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by slumdev 7y ago
The far left in the United States mostly doesn't exist. The corporatist center-left has given up on meaningful economic policy change and mostly just panders on abortion, gay marriage, and gender identity.
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by slumdev 7y ago
> 1. How is this different to Glassdoor? Glassdoor under-reports salaries because unhappy people are overrepresented there. Unhappy people are likely to be underpaid compared to their happy peers. Anything that helps us gather data rel
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by slumdev 7y ago
> 10+ billion invested These are big numbers to us, but it's about 1/4 of their quarterly revenue--i.e. they bring in 16 times that number every year . Don't think they wouldn't sell it to Amazon or Microsoft in a he
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by slumdev 7y ago
Not a good article. There are three steps on the wealth ladder: 1. Wage slave - Most people will never leave this step, no matter how many ugly Merc SUVs they own or first-class flights they've taken. 2. FU Money - This person has enou
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by slumdev 7y ago
> That would at least put the 787 in the same class of "suit-designed" aircraft. The 787 is a suit-designed aircraft. Composite materials are not ready for prime time. They are a gamble that Boeing suits have made against p
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by slumdev 7y ago
> I can no longer loosely type something like "10th and grove to Jim's Hardware" and get directions I've had the same issue, and I find it bizarre. It's really become a much less natural interaction.
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by slumdev 7y ago
I got that impression. At the first shop, the people I met didn't seem like they would be employable anywhere else. The hiring manager also spent some time whining about the state of the developer market and said they couldn't af
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by slumdev 7y ago
I like my house more than I like my office. I also prefer saving the 40-60 minutes per day that would have been spent on the road. 100% remote (meaning all employees are remote) is important because it eliminates drive-bys and the water co
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by slumdev 7y ago
> HiPo I thought this was a new battery technology and had to google it. https://hr.toolbox.com/articles/hr-hipos-identifying-hipos-h...
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by slumdev 7y ago
I've shot down two companies in the past three days because they made it known during the recruitment that they expected more than 40 hours a week, sometimes well in excess of it. It's always couched in some doublespeak about &quo
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by slumdev 7y ago
I'm in flyover country. It's certainly prestigious here.
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by slumdev 7y ago
You don't need a billion dollars to have an elite background. No one in the top ten is a rags-to-riches story. Plenty of elite universities and family connections.
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by slumdev 7y ago
There are a lot of trials involving prehospital cooling. Some groups focus on trying to cool the entire body by putting ice packs in areas of the body with lots of blood flow near the surface. Others focus on intranasal methods for cooli
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by slumdev 7y ago
An Amazon interviewer once gave me the word ladder problem unmodified. I am not a recent college grad, and I don't encounter a lot of interesting algorithm problems in my work, so I had prepared by working through some leetcode problem
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by slumdev 7y ago
If decades of autodidact humblebrags and anti-university anecdata haven't convinced employers and the world, one more comment isn't going to do it.
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by slumdev 7y ago
> layoffs aren’t as destructive as they used to be. Student loan debt cannot be discharged. Unsecured personal debt is at all-time highs. Nearly half of Americans have less than $1000 in savings. You are wrong.
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by slumdev 7y ago
How many software engineers genuinely work on interesting problems? How many spend their days rolling Yet Another CRUD App(tm) gilded with the latest fad? How many "solve" the same problem, over and over and over, with only a smal
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by slumdev 7y ago
Doctors are a rare breed. Now that the money isn't what it used to be (for most specialties, and in proportion to the cost of education), very few go into it as a "lifestyle profession". It attracts only the workaholics. S
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by slumdev 7y ago
I don't like this trope because it obscures the one thing that wealthy people know and non-wealthy people don't. Money is time. It's not gadgets or electricity or running water or toilets. It's time for yourself, your
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by slumdev 7y ago
It's called "bumpage" or "B*" on forums. People were leery of using the word back in the day because they thought the bureaus might catch on. It doesn't work anymore.
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by slumdev 8y ago
I can appreciate the idea, but this attitude is why bullshit pervades. If a person or group consistently advances bullshit, it eventually becomes a useful heuristic to dismiss that person's or group's ideas without consideration.