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by guitarsteve 24d ago
Depends on the location. It’s fine everywhere I’ve been. The locations near bigger cities have more pumps and the ones in smaller cities have fewer to scale with demand.
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by guitarsteve 2mo ago
Sorry, I’m a bit thrown off. What degree are you referring to? Masters is usually about 2 years, though it could be longer in some cases or if worked on part-time. PhD is often 4-6+. What 3-4 year degree did you mean? Bachelors?
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by guitarsteve 11mo ago
Probably thinking of Jimi Heselden who bought the Segway company and died driving a Segway Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
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by guitarsteve 1y ago
The Realm consumed a lot of my life as a child.
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by guitarsteve 1y ago
No, for taxes, married filing separately is a different category than single. Married filing separately results in a higher tax bill than married filing jointly for most couples.
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by guitarsteve 2y ago
Same
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Asqi: A codebase explorer designed to help navigate and understand Git projects(dev.asqi.io)
101 points by guitarsteve 2y ago|38 comments
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by guitarsteve 3y ago
I’m pretty sure my sell-to-cover RSUs take a day or few to settle, resulting in a small but nonzero gain or loss. The details may depend on the employer + brokerage.
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by guitarsteve 3y ago
My previous employer had a tender offer as part of a new funding round. I was an ex-employee already and had exercised my options within the 90 day window of resigning. If I remember correctly, we used Carta for both exercising the options
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by guitarsteve 3y ago
It also provides a natural place to hide loading screens between levels! ;-)
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by guitarsteve 3y ago
Interesting! I’ve never heard of that system. Is there somewhere we can read about it, or maybe you can explain a bit more? Is the offer of the form “we accept you, so long as your grades satisfy the following requirements…”? Is the intervi
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by guitarsteve 3y ago
The flying or the tracking?
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by guitarsteve 3y ago
True! I use Budget Fastbreak usually. Same experience.
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by guitarsteve 4y ago
Last time I interviewed for Amazon, I couldn’t understand one of the interviewers spoken English. Combination of bad audio (their side, I have a good headset) and accent. I kept asking him to repeat himself and eventually gave up, and tried
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by guitarsteve 4y ago
If a company offers a very low lower bound like $10k, job seekers won’t apply there and will go to competitors with a more reasonable lower bound. Similarly, when a highly qualified applicant gets an offer way below the upper bound they’ll
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by guitarsteve 4y ago
Same! In case others feel bad reading this, I’m in the same boat. Every place I’ve worked has a multi step interview process and as far as I know referrals don’t get to skip it. Maybe it’s different types of work (consulting?) or companies
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by guitarsteve 4y ago
It doesn’t sound too far off from what I’ve seen. The details of the sprints may not be worked out, but a dev team might have several months of high priority project queued up and marketing might be deemed lower priority. So getting extra w
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
I’ve often heard this (YAML is a superset of JSON) but never looked into the details. According to https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/ , YAML 1.2 (from 2009) is a strict superset of JSON. Earlier versions were an _almost_
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
I had the same issue in an Amazon interview in 2020. Couldn’t understand the interviewer’s extremely strong accent so I had to keep asking him to repeat himself. I never really understood the question he was asking. Not the best experience.
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
Agree! At least in the US, this kind of total comp is possible at my employer (Datadog) and many other public companies, not just FAANG mega-corps. Typically you’d have to be “senior” or “staff” engineer, or get lucky and join during a peri
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
That’s partly why I’ve enjoyed working on “b2b” products in my career and have avoided working on “b2c”. When your customers are using your product as part of their job, your incentive is (often) clear: make them more efficient at their job
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
Good point. Some expensive competitors are: live in-person spin classes (can be $20-30 per class), or programs like CrossFit which can be $200/month. Compared to them Peloton is a bargain.
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
I’m a big fan of Peloton and pay for the expensive option. You’re right that if you’re on a budget, you can get a very similar experience for a lot less. But for many folks like software engineers a few hundred dollars a year (plus a few th
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
A lot of firefighters are volunteers
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
Docker on Mac spins up a Linux VM behind the scenes so it’s both virtualization and containerization. :-)
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by guitarsteve 5y ago
We have a 2011 Toyota without Bluetooth, for what it’s worth. Base trim models can skip features which are otherwise common.
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by guitarsteve 6y ago
In the Miami area after Hurricane Irma in 2017, we couldn’t find gas for our cars for about a week. I think the pumps for gas stations require electricity (which was also out) plus deliveries were disrupted by downed trees, traffic signal o
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by guitarsteve 6y ago
Build/CI systems for Mac and iOS apps, I would guess. Definitely not for running generic web apps.
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by guitarsteve 6y ago
I and many of my colleagues worried about non competes at Amazon. But mine wasn’t enforced and I’ve never heard of a “rank and file” individual contributor or non-exec manager having it enforced. My impression is it’s only worth it for VPs
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by guitarsteve 6y ago
Amazon has its shortcomings but it still has a lot of smart and qualified people (like you, I assume!) Do you best, be aware of your worth, and if/when you find a better opportunity, grab it! It’s not good to beat yourself up for “fail

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