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by roland35 3y ago
I understand the frustration but I have sympathy for your security team. As a former security engineer you'd be shocked at the nonsense I had to clean up from our devs.
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by roland35 3y ago
I wouldn't even say sometimes dilute shares - isn't this pretty much what happens every single time there is a new round of investing? On the other hand, companies can use buybacks for the exact opposite effect.
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by roland35 3y ago
3d printing has been a complete game changer for me. It's incredible how you can make useful and completely custom parts in just a few hours.
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by roland35 3y ago
Good luck! I jumped from a super boring consultancy job to work at a startup doing backend work which I never have done before besides the odd Django personal project. My recommendation is to first take some time and learn the tech stack.
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by roland35 3y ago
Yeah that's exactly what I am saying. If you want your entire team to be have a monoculture go for it! I think diversity (in all kinds) is good and many of the very best engineers I've worked with came from non traditional backgro
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by roland35 3y ago
I am strongly against this question. You're basically looking at who's parents provided an opportunity for them to learn coding early. I'm sure you would find that most people who started programming at a young age (and are s
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by roland35 4y ago
Having designed electronics, I absolutely appreciate how much a pain in the butt buttons are (maybe that's why they are called buttons!). It isn't just the cost... Each button requires mechanical design and tooling, graphics, manu
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by roland35 4y ago
I had an extra $1k to invest in 2010, and I narrowed it down between Apple stock and Bitcoin (lol). I ended up choosing APPL, which of course did well, but I ended up selling all of it shortly after to buy a laptop. Long story short, I&#x27
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by roland35 4y ago
That's interesting. My team (not MPK) is completely overwhelmed! The entire team is hard working and not much relaxing unfortunately (could use some of that!)
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by roland35 4y ago
I think there is plenty of room for lifetime licenses. In fact pretty much any video game works this way! I bought Zelda from Nintendo a few years ago, and Nintendo is not making any money from that purchase any more. But they instead make
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by roland35 4y ago
It's not just Meta, journalists and commenters even on tech sites like Ars Technica or Verge seem to love piling on any negative coverage about working at big tech companies (Google, Uber, even Apple occasionally). I think Meta and Goo
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by roland35 4y ago
I personally like VR meetings but there is still too much friction versus how quick it is to start up a video call. In my opinion larger meetings do work worse in video calls. It just isn't great having lots of small squares. But small
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by roland35 4y ago
Hate crypto for no apparent reason? There are so many reasons to hate it! Fraud and waste are the main problems for me personally. The entire enterprise is rotten.
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by roland35 4y ago
Currently at a "FAANG" Big Tech company who has had layoffs recently. Even though our team wasn't too heavily impacted, it has definitely led to some huge morale issues. Generally people just seem less enthusiastic. Lots of
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by roland35 4y ago
Yes, this role is defined as the "journalist" at my company and is an engineer tasked with writing status updates and the post-mortem report. It is important to have this role assigned from the start so that expectations are clear
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by roland35 4y ago
I love that my son enjoys scratch, but I wish there was some way to have parental controls on the social aspects of it! I am a little uncomfortable with the fact that random users have messaged my son and there really isn't anything I
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by roland35 4y ago
Yeah the foreign transaction fee is annoying on many cards - I don't have too many cards but I keep a travel focused card (capital one venture) for international travel.
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by roland35 4y ago
That's totally your choice! It worked out for me though. A few weeks of studying algorithms changed my career.
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by roland35 4y ago
Having done many coding interviews I can assure you there is more to it than memorizing a problem and solution. I don't see how asking someone who is applying for a software engineer job to do a miniature software engineering task is c
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by roland35 4y ago
Fidelity has a flat 2% card which has no annual fee. The cash back then automatically transfers to my brokerage account where it immediately loses money in the stock market, so maybe it works out to less than 2% :) Citi also has a widely us
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by roland35 4y ago
That's ridiculous! Obviously not every software engineer knows algorithms and data structures, but if you do pass a leet code question you have at least some minimum of skill. It's shocking how many interviews I've done where
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by roland35 4y ago
I'll do whatever I need to, as long as the total interviewing time isn't too long! I find coding the easiest to prepare for
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by roland35 4y ago
I don't think anyone is faulting Zuckerberg for the November layoffs - things were looking pretty dire at that time and the stock dropped all the way under $90. However what people are upset about now is that is another huge layoff was
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by roland35 4y ago
Hopefully now with more information available out there us workers can stand up more for ourselves and get more for the value of our labor and expertise!
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by roland35 4y ago
Try to find out _why_ they are disagreeing. Are the concerned about cost? Performance? Trying to make it generic to accommodate future work? If you focus on that you might see you're approaching the problem with different requirements
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by roland35 4y ago
There is definitely enough "crime" to go around here. In any other context $6,000,000 is a heck of a lot of theft!
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by roland35 4y ago
With enough karma you can change to color of the top orange bar to any other color. Mine is now a pleasing light blue.
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by roland35 4y ago
I feel like it's a lot easier to avoid assholes at a bigger company. One bad coworker can ruin the entire experience at a startup because there's no avoiding them!!
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by roland35 4y ago
There will be some interns hired but not as many
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by roland35 4y ago
I think it is better having a separate machine for personal and professional purposes. Even if you have a plan on working in the cloud and not locally on the machine, you could always slip up. This is to make it easier for both you and the

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