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by rmk 4y ago
This is true. However, one important factor is owning a home. Housing in the Bay Area is really expensive, and substandard. Therefore, you are paying out the nose for a substandard product, and will likely never own a place, even with FAANG
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by rmk 4y ago
Is that on the assumption that you will eventually move to the low COL area as described above?
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by rmk 4y ago
This is misinformed. The UN does take a lot of 'actions', one of the most important ones being Peackeeping missions. The explicit mission of the UN is to avert violent conflict. https://www.un.org/en/about-us&
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by rmk 4y ago
Aside from the first, which is almost always out of date, the rest have been nonexistent at every company I have worked. And I do not even know what 'code labs' even means. My experience is fairly typical SV stuff, so I am wonderi
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by rmk 4y ago
This is more prevalent than one thinks, particularly at large companies where senior developers will ruthlessly put roadblocks, either as a way of carrying out group politics, or keeping control over things where the risk of a new idea or p
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by rmk 4y ago
I've had instances of junior people who are simply not interested in learning and suffer from a massively inflated sense of ability and seniority, in practically every job. When reviewing code submitted by such people, "don't
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by rmk 4y ago
Is this balloon incident something the Space Force is mandated to deal with? The balloon was shot down by an F-22 and is being recovered by the Navy and Coast Guard, but there is no mention of the Space Force.
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by rmk 4y ago
The world has enjoyed a Pax Americana, and if the continuance of that means being 'tough on China', then that is a price that must be paid. What is this American Jingoism you are talking about? America has thrown open its doors to
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by rmk 4y ago
Yes, but is it fashionable to lop off 21%?
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by rmk 4y ago
You may like this brutalist church in Palo Alto. https://sika.scene7.com/is/image/sika/usa-first-methodist-ch...
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by rmk 4y ago
I have a recommendation that goes against 'learn the language constructs by reading a book about them'. I recommend Python Module of The Week. https://pymotw.com/3 The advantage of this is that you learn by lookin
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by rmk 4y ago
I watched "Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity" by Jim Al-Khalili (it's available to stream on Amazon Prime Video), and enjoyed it. In fact, Jim Al-Khalili has produced excellent documentaries about other topics of scient
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by rmk 4y ago
Thank you for this great recommendation. Read a sample of this and it's very readable. It also appears that the same author has written other books in the same vein. Do you recommend any of them?
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by rmk 4y ago
It's paradoxical that many hospitals laid people off during the early days of the pandemic because they suspended visits/treatments, during the early days, for most non-emergency conditions. https://www.npr.org/202
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by rmk 4y ago
Is anyone compiling statistics or numbers on how H1-B's have been affected by this? I imagine a significant percentage of those laid off are required to leave the US within a couple months, and considering the numerous November layoffs
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by rmk 4y ago
Nurse and doctor are not very good when you consider that nurses are not paid that well (unless you are an RN or a specialty nurse), and doctors earn pay comparable to plumbers when you consider the opportunity cost of going to college&#x2F
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by rmk 4y ago
It is beginning to look like all the large companies that were hiring to deny talent to competitors are now feeling comfortable trimming the fat because they know that the startup fundraising scene has shifted dramatically in their favor (f
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by rmk 4y ago
Remarkably content-free article written by a thrice-rejected newly accepted PhD candidate at Northeastern University. What does this article seek to do? Does it Persuade? About what? Inform? That the author is a 'first-generation Afro-
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by rmk 4y ago
Can someone ELI5 no one ever thought to look for this in the first place? Viruses cause so many illnesses, would it be possible to release (possibly benign) bacteria that eat the illness causing virus into the body (assuming the bacteria th
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by rmk 4y ago
AWS is unparalleled in the cloud world. Azure is a distant second. That is the market share. If you are interested in a particular industry, then you may want to check the cloud choices major employers in your industry have made.
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by rmk 4y ago
It's not just online, even in person, programmers display low maturity when it comes to arguments over tech. This used to be less of a thing many years ago, but is more common nowadays. Some reasons: - The field skews young. Like it or
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by rmk 4y ago
> Those same people exist in larger companies. The difference is they either fail up, or there are more people for them to spread their shit on. Most larger companies do performance management, where the bottom x% lowest performers are l
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by rmk 4y ago
Why is it surprising or out of place? How is this different from hotels that will not rent out rooms to prostitutes, even if they are not 'working'? I imagine it must be burdensome to AirBnB to distinguish the two scenarios, and i
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by rmk 4y ago
The most vicious, sharp-elbowed, cutthroat colleagues I have seen have been at small and growing companies, particularly those in which growth slows. They often have much poorer management (very high proportion of first-time managers vs. la
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by rmk 4y ago
Unfortunately, remote work is now facing an oversupply (more people want remote jobs than are available). There are studies that have shown that people are often willing to forego a 6.8% premium in exchange for a remote job. It is beginning
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by rmk 4y ago
I think the more relevant part is that people have realized that harder work does not necessarily pay better or lead to advancement. Companies can win markets while not paying their employees top dollar, and this fact is now clear to most i
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by rmk 4y ago
GoLand is pretty much a full-featured, Go-focused IDE. If you are going to be spending all your time or the majority of it in Go code, then you should get GoLand.
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by rmk 4y ago
I have used Visual Studio Code (do not know if it integrates with LSP, but I generally found it lacking in search and such). The other IDE/editor I really enjoyed, particularly for Python, was Sublime Text. I haven't used it recen
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by rmk 4y ago
The GoLand IDE. Makes Go programming a breeze. Can't imagine programming in Go without it. Also used some of the other Intellij IDE's, including Intellij Idea (Java) and WebStorm (JavaScript). All very nice products.
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by rmk 4y ago
I remember this site called http://bookmooch.com (it still exists!) where I used to regularly swap books with others. The site operates on the same concept: you list your books, and then mail them out when someone requests them

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