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by zippergz 11y ago
I didn't say it's salary. That's salary+bonus+stock vesting. This is in line with the total cash comp I've seen and received from most of the major tech companies in the US.
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by zippergz 11y ago
I make over $200k most years, with a liberal arts bachelor degree. I work in a comfortable office with reasonable hours, no one yells at me, I don't have to get dirty or put myself in physical danger. I take several weeks of vacation a
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by zippergz 11y ago
Maybe this is a sidetrack, but is there real peer-reviewed science behind the stuff f.lux claims? I tried it for a while and noticed no difference whatsoever (except that photos look like crap when the color balance is so skewed).
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by zippergz 11y ago
https://yourhome.honeywell.com/en/contact-us
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by zippergz 11y ago
This is purely anecdotal, but I have a handful of friends who left google after their sabbaticals. They all explained it with some form of "I was surprised how much happier I was when I didn't have to go to work, and I didn't
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by zippergz 11y ago
> interacting with the hardware is easy, speaking to a web API becomes a huge pain. Particle (particle.io) does a pretty nice job of bridging this gap in my experience. You still write code in C-like Wiring, but they have built-in APIs f
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by zippergz 11y ago
Agreed. There are a few things there I don't know how to do off the top of my head, and it would have been awfully useful to see at least a small snippet of code...
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by zippergz 11y ago
That hasn't been the case for me. I get ApplePay notifications for every POS charge for my Amex Platinum even if it's not via ApplePay. But I have cards from Chase, Citi, and Bank of America in ApplePay as well, and I only get not
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by zippergz 11y ago
No idea if this is the cause, and I agree the process shouldn't be this opaque, but "pain relief" is a pretty big category of spam. It's possible that those keywords in the domain are detrimental.
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by zippergz 11y ago
That is 100% intentional. Those could all technically be served by different machines and controlled by different people. It's an abundance of caution in making sure that you can only change settings and view stats for things you'
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by zippergz 11y ago
I think this is often just ignorant employees (not their fault; they probably haven't been properly trained). I've run into the "that doesn't work" thing at Whole Foods a couple of times, and both times it worked pe
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by zippergz 11y ago
My experience is that programmers I've worked with who strongly identified as being interested in ML tended to be prone to wanting to build very complex ML-based systems when much simpler (albeit less sexy) solutions would suffice. Cer
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by zippergz 11y ago
I too travel all around the country for business, and I find Yelp to be less than helpful. I agree with you that reading the reviews for context is critical. In fact, that's the only way to really get a read on a place. But with hundre
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by zippergz 11y ago
It's probably stupid, but I'll admit I haven't looked at my cable bill for well over a year. I have paperless billing, it auto charges to my credit card, I see that the amount is the same every month, and that's it. If t
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by zippergz 11y ago
"In reality, inviting someone into your home is a very personal thing, and people much prefer to build a relationship with someone that they might pay a little more on a regular basis, than get a different person each time." Yes,
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by zippergz 11y ago
I don't know where you're located, but $60/hr seems insanely low. Annualized as a full time job that's $125k/yr. not terrible, but quite a bit less than what a good developer can make as base salary at a tech compan
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by zippergz 11y ago
I've also noticed a pattern in which a large proportion of the negative reviews for some restaurants (which I know to be good from my own direct experience) mention groupon, and others don't mention groupon but have very similar c
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by zippergz 11y ago
Yeah, there are often several RCs, but usually only one GM. I do vaguely remember some Apple OS release in the past, in which they released a GM and then had to do a second one, but I can't recall the details (even if it was iOS or Mac
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by zippergz 11y ago
I suppose it depends on your priorities. For me, the value of instant delivery, searchability, zero physical space consumed, and near infinite portability far outweigh the value of lending, reselling or giving away. Maybe I'm selfish,
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by zippergz 11y ago
Having driven both a 7 Series and a Model S, I'll take the BMW any day. More comfortable, better handling, looks better, doesn't have a huge iPad in the dashboard, and allows road trips with far less planning needed. It's nic
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by zippergz 11y ago
I worked there for many years and never saw anyone cry.
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by zippergz 11y ago
It's still a major hassle when our cards get compromised and subsequently canceled by the bank. I've had it happen when I'm traveling, and my primary card suddenly stops working. I always carry backups for this reason, but it
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by zippergz 11y ago
Pay attention to what you're doing, and never make a mistake. Or have anyone in your team/company make a mistake. While you're at it, please make sure you don't put any bugs in the code also. We're humans. We'r
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by zippergz 11y ago
I have a lot of private repos. One for just about every little project I've done. Some larger projects have more than one. It would be pretty expensive to keep all of this in Github that way. The alternative is to combine a bunch of un
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by zippergz 11y ago
Tapatalk is the most annoying one to me, probably because it actually pops up a modal dialog. One of our local news websites is really bad too, asking every single time if I want to install their (crappy) app. Worse, if even if you do have
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by zippergz 11y ago
I had a Well account in the mid and late 90s and it was great. Honestly I haven't found any online community that matches what it was back then.
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by zippergz 11y ago
No. I have two fairly expensive cars (not $140k), and I honestly don't care even a tiny bit about fuel costs. It doesn't even cross my mind. It's not a factor when I choose to take a trip, and it's definitely not a facto
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by zippergz 11y ago
This is what I hate about Slack. It feels like a webapp inside of a very thin wrapper.
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by zippergz 11y ago
When I last tried to do a calculation, I came out at well over $100 per month which, yes, I can afford, but is way more expensive than what I'm paying Crashplan. There are many reasons I'd rather use Tarsnap than Crashplan, but it
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by zippergz 11y ago
Obviously I have no knowledge of the specifics of your situation, but when I worked at Google I freely moved projects many times without a problem, my first time about 3 months after I arrived. I haven't worked there for a while, but I

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