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by programmertote 2y ago
Not disagreeing with you. But the OPM site data seems to be only for headcount, and it probably can be found by those who know how to deep dive on government sites? Having said that, I am very much worried about the direction the US is head
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by programmertote 2y ago
Besides the US vs. China wage differences, it is easier to source things locally and iterate quickly. At least that is what I read as one of the advantages Chinese car manufacturers have.
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by programmertote 2y ago
Can you share a bit more? I grew up in a city and never knew the details of the farms (and interested). Thank you.
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by programmertote 2y ago
Vanguard's website revamp in the past three years was disappointing because in the past, I can visit just one (landing) page and get almost all of the info I need about my holdings + actions I could take on them and my accounts. Now, I
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by programmertote 2y ago
Whenever I see posts from famous people touted on Hacker News and Reddit, I always remind myself about this favorite quote of mine from Buddha (I'm a former Buddhist-turned-atheist, but I still agree with a few thinking and concepts
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by programmertote 2y ago
The 'brain drain' (as you refer to it) stems from intelligent/motivated grads in the US for the last two decades (at least) pursuing more lucrative fields like finance and adtech (re: Google, Facebook). Or some pursue managem
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by programmertote 2y ago
A unique (and IMO, correct) way to put it. I personally don't want to have a kid of my own blood. But I want to adopt one or two and maybe foster a few IF I become financially capable, which is probably a decade or so away. I do believ
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Share HN: A website reminescence of early 2000 creativity(cortneywilliams.com)
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by programmertote 2y ago
As a fan of Adventures of the Gummi Bears cartoon series, I was searching for some cartoon drawings on the internet and stumbled upon this website, which brought me back to late 1990s, early 2000s style of web pages. I hope some HN folks mi
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by programmertote 2y ago
> Read the Wall Street analyses from the middle of last year on AMD being a big Nvidia competitor, then read the posts here this week about how AMD engineers don't have boards to fix bugs. "We the customer had to mail the AMD e
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by programmertote 2y ago
Amazon also likes to tout their way of doing things as Amazon's peculiar culture. Some practices like reading the design proposal doc before starting the discussion about it looks right in general sense, but it usually turns out that a
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by programmertote 2y ago
Just speaking from my experience -- if the company is a big corp, usually the wages follow average market rates (I was paid market average wage in a top advertising corp in the world and I got my green card there in 6-7 years). Bureau of La
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by programmertote 2y ago
That's a typical process that companies, who want to sponsor green card to their internal employee, are required to do. They have to find an equally-skilled US citizen by posting jobs publicly for X amount of time. Then after they have
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by programmertote 2y ago
"Infinite Growth Forever," - that onion-y sign off made me laugh.
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by programmertote 2y ago
Wife is a doctor at a Miami suburb hospital (it's relatively well known), so I can tell you with confidence that the hospitals CAN absolutely pay $64K/year salary of residents on their own. It's just that they are cheap and d
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by programmertote 2y ago
I have been using it recently and like it. It is MUCH better than Windows native snipping software. It is also open source and free, so that's an added bonus. Having said that, I wish we can select the objects (e.g., text box, arrows)
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by programmertote 2y ago
Thank you. As someone else has also commented here, a video walkthrough would be very helpful for us to get a sense of what the app can offer.
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by programmertote 2y ago
Very interesting software/app. My current company has a lot of Excel files with a lot of business logic embedded as Excel formulas in them. When we import Excel file to PySheets, does it also recognizes formulas in the original Excel f
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by programmertote 3y ago
You can build your network by doing a great job at your current work even if it is remote. I worked remote for my previous two companies--the last one is Amazon. I left both with great contacts. In fact, I was referred to Amazon by one of m
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by programmertote 3y ago
It includes lunch break at 12pm-1pm. I can confidently tell that most of my former coworkers (since RTO mandate) have been taking it slow/easy more so than they used to be.
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by programmertote 3y ago
$5250 USD (not including the bonus at my new firm, which is expected to range from $5K-$35K; higher cell phone reimbursement; 50% internet reimbursement and $350 yearly allowance for equipment, etc. at the new company). Most importantly (fo

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