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by wnolens 4y ago
Many of us have been here. You accelerated your life in a few ways - financially and career experience - compared to most people. There's a tax to pay. Some are good at paying it inline with work by having healthy workout routines, lov
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by wnolens 4y ago
Whenever I see "interesting" object modeling beyond very basic inheritance, I groan. I've never experienced it being worth the hassle (templates, factories, etc..). But my code is flush with collection.stream().filter().map()
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by wnolens 4y ago
MSFT was the same (at least the corner of it that I knew). We called it "C, with classes". I never apply to C++ jobs despite those 6 years of experience because I think my knowledge there is stuck in 1999 and I have no idea about
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by wnolens 4y ago
> rent stabilization is not rent control - landlords are free to raise the rent by an amount set annually by a board ?
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by wnolens 4y ago
Ya it's like calling depression "just being sad"
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by wnolens 4y ago
Do you consider yourself a victim? Holding the titles of director and principal means you used your position to reinforce this pattern, no?
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by wnolens 4y ago
And then the solution to global warming is close to just being literally money https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Cure_for_AIDS
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by wnolens 4y ago
> expect Gandalf to drop in and send you on an epic quest, you’ll find yourself adrift at best Oof, too true. It's a dangerous expectation that I had/have (and try to break) that purpose will present itself TO me. Probably beca
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by wnolens 4y ago
Sure. I would offer two ideas which may resonate or not. They aren't provable facts, but experiences from my life and others'. 1. Part of your desire to sail the world is having it as a dream. It's the scarcity of being able
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by wnolens 4y ago
Similar story with me. Except I ended up in AWS! Worked in different big tech for 7y, and took a sabbatical because I could, and so why not? Well after a year of travelling and working on my own ideas and a bit of contract work, I entered a
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by wnolens 4y ago
"I never tried a thing and so it's dumb!"
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by wnolens 4y ago
Haha.. jeez. Never thought about it like that. Too real.
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by wnolens 4y ago
The sysinternals tools make it for me. procexp and procmon are insanely powerful and you can solve really obscure issues really quickly. I'm on mac right now for my current job, and quite often a few of my cores go nuts due to a kernel
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by wnolens 4y ago
I have pretty much these same dreams, about once a year. My undergraduate was traumatizing. Yet I look back on it fondly 15y later. Kinda messed up
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by wnolens 4y ago
That's surprising. It happens with junior engineers who aren't used to having to solve tough problems. Most will take feedback and improve though. It also happens with more intermediate or senior engineers who have been able to ge
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by wnolens 4y ago
Yes that is fairly common with younger engineers. It's up to senior engineers/tech lead/manager to detect that and then give feedback, helping that engineer grow. It's also an important quality for an engineer to be able
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by wnolens 4y ago
Doesn't give up when the first thing they try doesn't work. There's a clear difference between someone with grit and someone without. A person without grit will message me on slack with a half baked question that is practical
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by wnolens 4y ago
> Now as an independent consultant I have no stock at all and still make more than the total comp of any FAANG friends. Would love to hear your experiences doing this. I took a break from FAANG to do this, and I was making the same (whic
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by wnolens 4y ago
I assumed OP has a relatively high cost of living in NY, and can work remotely (either at current job or an equivalently paying one). Then Philly is close-by (can still get to NY for friends/family, similar east coast culture), still a
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by wnolens 4y ago
Swallow the leetcode prep slowly over time, and then FAANG. Play the startup lottery (potentially high equity that will pay off in 5-10y). Try a hedge fund (high base). Move up the management ladder. Side gig product or sell a course on som
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by wnolens 4y ago
> Does FB/Meta really provide value to society that warrants his wealth? Do basketball players deserve to make 10x the salary of CEOs? (Average, from top Google result). A market where by individuals have the freedom to allocate the
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by wnolens 4y ago
On my team it's used as a false deadline, causing us to ship low quality code without sufficient tests, ultimately trading long term delivery dates for short term ones.
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by wnolens 4y ago
I find it so eerie that institutions are trying to design their work force's distribution of skin color. Unless your work force is make-up models or something.
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by wnolens 4y ago
It's absolutely insane to me. It's justified racism, and poorly at that. Sometimes I feel like I am living in a dystopian novel.
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by wnolens 4y ago
> I am spending several hours a day dealing with/fending off requests for free technical support from said ex-clients, friends, and family What continues to obligate you to interact at all? I've dropped off the map to one frien
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by wnolens 4y ago
The right advice for the beginning of your career. But a recipe for being stuck at SDE2 unless you move towards high visibility work with a more direct line to new revenue (not just reducing costs)
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by wnolens 4y ago
I dunno my time is worth more than that per hour. And sorting all those pieces will take more than an hour. So.. it's cheap.
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by wnolens 4y ago
I have this setup. The trackball module is ok. 6/10. I haven't been able to move to using it full-time as it's a bit small.
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by wnolens 4y ago
> work on what feels right, when it feels right, for as long as it feels right How have you achieved this? I once had a setup like this, but eventually the work which permitted that freedom got boring, and I was so void of responsibility
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by wnolens 4y ago
And unfortunately in North America teachers and nurses are leaving their professions. I don't see any migration of "apparent altruists" like OP filling in those vacancies!

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