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by thedufer 11y ago
I get the draw of working at startups, but I didn't think it was worth it. The big companies here are offering 2-3x startup salaries (with real room for growth). Is the market here out of whack or is that really a trade people are maki
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by thedufer 11y ago
When I was 21 I was only able to get a secured credit card. That didn't change until I got a full time job. I would've loved to know where I could get something better; I just wanted something low limit to build my credit score wi
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by thedufer 11y ago
To agree with chmullig, NYC apartments I've seen are almost all steam heated, but I don't think I've ever heard of a working valve. Most people I know adjust temperature in the winter by opening windows (apartments are large
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by thedufer 11y ago
Aren't you just saying that the field of tenured professors is saturated? That is, there are more people looking for such jobs than there are available.
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> the median SaaS company spends between 50-100% of their annual revenue of sales and marketing The fact that we're considering companies that spend 100% of revenue on sales and marketing makes it pretty clear why Atlassian's c
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by thedufer 11y ago
I don't know exact salaries of that many people, but I know payscales at a couple high-paying companies and people who work there, so I put 2 and 2 together. I wouldn't count people who are borderline since there's a bit of
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by thedufer 11y ago
Where do you live? These numbers are fairly local to SF/NYC/Seattle, with other large cities trailing a bit and smaller cities farther behind. That said, in those cities they are far from absurd. I started out similar to you (co
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by thedufer 11y ago
When people cite total comp, including RSUs, they only include the RSUs that vest in that year. At least, this is how the recruiters at the big companies talk about it, which is typically where total comp numbers come from. So a grant of
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by thedufer 11y ago
At 3.5 years of experience Google offered me about double what I'm hearing for new grad total comp, so it seems that they value at least the first few years. Given the oft-cited ageism in the industry, I expect that tails off pretty q
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by thedufer 11y ago
No one's arguing that doubling in three years is average, but of people that get jobs at Google, doubling in five years seems very reasonable.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Pair programming is not for everyone. More generally, you want to be somewhere you can learn from senior folk. Pair programming and high quality code reviews are both great for this, and will appeal to different people.
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by thedufer 11y ago
I recently got an offer from Google for 270k total comp (<4 years experience, nyc). I would expect tenure to be worth a sizable amount over that, and it's my understanding that nyc is very similar to silicon valley.
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by thedufer 11y ago
I think a good number of people just don't know that they're underpaid. I worked 3 years at ~100k, then started interviewing and quickly moved up to the kind of numbers mentioned in the article (note: nyc, so all numbers are somew
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by thedufer 11y ago
I mean, obviously AWS can't reject your pushes, so it's the best they can do, but I agree that it would be nice if Github did this as well. > That's pretty sweet, but by then the damage's already done. I'm not su
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by thedufer 11y ago
FWIW, AWS actually does this for you. Their response time is pretty amazing, too. IIRC, they caught me pushing an active key within 2-3 minutes.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Point 1 makes sense, to the degree that it's true. Programmers are typically too far removed from actual transactions to get paid in the way that sales, bankers, real estate agents, etc. are paid. Thus, measuring what they're ac
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by thedufer 11y ago
CLUT is explained well enough elsewhere in this thread that I won't repeat, but it seems very clear that the API allows them to change color palettes but does not do anything like read/write access to the screen. As far as I can
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by thedufer 11y ago
We didn't revert. I've since left, but they're still using the newer method. I believe the decrease in time to fill positions was determined to be worth the decrease in quality. It's been over a year - maybe 2.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Anecdotally, we switched up our process some in an attempt to be able to hire faster (mostly by avoiding false negatives). It used to be standard whiteboard style; we switched to a mix of that and more real-work style interviews. False po
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by thedufer 11y ago
The downside to printing only 15 is that you then have numbers that print the same but compare as not equal.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Yes, but in order to have a non-repeating decimal expansion, the denominator must share _all_ of its factors with the base. That is, only fractions that, when reduced, have a denominator of the form 2^n*5^m (for natural numbers n, m) will
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by thedufer 11y ago
> [...] Aol are really the only large headquartered technology companies that I've seen in Ashburn The AOL buildings are mostly rented out at this point; I believe a Raytheon office resides in the majority of them. So looking for h
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by thedufer 11y ago
> How's that working out for San Francisco? Kinda hard to tell, since they only allow a few new residential buildings to go up each year. If they didn't allow NIMBY interests to prevent _any_ housing from going up, we might ac
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by thedufer 11y ago
> Just money you've made from your own labor, and loans you've received without nepotism. You'd be surprised how few entrepreneurs fall under this category. Frankly, I'd be surprised if anyone fits under that category
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by thedufer 11y ago
> Unless you build an elevator with a height of 42'164km (geostationary orbit) - but that seems unrealistic to me. Actually, much of the point is to build one that is significantly taller than that. The idea is that, if the center
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by thedufer 11y ago
If they need to rent then they should do so. This defeats the point of one of the main complaints - that what should be full-time rental housing is being converted to higher-priced hotels, driving up already absurdly high costs for people
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by thedufer 11y ago
To be fair, "Netflix played all night" is not actually a thing that happens, as far as I can tell. When autoplaying, they pause every few episodes in case you're not watching. I'm sure they don't want to pay bandwid
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by thedufer 11y ago
> What would happen to your website (or millions of websites) if one of the CDN's that you rely on started quietly issuing evil code to a few, targeted users? Would you notice? Would your users? Most of ours would. Subresource Inte
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by thedufer 11y ago
Based on the dozen or so tweets on the author's Twitter starting 15 hours ago, I think it was published yesterday. It references Bernard Isaac's death in 2014, so at the very least no older than that.
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by thedufer 11y ago
FWIW, sports was not actually my choice. My parents saw it as very important (and they had to pick me up from school after practice every day, so they thought it was worth 1.5 hours of their time in addition to my time). Not that dropping

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