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by ptero 3y ago
The title is not perfect, the article talks about startup co-founder quitting, not an employee. For an employee, "anytime" is acceptable. For a co-founder the answer, IMO, should be different. A founder quitting usually means the
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by ptero 3y ago
I did not claim that being laid off for those Citi employees would go unnoticed. Their standard of living would drop, but they would not have to live in a tent. There are many towns with low cost of housing. If those are too expensive to bu
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by ptero 3y ago
I am not trying to sound flippant, but layoffs happen, and especially at companies that are not doing well (and Citigroup is not managing money well) they are normal. Then, those working at Citigroup are likely to get some form of severance
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by ptero 3y ago
In the late 1990s my savings account at the EmigrantDirect was paying about 7% with inflation around 3%. This was not a term deposit, but a regular account, either itself with check-writing privileges or linked to a checking account with 1-
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by ptero 3y ago
> the government isn't straight up lying about inflation measurements Agreed. The government publishes the methodology and the source data the final numbers are based on are generally publicly available. However, the methodology slo
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by ptero 3y ago
This is a phenomenon of the last two decades. Before the fed started cutting rates after 9/11 (to support the country, the financial markets, the housing markets, etc.) both money market and savings accounts (you had to choose a good b
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by ptero 3y ago
Are you suggesting that while milk might have a price spike, carrots and beef would compensate? But that's not what happens. What comes down in electronics. If you exclude food, shelter and medicine (things you need to live) the number
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by ptero 3y ago
I think you are absolutely right that there appears to be some low hanging fruit for tech companies to pick by looking to "second tier metros". But I inertia and (lack of) critical mass play a big role. In the past decade (i.e., w
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by ptero 3y ago
There are many large, stable, profitable companies that are hiring software engineers. They are not software houses, but they pay well for a comfortable life (outside of NYC and Bay Area) and offer good work-life balance. For some examples
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by ptero 3y ago
Inflation from money printing can be lagging compared to the effect on GDP (depending on how the printed money is distributed). Not saying that this is what we have today, just pointing out the possibility.
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by ptero 3y ago
If you want to transit to higher level jobs you may get better mileage out of broadening to other languages (e.g., python) or skills (e.g., project management) than from a C to C++ transition. My 2c.
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by ptero 3y ago
There is no universal answer. Try it. Read a few random sections from the first three books. If you cannot put it down, this series is for you. Otherwise, I would skip it. Personally, I think the TeX (that Knuth designed because he could no
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by ptero 3y ago
Absolutely. Not all computer vision problems are AI related and not all AI problems are solved by pytorch. If I need a program for, say, soft real-time processing of some industrial automation video streams to run on a low power system open
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by ptero 3y ago
It is unfortunate that the reference to the explanations used[0] is at the very end. It is very useful to at least scan through this before reading this post and have it in front of you as a reference. [0] https://wiki-prog.inf
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by ptero 3y ago
I do not see an overwhelming groupthink. I see a perfectly rational (and not in any way evil) reaction to a complete mess created by the board. Most are doing the work they love and four people almost destroy it and cannot even explain why
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by ptero 3y ago
There are so many people who do not want to show up in the US (or elsewhere) and are living in Dubai that I would not be too worried. There is a full spectrum from former businessmen to current warlords. Dubai has a lot to lose by damagin
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by ptero 3y ago
I doubt it is fixable. Firing aside (which will be hard, but not impossible to make peace on), they have fundamental differences in goals. Even if you force a shotgun marriage to save the company, I would bet this will be a short term repri
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by ptero 3y ago
This is a bit misleading. While the achievement is impressive, it talks about electric utility generation. Uruguay, with heavily agrarian economy, uses a lot of field machinery, which is not covered by this.
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by ptero 3y ago
To add a note that while 4000 people is a small town almost anywhere, it is over 1% of Iceland's population. So the impact on the country is non negligible. My 2c.
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by ptero 3y ago
Ideally, for first 1-3 hires you hire someone to do the job (most of which) you can do yourself. That way you buy speed, not capability. If you really need the second person to do something critical that you cannot do yourself consider a co
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by ptero 3y ago
That is a choice. Not criticizing you for yours (and bonus points for honesty), but optimizing for money is not the only game in town. Plenty of software engineering work makes the world better while paying enough for a very comfortable lif
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by ptero 3y ago
While many points are true (but IMO not all) I would not see all of them in a negative light. Especially for a new grad just starting in the field. For example, yes, you will likely work with existing codebases, but in most other profession
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by ptero 3y ago
> Going from 85%-25% instead of 100%-25% can increase the capacity by ~25% Capacity or longevity?
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by ptero 3y ago
This is fantastic, congratulations! There are many use cases for a technology like this, even with a small and light payload (if I were at one of my previous jobs I would be sending you emails already about planning some tests). Do you envi
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by ptero 3y ago
That is a cool concept, but I do not think it has ever been realized in practice; which may indicate it is not even realizable. A community might come close during good times, but once the fortunes turn there are always hunts for scapegoats
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by ptero 3y ago
> In my experience it only works well in boilerplate kind of situations where most code is copy/paste work anyhow. As a data point, this matches my personal observations. But reducing the time spent on that bolierplate plus not need
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by ptero 3y ago
Lerge US cities are already big enough. Doubling the housing density in many of them will not make living there any better. My 2c.
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Not necessarily. It works if the value of the mortgage is less than the value of the house, which is the vast majority of cases.
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> I think treating college acceptances as a foregone conclusion based on demonstrated engineering prowess is an error. While the demonstrated engineering prowess in high school does not guarantee an acceptance into a good college, I view
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by ptero 3y ago
> I’ve advocated for the FCC to require device manufacturers to support their devices with security updates for a reasonable amount of time [1]. No offense intended, but I would be worried about this more than I would be worried about th

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