swimorsinka

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by swimorsinka 10mo ago
We've seen the same uptick in reckless driving in CO since Covid. Reddit Denver complains about it all the time. I think it's happening everywhere, and it's not clear why.
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by swimorsinka 1y ago
I'm seeing similar dynamics occurring with Denver/Boulder. These smaller tech cities have been hit hard by the tech recession.
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by swimorsinka 2y ago
It’s hard to know if this most recent move will be more permanent. The irony with Amsterdam was that they had a hell of a time hiring. They had to import 80-90% of their labor from Eastern Europe or elsewhere and everyone had visa issues an
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by swimorsinka 2y ago
I can confirm this. Former Senior Manager from Big Tech Co here (I just resigned 2 weeks ago). When I left, we were in the middle of offshoring all of my groups to Amsterdam. No stock compensation in Europe = cheaper devs. There was no real
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by swimorsinka 2y ago
+100 to this. There's no better successful enterprise than becoming a guru - assuming you have the personality to pull it off.
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
1978. In reality the worst months are $300+ and the others are less, so the average isn’t really $300 - probably more like $200 or $250. But yes, this is another reason I want to move. I’ve done all the insulating I can easily do without te
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
Xcel Energy. I'm usually at $300/month for electricity from November-March. A comparably sized house with an efficient furnace would be $100/month in this area (or so I've been told). My non-heat electric usage works out
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
I live in Colorado, so I'm in one of the colder climates with a decent amount of time spent below freezing each year. I've had a Mitsubishi Hyper Heat mini-split system with 2 outdoor units and 3 indoor heads for ~7 years now. I&#
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
Both at the time. In retrospect, I was extremely naive, and I was building something I thought was "cool" instead of something that people would really want.
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
Yep. I did the exact same thing ~10ish years ago - leaving my job at Google to run my own startup for 2.5 years. I burned through most of my savings. In the meantime, I watched as my former colleagues got numerous promotions and made more a
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
I definitely fell into this category. None of my messages ever seemed to go through. I tried everything to fix it. The only thing that worked was getting a new phone, new number, and never connecting to my wifi. I have no idea what I did to
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
Given that 2/3rds of the employees are now gone, doesn’t this mean that the business is still viable?
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
For me, it's been more useful to look at these relationships through the lens of reciprocity. Am I in a reciprocal relationship with this friend/coworker or not? In my friendships, am I doing most of the work to text, call, or han
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
Some of the people on my team had to switch back to Comcast after trying it for a few months. Video calls were laggy and would drop packets constantly. This was in Colorado fwiw.
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
Looks like you’re right. This https://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how... claims it’s only 7%. I’ve updated the original comment. You still have the problem of non green generation sources
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
You might be thinking for the non hyper heat modules. The ones I’ve got still heat down to -13 F. I remember thinking the same when I was originally pricing out the units. But when you actually get them through a reputable installer with a
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by swimorsinka 3y ago
Ugh, I think this is a terrible idea for heating. I've installed 2 Mitsubishi hyper heat pumps in the past 5 years with 3 indoor heads totaling ~48,000 BTUs of heat capacity. I don't think people understand how much more expensive
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by swimorsinka 5y ago
I did this for a couple of years as well. I think the experience was invaluable, and I don't regret it, but I arrived at the conclusion that doing a startup is largely overrated. Why stress out for 60 hours a week for years on end watc
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by swimorsinka 5y ago
Lol, not on the same team, just the same company.
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by swimorsinka 5y ago
I'll add another cautionary tale.... At the start of my career, I worked as a SWE at one of the FAANGs. After 3 years, I couldn't take it anymore. I hated everything I worked on, nothing was meeting my lofty expectations, and I th
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by swimorsinka 5y ago
Huge +1 to this. Don't get me wrong, I've been in my house for 10 years, and I probably won't go back to renting, but I think most people wildly underestimate these things. In the first couple of years I remember getting so i
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by swimorsinka 6y ago
Yikes. Say what you will about package.json files and all their associated problems, but Make? Really? I've written multi-thousand line Makefile build systems across multiple directories and multiple platforms, from scratch. I must say
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by swimorsinka 6y ago
I have a knee jerk reaction against posts like this, mostly because of the reference to $4 cups of coffee. While the point is true, I think your time is best spent worrying about other things. 90% of money problems seem to come from a few t
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by swimorsinka 7y ago
In a word, it's time. If I want to drive somewhere in my town, it takes at most 15 minutes. A bus is easily 30-45. I think over long distances rail allows you to save time, or at least break even.
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by swimorsinka 8y ago
Early employees who cash out are a bit different than the rank and file.
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Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?(thinkfaster.co)
386 points by swimorsinka 8y ago|397 comments
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by swimorsinka 8y ago
Hmm, I use Redshift every day and I've also used BigQuery. You can't have a valid benchmark without adding sort keys and dist keys to Redshift. It really isn't meant to work without them. I understand it's more work tha
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Goodbye Python. Hello Go(thinkfaster.co)
2 points by swimorsinka 8y ago|0 comments
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by swimorsinka 8y ago
I agree with this too. There is a tier of engineers that are good, but for whatever reason, can't get into the big 5. They're bad at white-boarding or maybe they don't live in an area where the big 5 have offices. In those ca
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by swimorsinka 8y ago
+1 to this. 10 years ago you couldn't make 400K at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Now you can. Startups made a lot more sense when your opportunity cost was 50-150K per year.

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