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by turdprincess 4y ago
One other important tip - cross reference with google maps for things in the surrounding area that might annoy you. This might include * busy roads * buisnesses * churches (learned this one the hard way my last trip to Greece by renting a
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by turdprincess 4y ago
But wouldn't they basically have no choice but to scale up their own workforce if their client's business is booming? It wouldn't be a good look to say "hey actually we can't take your project on because we believe
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by turdprincess 4y ago
Ive been in some "mixed" sessions lately where some are remote and some are in person and its the worst case scenario. I feel like a second class citizen when someone points a grainy laptop camera at a whiteboard they are drawing
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by turdprincess 4y ago
To be fair, this is something that hotels do as well. Ive been traveling to NYC a lot recently, and I consistently find that the nightly price seen in the search is usually about 20% less than the final price I pay due to taxes, fees, and
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by turdprincess 4y ago
Depending on the severity, its not unusual to get 8 doses for the most minor of cases, like a root canal.
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by turdprincess 4y ago
It's crazy how eager American doctors are to prescribe opioids. Over the last few years, Ive gotten narcotic painkillers for serious stuff like surgery, but also for more minor stuff like dental work or joint injections. In most of t
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by turdprincess 4y ago
The "work from home" part of WFH isn't the most important thing. Its actually a downside - I would love to have a nice office to go into a few times a week where I could chat to coworkers. The real benefit is that your marke
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by turdprincess 4y ago
I think a lot of people would object to a system that reported every detail of your life to the IRS.
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by turdprincess 4y ago
The government can’t magically know what your expenses and deductions are. Got married, had a baby, used a home office, paid a plumber to fix your rental property? Deducting mortgage interest? If none of these things apply to you and your
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by turdprincess 4y ago
In my town craft 4 packs of beer cost 15 dollars, or about 4 dollars a beer. I have 1 a night, which easily brings my cost over 100 a month. I don’t consider myself an alcoholic.
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by turdprincess 4y ago
It seems like the thing to do is to downsize offices until they correctly meet usage. So, take your number of employees, multiply by percentage that usually comes into the office, add a buffer for growth, and have an office for that.
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by turdprincess 4y ago
My vision for a "traditional" IC is someone who sits in front of a computer and writes computer programs. This kind of role ends at senior, or if you are lucky, staff. A principal engineer is much more likely to be in a meeting
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by turdprincess 4y ago
The principal engineer role usually comes with expected impact on a big organization or even the whole company. Having that kind of impact is impossible as an “IC” in the traditional sense. Unless you are in some very cutting edge area, o
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by turdprincess 4y ago
A wide mouth Nalgene or whey protein container work well for both ladies and males. I’ve never heard of anyone using a diaper. Pee only of course.
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by turdprincess 4y ago
Could folks be optimizing for the wrong thing? I feel like there are plenty of 3 person startups where you can code your face off without red tape or human interaction. However, such gigs come with lower pay and worse work life balance. P
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by turdprincess 4y ago
In my experience, codebases never maintain their level of quality. Unless you are taking deliberate action to improve the codebase with every commit, it's actively getting worse like you described above. The interesting thing is that
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by turdprincess 4y ago
I think in the end, it's hard to separate technical leadership from human leadership. After you do your system design, you need to divy it up amongst the juniors to get it implemented. When deciding who gets what piece you have to co
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by turdprincess 4y ago
Unfortunately you will either need to change your attitude or change teams. In your position, the expectation is that you are mostly a working through others and acting as a force multiplier of their work. So doing stuff like: * figuring
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by turdprincess 4y ago
It’s also plausible that the function used to do x,y,z in that order, but then a new requirement came to do z before y. The code was changed, maybe a test was even added, but the comment was never fixed. That’s the problem with comments (a
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by turdprincess 4y ago
Maintenance work can easily be negotiated at this schedule. For example, you can launch a project, and then stay on "retainer" for 5 hours a week for bug fixes. If you find a few projects like this it could meet your criteria. W
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by turdprincess 4y ago
What is the better kind of client / project then, out of curiosity?
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by turdprincess 4y ago
The pay is an unequal comparison though. A W2 job gives you: * 5 - 10 paid holidays like Labor Day, 4th of July, etc... * another 10 - 20 paid days off for PTO * 7% less taxes for social security, medicare * 401k match * health insurance S
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by turdprincess 4y ago
contacted for many years as well. All my contracts always ran a year or longer. In the end, it felt very similar to full time employment - it was 9 - 5, regular meetings, coworkers, etc.. At the same time, I didn’t get any benefits, he
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by turdprincess 4y ago
My issue with Xcode isn't a lack of features, its the fact that the features don't reliably work. And not the advanced stuff, the very basic features. I routinely have issues with stuff like clicking through classes or syntax hi
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by turdprincess 4y ago
That’s a fair point. I think it’s interesting that the bar for getting a job is so high, while the bar for keeping your job is so low. I think what might be happening is a vicious feedback loop of * companies hiring too many smart engineer
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by turdprincess 4y ago
I think the problem these days is that it’s so hard to fire someone. I’m not sure if it’s legal, cultural or otherwise, but I constantly see coworkers who are at best useless and often detrimental being kept on and on and on. So the game b
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by turdprincess 4y ago
I’m not sure about relative fraud numbers, but the fraud refund differences are real. With a credit card they will refund you basically no matter what. With a debit card it’s much more hit or miss - I recently had 3 fraudulent transaction
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by turdprincess 4y ago
Swift is great. I’ve done a lot of it, but also bounced around between Typescript, Elixir and Java and every time I miss Swift’s strongly opinionated, highly descriptive and flexible style. Also, for the most part, it’s vastly superior to
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by turdprincess 4y ago
At least at my school, the CS degree was open ended. You take a handful of required corses (intro to programming, algorithms, operating systems) but aside from that, it was up to you to pick the classes which interested you. If you were i
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by turdprincess 4y ago
I have a CS degree from a top university and I didn’t learn any of the above in college (except for perhaps debugging), including an internship. Actually 10 years later I’m a senior engineer at a FAANG (mobile specialty) and I still don’t k

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