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by formercoder 6y ago
Reminds me of the Apollo parachute packers, highly manual job with specialized human-only techniques.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Mini-ATX FF too big? If not, something like this: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/spety/saved/#view=QR7ZZL (disclaimer, double check my research especially clearances for the cooler if you move forward :))
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by formercoder 6y ago
Yeah it does. 1TB will last a while but depending on what she’s working on she could easily have 100GB of source material per project.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Nice - assuming it has USB-C? The external USB-C SSDs are great for source media.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Depends on latency requirements. Data analysis? Yep. Creative pros? Nope.
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by formercoder 6y ago
My theory was that it was a comp/background mismatch. I was interviewing for a role that someone with more of a sysadmin background could do but I had a SWE background and was trying to command that comp level.
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by formercoder 6y ago
I was rejected by an SVP at Google. Recruiter was surprised but said it happens. Said I did a good job and could pick a different role (wasn’t for SWE), got the offer the second time around but had to start all over and got passed to a new
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by formercoder 6y ago
Yeah. Massive, massive sampling bias.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Basic corporate finance should be required in high school. People need to understand their employers’ motivations.
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by formercoder 6y ago
I’m very curious about the sampling methodology here. This is anecdotal, but I am a millennial and precisely zero of my friends prefer working from home. So there must be bias in one of those two samples.
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by formercoder 6y ago
That’s what we have legal systems for. Even if there was some technical barrier for modifying contracts, it still doesn’t work. Not sure if there’s a name for the opposite of the oracle problem but on the output side, but the theaters can s
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by formercoder 6y ago
Let’s apply the “do you need blockchain” test: do we need zero trust distributed consensus? No? Then no.
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by formercoder 6y ago
How many deaths is worth the increased privacy?
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by formercoder 6y ago
Yep, we know the CIA makes kill decisions based on metadata.
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by formercoder 6y ago
I generally agree with you. But many people say that software engineering de facto pays the best without acknowledging other options. I also think opinions are colored by media and public opinion. I’ve met many, many investment bankers, and
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by formercoder 6y ago
Even in the U.S. I’m not sure where this myth of SWE being the most well paid industry comes from. Try many finance jobs and big law, also medicine in certain specializations. They all pay much better than 95% of all software engineering jo
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by formercoder 6y ago
Anyone else anecdotally notice that Edge's power usage is much better than Chrome's?
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by formercoder 6y ago
Nope. I’ve been getting the normal FAANG recruiter inbounds, and my fiancé just accepted a role at a venture backed startup after receiving two offers.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Until public equity markets start valuing security nothing will change. How do we make that happen? Make their customers care. Bad security -> less customers -> less value. How do we do that? Wish I knew, probably regulation, but I wo
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by formercoder 6y ago
Equity is by definition limited liability. It has to be. Imagine it’s not, and you own $100 of SPY. That means you indirectly are an Apple shareholder. Should you be responsible for Apple’s debts if they went bankrupt? If you were, how woul
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by formercoder 6y ago
Or perhaps we should elect officials that structure proper long term incentive systems.
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by formercoder 6y ago
I agree. If anything business travel and in office time will increase - we’re gonna realize how great it is to be in the same room.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Another problem is the bonds are traded on the open market and many asset managers are forced to sell as soon as they drop below investment grade as a function of their investor agreements. So we’d really have to just pause the entire marke
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by formercoder 7y ago
Before the internet (and still, but less so), you could measure the GDP impact of building a bridge because it would allow people to drive back and forth faster and all that moving around leads to more commerce. You’re right, the economy li
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by formercoder 7y ago
Setting up this system would be really tough while making it impossible to game. For every one smart person in the public sector writing laws, there are 10 smarter people trying to work their away around them to make more money.
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by formercoder 7y ago
There’s usually an expected range. When your bonus is 300+% of salary, getting $0 means you find a new gig.
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by formercoder 7y ago
No, it’s retained earnings ending balance = retained earnings beginning balance + net income - dividends Nothing about dividends vs buybacks has to do with where the cash comes from.
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by formercoder 7y ago
I’m always confounded by this “banning bonuses” conversation. In any job I’ve had my bonus is an expected part of my annual compensation. If you ban bonuses, people will switch companies, and their new contracts will state the same comp at
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by formercoder 7y ago
That’s why banks have regulatory capital requirements, which have gone up since ‘08. There are no such regs for non financial firms sadly.
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by formercoder 7y ago
Borrowing for tax purposes is sort of a perpetuated myth. Firms in zero tax nations have debt, and firms in the US prior to corporate taxes had debt. Debt is first a foremost a way of financing corporate activities.

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