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by rsanek 4y ago
Median pay in the MLB is just over $1m. [0] Median pay for a Netflix senior software engineer is $500k. [1] Doesn't really seem that different to me. [0] https://en.as.com/en/2021/10/08/mlb/1633
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by rsanek 4y ago
The thing is, interpreted languages have a natural advantage vs. more performant, compiled ones when it comes to iteration speed (and also often ease of early deployment). I think the reason we see this is that while it would be great to pi
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by rsanek 4y ago
Top two should be available through an ETL of whatever VCS is used. Next two depend on how fine-grained you want to be--either you don't automate because you stay high-level on the order of products, or you go lower-level and use featu
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by rsanek 4y ago
Do people argue about productivity and performance when comparing Ruby and Python? I haven't seen that myself. Maybe for toy examples. For 10s of developers-scale applications, I sometimes see comparisons of tooling/libraries, e
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by rsanek 4y ago
I've only used it a handful of times, but https://www.focusmate.com/ has a pretty good set-up.
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by rsanek 4y ago
> For the fully loaded cost of one really good developer in the Bay Area (400k) you can get four equally good developers anywhere in Europe I think the 'equally good' is the part that I am really unsure of. From personal experi
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by rsanek 4y ago
> they'd like to hire 1-2 more developers and are having a hard time finding them Sound familiar? It's surprising to hear this so early in the 'remote-first' trend. I think what we'll find is that actually, there
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by rsanek 4y ago
I think it comes down to, what is your time horizon? This difference may persist in the short-term, but as companies that hire remotely become more successful and profitable, we'd expect to see those that are in-office-only based in a
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by rsanek 4y ago
Careful with high doses of hormones like Vitamin D -- it can have other deleterious downstream effects. https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...
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by rsanek 4y ago
Yeah I evolve cards over time as well, it's interesting how even after 7 years of using SRS I still sometimes generate cards that end up being hard to review once I actually start using them. The way that I solve for the modify over ti
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by rsanek 4y ago
This looks great! I too have long been frustrated by the laborious process of making high-quality notes. I've approached the problem a bit differently, choosing to integrate with APIs and auto-generate notes from that structured inform
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by rsanek 4y ago
> this has started to become a signal of shops to take great caution and best to avoid Interesting, I've generally felt the opposite. Do you feel it is as bad as Amazon? Do you have some examples of Shopify shops that are particular
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by rsanek 4y ago
It is impossible to know this for sure, especially at such a large company. It doesn't even have to actually be part of the official interview, it could have been something one of the interviewers decided to do unilaterally. OP will ne
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by rsanek 4y ago
They mention this potential downside explicitly in the blog post. It sounds like they actually believe this is a good thing as it signals to junior employees that would need alot of support that they cannot provide it: > The way we’ve se
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by rsanek 4y ago
Was it purposeful to make this comment also highly abstract? Not meaning this as snark just found it a funny juxtaposition.
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by rsanek 4y ago
It's so interesting to me that we still struggle to get out of the 'hours worked' mindset when considering how valuable someone is to a company. I would argue it's completely irrelevant if someone is gaming, even if it&#
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by rsanek 4y ago
> a very political corporation Not saying the retreat was a wholesale bad idea, but it sounds to me like part of the reason it's political could be because there's an in-group and out-group derived from the retreat.
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by rsanek 4y ago
I don't know if I understood how Memory Hammer helps with this problem -- is it intended to deal with the issue by making it easier / more available to do reviews? I personally don't find that to be a limiting factor in revie
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by rsanek 4y ago
I imagine it depends on where you live, but in the US, it is insane how easy it is to get prescribed. Try to do it yourself, it takes literally a 10-minute phone call and you'll have a script at your local pharmacy -- https:/&#x2
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by rsanek 4y ago
My buddy got a computer science degree from a top 10 school and works at a FAANG and his experience of the GTech program has been that it is _a lot_ of work. Feels to me like it might be overkill, and perhaps too much, for someone without a
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by rsanek 4y ago
IMO this whole thread hinges on how one chooses to define an 'API.' You can certainly make it true if you define it broadly enough. 0. Drag-and-drop / visual programming tools as APIs 1. Libraries/frameworks as APIs 2. S
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by rsanek 4y ago
Is it being presented as a numerical fact? I think it's actually fairly clear that this is just the author's opinion and is not meant to be taken literally. In general things I find that signify this include using very round numbe
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by rsanek 5y ago
> Youth participation in sports, especially full contact sports, had been going down since before covid Do you have a source for this? From what I could find, participation has been roughly flat for the last ~20 years. https:/&#x2F
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by rsanek 5y ago
It's pretty close to $200k -- levels.fyi says it's $193k average for base. If you include bonus, total cash comp is $231k. https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...
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by rsanek 5y ago
This is awesome, I love to see innovation in this space. Just signed up for $5. Coming from an Anki background, I could really use keyboard shortcuts to speed review. If this site works well, I would forsee scaling out my usage (I usually r
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by rsanek 5y ago
Interesting, I actually perceive it to very much be society's problem, and do consider it my responsibility to promote mental and physical health in my community. I found this post [0] useful in considering the difference between entit
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by rsanek 5y ago
Source? I think the want to take a cool shot from a drone could actually make alot more teens go outdoors. I don't like drones either but incentivizing going outside through social media is an interesting concept and certainly beats th
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by rsanek 5y ago
Exactly, without any context this number is meaningless. How many were considering leaving a year ago, 3 years ago? We have no idea if this is a trend or even outside the norm -- perhaps nurses simply often run into days that make them reco
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by rsanek 5y ago
Looks like this is just the second time they ran this survey since 2018 [0]; there's no information in that one on how many were considering leaving (maybe 2021 was the first year they asked the question?) It always frustrates me when
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by rsanek 5y ago
If anything, this article solidified for me that the main reason remains cost only. Points (3) and (4) are probably not among the most important things for the vast majority of co's, even if they have 10s or 100s of employees.

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