the_jeremy

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by the_jeremy 5y ago
That salary[0] is from 2020 and includes QAs and testers, which presumably drives the number way down. It baffles me why the government lumps all of those together. [0]: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
I live in a landlocked state and make >$200k with <5 YOE, as do 5 of my friends (all different companies). None of us work for FAANG. I think you are significantly underestimating private compensation at most companies that sell softw
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
https://jeremy.richards.dev is a failed attempt to create knowledge base with all my markdown notes (see my goals at https://github.com/jeremysprofile/jeremysprofile.github.io ) and now just holds my resume
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
To expand, DLC models for multiplayer either split the community (only people who purchased the DLC can join this lobby) or they inevitably make the game pay-to-win. If I'm going to get shot by a $20 sniper rifle, I'd rather it ha
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
I trust the people whose code I review to be competent developers. But everyone occasionally makes typos, misreads requirements, has blind spots, etc. Even if the creator is the expert and the reviewer is there to catch only obvious mistake
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
1. The questions on both high school and college should be meaningless for anyone 5+ years into their career. I am a different person than I was in high school. 2. It is unclear from the prompt how much detail to provide - many of these que
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
He talks a lot about how other companies are incompetent or inefficient and says that this is why it is often better to build in-house. I think the reason this doesn't happen to the degree that would be most efficient is people assume
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
Mad Hatter[0] is a good example in English. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erethism
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
> "Studies looking into the diets of wealthy, highly educated communities, are looking at people who have the purchasing power and the knowledge to select plant-based diets that access the full nutrients normally contained in meat.
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
It specifically calls out not requiring regular password rotation. Short-lived credentials is for tokens with expiration, not the password you use to login to the service that gives you the token.
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
It's not. That is explicitly called out in the blog post.
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
> just 49% of the 76 Borg team members who responded had a favorable view of what their work group was doing to help their well-being, 12 percentage points lower than employees companywide > In November, “team temperature” surveys fou
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2019/09/12/college-f...
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
Making prison worse is unlikely to help[0] in that harsher sentences already don't help reduce crime. [0]: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
I would at my (F500, tier3) company. I think the interview difficulty has lowered over time as we've had trouble recruiting.
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
Without reading the actual law, I will say that all Colorado (similar law) postings I've looked at have made an effort to present a realistic salary range (90-120k depending on experience, etc).
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
I live in Colorado. The similar Colorado law about posting salaries is probably great for jobs that don't give RSUs, but given how much bonus / RSUs affect tech pay, it doesn't really help SWEs much - they give a salary range
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
My team is full of lifers (everyone but me and the friend I got hired have been here >8 years), and only one person of the 12 of us left this year. My fiancee's company is in the process of losing the entire mobile team (Android&#x2
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
I don't agree. All of my written offers have been before bg check clears. I've always signed the offer and background check paperwork in the same set of paperwork.
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
Only marginally relevant: does anyone know how to change speed of a podcast like this? I have the Video Speed Controller extension and it works on videos perfectly, but I don't know how to change speed on an audio-only player like this
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
I interviewed at Brex, and they required getting online within 5 minutes of being paged. (I did not get the offer, but I would not have accepted the offer after learning that.) Where I currently work the response time is "ideally withi
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
> json doesn't even need commas JSON is defined by the spec. The people who wrote the spec think otherwise[0]. [0]: https://www.json.org/json-en.html > Arrays with hole are a JS-only feature. There are other lan
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
SymbolHound ( http://symbolhound.com/ ) is the only one I've found that doesn't ignore special characters.
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
I think of peer pressure as doing something to conform or as something explicit your peer group wants you to do. If one of your friends gets a Tesla, they probably don't want you to get a Tesla. If everyone gets one, it doesn't
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
> almost certain those who write these either are virgins, or write them for virgins. Come on. People like being liked. Even if it's superficially, in a way that wouldn't work if they get to know the "true you", it&#x
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
Once we finally got buy-in from management, we switched our (3/week) standup from "justify why we pay you and mention everything you did" to "only mention blockers or items you think the rest of the team needs to know&qu
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
My landlord has set up an LLC where he is the only employee.
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
You are right in the sense that my company was underpaying relative to the market. The reasons I decided to stay were: 1. I had been there < 3 years, and was at my only other job was 1 year, and I think that has at least slightly negativ
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
anecdote: This year, I was on a team of 2 and my coworker left for Google for a little under $300k. I told my boss I was going to quit to do interview prep and said I was making onsites for companies offering $200k, and they offered me $200
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by the_jeremy 5y ago
Boris Johnson: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-model-google-n...

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