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by throwaway713 7y ago
I personally find overcommunication annoying and don't like to hear constant status updates from people; just handle the work and let me know when it's done unless you have any blockers. That said, I've received feedback from
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by throwaway713 7y ago
There’s one thing that constantly confuses me with the housing crisis, which is why more people aren’t moving to other cities (or at least a lot faster than they currently are). Perhaps my mentality is different than most, but if I can impr
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Why are people uploading photos of others who never gave their consent to have their image online in the first place?
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by throwaway713 7y ago
So have the government explain the risks of sharing personal data with corporations and then punish companies after the fact rather than preemptively. I don’t understand why I shouldn’t be able to make an adult decision about taking risks w
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by throwaway713 7y ago
I have no problem if a company performs facial recognition on me as long as I give them permission and it is used for specific purposes. Why should the government interfere with my ability to decide how images of my face are used?
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> but people tend to be either slow movers or fast movers and that seems harder to change. Being a fast mover is a big thing; a somewhat trivial example is that I have almost never made money investing in founders who do not respond qui
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by throwaway713 7y ago
As a data scientist, I agree with this. On my team, the data scientists with the largest impact seem to be the ones who are sort of hybrid software engineers / data scientists. I’ve noticed these people tend to swap between the two tit
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Now imagine having one of these incomes but having a spouse who is hellbent on moving back to the southeastern U.S. in a year. It’s driving me nuts; I can’t find any company in the south that pays anywhere near my current compensation, and
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by throwaway713 7y ago
My sister and I basically copied what our parents did. I got a degree in engineering like my dad (but pivoted to data science), and my sister got a degree in elementary education like my mom. She works much harder than me but earns signif
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Is California the only state in the U.S. where a company can not legally claim ownership of your side projects as long as they do not relate to company business? I will eventually move out of the Bay Area, and this is my biggest concern for
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> This would be a terrifying revelation on a personal and existential level. Why is that? I believe the universe is fully deterministic (i.e., no such thing as "true" randomness), yet I also don't think that rules out fre
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by throwaway713 7y ago
I agree with his theory, but what I find particularly interesting is that I think most people do not have an obsessive interest in anything at all. And as someone who has obsessive interests in a lot of things (some “useful”, some not), t
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by throwaway713 7y ago
You make a strong claim without anything to back it up. I don’t understand why it’s become trendy to deny that consciousness exists; to me it’s isomorphic to saying “We don’t actually exist at all. Prove me wrong.” It’s a vacuous statement
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by throwaway713 7y ago
If they can get the glass breaking issue figured out, this might be the first truck to make an appearance in SF.
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by throwaway713 7y ago
The jobs may be spreading out but the compensation sure hasn’t been. The best paying jobs with the most interesting, cutting-edge work are still located in just a few cities. I keep hoping some more opportunities will appear in the southeas
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by throwaway713 7y ago
This is probably controversial, but I generally disagree with the popular HN sentiment that great progress is accomplished by groups of people working together in teams. My view is that the greatest work is done in isolation by individuals,
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by throwaway713 7y ago
As a maker (individual contributor), I have been having this issue a lot, but my attempts at pushing back do not seem to be going so well. Any time I reserve a large chunk of time on my calendar, people set up meetings on top of it anyway,
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> So maybe non-STEM folks tend to lean left because they are better educated on the issues ;) I totally agree with you, but would add the caveat that more education on social issues doesn’t mean more likely to be correct ;) (poking fun b
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by throwaway713 7y ago
I work at one of the companies often cited as having very left-wing employees, and my impression is that the media heavily overplays this. I would instead say there is a small but very active group of employees that push a left-leaning poli
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> The app failed almost instantly Hell, at least he’s trying to do something . I can’t imagine many billionaire’s children trying that much.
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by throwaway713 7y ago
You say this as though many companies are not already practicing that alternative.
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by throwaway713 7y ago
I feel as though I’m one of the few people who doesn’t mind that billionaires exist. A very large amount of money is going to be used to influence society somehow : this will either be done by these wealthy individuals, or by the governmen
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> even though they are “working“ it takes them hours to respond to slack. Interesting, I feel the opposite. The longer it takes me to respond to someone’s messages, the more real work I am actually getting done because I’m deeply focused
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by throwaway713 7y ago
I find it interesting how split the HN comments on this story are. Half seem to think this guy is an entitled low performer chasing high compensation, and the other half relate to him and feel that he was treated unfairly by Snap. I’m not s
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Wow, that's it? I mean that's a lot (objectively compared to most people's compensation), but I think my skip manager makes that much...
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Can someone who understands investing well explain what he’s saying in terms that someone who isn’t knowledgeable about this could understand? I kind of think he’s saying that everyone is just shoveling their money into index funds without
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Some of what I've built is currently in prod at a very large scale (which honestly is a bit freaky). Depends on the particular project though. Our team very rarely hands stuff off to SWEs (although they frequently code review); for t
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by throwaway713 7y ago
I have a research background and do pretty heavy duty machine learning. It’s not analyst work (the internal job family is “applied scientist” while the external facing title is “data scientist”). It’s still not SWE compensation. As far as I
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> data science usually means a pay bump That’s interesting. I’m at one of F/G and a lot of the data scientists want to go the other direction to software engineering because we receive about 60% of the RSUs that they do. A few peopl
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Stupid question: but how is this the case? The fare I pay for an Uber or Lyft seems much higher than the time/car/insurance cost of driving myself ($30-$50 for a 25 min ride to SFO). But the drivers don’t get much of that fare, so

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