bigcostooge

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by bigcostooge 8y ago
I’ll be better off than you when that happens.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
Improvements in efficiency may only be needed in build and runtime systems. You may still be able to write electron apps.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
I’ve hit this realization at 30. But exactly this.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
I think you can answer that by asking yourself another question: who at Harvard understands supply and demand?
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
It’s possible I’m a fish person, but not likely. And this adds nothing to the discussion.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
I haven’t seen this specifically in our job postings. But we only hire H1bs to reduce cost.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
I’m not the poster, but I’ve worked with literally hundreds of H1B workers directly, and while some were ~decent developers, the majority were not. Even the decent developers had no special skills that would qualify them for an H1b visa, ho
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
Technical ability alone does not qualify one for an H1b visa. You need to be above and beyond what is able to be sourced in America. Specifically, the skills need to be so advanced that you cannot find any American workers to fill the job.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
Well. There’s always bitbucket.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
You can encode about 1 video per EC2 medium instance without losing >1:1 encoding speed. It’s horrendously expensive.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
I find that all “best practices” are a lazy way to avoid justifying a position. Often the advice is almost always incorrect or situational, but the claim maker hasn’t done the work to understand why.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
The rest of the country needs this.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
When I was selling hundreds of items per month, I would hold any Spanish name for 48 hours. The majority of Spanish named buyers were committing fraud.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
Houses do pay dividends. You have to live somewhere, and you get to live in your house for free (in the analogy where it’s discussed as an investment.) The alternative is much worse in many markets.
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by bigcostooge 8y ago
But it won’t.
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by bigcostooge 9y ago
International responses skew the salary data and make it useless.
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by bigcostooge 9y ago
This is my current life. Testing an idea costs $25M. It’s absurd, and most of my time is spent filling out forms or explaining the basics of the web to idiots.