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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>You can't work your way out of poverty over two generations. If anything is the American Dream (arguably there's more people outside of America who have one of these, but I digress), it's being able to see your kids succe
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Structural racism for African Americans is longstanding issues of disproportionate policing, a massive wealth gap as a result of block busting and red lining, and the educational disadvantages that come with it. If the only thing Asians hav
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I only got a 1500/1600 or 2240/2400. Sad to say I’m probably in the lowest quartile of the HN readerbase. Guess maybe it’s my IQ holding me back...
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
It’s because the people pushing the lawsuit don’t care about the issues, rather they just want to divide 2 minority groups and pit them against one another.
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Probably In RTFA territory but - does the official API not work anymore for this to be necessary?
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Ask HN: How did you come to grips with your own mediocrity?
16 points by sadamznintern 8y ago|39 comments
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I'm not "playing the victim", I'm bitching about how terrible my own life is. Which it is. Why do I see literally everyone else have their dreams come true while mine don't?
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I've personally never seen it. Nowadays they have to be impressed by the project too...and mine's front-end development on an internal service nobody uses.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>Could this be an example of crumbling engineering standard at Amazon? As someone that's been going through quite a bit of depression because Amazon was the best offer I got (as opposed to Google or Facebook because I'm still b
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Most people don't get married in their early/mid 20's anymore. At least if they work at FB/Google and are native-born Americans. And if they do, their partner makes about as much at a similar company. > The folks in P
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>By what standard? What does that life look like? It seems so foreign to me. It seems like a lot of HN is comprised of this sort of folk or people who know them. That life looks like living in Seattle or the Bay or New York, making somew
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I mean, in fairness have you gotten into Google yet? Everyone and their grandparents can get into Amazon these days. They need warm bodies, not smart people. There's a reason why I get treated like some sort of moron whenever my compan
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Which region?
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>Money is excellent, but it's (a) less effective in buying happiness than you think To me, money is how I want to live without fear. I grew up pretty upper middle class but my parents were petrified of the littlest things (putting u
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Ask HN: What was your career salary progression like?
2 points by sadamznintern 8y ago|4 comments
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Thank you for an actual response. That's heartening, but I'm still not sure if Amazon and Google are held in equal footing :(
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Nope. Born in the South.
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Only the hedge funds/propshops/hft companies and some of the startups that have already exited like Cruise. Nobody else does, that guy just has low standards and has been brainwashed into thinking the elites don't live signif
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Thank you. This nonsense has been everywhere and it makes me very confused. Why would smart people from MIT/Stanford work at Google if it makes less money than working at IBM in a random suburb?
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It absolutely is what I make of it. I got the team that I wanted in the city I've wanted to live in since I was a kid. I want to make the most of it personally but I have doubts I'll get much out of it even with that. I'm rea
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I am thankful. But everyone gets a job out of undergrad with a CS degree. I think I'm one of the ~10 people in my 300 person CS program that got a job at a big tech company making more than $100k a year. That's not good enough. I&
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
But they aren't damaged. They're superior by nearly every metric. Schools, GPA, 1st author papers, height, physical attractiveness - they have it all. I don't.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
About 210 questions on leetcode, 45% med, 45% easy, 10% hard. I repeated doing a bunch of them because I'd forget tricks and the like. I think I just don't have the IQ for it. To compare, most of the people that I know who cracked
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>OK, here's some harsh truth for you. The vast majority of people at Google and Facebook aren't "looking down on you" because they don't know you exist. And they wouldn't give two fucks if they did know. The
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>Never mind that, in the case of Google or Facebook in particular, that higher pay generally comes with a MUCH higher cost of living if you work in their "main" geographic area. You have to factor that in when figuring out what
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
It sadly absolutely is. I didn't really do much as an intern. My research contributions are pretty low impact too, I got only 1 2nd author paper in undergrad to a mid tier conference. Nothing I've made has gotten more than 30k dow
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I've studied for 4 years. I've only become marginally better. I still can't understand a lot of the hards and mediums.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I'm just really, really tired of folks from Facebook and Google looking down on me. They keep saying that "everyone gets an Amazon offer" and that the "hiring bar is so low" while waving around their $100k signing b
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Ask HN: What is the perception of an ex-Amazon engineer today?
15 points by sadamznintern 8y ago|50 comments
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Have you seen the New Glenn? It looks phallic as hell! More so than most rockets! I love Jeff but sometimes it seems like he's compensating for something...

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