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by twunde 8y ago
How much less pay would you be willing to take? 50%? 75%? Teacher salaries in San Francisco range from 61-81k a year (this includes teachers master's degree). See https://www1.salary.com/CA/San-Francisco/Publi
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Do you actually have any equipment that comes with Thunderbolt3/USB-C cables? My office currently buys new hires at least one dongle plus an hdmi cord because our monitors don't come with a USB-C cable (if yours do, please let me
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The 2015 macbooks and earlier were great. The switch to USB-C/removal of thunderbolt AND hdmi has made using the newer macs a real pain. The older macs had much better keyboards (and better placement of the touchpad). The only nice thi
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Keep in mind that at many companies the promotion isn't to manager but to the next class of engineering ie engineer I to engineer II. This is how you increase your pay. Also if you don't get promoted within a certain amount of tim
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* Instill a learning culture. An easy way to start is to do brown bag lunches/lunch and learn once a month. Ask engineers to volunteer to talk about things they're playing around with, or on anything they find particularly cool. W
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I'm honestly struck by how _cheap_ this piece was sold for. Banksy is a household name unlike most contemporary artists. Pieces by Jeff Koons have sold for 50 million but Banksy struggles to cross the 1 million mark? I'm surprised
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Yes, the buyer should be able to retract the buy. At this point the buyer head made a verbal agreement to purchase the artwork but the details haven't been worked out. It's rare but sometimes buyers can't come up with the mo
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This is actually good news. Cisco has been doing real security audits, where they go through the source code with a fine tooth comb and look for hidden backdoors. And even better they're actually telling us about them instead of turnin
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by twunde 8y ago
It sounds like your company is ready for a framework like OKRs. I'd suggest reading Measure What Matters if you're interested. The problem with having just one Northstar metric is that it doesn't capture all the complexity yo
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Get a second opinion from a copyright specialist in the UK. If you were a US based company it would fall under the DMCA safe harbor as long as you were registered. I imagine the UK has something similar. Things to check: Does the company ac
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Historically postgres was slower than MySQL, harder to manage than MySQL, wasn't available on shared hosting and generally speaking wasn't beginner friendly. Because of this a generation of programmers learned MySQL, especially as
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By the same token, why have multiple programming languages? We can just use C. Why have different operating systems, we can use Windows for everything. I'm actually super happy about mercurial support. Git is very complex and that comp
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For new databases that I'm interested in, I generally check if there's a Jepsen analysis for it ( https://jepsen.io/analyses ) or whether it's being open-sourced by a company that's been using it in produc
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Their Android version also allowed offline use. I do think you need to use an official app to read offline, but it's well supported, at least for books (I didn't try video)
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I believe it's from Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" speech, one of his two major speeches against military spending. The other major speech was his farewell address, where he discussed the military industrial complex. I
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For those wondering why HR prefers to pay more for contractors through agencies, the biggest reason is so that they limit the risk of a contractor being labeled retroactively as an employee. The other reason is consolidation. It's one
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Many times consultants specialize in certain industries. I know one consultant that charges $200+/hour + expenses for basically energy industry data processing and custom reporting. I imagine that there are a ton of people in banking&#
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Decide whether you're willing to leave the company or lose your job over this. It's not popular to say, but there are enough companies that will manage out individuals that bring up issues like this because there's no managem
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Well crap. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Fairly often, especially for founding CEOs since so much of the company tends to be tied to the founders. And generally when a founder CEO is ousted there's two reasons: 1) there's an incredible amount of bad press (think of Uber
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As always, your mileage may vary. My small companies may be very different from yours (I get the sense there's more variation in small companies than in large companies). Small companies: * Less bureaucracy (for better and worse. The l
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Ah this brings back memories. I'm honestly blown away that Amicus only had 3.2M in funding. They consistently got a ton of press (they had at least 2 stories in Techcrunch in 2012 and I remember Seth doing a photoshoot in the General A
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1) Investors and their money. It's much easier to get angel/vc money in a tech hub. Investors either are there already or frequently travel through the tech hub. For companies with investor money, investors generally prefer to be
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I've actually thought about this multiple times (this complaint comes up once a month minimum). The big deal to me is that it's super-easy to copy. You'd spend a few years marketing and growing a startup and then once it bec
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Even worse is that several of the major Italian banks have a large exposure to Turkey including UniCredit. Italy has the worst youth unemployment in the EU[1]. Consequentially, there was a large amount of drug use in the city I lived in. h
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GE has really taken a significant step down under Jeff Immelt's tenure (how much is his fault is up for question). It certainly is no longer the place to go for managerial excellence. The people that are good, leave. The managerial ro
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You're referring to distributors, the energy companies that are responsible for managing the wires/gas pipes to your house (Think ConEd, EverSource, etc). This effects the energy generators, which don't have prices regulated
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One place that should have accurate employee data are IPO docs for companies like Google, Facebook, AppDynamics, etc. Obviously this is only available for relatively mature companies, but it should give a rough breakdown of employee size t
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Does anyone know how to enable U2F support for LastPass as the article claims? I was under the impression that LastPass only supported OTP codes with YubiKeys and not U2F.
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On a similar note, I've seen one large client's PCI compliance team tell us that we couldn't use Stripe for their integration, primarily because it's seen as a payment processor for startups and not for the "enterpr

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