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by vbtemp 5y ago
Galois is a bit of an interesting and unique company I've followed for some time. Really interesting work in trusted and formally verifiable systems. But I can't shake the sense that there's a lot of bark but little "bit
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by vbtemp 5y ago
I wish I could give you more than one upvote here. PSA: I'd also like to point out sometimes people who are smart but suffer from anxiety or depression concoct elaborate philosophical systems in order to rationalize their maladaptive t
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by vbtemp 5y ago
> They have no inclination to. One shtick I have is the "Young person, why don't you have a brokerage account"? I know so many people, who are not so young any more, who are professionals and with solid salaries, who will
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Well it's become the exact corporate management hell that the original manifesto authors sought to fight back against. I personally avoid joining teams or companies that drank the kool-aid, and additionally find agile to be a particula
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by vbtemp 5y ago
> Back in the '90s, "Object-Oriented" got redefined in popular imagination to "good". If your language or system was good, it was then by definition object-oriented. Anything good had therefore to be called OO. S
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Location: DC Metro, Northern VA Remote: Remote or Hybrid Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: rust, python, C, docker, Linux, distributed systems, network programming, QA and V&V, embedded systems, systems engineer
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by vbtemp 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nnw7yd/sob... It's a little cheeky and at times a little hyperbolic, but I stand by it.
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by vbtemp 5y ago
I made a fairly popular reddit post recently on how I down-leveled my career in recent years. Each time I down-level, I get a raise in salary -- it's pretty great. What that permitted me to learn about myself is that - at the end of th
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by vbtemp 5y ago
In a similar vein, I refuse to use the euphemism "students" when referring to customers of many US university programs (particular MS programs, but applies broadly)
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by vbtemp 5y ago
What you wrote is really interesting. I too was in a software group at a "hardcore" engineering institution for a while and took just a bit of that rigor with me throughout my career - and have often been seen as the "quality
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Yeah, I read that over too - crap data in, crap analysis, and crap results out. There's a lot that's wrong with the article: - Someone else in this thread correctly highlighted that on stackoverflow, for example, simply having on
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Of course, the idea is you reach that upper limit sooner, and making so much more earlier in your career - when properly invested - compounds upon itself dramatically and had enormous implications for one's own financial safety and lif
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by vbtemp 5y ago
My all-time highest HN comment was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23563997 Basically, why do I get such big raises when I switch companies, but getting a nontrivial raise when at a company is like pulling teet
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by vbtemp 5y ago
I'd be curious to see a Slate Star Codex piece on this. One of his classic pieces was "Meditations on Moloch" https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ ( and related:
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Location: DC Metro, Northern VA Remote: Remote or Hybrid Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: rust, python, C, docker, Linux, distributed systems, network programming, QA and V&V, embedded systems, systems engineer
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by vbtemp 5y ago
It's interesting to me. When the carrot is TC of $350K+++, sure, anyone is willing to jump through that grinder. But for ordinary run-of-the-mill companies, there are so many that _don't_ have a hazing-like hiring process, I don&#
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Was this a FAANG or FAANG-like company where it's likely you'd have TC of $350K plus, or a sub-FAANG company where your TC would likely be in the $100-200K range?
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Besides personal networks, are there any particular services where anyone is finding good leads? I found my current job through Stack Overflow, which was great (I'd prefer to avoid LinkedIn and the spammy ones). However, there aren&#x2
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by vbtemp 5y ago
I think you are wrong about the confidence of a monotonically increasing salary across your career and lifespan (at least in terms of purchasing power) I think you are right that certain things cluster together: Jobs where you are treated l
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by vbtemp 5y ago
I think this is a pretty good take. Corporate management hell changes its name and window dressing over the years - in this generation it's called "Agile" - but, it's always the same, and needs to boil down to: micromana
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by vbtemp 5y ago
This is a really interesting and thoughtful read, thank you. I'm curious why solutions that satisfy those bulleted items you mention don't exist? Whether for dating or opportunity-talent-matchmaking. My hunch is that there's
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Yeah, exactly. The viet cong and NVA we're utterly sadistic and depraved. Just reading about the ways they would torment and torture not just enemies - but poor civilians - scars one for life. Complete and utter callousness toward huma
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Yeah, especially on HN there's lots of whataboutism. As you can see from other responses you got, a lot of people get really defensive for China and are very eager to carry water for them - for apparently no reason. For them, the US ha
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by vbtemp 5y ago
My best passive income is probably my day job, my investments require a lot more focus and time. Lol, guys, it's a joke.. kinda.
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by vbtemp 5y ago
"A Writer at War" - the translation of his diary from 41-45 - is truly the most moving, most horrifying book I have ever read. After reading the account of the uprising at Treblinka, I was changed forever. I think it goes to show
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by vbtemp 5y ago
What do you do? Contact Fortran code?
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by vbtemp 5y ago
You have an axe to grind, friend, and using hyperbole and warped quotations of what I said to take it out on someone whose net worth consists of 99%+ non-bitcoin, and 98% not crypto currency overall, is the wrong target. By all means, conti
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Anyway, as I was saying, it's amusing and baffling observing how people react with such passion and certainty.
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by vbtemp 5y ago
I target about 2.5% of my portfolio to be crypto. Another 2.5% gold and silver. It's kind of amusing and baffling watching all these people speak with such certainty and conviction. If crypto currencies collapse, meh, oh well. If they
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Agile is exactly the corporate management hell it claims it was out to solve.

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