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by thedufer 10y ago
Why is the EU going after Google if Ireland is the one that broke an agreement? Usually we go after the entity that did something wrong.
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by thedufer 10y ago
If we were overpaid, companies with a large portion of developers would all go out of business. But they're not. Where is the money above the value we create coming from?
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by thedufer 10y ago
Interviewing _is_ a filter. Each step where you eliminate candidates is a filter; that's what that word means. I think what you're really trying to say is that blind filtering is bad (okay, you said this part explicitly) and you
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by thedufer 10y ago
The only two alternatives to not filtering candidates are to hire every candidate or not hire anyone. How could these possibly be better?
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by thedufer 10y ago
OS X used to have a "Network Link Conditioner" that shipped with XCode, I believe. It did a lot of the things you're suggesting, but right at the network interface level. Unfortunately, it broke with the advent of Mavericks
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by thedufer 10y ago
> retiring exceptionally early, with less than 20 years of working life This is an assumption I'm working under, but I've thought about it for a more normal case as well. Still, the usual advice for saving for a normal retireme
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by thedufer 10y ago
Why should you compare using your overall rate in retirement? Is there some assumption here that most or all of your retirement income is coming from tax-advantaged accounts? That's probably the wrong calculation to make for high earne
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by thedufer 10y ago
Falsely claiming that a company committed a crime might run afoul of libel laws? That's the only thing I can think of.
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by thedufer 10y ago
I think it's important to take the bigger picture into account here. Letting us know who she is was a key part of that comment, since it's immediately relevant to the content.
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by thedufer 10y ago
I don't think you understand credit scores if you think that's minimal. Having even one card is an enormous boost. And four years of history is not bad either. I graduated college with no credit history and couldn't get a non
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by thedufer 10y ago
The entire point of the article in question is that startup employees make less on average, so forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical of your claim that the startup job will pay on average a full order of magnitude more.
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by thedufer 10y ago
Interesting; I've never had to think about how regex interact with Unicode. I guess what I really meant is that programmers are talking about PCRE in terms of power, not in terms of exact syntax. In particular, they have recursive pat
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by thedufer 10y ago
It is true that regular expressions in the CS sense can't parse context-free grammars. However, PCRE, which is what most programmers are talking about when they say "regex", can do so. So you're both kinda right, I gue
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by thedufer 10y ago
So the suggestion is that in 1994 (when the https protocol was introduced) we should have put big scary warnings on every non-ssl site? I don't see how that could've gone well. It's now 22 years later and people still aren&
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by thedufer 10y ago
Am I missing something, or is this suggestion trivially mitm-able? If you fail to forward the request the upgrade, neither side will know something is missing.
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by thedufer 10y ago
> My company fully believes in this (although many people choose to work more because they are Type A and love their work--their decision). Peer pressure, whether actual or imagined, will keep people from leaving when they should if othe
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by thedufer 10y ago
For my current job, after getting an offer I said that I was only willing to work 40-hour weeks, and that I would have to turn down the offer if this was a dealbreaker. Even though this means I work fewer hours than most people, I can conf
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by thedufer 10y ago
I don't think base salary is a very good measure of compensation at places like Google. Are you suggesting that RSUs and bonuses be valued at $0?
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by thedufer 10y ago
> Most devs with a few years experience won't earn that. How sure of that are you? I don't have a lot of data points, but 3.5 years of experience got me a 270k offer from Google. I find it hard to believe it was _that_ much h
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by thedufer 10y ago
A large portion of the high wages are coming out of sustainable companies, so I don't think you can blame this on startups. Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. are all outpaying Canada's tech sector by huge margins yet someh
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by thedufer 10y ago
Most of the time request bodies do not get logged, because they often contain sensitive information. The logging in ngrok also comes with a "replay request" button, which is very nice when you're testing webhooks that are a p
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by thedufer 10y ago
Excellent. I'm glad we agree. You'll notice that the stated identity f(x,x) = x fails to hold over x < 0. I hope this is sufficient to make it clear that the equation does not consider the negatives?
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by thedufer 10y ago
The laws given in the post were explicitly derived from the equation. Please explain how you used that to determine f(0, -1)?
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by thedufer 10y ago
The given function is clearly only defined over naturals. In the first part using bits, there's no indication of how to encode negatives, and in the second part with the sum equation, f(-1,-1) >= 0 (and thus not equal to -1) for any
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by thedufer 10y ago
> in-demand programming skills No offense, but hasn't your experience shown that, regardless of how strong your skills are, they are clearly not in demand?
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by thedufer 10y ago
While I usually appreciate this kind of talk, it's irrelevant here. How much a theoretical developer could make has no bearing on the median developer salary right now, which is solidly below 118k.
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by thedufer 10y ago
Why do you think that's what downvotes mean around here? pg explicitly disagrees with you, and his opinion would seem to matter. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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by thedufer 10y ago
8 * 12 is 96, not 56.
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by thedufer 10y ago
8/month is not better than 42/year. If these numbers are right, vanguard looks cheaper.
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by thedufer 10y ago
> $450-$600/month expenses To be fair, this is probably a trade-off people in SF are already making. I know I am in NYC - if I was willing to spend an extra hour/day commuting (and that's only weekday, of course), I could

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