pcmoney

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by pcmoney 4y ago
Sounds like twtr is worth $800B then? ;)
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by pcmoney 4y ago
By the downvotes it Looks like musk fan boys cant handle their lord and savior being called out for making a series of dumb decisions.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
They literally never claimed this was accurate and even said their methodology could be wrong. Nothing in the contract says anything about bots. They don’t have to prove anything at all.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
I think that’s a little much. Definitely was estranged from his dad and it seems for good reason. No evidence his alleged childhood wealth funded his adult businesses. Founding doesnt matter as much as making them as viable as they are toda
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Musk seems like a smart guy who got overconfident and out of his area of expertise and made a series of incredibly stupid decisions. Pretty much every legal and financial professional without a vested Musk related interest seems to think si
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by pcmoney 4y ago
I don’t care where you pay them you tend to get what you pay for. Been a part of too many “reshoring” projects after budget Indian devs bungled the code base beyond recognition. Also have worked with phenomenal Indian devs who were paid the
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Salary is not a "sign of respect" it is an indicator of how the company makes money and values software engineers. Software companies have software margins other companies... do not. Software engineers want to work at companies wh
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by pcmoney 4y ago
If your RSUs are significantly devalued due to a price drop most tech companies will just give you a supplemental refresh to bring you back up. You might not be 100% whole to your target total comp but nobody is letting good engineers take
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by pcmoney 4y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of the TenBoom sisters.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
It isn’t someone’s personal/unique suffering that I am invalidating. They are saying that we are having uniquely depressing times _in general_ which if you take a brief look at history is laughably invalid.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
I would recommend reading some history books before saying these are depressing circumstances.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
We have it way better than almost any period in history and are profoundly unhappy. Also, we always like to think we will be happy “once I have…X” and then we get X and say well actually what I need is Y. Most unhappiness is driven by vanit
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Why do you think standups are stupid? They are merely a way to understand what the rest of the team is working on and to make sure you have the resources you need to do your job without having to interrupt you later or are you having to int
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by pcmoney 4y ago
That is a fair point, a friend is working on ChromeOS tooling for testing/deploys and seems to be able to move fairly quickly and his work has large impact internally but not millions of users directly, also less coupled to a multitude
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Just to push back a bit, the promise/allure of software engineering is that you can have massive impact with a small dedicated team. Eg. WhatsApp had ~20 employees and was delivering more messages than the global SMS system.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
The problem with personal projects is they almost always lack the scale, complexity, or real world constraints/drivers that real work does. Helpful to feel like you're actually building something but it is kind of boring to build
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Ask HN: Do most SWEs actually code at BigTechCo jobs?
14 points by pcmoney 4y ago|9 comments
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Dont film people without explicit consent. An act of kindness you show others is not an act of kindness. Its a negative on your character. This lady should sue if possible. So sick of these vapid, self obsessed “influencers”. So tacky. So w
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Whats the best window manager for Mac?
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Somebody help me understand this? If the audio quality isn’t better why is it so much better than the “bad” subscription services? I understand critiques of how little they pay artists but I mean from a customer perspective, why is spotify
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by pcmoney 4y ago
1000% this. If you cant trust each other absolutely none of this matters. If for some reason you need an auditable record of your chats thats fine but decisions should hopefully be documented elsewhere and linked into the thread/convo.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Slack is for synchronous shallow short form communication. It is great for communicating around an event. Getting quick in-flow queries answered. Asking what people want to do for lunch. It is not for substantial nuanced in depth communicat
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by pcmoney 4y ago
I honestly think the BB8 toy killed sphero. They mistook a flash of luck and a fad for PMF. It also made them cocky. Next thing I knew they were calling it a “robot” which while possibly technically true it was more of a neat remote control
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by pcmoney 4y ago
I don’t have them on hand but I believe some studies claimed that diet can have a negative affect on skin cancer resistance.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
So the person who has proven they can do the work and get promoted in the same career path is less valuable than the CS degree holder (who in this example, did not achieve as much over the same time period) just because they have a degree?
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Imagine choosing between someone with a CS degree vs someone without a CS degree and think which you would prefer to do SWE work for you all else equal. CS degree every time right? Now imagine both candidates had the exact same career traje
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Every single consultant at BCG, McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte etc has him beat (maybe not during the pandemic) but they travel 40+ weeks of the year, out Monday back Thurs/Fri. 2x40x9=720 Compared to them Vitalik is a light flier.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
He is so sufferable that when I disagree with him I feel sad.
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by pcmoney 4y ago
Oh but I can, so hard
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by pcmoney 4y ago
People are missing out on a couple key points: 1. Vitalik is a billionaire and chooses this way to live 2. Vitalik isnt “traveling” but a true nomad without a home. 3. Vitalik is working HARD while being a nomad. This aint no “backpacking i

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