sombremesa

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by sombremesa 3y ago
I usually don't argue with people who are this out of touch, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Let's do some math. In both cases we're buying the same home for keeps, so we can ignore the value of the final ass
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by sombremesa 3y ago
You can look on levels.fyi for current comp, but it's a bit harder to find what someone's comp is like if they started ten years ago. Perhaps you could look at H1B data and extrapolate at a 3-5% raise p.a. with larger bumps every
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by sombremesa 3y ago
You missed the "personal" part of "personal finance." If you live in Seattle and started working in, say 2012, that "smart" decision would be costing you a ton of money today (certainly more than a few mil all
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by sombremesa 3y ago
I updated the wording to help you out.
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by sombremesa 3y ago
> There is a component in contentment that I think is lacking in complacency...that of general happiness. I don't see it that way, complacency can be just contentment from one's own perspective — it may take a third party to ca
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by sombremesa 3y ago
> They are all multi millionaires. Sure, but so am I — and I know for a fact they make very little, because of the way they talk about our mutual friends' job offers — I cannot even tell them my salary, to be honest. (Making less mo
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by sombremesa 3y ago
> What you call complacency, I call contentment. Contentment and complacency are ostensibly the same thing, though the primary reason I tend towards the latter term is because I think we ought to aspire to growth (in whatever sense you d
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by sombremesa 3y ago
Microsoft employees are some of the most complacent I've ever seen. Some of my Microsoftie friends haven't had an interview (aside from maybe one or two recruiter calls) in over ten years, having been there since graduation. Needl
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by sombremesa 3y ago
Bingo. Getting it into production is a non-concern for non-entities with no reputation, but Google has a lot more to lose. The big guys watch and wait, and use their sizeable wallets when the time comes. I have no doubts that Apple is going
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by sombremesa 3y ago
Not sure I would call this a "backdoor," but nice of them to do that.
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by sombremesa 4y ago
> One would be eventual consistency. In the vein of the TFA, this would be a negative shibboleth (which just goes to show how being pedantic in certain contexts is just silly). The reason being that eventual consistency has no guarantee
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by sombremesa 4y ago
The genuinely qualified people in tech are probably not the ones finding this article organically. TFA is not even industry specific...just think of the target audience, and then consider whether this is a cause for concern.
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by sombremesa 4y ago
> When I type 'git add', it lists the two files I actually modified. Is not typing `-u` really worth installing a whole app that spies on you? Especially since shells like `fish` (FOSS!) will have you just write `-u` + up arr
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by sombremesa 4y ago
Yep. The best time to get a promotion is as you interview. The second best time is now...at another company. Thankfully, at a large company with plenty of hard problems to solve (and smart folks to work with), you can grow quite a lot wheth
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by sombremesa 4y ago
What makes this list "well-crafted"? It doesn't seem to be any different than any other listicle on the internet. Is it?
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by sombremesa 4y ago
> Reverse mortgages don't prevent death Except in this case: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-12-27-951228...
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by sombremesa 4y ago
> to demand that I only consider the earliest smartphones The earliest smartphones did not even have touchscreens, I just used an example that would be easier to digest.
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by sombremesa 4y ago
> when I tried the first iPhone What about when you tried the first touchscreen smartphone, which was probably resistive and came with a stylus? Seems unfair to compare an emerging tech with the iPhone (which took an emerging tech to the
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by sombremesa 4y ago
Unreal vs. Unity is pretty much the 'spaces vs. tabs' or the 'emacs vs. vim' debate at this point. Nobody who makes a living from gamedev is dropping their engine of choice thanks to a flashy demo or even a killer featur
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by sombremesa 5y ago
I've been using https://144blocks.com , is this inspired by that?
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by sombremesa 5y ago
This is a very interesting comment. At first I found myself in strong agreement with GP (believing people chasing status are probably misguided), but after reading your comment I realized that it might have to do with my current status (ind
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by sombremesa 5y ago
The best pilot would not rationalize for even a second why their instrument readings did not match their intuition. They would fall back on their training immediately in the face of ambiguity. This person is not even close to being the best
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Better title might be “the average bicycle isn’t designed to maximally leverage human anatomy.” To which the answer is: so what? The market doesn’t care about efficiency that much, else clip-in pedals wouldn’t be optional.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
It's completely unsurprising to me that HN likes to get information from a search engine that doesn't know the difference between 'careen' and 'career'. This may indeed explain how the author came about their i
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by sombremesa 5y ago
It's completely unsurprising to me that HN likes to take career advice from someone who doesn't know the difference between 'careen' and 'career'.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
An example of what happens when you "speak out" (read: do anything but be servile) in India: https://twitter.com/Reashiee/status/1484811188844199936 > Many times, I wish that our Indian contract worke
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> If there are only 120 cases of this disease worldwide... 120 known cases. Some of the afflicted likely died without ever seeing a doctor, and given the difficult diagnosis, others may have died without the cause ever being known.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Huh, and I thought people on this forum were smart and would not stand for obvious FUD. Personally I’d never choose to use rhetoric like this. (“My life is in danger because of X, and so is YOURS!”/“They are coming for you and yours ne
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> I'm scared of Apple. They can do my business in on a whim. Yours too. They can't. My business is manufacturing for wholesale, nothing whatsoever to do with computers. These kinds of over-generalizations and FUD only serve to
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by sombremesa 5y ago
That’s kind of passive aggressive in my opinion (I believe you’ll disagree, and that’s fine), I’m unlikely to adopt that communication style.

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