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by thedufer 10y ago
There's a big difference between working a weekend and partying for an evening. The latter is typically optional (and if its not, that's a problem).
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by thedufer 10y ago
This is NYC, FWIW. I've never lived in SF. To be fair, the Google offer does include RSUs. However, since you can immediately sell those I think its fair to treat them like cash.
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by thedufer 10y ago
> In my experience the salary difference isn't usually that large. Speaking as someone who recently did a round of interviewing with a mix of established companies and startups, $50k is a _very_ conservative guess. The difference b
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by thedufer 10y ago
Why don't you think the range covers an order of magnitude? Salaries certainly do. There would have to be an explanation for why companies are behaving wildly irrationally for that to not indicate a similar range of employee output.
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by thedufer 10y ago
The baseline is inflation, not flat. Inflation is almost always higher than savings account yield, and is a more accurate measure of "equal value".
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by thedufer 10y ago
I think hills are well covered - if you have to move the same amount of mass up either way, it doesn't much matter where said mass is on the bike. Accelerating, as the article mentions, is the one place that their theory holds. My que
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by thedufer 10y ago
That seems like a very reasonable observation, and I would accept that as an answer if this were a discussion about road racing. However, the completely unqualified title (including the word "prove") implies something deeper. Ro
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by thedufer 10y ago
I haven't taken the time to compare the sizes of the effects, but it doesn't sit well that they blow past seemingly obvious ways extra wheel mass would go in the opposite direction. I see at least two places they do this: Air Res
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by thedufer 10y ago
That part is reasonable. The nonsense part is > They will even ask you this if you say you're on 3rd Avenue "4th street and 3rd ave" is a unique identifier. The East/West part is only relevant if you give the street
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by thedufer 10y ago
I don't think parent was pointing out a conjugation mistake. Rather, the point is how we will use different words to describe the same event depending on perspective - in order from least to most harsh, first-, second-, and third-perso
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by thedufer 10y ago
If there's no bank you have an account at within a reasonable distance, you might not have a choice. Obviously I use free ATMs when I can, but how much control do you have when a cabbie is demanding money?
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by thedufer 10y ago
If they tell you after giving you a ride that you have to go to an ATM and pay the ATM fee, then they are just passing the cost on to you at a net loss - ATM fees are higher than CC fees on purchases the size of a typical cab fare. I'
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by thedufer 10y ago
This probably varies by location, but in nyc cabs are required to have working credit card readers. Thus, insisting on credit card pretty much always works - the alternative is that they admit they illegally picked you up.
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by thedufer 10y ago
"plenty" by what metric? It seems to be less than market rate (for good experienced developers). What other metric should we use?
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by thedufer 10y ago
<2%, 0%, and 0% respectively (annualized). You have to recognize that the inflation figures are a national average - of course there are a lot of people experiencing more inflation than that, just like there are a lot experiencing less.
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by thedufer 10y ago
The original didn't require infinite precision; rather, it required that the average of two different numbers be between the two or equal to the smaller one. This is true in integer arithmetic due to rounding down, but apparently not t
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by thedufer 10y ago
If you know what . does, various repetition markers (*,+,?,{}), and character classes, you're 90% there. Back-references are another big portion, although that's admittedly where things start getting a bit complex.
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by thedufer 10y ago
The most common dialect is PCRE. Most languages have an implementation of either that or a superset of it.
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by thedufer 10y ago
At risk of being pedantic, that's actually shorter. It also doesn't work, at least on the version of OCaml I'm familiar with. In order to invoke that particular bit of "language magic", you'd have to declare
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by thedufer 10y ago
It's just OCaml's repl with the parser replaced. OCaml's repl is called utop. It stands for Universal TOPlevel.
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by thedufer 10y ago
It's a parameter. The rule isn't complicated - functions are left-associative. That's all you have to remember.
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by thedufer 10y ago
As others have noted, the pipeline operator already exists in OCaml. And even if it didn't, you can define it pretty easily: let (|>) x f = f x
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by thedufer 10y ago
The link was posted by someone external, and it looks like it was only distributed by Fog Creek in an email with lots of information. I don't think this was quite intended for public consumption.
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by thedufer 10y ago
That's not a problem with code reviews; it's a problem with your company's implementation. "Please explain this" should be considered a very reasonable response to a code change the reviewer doesn't understand
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by thedufer 10y ago
That salary data is pretty misleading. The equity grants are almost entirely illiquid, and if you take those out the numbers start to look normal (for startups) or low (for big tech companies). Not what you'd expect to need to attrac
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by thedufer 10y ago
> It was explicit and repeated requests to vote specifically for him Where, exactly? His Twitter feed contains a single link to each of his original Apply HN and the later poll (plus one link-less joke about the poll). I mean, yes, he
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by thedufer 10y ago
> I don't feel entitled so I'm not complaining Is it because you don't feel entitled? Or because there's a vast chasm of difference between "5th place" and "1st place by several miles in each of two se
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by thedufer 10y ago
>And, frankly, saying "salary is typically between $75k and $300k" isn't useful information. I disagree. That is absolutely better than not posting anything. Also, I suspect that ranges for most positions aren't that
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by thedufer 10y ago
There's a comfort advantage to both parties if you do rejection over phone/email instead of in your office, in my experience. Also, I've seen interviews cut short for both extremes (going really well and going really poorly)
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by thedufer 11y ago
You picked an interesting one to comment on - henrik_w's comments contain, based on a quick scan, a bit more than one link to that blog per comment. That no longer seems like commenting, so much as spamming.

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