hkarthik

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by hkarthik 3y ago
Sounds like you're on the fence about leaving, first step is decide if you want to leave or not. Then plan how to exit and retain some value in the equity (if it's worth it). Be open about your plans to exit the company and if the
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by hkarthik 3y ago
Unfortunately most EVs are way heavier and cause more wear on roads, so we'd be paying an even higher green tax to reduce emissions and fossil fuel usage.
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by hkarthik 4y ago
I wonder if the POS companies take a share of the tip as part of the total transactions flowing through their systems. Then they'd be incentivized to show the tip screen by default, and maybe jack up the default amount to 20-25%.
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by hkarthik 4y ago
I've seen the Wolf in a few companies and they are given some special treatment for sure. The corporate equivalent of the babe and the sports car. Years ago, one of them had a Macbook Pro while the rest of us were dealing with garbage
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by hkarthik 4y ago
Agree this is a key skill and necessary archetype in large orgs. But I'd call this person The Wolf (named after the Harvey Keitel's character in Pulp Fiction.
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by hkarthik 4y ago
On small, focused code bases, yes. Anything built in the last 5 years or so can probably be made to work with .NET core and on a non-windows machine. On large monolithic .NET codebases originally built from the 2000s era, absolutely not. Yo
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by hkarthik 4y ago
Yeah the big downside is the exponential explosion in e-waste with all the LCDs that went obsolete within a few years, with no real resale market since everyone is one click away from getting a brand new one on Amazon. I'm still runnin
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by hkarthik 4y ago
Manufacturing costs and margins on LED-LCDs were far better for manufacturers and likely what killed Plasma. Exploiting this aggressively helped Samsung win market share and become a top TV manufacturer, causing Panasonic and Pioneer to exi
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by hkarthik 5y ago
I played with RedwoodJS over the holidays and there is a lot to like. However it does paper over a lot of complex things with fairly leaky abstractions currently. Expect to have to understand how GraphQL, Prisma, and React work whenever you
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by hkarthik 5y ago
Yup, definitely industries (like web3/crypto/defi) where this can be done in the short term, but it still constitutes a lot of risk for the long term. Even if you are getting $1M in cash today, who knows if you'll get it the
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by hkarthik 5y ago
I have 3 machines: 1 work MBP, 1 personal MBP, and a windows desktop for gaming. I tried several solutions but recently purchased a LevelOne Tech KVM. Best solution I've found thus far (albeit a little pricey). https://store
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by hkarthik 5y ago
Unless you're in the upper levels of management (VP equivalent or higher) at FAANG, it's difficult to get this salary at a market rate. For the vast majority of mere mortals, you need to get an above-market rate to achieve this. A
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by hkarthik 5y ago
If you've primarily worked on B2B/enterprise software where the company makes a lot of money with a smaller user base, try working in consumer software where the company makes a lot less money across a lot more users. If you'
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by hkarthik 5y ago
DevTools companies usually have to move to a model where they're starting to pull in Enterprise accounts with licensing priced in the $40K-$100K/year range. The $30/month subscription is just to entice in startups. If the sta
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by hkarthik 5y ago
I think this misses the mark on the fact that we now have an aging population in the USA, and an aging population has different needs when it comes to raising families that the urban lifestyle simply hasn't evolved fast enough to suppo
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by hkarthik 5y ago
It's unclear if hydrogen had serious R&D problems, or just the go to market approach for hydrogen cars was flawed. Hydrogen needed a Tesla-like company to strip away everything that made a car a car, and rip away all the legacy at
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by hkarthik 5y ago
Probably butter isn't as common where you're from, but ghee is. Ghee really made butter more viable by increasing it's shelf life, and was a bit of a technological achievement of food science.
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by hkarthik 5y ago
It's unfortunate, but walkouts and other employee activism around social justice can achieve the opposite effect. The marginalized leave because they don't feel heard, and potential new hires who might represent change stop applyi
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by hkarthik 5y ago
React will fail under a few possible conditions: * Browser tech evolves to not need it (WebASM and similar tech becomes mainstream) * Browsers and the open web fail in favor of some other cross-platform standard emerging * Browsers and the
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by hkarthik 5y ago
I've had both monthly and quarterly vesting at both startups and big companies. No rhyme or reason for why either one since the companies were in different sectors/segments. Probably just an accounting quirk.
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by hkarthik 5y ago
10 bucks says you could meet some of these folks on the street and you'd think they were European.
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by hkarthik 5y ago
Just so you know, Middle Eastern folks from Lebanon and Egypt fall under the race of "White" in the US census. Source: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-no...
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by hkarthik 5y ago
I think it's better to segment in terms of percentiles. Biles, Musk, and Phelps are in the top 1% of their professions. They stand out a lot. The folks in the top 10% are often way more comparable and differences between them are negli
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by hkarthik 5y ago
There's nothing stopping you from buying it with financing, and then immediately paying it off before you incur too many interest charges. My parents do that with every car purchase. It makes the deal making process and all negotiation
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by hkarthik 5y ago
It really depends on the financing rate. At below 3.0%, it doesn't make sense to put too much cash into a depreciating asset like a car when your money could be put toward other investments that can probably net more than 4% return. I
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by hkarthik 5y ago
Hit up former coworkers in tech who have hit it big financially and are looking for a place to park their money other than the stock market or crypto. A few conversations should help you get a friends and family round going with 5-10 people
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by hkarthik 5y ago
Not sure how anyone is surprised by this. It's been proven that Russian influence peddling is well funded and active, even if its effect is hotly debated since Republicans pretend its negligible, while Democrats act like it's the
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by hkarthik 5y ago
I have the same toothbrush that my dentist recommended. I just use it as an electric toothbrush. I briefly looked up some details on the app, realized it made zero sense to install it, and now I just use it as a toothbrush. I'm sure my
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by hkarthik 5y ago
He stated 5% without accounting for the 100% price appreciation in the actual real estate. So the real rate of return is actually much better!
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by hkarthik 5y ago
There's no standard for this yet. We're probably a few years away of remote working becoming more common before that changes. Compensation at big tech companies is determined by benchmarking compensation across several companies i

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