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by vbtemp 8y ago
I genuinely want to thank you for that full throated chuckle I had from this comment
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by vbtemp 8y ago
Everyone except you responded with something well-reasoned and interesting. Does that change your mind about your ill-considered and rude response to me here?
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Thanks
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Of all the nutty, anxiety-inducing and self-destructive things administration is doing right now, this trade war with China leaves me least concerned. In fact I'm curious to see where it leads. Change my mind?
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Gigantum ( https://docs.gigantum.com/docs --- https://gigantum.com/ ) is trying to solve this and related problems by making the whole research environment open-access and reproducible (code, data, results.
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Not really. If you have a life and meaningful relationships and purpose, this is but a little hack to increase your long term earnings to make that life a bit more comfortable.
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It's a market, but I don't think we're at a point yet where we're a commodity that is line replacable. There's no fair running daily auction on standard-issue developer/tech talent. Everyone has backgrounds and
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by vbtemp 8y ago
This is good advice. Also, never let people who pay you tell you what is fair. You only talk about what you think you're worth, and what they are willing to pay -- if there's overlap then great, otherwise no cigar. And final point
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1. Have you defined your value statement? What qualities you bring to the table, and what you have developed over the previous year that make you more impactful and invaluable at your current company. That is your starting point for discuss
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Good formalization of a value statement
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Thank you! The question was simply what steps should one take (in tech) to become valuable enough to earn a highly-substantial premium in earnings -- to cross the next threshold so to speak -- using approx $250K as a benchmark. Responses a
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High COL east-coast city
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by vbtemp 8y ago
1. Find a company or startup that desperately needs someone with your skillset ASAP 2. Negotiate hard 3. Have a good reputation
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Ask HN: What steps can I take to earn $250K+?
43 points by vbtemp 8y ago|54 comments
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by vbtemp 8y ago
I think this is correct. It's understandable when it's a physicist or electrical engineer trying to code something up to get something working. What really upsets me is when it's professional software developers who never evo
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I'd warmly encourage you to not make excuses or find reasons from your past to justify current maladaptive behaviors. If you're 18+ and grew up in safety, comfort, and with education you possess all the necessary executive functio
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by vbtemp 8y ago
Certainly not. This was hundreds of years before before the Arab/Muslim conquests. Perhaps they had Semitic roots, but consider Hebrew and Syriac (still spoken in small measure today) -- it would be absurd to call them dialects of one
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by vbtemp 9y ago
Salary range and the attributes of what a candidate would need to get to be the top of that range. Appearances of avoiding or deferring that discussion frustrate me immensely, as it seems like the company is trying to compensate with fluff
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by vbtemp 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this story. Thanks and appreciation to him as well for his service to his country and to the defeat of tyranny during the second world war.
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> most of it is just wiring form fields to databases in new and exciting ways. I'm so sorry to hear you've had an underwhelming career working on boring projects. There's so much more that's passed you by.
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by vbtemp 9y ago
From the article: > Added Maloney: “There’s a lot of attention on empowering girls. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, but males are the ones in crisis in education.” It's no secret here that there is a crisis of mascu
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by vbtemp 9y ago
I'm glad it mentions H-1Bs. Similarly to identity-conservatives, for whom belief in global warming is heresy and tax cuts are gospel, I believe there is a similar phenomenon with identity-progressives around immigration, in this case s
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by vbtemp 10y ago
FYI this comment has been quoted by The Atlantic... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/uber/...
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Thanks for this comment, incredibly well put.
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With the sole exception of item (3) in that list (pertaining to dynamic allocation), which others carry a cost?
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by vbtemp 10y ago
Why not just call it "Rules for Writing Code"? Who would ever, for example, consider checking the return value of some function but then think "ah, this isn't safety critical, I'm just skip writing a quick _if_ stat
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Ask HN: Simple steps for thwarting web tracking
2 points by vbtemp 10y ago|1 comments
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by vbtemp 10y ago
> Git is, like many professional tools, something you simply got to learn. Nailed it.
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by vbtemp 10y ago
This kind of thing triggers my crazy buttons: What kind of person goes into debt to get a PhD and then becomes a postdoc? Why not just leave off with a masters or BS and go off to get a great paying job and do actual work with a livable lif
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by vbtemp 10y ago
Yes, but this is also a false dichotomy. In my experience doing something the "right" way is generally no overhead over doing it the "quick" way. Adding a check, or a log message, or making sure you're using consist

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