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by rmk 5y ago
Leave. No one cares. Do not put it on your resume or on your LinkedIn profile. There is literally no downside here, as long as you are comfortable with seeking employment outside your network (assuming your connections will even care, which
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I use bc all the time to do quick calculations. I never knew who the author was. I wonder how the software world will change as a generation of authors or maintainers of everyday programs dies off. Not all software package maintainers/
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by rmk 5y ago
Looks like H-1B abusers have touched a new nadir of chicanery and skullduggery. They prey on people who are not able to get interviews or jobs on their own, but have compelling reasons, such as crushing debt incurred to study in the U.S., t
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by rmk 5y ago
The definition of "Senior" has now changed to "has > 5 years of experience". Combine this with the tendency of people to move every two years (because companies rarely keep up with the market), and you can see that &q
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by rmk 5y ago
This is the first time I've seen positive comment about systemd. I have not messed with Linux init for a long time now, but is there someone who can concisely explain why systemd is hated by many?
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The past decade has been about moving to the cloud, more than anything else, and this is a space where the OS mostly receded into the background. However, Linux, with its namespaces, provided LXC and subsequent innovations that leveraged na
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Group Exercise. You can easily get yourself a few (perhaps six) months of group exercise under a trained instructor.
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by rmk 5y ago
Let me break that trend and say that I enjoyed driving to work. I spent an hour total (back and forth), sometimes 1.5 hours if I went during peak traffic. But it was time I enjoyed: I would listen to my favorite music, think, and have time
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by rmk 5y ago
This is a very insightful comment. It's incredibly difficult to knuckle down and "work" when (a) your work is not going to be noticed (b) you are not getting a promotion no matter what; someone else has been identified for th
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by rmk 5y ago
It's harder to make friends once you get past a certain age. We become too set in our ways to be able to make friends. Even if you have a hobby, it needs to be something that needs to be pursued in a group setting. Thus, hobbies such a
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by rmk 5y ago
300k will last if you are a dual income couple with no kids and you don’t live extravagantly. Here’s a breakdown 105000 in taxes. 36000 towards maxing out your retirement accounts. 9000 in other investments and savings per year. 55000 - 600
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While the problems I have mentioned are big ones, the day to day is generally quite pleasant. Also, if hybrid work takes hold, then owning housing may be less of a pipe dream provided you are okay with long commutes. People deal with the is
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by rmk 5y ago
Immigrate to the United States, specifically to the Bay Area. The best companies are built in the Bay Area, because there is a huge amount of talent, and the living standards are very high because of moderate climate, excellent food and pro
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by rmk 5y ago
What is the thrust of this thread? The author appears to be taking umbrage at the 5% increase in inflation vs. 150-500% increases in various food items. However, inflation measures are commonly defined over a basket of goods and services, a
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by rmk 5y ago
Absolutely. Work dissatisfaction has the potential to disrupt other aspects of quality of life, including interpersonal relationships, especially if it's not addressed for a long time.
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Work satisfaction is a large component of happiness, as we spend a lot of our time at work (nearly half our waking hours). It's important not to neglect other aspects of your life and base your self-worth and happiness on work alone, b
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by rmk 5y ago
Perhaps you are choosing shitty companies and are being approached by shitty companies as well. Work satisfaction is an important component of happiness, because we spend a large percentage of our waking hours at work. Here are some suggest
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Was that the case in this pandemic? And how is it different from pressing private companies into service via the Defense Production Act?
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"They have scaled from nothing to hundreds of millions of customers and survived hundreds of years." Okay, this is not particularly novel, and the implied comparison to scaling digital services is flawed. "If this were a star
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Have an attorney draw up a demand letter for 250k and see how it goes from there. You are likely not going to get the amount that is due. Why throw good money after bad and waste even more of your time on an employer who is apparently not s
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I think this is a pretty standard clause which means that unvested but early exercised shares described in the contract can be clawed back. I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but it looks alright to me.
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> This week alone I had 2 interviews with 2 different companies where in the first one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by "why hire you over a younger graduate?" (which isn't the same as "why hi
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You're right, it isn't the Lusitania (which was something that further inflamed public sentiment, causing American entry into the first world war).
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To my knowledge, there have been no enforced lockdowns in the United States ever since the vaccine became widely available in the spring of 2021. Is this not the case in Israel? Have there been repeated lockdowns despite the (very successfu
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Pearl Harbor was the incident (shortly after the sinking of the Lusitania) that catalyzed America's inevitable entry into the war. There was a very strong isolationist mindset before this period, which mean America simply did not want
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by rmk 5y ago
The article raises a very pertinent question vis-a-vis American commitment and the lengths to which the US is willing to go to stop or reverse a Chinese invasion. The last war where Americans went to great lengths willingly was World War 2.
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Software "Engineering" is not really an Engineering discipline, such as Civil Engineering, where there are norms, standards, accepted practices, regulations, and a body of knowledge that hasn't changed much in hundreds of yea
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It sounds like a startup company with inexperienced people across the board. The red flag is the expectation of unpaid work and a 'free' vacation day, which amounts to nothing because of the 'unlimited' vacation policy.
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In my experience, you are in learn more or earn mode, but usually not both, when working a startup job. The early stage startups offer great learning opportunities: you get to implement the first cut of the system and learn from your (inevi
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How does this compare to the 'man on the moon' projects of China? It appears that from a purely scientific standpoint, this telescope will have a bigger impact than those of other space programs. Is my thinking on the right track

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