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by caffeine 4y ago
I read this as tongue-in-cheek. The author was amused at his younger self’s naïveté and entitlement in assuming such a raise was a given and planning it on a timeline app. So I think you are actually in agreement.
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by caffeine 4y ago
I found the book “Good Strategy, Bad Strategy” was pretty close to what you are talking about. * Good definitions of what is or is not a strategy * How to identify whether you have an actual strategy or just some empty words or a repetitio
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by caffeine 4y ago
> There are things in life more important than money. Not only this, but I think even in purely self-interested financial terms your ethical approach is superior over the long term. Over time, truth and honesty offer a compounding posit
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by caffeine 4y ago
My advice is, watch your costs. When you leave paying work it’s easy to think the slug you’ve got in the bank will last a while. But traction will take 2-3x longer than you think, and an unexpected stream of “one-offs” will eat your runway
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by caffeine 4y ago
To be fair, all the other interview rounds were with more junior, low-EQ CS nerds like me, so he could still be pretty confident the candidate would get a good grilling.
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by caffeine 4y ago
I’m finding this more useful as a reverse search! “Paid, supported, professional alternative to”
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by caffeine 4y ago
This is a random place to throw this at you, but you seem like you have a) the skills and b) and the motivation. The internet needs an “allowlist” front end for kids, especially for video platforms. I would pay $20/month for a family s
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by caffeine 4y ago
I would think that as you grow, economies of scale will kick in and the cost per search should go way, way down.
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by caffeine 4y ago
WhatsApp is probably their best property.
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by caffeine 4y ago
At my old job in the UK, we always got better results hiring engineers from Imperial College (which is the UK attempt at an MIT/Caltech-type of school) than from Oxbridge. We eventually figured out that the Imperial students had writte
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by caffeine 4y ago
It’s factual, but I think it’s there because it sounds exotic and makes the title more interesting.
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by caffeine 4y ago
> know deep down this is bad for the long term It’s bad for your sense of self-worth, even if it’s not objectively a bad thing. One day you might ask yourself “Where would I be if I went all-in on something exciting rather than just putt
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by caffeine 4y ago
Consider taking a longish holiday (like 3 weeks)? If at the end of it you don’t want to come back, quit. But that might be long enough to scratch the itch and feel refreshed.
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by caffeine 4y ago
I was a younger, inexperienced tech lead sitting in on an interview led by an engineer about 10 years older than me. I was shocked when he spent the whole hour asking soft questions like “So describe your previous team structure. How did i
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by caffeine 4y ago
Have a look at this comment I saw on here previously, it’s a great example of the article’s idea in practice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31451536
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by caffeine 4y ago
Yeah I understand but I disagree. If you race a skilled Rust team against an equally skilled C++ team to build some big complicated fast software, the Rust team would likely ship first, and with less bugs. The C++ team will eventually ship
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by caffeine 4y ago
Those maximums in Europe are largely ignored in high-paying roles (like what Tesla engineers would certainly be). As an example, in London when you get a high-paying finance job, on day 1 the HR person comes by your desk and has you sign a
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by caffeine 4y ago
This isn’t an Elon tweet. > Can't he just keep it focused on the cars and the share price? I actually agree with your sentiment, but for a different reason - I think tweeting is a massive waste of his time which I would prefer be sp
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by caffeine 4y ago
> survivorship bias, that countless projects never got the chance to be developed due to the too high of a burden of doing it properly I would contend the cost of doing things “safely” is much higher in C++. since a human being has to me
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by caffeine 4y ago
Ha I do exactly this. Windows with Linux in a VM is great.
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by caffeine 4y ago
Not OP but here are a couple reasons: * It doesn’t scale well to huge organisations. * It’s not standardised “repeatable” in the sense that you cant generate datasets from this that let you correlate interviews with subsequent outcomes and
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by caffeine 4y ago
I think parents should be allowed to hit their kids for being ungrateful little runts.
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by caffeine 4y ago
The problem is this: One day, people who think like you will come to power and decide that under their administration, [activity your livelihood is based on] constitutes “extracting value from the system” and is no longer permitted. Maybe y
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by caffeine 4y ago
Using a VR screen could make a lot of sense here. Along with a split keyboard so he can have his hands flat on either side of his body. Would also make it easier to get up off the bed (I’m guessing someone that wants this setup finds getti
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by caffeine 4y ago
Why not a 1st-class airplane seat?
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by caffeine 4y ago
> The fact that crypto is correlated with tech stock valuations should be raising eyebrows Because fiat volatility in inflation/rate hikes respectively (ie the NPV of a USD) completely dominates the other factors. The volatile leg h
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by caffeine 4y ago
We should hire plumbers this way. “Tell me about your favourite plumbing project” for 20 minutes.
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by caffeine 4y ago
I feel like nowadays that joke has evolved to devs that use JSON vs devs that use binary serialisation (like capnproto or whatever else)…
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by caffeine 4y ago
I think his desire for “lower variability” than Toronto means he has gone from “sometimes bad” to “always bad” weather.
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by caffeine 4y ago
The difference between the dead comment and the article is the self-deprecation and the positive vs negative connotation. The flagged comment was saying something negative about a group. The original article was self deprecation (they don’t

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