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by wikibob 5y ago
> What happened to the wealthy? They used to keep these things amongst themselves rather than announce everything to the public. Still happens. See this $600 hat which is sold out, used as a wealth signaling mechanism. And also as an asp
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by wikibob 5y ago
No DMs on HN. Add your email address to the About Me section if you want to be reachable.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Modern induction provides a superior cooking experience to gas. The metal of the cookware is heated directly via the energy field. Yes there are many risks in modern life, some are longer term and less directly linked. Gas stoves are direct
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by wikibob 5y ago
This doesn’t need to be a debate. Simply calculate it and look at the effective tax rate. Here https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-paycheck-calculator And use the Total Compensation data from https://lev
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by wikibob 5y ago
Can you post a redacted copy of your detailed bill line item?
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by wikibob 5y ago
This is a common misconception. If the value of your invested RSUs go up: fantastic now you make more. I’d the value of the invested RSUs go down: no problem, you evaluate if you want to wait to see if they go up, or if you want to go into
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by wikibob 5y ago
> Such offers go directly to Mark Zuckerberg and he has to approve them personally This is absolutely incorrect. Offers above the band have to be approved by a comp committee/VP. It’s quite a common process especially since number h
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by wikibob 5y ago
> Staff engineers at Meta get like $500/yr This is incorrect and out of date by a significant margin. Levels.fyi is a low-biased sample. People with top comp do not post it. Talk to industry friends, numbers have gone up.
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by wikibob 5y ago
> Are you saying senior engineers who don’t use HN have different values from those that do? Absolutely yes. HN posters are by far the noisy minority. Even on HN the vast majority of readers don’t post. HN posters are a sliver of a slive
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by wikibob 5y ago
Fascinating. Could you write more about this, or do you have suggestions for what to read to learn more?
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by wikibob 5y ago
The only currently acceptable external display is the LG 27-inch 5K. Sadly the firmware is flaky, the webcam sucks, it has huge bezels, and is very thick. Rumor is apple might have a new consumer priced external display next year. Let’s hop
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by wikibob 5y ago
I would strongly, STRONGLY advise you to email the recruiter and say that after getting some more info about the process, you would like to please postpone the interview. Get yourself onto http://leetcode.com Start practicing. A
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by wikibob 5y ago
This is absurd victim blaming. The problem is there is a door handle that is designed with a failure mode such that pulling the handle DOES NOT OPEN THE DOOR.
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by wikibob 5y ago
https://archive.md/GYiRW
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by wikibob 5y ago
Could you write that book? Or better yet, how about just writing a series of blog posts or a newsletter? Don't waste time on the setup, just register something on substack.com and I'm sure a bunch of folks here will subscribe. It
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by wikibob 5y ago
This is detectable easily in work spyware. Physical Mouse movers mostly aren’t detected by work spyware. Yet.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Taste doesn’t matter in the majority of the fruit and vegetable market because it is not perceivable at the time of purchase.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Make sure you consult the total compensation data on: http://Levels.fyi http://TeamBlind.com Do not use numbers from GlassDoor. They are utterly outdated and misleading for our industry. I would guess you are proba
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by wikibob 5y ago
This is a non sequitur. There is no way to directly get a green card. That is a final outcome after proceeding through one of the few remaining immigration visa options. Also O-1 is decidedly not easy. Look at Peter Roberts frequent legal p
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by wikibob 5y ago
Absolutely not. The Robert Half data is very significantly under market for the skills that the majority of readers here have. https://www.roberthalf.com/salary-guide/specialization/techn...
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by wikibob 5y ago
Glassdoor is utterly useless for tech industry jobs. The data is many years out of date and drastically under market. Check levels.fyi and teamblind.com instead.
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by wikibob 5y ago
What do you consider to be a “decent tech industry income”? Are you making at LEAST $150,000USD?
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by wikibob 5y ago
This is correct.
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by wikibob 5y ago
I would never ever use this. I use DocuSign because I trust them to continue to be around. Why? Because Important Conpanies(tm) also use them. $2 is absolutely irrelevant in the context of signing a document that is even remotely related to
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by wikibob 5y ago
Have they raised a seed? If not at least a few to several percent. If yes maybe 1-3 percent. Profitable? Product market fit? Will the stock fit the requirements for Qualified Small Business Stock? This makes a huge tax difference. Early-exc
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by wikibob 5y ago
if you do this, charge an appropriate rate. AT LEAST $200 an hour if not more.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Apple PassKey syncs the WebAuthN tokens between devices.
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by wikibob 5y ago
Barcelona.
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by wikibob 5y ago
The text not being attached to the shapes makes it unusable for me. Also agree on missing some kind of laser pointer and or highlighter.
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by wikibob 5y ago
What’s the TC ranges?

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