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691.
by rdouble 14y ago
Most "body shop" employees are doing stuff that is irrelevant to employment at innovative Silicon Valley companies.
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by rdouble 14y ago
The downside of living in SF with a good salary is that everybody has a good salary. It's more that having a good salary in SF doesn't necessarily level up your quality of life compared to someone with a bad salary. In some ways, it might
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by rdouble 14y ago
Doctors have an explicit moral code.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Except that legacy system maintenance is like agricultural work. You can't get Americans to do the work.
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by rdouble 14y ago
In every tech company with open plan offices, the engineers all work late into the night while wearing giant headphones.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Their team came from Skype and Joost so they had more P2P/native client engineering talent.
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by rdouble 14y ago
There is no implicit moral code of technologists.
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by rdouble 14y ago
The classes are more fun, often you go to museums. You have something to talk about with other people that they might actually find interesting. It gives you another dimension to travel. You can meet other interesting and nice people in cla
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by rdouble 14y ago
In my experience, exercise is more important than free time to prevent burnout.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Water from the Colorado is mostly used for agriculture in Arizona. The Phoenix area has enough water from other sources to last for the next 100 years. Cities in TX, OK, California and even Atlanta are going to have more problems.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Not really.
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by rdouble 14y ago
75k is not an entry-level/recent grad salary. Four years ago my intern went to Amazon after graduation for $86k and his degree was from SFSU, which is not a CS powerhouse. I believe entry level salaries have gotten higher since then...
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by rdouble 14y ago
Applied math is very useful to software engineering and many other fields. However, I majored in pure math, which is not useful. Philosophy is interesting (depending on your personality) but is mostly irrelevant. Philosophy major logic cour
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by rdouble 14y ago
I majored in both math and philosophy and they have been useless in my career as a software engineer. If you want to do another quantitative discipline I'd suggest statistics. Non-quantitative, I'd suggest something like art history over Ph
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by rdouble 14y ago
NYC kind of did always have that transport system, though. The subway hasn't significantly expanded for 100 years.
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by rdouble 14y ago
The problem here is that Apple is creating a confusing, inconsistent, and highly luck-based environment. Perhaps they are just mirroring the rest of reality.
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by rdouble 14y ago
It's weird that his girlfriend made him live in a motorhome in her driveway.
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by rdouble 14y ago
It's the 2nd densest city in America. Even if it's not comparable to Hong Kong, that is why Americans might think it's dense.
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by rdouble 14y ago
People compare the densities of SF and Manhattan because SF is the 2nd densest city outside of New York.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Maybe it's because I'm from Minnesota, but I can type faster than I can talk.
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by rdouble 14y ago
That is not really how it works.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Tab is only used by guitar players.
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by rdouble 14y ago
The sad thing about this is that tablets and phones aren't nearly as good at content creation. A physical keyboard is still the fastest brain --> computer interface in town. Tablets are a faster brain --> interface than a keyboard
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by rdouble 14y ago
One time I was at a party and Kanye's 'Harder Better Faster Stronger' came on. I remember saying "I didn't know Kanye sampled Daft Punk" and someone replying something along the lines of "nah this is all original Kanye" And Daft Punk samp
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by rdouble 14y ago
Most samples are completely unrecognizable, and when present and recognizable they are honestly a minimal fraction of the creative output in a song. Top charting hip hop tracks have used samples of other songs as the entire basis of the s
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by rdouble 14y ago
Work through the latest edition (4) of Sedgewick's Algorithms book and do the algorithmic challenges on Interview Street. This will fix the problem of having a wide range of hacker skills and a portfolio of projects but not being able to ma
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by rdouble 14y ago
Men can get the same style as those featured on this site by simply doing all your shopping at J. Crew.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Company norms and cultures aside, the software industry was built on working late. Whether or not the CEO goes home at 5pm, the software part of a software business needs to get built, and it's usually not done 9-5.
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by rdouble 14y ago
I've worked in open-plan environments that made it a lot harder to focus than when I had to babysit my niece. You just give the kid some crayons, an iPad of Dora videos, and some fruit roll-ups and they are occupied for the afternoon. In co
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by rdouble 14y ago
In every software company there is a contingent of people who work late simply because there are too many distractions occurring during the day.

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