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by skookum 9y ago
We bought a Purple and gave up on it after three nights. The foam portion of the mattress compresses a lot and the purple grid on top has this weird property where it holds weight up to a point and then collapses completely after that point
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by skookum 9y ago
Lenders in the US are just trying to maximize their risk-adjusted profit - there's no conspiracy here. If income alone was just as good as income + debt servicing history for making the statistical decisions required to maximize credit
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by skookum 9y ago
> other factors (like current wealth and income) are far more important in practice - and this leads to paradoxical and absurd situations From the perspective of the finance industry, these "absurd situations" are so far below
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by skookum 9y ago
It's not the pile of debt that increases the score. It's the history of repaying that debt per its agreed terms that does. While I'm not a fan of the credit bureau system, I understand the reasoning behind it. It's an ef
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by skookum 9y ago
I agree fully. It may look like there's fierce competition to someone who has failed repeatedly, but here's what it looks like from the inside: In my experience at three of the big tech companies, we extend offers to everyone who
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by skookum 9y ago
There is no clarification to be made. There is no way to reduce taxes on RSUs by holding onto them longer. When $100 of RSUs vest, you get taxed on $100 of income. You can either keep the stock or immediately sell it with no further tax eve
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by skookum 9y ago
I'm happy to be a 9-to-5 loser making market rate at BigCo and gladly leave the winners to their startup lottery tickets and their 60+ hour weeks of busyness theatre.
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by skookum 9y ago
A big reason that A-list tech companies don't post ranges is that from the company perspective it's a no-win situation: - if the ranges honestly reflect how high the company is willing to go, existing employees making well short o
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by skookum 9y ago
I'm quite certain the competition see enough of each other's competing offers to have a very precise and up-to-date view into what each other are paying. At least this holds true for the Amazon/Facebook/Google/Micro
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by skookum 9y ago
Can you provide a reference? I'm not a big proponent of TDD but have read up on it and experimented with it some, and none of the TDD literature I've read suggests writing all the tests up front. Virtually all the mainstream TDD l
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by skookum 9y ago
The experience of hosting and scaling Amazon may have informed some early AWS thinking but AWS was not built specifically to host Amazon and Amazon was never the primary target customer. This is evidenced by nothing more so than by the fact
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by skookum 9y ago
tl;dr: This is a Microsoft puff piece written by a PR firm. The ranking is based on abstract things like "completeness of offerings" and "future vision". There's a token revenue comparison as well in an attempt to g
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by skookum 9y ago
Obligatory related entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MubrSXdjjQ
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by skookum 9y ago
Are you asking this from a DBMS internals or an application perspective? Are you posing it as a "one true answer" type question about a specific DBMS? I'd expect any software engineer or CS grad to be able to make a reasonabl
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by skookum 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_fee
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by skookum 9y ago
Not sure if you are trying to be sarcastic, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sc...
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by skookum 9y ago
The reasons the Poles began climbing the Himalaya in winter were partly due to having the relevant experience from the Tatras and partly due to politics. In the age when the major Himalayan peaks were first climbed (the 50s and 60s) Polish
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by skookum 9y ago
For those who find this article interesting, I highly recommend the book Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald ( https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Climbers-Bernadette-McDonald/... ). It tells the story of the core group o
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by skookum 9y ago
Putting aside the question of what reality the 13% statistic in this survey might be representative of... When one looks at how much this industry has grown since today's 40 year-olds entered the job market, my surprise at the 13% numb
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by skookum 10y ago
That approach only works if your system is stateless, a caveat which excludes virtually all large-scale systems.
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by skookum 10y ago
That's not a drawback so much as it's a fact of life. In any large-scale (read: distributed) system trying to provide a high degree of availability, rolling upgrades are the only way code goes out and individual components need to
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by skookum 10y ago
In my experience of hiring engineers across several companies over the past decade, the pool of senior SDEs who are both not already in the US and willing to move to the US is so small that I'd be surprised if it even registered in the
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by skookum 10y ago
This also came out and is more narrowly focused on areas relevant to frequent discussion on HN: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocume... SUBJECT: Rescission of the December 22, 200
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by skookum 10y ago
"Much easier than before" or "much easier than at Walmart"? I buy the former, but I doubt that many of the cash-only customers shopping at Walmart live in locations or lead lifestyles conducive to receiving regular packa
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by skookum 10y ago
Reverting smaller diffs out of order to roll forward IS a patch under pressure. Usually most interesting features, the kind that tend to cause bugs that are not caught until deployment time, tend to come in as several patches over time. So
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by skookum 10y ago
The author of the blog starts with the claim that you can't have a rollback button because applications aren't self contained and then at the bottom of the article proceeds to outline parts of how rollback "buttons" in d
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by skookum 10y ago
I'll see your cherry picking and I'll raise you one: Assuming Oreos are $2.50 a box, they work out to 840 or so calories per dollar. Russet potatoes at 50 cents a pound work out to 880 or so calories per dollar. And that's us
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by skookum 10y ago
The article says "Challenge: Construct a day’s worth of eating, from items at a typical supermarket we visited, that meets the guidelines for added sugars." ... then proceeds to let the reader build meals entirely composed of bran
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by skookum 10y ago
Since those stats aren't for software engineers, it would be enlightening if there was a breakout of the IT workers who couldn't find jobs to see how much of the more-affected population was some variation of manager or pseudo-man
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by skookum 10y ago
By this logic, there must be millions of unemployable past-40 software engineers out on the streets. Or maybe the simpler explanation: Our industry has been growing exponentially for two decades and the cohorts that are past 40 are small co

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