rpazyaquian

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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
I agree. Uncertainty and lack of prioritization and focus is independent of location.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
You have options here. You can set aside a room as your quiet office, you can find a cafe or rent a coworking space to work in...it doesn't necessitate commuting 45 minutes into an office to solve.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
If you have that many employees working remotely, you should have already transitioned to an independent, accessible source-of-truth for all your discussed changes and plans. Slack convos, Confluence, a wiki, a Google doc, something.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Open source projects don't have deadlines, product owners, antsy investors, runways, or quarterly goals, though.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
I was eating a chocolate bar recently and I had this exact thought. Don't trust articles that say "X is good for you" when X is a commonly advertised commodity. Which is most things.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Unfortunately the only way I can see to relieve this is to support remote/WFH workers who might live in suburbs away from major city centers, or even in a totally different part of the country. That, and decentralizing our entire cultu
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Well, true, you have a point. Ruby is rarely used outside of Rails. Which is a shame, really.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
That is exactly what I am thinking myself.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
You're listing off tooling, libraries, and frameworks written with or targeting Python, which isn't Python itself. As soon as you want to go off the rails in any of those things, Python gets as complicated as any other language.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
I agree. Our need for more workers, both unskilled and skilled, is starting to plateau. We don't actually know how to deal with that[1], and people are starting to get antsy as opportunities become less and less common. [1]Well, we do,
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
This seems to be the case in many places outside of Rails. I know that Clojure, at least, seems to encourage implementing things yourself by way of leveraging smaller libraries and modules. Auth is genuinely hard, and turnkey solutions ofte
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Now to add Twitch integration.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
What does that mean for things like Vanguard's retirement fund strategy? Isn't that based entirely on long-term improvement in the market?
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Sounds like where the US is headed.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Six months to land the right job holds for any job or field, remote or not. There's a lot of jobs available, but along with that you need to be picky - it can take some time to find a competitive, ideal option.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
And as mentioned, Amazon will eventually sidle into this market as well.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
_Why_ exactly are they doing a redesign? Is there something deeply wrong with the current one? Is there something it's not accomplishing? It just smells of executive/marketing meddling to me.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Completely uninformed and unlearned question: what exactly is the role of AWS in deep learning of this nature? Why do we need to use it?
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
>Electronic banking comes with many types of federal guarantees to protect against fraud. The government can step in to investigate and prosecute the fraud as well. But there is no such guarantee for the voting to select the government i
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Software engineering, I guess, which is my field. I've heard that university work in this tends to be mediocre (and with pay to match), although biotech/pharma can be good.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Sounds like SNAFU to me.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
I was going off of what the article said - not so much my own perception of the market.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Telecommuting/remote/WFH opportunities are as rare as ever. Companies are shying away from it as they begin blaming it for productivity issues that are the fault of completely different problems, e.g. bad management and culture. I
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Boston doesn't seem to be doing very well in the long-term. I moved here to take advantage of both the presence of tech jobs, and to live in an accepting, progressive blue state. If I want to stay in the area, what field should I be tr
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
So it's basically opening a Trad IRA, putting money into it, then immediately rolling it into a Roth IRA? I thought the contribution limit was across all IRAs you own, so you still wouldn't be able to put any extra into the IRAs i
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
The IRS website says its $5500 contribution max per year. https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employ...
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
"Rent is relatively low in Cambridge" is not a sentence I ever thought I'd see.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Looks like for the most part, it's "dump it all into VTSAX". That works for me.
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
I'm renting in East Boston right now and my parents are getting the idea in their heads to try and snatch up property in the area before it really starts to take off (read: gentrify). On the one hand, I kinda get what they're tryi
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by rpazyaquian 9y ago
What's your investment strategy? I recently started a Roth IRA and started maxing it out each year, but I don't know what else to do with my savings (that are extra over my ~6mo salary buffer + emergency fund, I mean). Dumping it

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