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by ptmcc 6y ago
2x+ comp for a SWE in San Jose vs Richmond almost certainly still comes out ahead in annual net worth gain.
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Hypocrisy? In my corporate America?? It's all platitudes of free market competition and meritocracy until the going gets tough and the competition (be it other businesses or labor) gets ahead of you. Then it's sob stories for ba
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by ptmcc 6y ago
This is purely their fault for being uncompetitive in the wages and benefits offered to their employees. Of course they try to spin it negatively with loaded language. The best way to protect your prized employees is to treat them so well t
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Phased out for passenger service, but most of them will have long lives ahead of them as freighters where they still shine.
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by ptmcc 6y ago
When accounting for all externalities, hydro doesn't usually pencil out all that well. It's a sad reality, because through a certain limited lens hydro looks amazing. There are many efforts underway removing old hydro dams to rest
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by ptmcc 6y ago
A lot of FAANG and FAANG-adjacent dev jobs are not any more glamorous than other dev jobs. A lot of the day to day looks the same, just keeping the lights on. Sometimes a really interesting technical problem does come up, but a lot of the c
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by ptmcc 6y ago
I know a bunch of software engineers that used to work for Disney, specifically in their online content divisions, and they universally reviled that place. The usual bad software engineering practices with overbearing management, unrealisti
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by ptmcc 6y ago
We've been testing these checks and balances a heck of a lot lately, and they haven't always worked. And even when they do, the fear and confusion caused in the meantime in a case like this is devastating to many thousands of peop
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by ptmcc 6y ago
It didn't make economic sense for most airlines pre-COVID, and I doubt that'll change post-COVID. It was already in rapid decline.
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by ptmcc 6y ago
If this were true, companies like Oracle, SAP, Infosys, etc. would have died out a long time ago. They are bureaucratic hellscapes internally that rival even the worst governmental orgs, with even less oversight. We have nothing close to a
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by ptmcc 6y ago
LinkedIn has directly led to me getting two great jobs and accelerating my career by leaps and bounds. I don't read much/any of the news feed, and only occasionally check in on it at all, but it's a fantastic passive job sear
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Why do so many people view "retirement" as sitting on your ass doing nothing? It is a weird cultural stereotype, perhaps perpetuated to glorify work culture. This is probably why the term "financial independence" was coi
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Retirement doesn't have to mean sitting around doing nothing. It's the freedom of not needing the steady income of employment, and the freedom to do whatever you want. Like work on those 100 ideas a day.
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by ptmcc 6y ago
The irony being many people get to that position by being workaholics that can’t stop. I could conceivably retire if I moved to a low cost area, but I enjoy my lifestyle so will keep at it a bit longer.
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Define rich? By most metrics I am rich, just not private jet 0.1% rich. I work at a big tech company and make >200k/yr. I have few financial worries. At this point I’m not primarily motivated by more money. Sure I’ll take it, but at
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by ptmcc 6y ago
I gave StitchFix a couple of shots. It was okay, I got a couple decent items out of it, but didn't amaze me. But I canceled when I very specifically stated in both my profile and my message to the stylist that I did not want any white&
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Any remotely legitimate mailing list will respect unsubscribe requests, lest they run afoul of the CAN-SPAM act and/or start getting blacklisted. Years ago I worked at a large email service provider for bulk mailings on behalf of large
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Fair point, but I'd still prefer my TV doesn't phone home at all, especially to pi-hole blocked domains.
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by ptmcc 6y ago
In the old days that was probably more true than it is today, since so many games are "as a service" now with shared engines, online platforms, continual updates/patches, tons of expansions and DLC, supporting mods, etc. The
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Same with my Sony Android TV. That thing trying to phone god knows what home made up almost a third of all DNS requests on my home network, even with 2 adults working from home. Since you can't buy dumb TVs anymore, you best leave the
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by ptmcc 7y ago
I replaced the mish mash of bulbs in my house with all GE "Reveal HD" LED bulbs of different temperatures. Nothing super fancy, just name brand hardware store bulbs. In the variety of old bulbs, the Feit ones in particular were ca
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by ptmcc 7y ago
One of the best things my parents ever did for me (and themselves) was tell me, despite getting accepted, that I was not going to a fancy 40k+/yr school for undergrad. I was angsty about it at the time, but I got over it pretty quick a
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by ptmcc 7y ago
My wife works for the local school district, and when she started I helped her navigate the retirement plan options. They actually have numerous 403b providers to choose from, including Vanguard, but they basically offer no guidance (probab
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by ptmcc 7y ago
That may be true, but they don't configure themselves and adapt over time as new demands or bugs arise. And sure, doing so may be "easy" but it's yet another context to switch in and out of. The difficulty and time requi
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by ptmcc 7y ago
I see you haven't upgraded to Catalina yet
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by ptmcc 7y ago
You know what they say: the first 80% takes 80% of the time, and the last 20% takes the other 80% of the time.
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by ptmcc 7y ago
To weaken their argument further, there are already a ton of people biking on that street already without good, safe infrastructure. For those not in the know, it is quite literally a "missing link" between two ends of an otherwis
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by ptmcc 7y ago
The 777 program is a case study in program management and engineering excellence, and that aircraft is still an amazing piece of quality design and engineering. It is so sad that the Boeing of those days is dead and buried. Everything since
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by ptmcc 7y ago
Had this happen to me just recently, too. I was super surprised that spam invites showed up on my calendar by default! Wonder if it was something going around, and maybe Google has already fixed it. Hasn't happened again, fingers cross
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by ptmcc 7y ago
I've had a slightly better track record with OnTrac than Amazon Logistics, but they are both exceedingly terrible. Truly awful, both of them.

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