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by tezzer 9y ago
It sounds like the projects you've been working on have been pretty small; it's not always the case that you'll be able to hold all, or even most, of the pieces of a real project at once. Programming courses have to give you
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by tezzer 9y ago
Subsidized day care is $1900/mo for 2 kids; rent on a 3 bedroom house with a serious termite problem and an absentee landlord who doesn't care is $3300, babysitters are $20/hr if you want to go see a movie. Couples with 2 ful
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by tezzer 9y ago
It took me 10 years to get close to that, but I didn't work for Goog/Facebook/Amazon, and didn't jump jobs every 1.8 years to maximize salary increases. Salaries keep going up; so does cost of living (see: 1400 sq ft hou
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by tezzer 9y ago
My first job in Silicon Valley I had no idea I should be saying 'no' to unreasonable demands. I burned out pretty hard. Encouragingly, when I started saying 'no' I started getting taken seriously as an engineer. The con
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by tezzer 9y ago
When you say ads don't make much money, are you talking about from business users? 2Q 2016 $19 billion of Alphabet's $21 billion in revenue came from ads, so that seems like a strange statement.
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by tezzer 9y ago
I like my job. A lot. So we make sacrifices.
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by tezzer 9y ago
Not the OP, but based on living here for 15 years- you bought a house 8 years ago, when prices were half what they are now. Or you had an IPO/acquisition/bonus that netted you a downpayment large enough to bring the mortgage into
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by tezzer 10y ago
I'm a senior engineer with a ton of experience, and it was an interview for a challenging role at a major; I've come to expect that sort of thing on warm-up. It's a bozo filter before the real questions, and I should have be
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by tezzer 10y ago
I completely froze on a phone interview once. I opened up a co-coding application and was asked to write code to balance a binary tree as a warm-up exercise and I completely froze. Couldn't back out of my head, even with some prompti
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by tezzer 10y ago
I mean every single qualification I put on my job reqs. I also know from experience I'm not going to find that person. If I hire you, I'll pay you to learn the rest of the things.
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by tezzer 10y ago
Or at least what you need them to do.
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by tezzer 10y ago
An expectation of 10 hour days? Ridiculous. You might be the only one walking out at 5:15 the first few days, but you might get followers, and improve the culture at your workplace in the process. If you're meeting your tasks and del
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by tezzer 10y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere, this math is wrong. it's 10 to 44 people per 100,000, which is .01 to .04%, 2 orders of magnitude lower than 1%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
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by tezzer 10y ago
He did the math wrong. The source he links shows about 10 deaths per 100,000 which is .01%. He's high by 2 orders of magnitude. Edited to add: The highest by-country rate using the statistics he cites is Guyana at 44 per 100,000, wh
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by tezzer 10y ago
My daughters make me very happy, and I'm a better person because I'm trying to make sure they're smart, well adjusted and have good lives. The point of the article is the U.S. has a weak social net to help parents compared to
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by tezzer 10y ago
maybe they're just saying he, specifically, shouldn't have kids ;)
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by tezzer 11y ago
It definitely merits study, but I imagine the best ideas are going to be in plastic-digesting microbes, and measures to reduce the amount of new plastic that gets into the system. I'm afraid we're going to have a layer of microsc
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by tezzer 11y ago
We're researching a number of different ideas in that space, with a couple of different high profile customers, so I can't say much in public at the moment!
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by tezzer 11y ago
The initial cost of 25K gliders would be 7.5 Billion dollars, and unfortunately, most of the plastic in the gyre isn't of a size you could pick up with anything more porous than a coffee filter. 25K gliders pulling nets would be amusi
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by tezzer 11y ago
Wave Gliders: http://www.liquid-robotics.com It's a wave-powered, autonomous sensor platform built for longevity at sea. We do things like monitor salinity in the arctic, circle oil platforms looking for leaks, track tagged
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by tezzer 11y ago
Or if you want to know the area has a source of smart young people who may attract quality employers and/or start their own interesting gigs.
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by tezzer 11y ago
Except municipal trees use heavy doses of systemic insecticide at the roots to avoid having to spray them. I wouldn't eat the fruit from a branch grafted onto a municipal tree. http://www.nyis.info/?action=eab_municipa
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by tezzer 11y ago
Were your folks in the military? Everybody of my generation who grew up on military bases overseas had sealants applied when all their permanent teeth came in.
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by tezzer 11y ago
No, he's actually thinking of sealants. My sister and I both had it done when we got all our permanent teeth, it was SOP among military dentists in the 80s. The sealants wear off eventually, but it offers some protection for some tim
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by tezzer 11y ago
Yes, I interviewed with Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Trimble, Qualcomm and Apple in the last 18 months for senior or staff engineer positions; all required white board coding. In general the coding was not the most important part of the inte
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by tezzer 11y ago
I disagree completely. Every once in a while someone will slip through phone screens, etc. who does not have the foundational knowledge I want in someone who works for me. Asking them to write code to traverse a tree or implement strcpy in
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by tezzer 11y ago
me too
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by tezzer 11y ago
"Levodopa" sounds like a Harry Potter spell. The abstract says "the role of dopamine in modulating executive function, working memory and associative learning has been established", I wonder if there are side effects to
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by tezzer 12y ago
They are debunked, but they're still intimidating enough to be useful on a lot of people. I have friends who claim to have 'faked out' their poly, and friends who claim they cracked under the pressure and tried to admit ever
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by tezzer 12y ago
Congratulations! My wife and I decided there was never an ideal time, possibly never a good time, to have kids, so we jumped in (at 30 for her and 40 for me) to have 2 in 2 years. I have superiors with kids who have been very understanding

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