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by wai1234 9y ago
With pay comes expectations and that can be ugly. You have the rest of your life to get paid. The first question is: how do you know you can code at a 'relatively high level'? Don't be surprised to learn that you still have a
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by wai1234 9y ago
Any decent undergraduate program will have a defined sequence of courses for most of the first three years. The third year may, and the fourth year will, be all or mostly electives that you choose. The idea is that you will be better prepar
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by wai1234 9y ago
I am not a lawyer. With that out of the way, you have already completed the negotiation phase of the process. They can't reopen the salary question without rescinding the offer completely. Why would they do that? They've already i
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by wai1234 9y ago
Google makes its money on search+adwords. Everything else they do is a hobby, and it shows. Not necessarily evil, but sloppy produces the same bad result.
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by wai1234 9y ago
From this, you have learned many things already. Make sure you have learned a key lesson: handle your own finances. It was fine to have him pay the fee. It was not fine to tangle up his credit card in your life. YOU pay the fee, he hands yo
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by wai1234 9y ago
Anyone that looks at SV salaries knows that they are incredibly high (and the much freer markets around them, like housing, know it :) The fact is that they could offer $1,000,000 starting salaries tomorrow and the pool of 'qualified&#
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by wai1234 9y ago
Please re-read my comment. The quantity produced is held static by an external force: the ridiculous filter used by the SV bigs that exclude 99% of developers sight unseen. They create a shortage for themselves and then complain there is
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by wai1234 9y ago
"We can't even get enough qualified resumes." Says who? It might be you are bad at promoting your openings or you have a bad reputation on Glassdoor. It also might be that you use the word 'qualified' without knowin
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by wai1234 9y ago
Your economics are incomplete. You can't buy your way out of an aggregate shortage. The price will rise until only the rich can afford what is in short supply, and then, eventually, only the richest rich, and so on. The rest do without
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by wai1234 9y ago
Hmmm. So, they're saying they should hire people with basic training in the necessary skills but who did not hatch out of the egg already knowing everything they will ever need to know. They then imagine they might need to invest time
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by wai1234 10y ago
I'll assume that PM is a real role in your company and not a glorified status metrics report generator. The first thing to keep in mind is that being a PM has nothing to do with the skills of a developer other than to judge estimates a
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by wai1234 10y ago
The fact that someone wants to buy it proves you are wrong. $10K is nothing for a company. It cost them $10K to decide to offer you that much. Unless you really would not sell at any price, ask for a truly big price ($100K+ ?) and see what
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by wai1234 10y ago
This. How useful would hammers be if they ONLY drove nails?
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by wai1234 10y ago
These appear to be incomprehensible drivel.
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by wai1234 10y ago
The employee fired threat is a threat to the employee, not the reviewer (unless you consider a guilt trip a threat). The whole payload reads more like a tantrum than a 'threat'. Given the state of the world, this headline is more
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by wai1234 10y ago
Not exactly terrifying.
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by wai1234 10y ago
How is this a 'threat'?
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by wai1234 10y ago
The only place we are ok with this is in the social sciences where rigorous causation can never be proven. No physics theory is considered 'valid' because of a confidence threshold. Pharmacology and epidemiology flirt with this to
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by wai1234 10y ago
If so, the author says it poorly. Yes, you wouldn't look for a causal link without correlation, that would be insane, but the existence of correlation tells you only that there might be causation, nothing more.
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by wai1234 10y ago
This argument is absurd. It takes the obvious truth that causation will certainly lead to correlation and blindly flips it around and claims it's somehow profound. Just bad reasoning from beginning to end. The correct reasoning - causa
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by wai1234 11y ago
The first implementation was weak from the start. By exposing the instance variable directly, you threw away all the power of inheritance and guaranteed a future meltdown. If you had correctly implemented setters and getters from the beginn
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by wai1234 11y ago
Like most interviewers are skilled judges of 'culture'. This is why most tech companies are filled with bros telling themselves how cool they are and how they are changing the world. Utter BS.
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by wai1234 11y ago
There is no shortage of developers. There is a shortage of perfect developers that meet every preconceived notion of lazy companies that don't believe they have any responsibility to develop and grow people. There will always be a sh
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by wai1234 11y ago
More and more colleges are NOT using them for admissions because they predict NOTHING.
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by wai1234 11y ago
a pile of bricks is not a house.
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by wai1234 11y ago
That C^2 factor is a bit of a problem. Calculate the mass equivalent of any reasonable amount of energy you intend to "throw" and you will be disappointed. In the other direction, that c^2 term works pretty well (for atomic bombs
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by wai1234 11y ago
I don't see NASA having anything to do with this. Neither Eagle or "NASASpaceflight" have any affiliation with NASA.
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by wai1234 11y ago
So, small tasks you CAN estimate, large ones not so much. Perhaps the technique to use is right in front of you: decomposition.
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by wai1234 11y ago
I have to laugh when I see these posts. So, software development is a special activity that should not be constrained by budgets or deadlines (or estimates)? Where do I sign up? There are so many strawmen here I can't possibly address
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by wai1234 11y ago
This is possibly the silliest post I've ever read. Apparently you don't know the definition of engineering and, most astonishing, claim building projects are always perfectly estimated. I doubt ANY building project ever finished o

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