fooboy

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by fooboy 12y ago
This. My comment history displays all sorts of worry about my place at work. I recently realized I've just been upset by how I've been underpaid for years in an extremely hot labor market and specialty.
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by fooboy 12y ago
I would never share my current salary with anyone that can use it against me in negotiation. If a recruiter asks, I tell them I'm not comfortable sharing it. If they press, I tell them that I only discuss numbers once the company and I
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by fooboy 12y ago
Thanks for commenting. Agreed with your definition of "solution." This is why I'm leaving, actually: opportunities to design solutions are dwindling, as I'm getting more managerial work.
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Ask HN: “You struggle to design solutions to complex problems.”
5 points by fooboy 12y ago|3 comments
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by fooboy 13y ago
In the short term, I want to take on a hybrid quantitative/engineering role. A bit of analysis, a bit of coding. I'd like to do this at a startup to start, so that I'm also involved with product and business decisions (so tha
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by fooboy 13y ago
Thanks for commenting. Does it change anything if I say that I might not be qualified for those jobs right now?
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Ask HN: Give a novice dev a dose of reality?
11 points by fooboy 13y ago|7 comments
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by fooboy 13y ago
To be fair my direct manager is supporting me on this--he's giving me more quantitative work and the work time to knock it out. If I stay it'll be because of that.
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by fooboy 13y ago
It's arguable that the team I'm aiming for is even MORE responsible for generating revenue, fwiw. They clearly want me aboard as a dev, but the question is whether they're actively discouraging me or simply avoiding promises
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by fooboy 13y ago
I don't follow. Your point is that my departure will yield a new developer? I don't think my departure would be a good thing for them. I'm on a small team, and my leaving would greatly decrease their capacity. I'm also b
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Ask HN: I want to do X, manager is reluctant
3 points by fooboy 13y ago|6 comments
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by fooboy 14y ago
Oh man, this hits close to home...thanks for the reminder.
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by fooboy 14y ago
This is a great great point. "Done" changes sometimes, but it can also keep getting pushed back in favor of "one more addition." That happens to me a lot.
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by fooboy 14y ago
I've definitely looked before. How would being INTJ or INTP (somewhere between the two) affect anything?
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HN, I need to learn how to ship
16 points by fooboy 14y ago|15 comments
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by fooboy 15y ago
I wish someone had told me this sooner, because after going through the above scenario again and hearing "we'd love to hire you if you had a bit more experience" for the umpteenth time, I realized you're right. Thanks for the tough love
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by fooboy 15y ago
This cuts both ways: looking for work takes a substantial, non-zero amount of time, and it's extremely frustrating when startups decide to speak with you even though they know hiring you is "a long shot." Searching for work at a startup has
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by fooboy 15y ago
Sorry to pile on, but can you do the same for me? I'm considering a similar path to the one you're investigating here.
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by fooboy 15y ago
Well honestly, schools are decent at identifying whether you can succeed in their program or not. Whether you actually succeed is a different story, but I bet its a function (maybe exponential) of the effort you put in.
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by fooboy 15y ago
Hah, very true. I won't mention the university, but they're in the northern Atlantic region (not MIT or CMU). My CS interests (machine learning and computational statistics) extend from my domain experience (applied statistics), and I also
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by fooboy 15y ago
Stepping up work on personal projects (website, OSS). I want to implement some algorithms in C once those outstanding projects are done. What about you?
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Ask HN: what should a CS student always remember?
17 points by fooboy 15y ago|13 comments