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by tfehring 4y ago
Yep, until a couple years ago you had to say “Hey Siri, play Tom Waits on Spotify ,” otherwise it would always try Apple Music even if you didn’t have a subscription or the app wasn’t installed. But they changed it - probably for antitrust
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by tfehring 4y ago
Building your own housing usually means living either in the middle of nowhere or at the sprawling edge of suburbia. None of the places I would want to live have much, if any, empty developable land. So that would mean a tear down and rebui
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by tfehring 4y ago
Because it’s easy to credibly promise someone their claim is worth X dollars when you (and you alone) control the creation of dollars.
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by tfehring 4y ago
Most US banks and credit unions offer a similar service, called an "overdraft line of credit." Overall I think it provides the best experience for the customer, but there are a few issues. You have to know about it and apply for i
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NVIDIA is required to monitor material risks to its business and disclose them to shareholders. I think in theory the reason for that requirement is so that unsophisticated retail investors don't buy the stock and then lose a bunch of
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by tfehring 4y ago
Yes, I got a job at a startup that was a great fit for my interests and skill set, which I never would have found otherwise. The signal to noise ratio seems strong from both perspectives.
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by tfehring 4y ago
I think a couple dozen countries offer digital nomad visas now, the ones I've looked into in detail just require you to be employed remotely by a company outside the country and earn at least a couple thousand USD per month.
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by tfehring 5y ago
Very good developers in India generally don’t make $500k+ USD/year, which is the going rate for very good developers in the Bay Area. Salaries are heterogeneous within areas, but they’re still also heterogeneous across areas even when
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by tfehring 5y ago
There’s not enough data to answer those questions from these tables, the “number of lives” fields are just illustrative.
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by tfehring 5y ago
Yeah, I think that would help a lot. I think I’d personally go a step further and make thread titles optional, I generally don’t think they add much value over just reading the first message in the thread. Even with that change, though, I’d
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by tfehring 5y ago
For better or worse, I think Slack’s approach of opt-in threading is effectively the default at this point. If users’ (technical or otherwise) mental model assumes that messages can get sent to a channel, but the software only allows messag
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by tfehring 5y ago
I don't think birth control explains much of the difference, since usage of hormonal birth control in North America and Europe is only up ~2 percentage points since 1994 [0]. A potentially larger factor from the medication angle is ant
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by tfehring 5y ago
IBM is more than two orders of magnitude bigger than Mozilla in terms of both spending and headcount. On a log scale, Mozilla's scale is about halfway between IBM and your local McDonald's franchise. CEOs of smaller companies typi
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by tfehring 5y ago
For what it's worth, I've gotten a response to an application to Stripe specifically from applying through their website. No experience at FAANG or other high-profile companies. And I had previously applied for a different role (w
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by tfehring 5y ago
Compared to data.table, tidyverse offers significantly better readability and ergonomics in exchange for worse computational and memory efficiency, with the magnitude of the performance ranging from negligible to catastrophic depending on t
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by tfehring 5y ago
RSUs are still subject to FICA taxes, see e.g. [0] and [1]. Also, most tech workers are above the income limit for Social Security taxes, so their marginal payroll tax rate is only 2.9%. [0] https://www.foley.com/en/ins
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by tfehring 5y ago
I don't know about "lonely," but I feel bad for the partner of any parent who's never found parenthood to be difficult or emotionally draining, since I think the most likely explanation is that that parent isn't pul
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by tfehring 5y ago
"Bully for you" is an idiom that basically means "good for you" https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Bully+for+you !
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by tfehring 5y ago
Very cool! A couple questions/suggestions off the top of my head: 1. Did you consider using a keyword like `let` for column declarations, e.g. `let gross_salary = salary + payroll_tax` instead of just `gross_salary = salary + payroll_t
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by tfehring 5y ago
I haven't had a great signal-to-noise ratio from recruiter DMs on LinkedIn myself. But I think the more general point is that the "candidate sees job posting on job board and submits an application" hiring pathway is mostly d
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Root Insurance cuts 330 jobs, citing pandemic strain(bizjournals.com)
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by tfehring 5y ago
https://levels.fyi/2021 Also my impression is that Amazon’s effective comp is significantly below the headline number because they heavily backload RSUs and they burn out or fire so many people in the first couple years.
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by tfehring 5y ago
I think the usual approach would be to SSH into the server and run sqlite3 there. This issue [0] mentions some workarounds for connecting from DBeaver, which I assume would work for other graphical client software. I haven't tried thos
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by tfehring 5y ago
Keep in mind that the actuaries who apply for data science jobs are a heavily self-selecting subset. Among the candidates who apply for data science positions, I think actuarial credentials are a strongly positive signal on business acumen
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by tfehring 5y ago
It's a legacy category of company that gets favorable regulatory treatment (mostly in the form of more flexible pricing) for auto insurance policies written in the state of Texas. It's been illegal to form a new Texas county mutua
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by tfehring 5y ago
Yeah, that's a factor too. The actuaries had way better salary trajectories than the programmers we worked with when I was at an insurance company in the Midwest.
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by tfehring 5y ago
Disclosure: used to be an actuary at an insurance company. I think the general rule is that your insurance will reliably cover the things that it explicitly says it covers, but that category may be narrower than you think, so you should rea
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by tfehring 5y ago
It's an actual exam question from the first exam, but it's one of the easier ones. IIRC the syllabus is something like 40% discrete probability and combinatorics, 40% univariate continuous probability, and 20% multivariate probabi
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The exam process probably takes something like 2000-3000 hours total, with roughly half done on company time. Exam season is really stressful and can go significantly above 40 hours/week between work and study time, but it doesn't
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by tfehring 5y ago
I left the actuarial field for basically the reasons you describe, but the characterization still strikes me as somewhat unfair. Actuaries reliably make significantly above the median US income right out of undergrad, and reliably double th

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