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by smm2000 13y ago
I would not be surprised if higher percenrage of bonded postings will be fake because all postings required for visa/greencard will be bonded and useless.
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by smm2000 13y ago
If you are hiring for start up, you do not care why they are dumb. Potentially you can save money by hiring non traditional candidates and paying them less, but any advantage you get this way will be short lived. Unfortunately diamonds in a
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by smm2000 13y ago
Pretty much everyone who travels often. Oh man, how I hate this airport.
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by smm2000 13y ago
Not really. If you go after top people from good universities (Waterloo, UBC), it's still 80-85k in Vancouver. Less than in Silicon Valley but not by much.
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by smm2000 13y ago
It's not really derogatory. It's just self-humiliating humor that is pretty common in many professions.
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by smm2000 13y ago
I think that most middle class people just do not need any personal services. I understand why rich need it - they have complex finances with multiple sources of income, bank accounts in different countries, tax management needs etc. Poor a
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by smm2000 13y ago
MOOCs are solution for highly motivated students who are generally able to get accepted by traditional universities, ace classes and graduate with little to no debt. They are not the solution for sub-par students who go to for-profit univer
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by smm2000 13y ago
Most poor people (not enough food to eat level poor, not 40k is poverty in SF kind poor) do not pay any taxes and actually get money back from the government (unearned income tax credit). Before I moved to US I lived in a poor Eastern Europ
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by smm2000 13y ago
I know one guy who got more than 1 million in bills at Microsoft. Long term cancer does that to you.
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by smm2000 13y ago
Nope, it's very difficult to get fired from Microsoft unless you try really hard. Answering emails and doing minimum amount of coding (1 hour/day) is enough in most groups to get average reviews.
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by smm2000 13y ago
Apparently entry-level software engineer salary is "making too much money".
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by smm2000 13y ago
Electric company totally care how you plan to use electricity with different rates for consumers and businesses. What's more, businesses pay different price based on whether they are ok to reduce consumption during peak hours, reliabil
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by smm2000 13y ago
You should be able to get unemployment insurance for at least 6 month after you are fired - in most cases it's enough to find a new job. There is problem with very low cap on unemployment payout (~2k/month which is not enough to l
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by smm2000 13y ago
I based my opinion on my personal experience in several large technology companies. In these companies contractors were treated like second class citizens - they got worst offices/desks, were not invited to offsites and were assigned t
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by smm2000 13y ago
I have passwords in my bash history - namely mysql passwords.
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by smm2000 13y ago
it's more like doing everything possible to avoid allergen because you know that reaction of immune system will be disproportional.
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by smm2000 13y ago
Part of the reason is that most contractors in tech are less qualified than full time employees and will never pass full interview loop.
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by smm2000 13y ago
Yep, I use it every day, mostly to save steps to build or run something complex. Search across all notes is fantastic.
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by smm2000 13y ago
It's only true if conservative=>liberal conversion continues in future which is not necessarily true. Currently liberal societies generally outperform conservative ones but historically it was often not the case. Just look at Siege
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by smm2000 13y ago
It does not matter who is happier or have better life - middle class family in US or low-cast family in India. Sad fact is that ALL western societies are below replacement level. White US population is on decline (and it's not steep on
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by smm2000 13y ago
Provided script also works ssh'd into another machine. Main downside of using iTerm match is that it fires up when you scroll up/down or just do cat and that string is present. Annoying.
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by smm2000 13y ago
Good thing about bash script is that it works when you compile on remote Linux machine. terminal-notifier works only if you development is completely on Mac.
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Using iTerm2 with Growl for Notifications(sergeymarkov.com)
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by smm2000 13y ago
I think he means that Russian never gives up defectors and spys. Also the same is true for US.
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by smm2000 13y ago
gmail is popular but almost no one uses FB.
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by smm2000 13y ago
I was hired by Microsoft as a fresh grad in 2005 for 84000 year. 84000 in 2005 according to CPI calculator ( http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl ) is $100,117.42 today. Add to that that two years ago Microsoft reduced stock grants and pu
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by smm2000 13y ago
I biked to work in Seattle every day including freezing 35 degree rain in winter and enjoyed it. Half an hour biking in such a weather made me feel like I achieved something before work day starts. And biking was totally optional - I had a
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by smm2000 14y ago
Most Indians in US are from top 1% in India - pretty much every Indian I know had maids/gardeners/cooks at home. One guy cooked/washed clothes himself for the first time when he came to US.
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by smm2000 14y ago
I am curious how many unittests they have - hundreds or thousands...
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by smm2000 14y ago
When I was looking for job in April the lowest offer I got was for 135k base + ~70k in stocks (vested over 4 years). All other offers were higher and some significantly higher. Dev with ~8 years experience.

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