sdflkd

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by sdflkd 9y ago
If you're getting paid as a software engineer in the USA[1] and you're making market rate for where you live, you can easily save >>50% of your salary and retire in 10 years. Not well in the Bay Area, at least.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Can you retire on respect? :)
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by sdflkd 9y ago
You can hustle and not have it be related to working for someone else. You're thinking too small.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Interacting with media / marketing seems to be considered evil on HN. Probably because it's easy to abuse.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> ITT fashion illiterate techies doubting the success of a pretty genius product I love that caring how you look is just "narcissism" now. :) The other problem I see w/ the ML is that, due to the nature of data sets, it&#x
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by sdflkd 9y ago
GP likes posting anti-Muslim sentiment on social media. The overreaction follows logically from being that type of person.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
HN has a lot of right-wing people when it comes to capitalism & the meritocracy of America.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> I don't know anyone who "tells the poor" that. I think most people understand that capitalism is a rather brutal, territorial game. And being raised in a good household is a massive advantage. Do you know any poor people
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> With a bit of good financial planning, you can live off 2$/day/person or less. Prove it.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> I do not enjoy having my empathy tugged at people who only seem to see me as a member of their community when I have something they desire and who will not regard me as a member once I have provided such. So you helping others is for y
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by sdflkd 9y ago
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/extra/eng/ppm/124a.html It is in fact called community involvement! It was my mistake.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
You are 100% correct and it's actually 40 hours of mandatory community involvement. [1] Everyone around me just called it volunteer hours and I co-opted it. Thank you for pointing it out. :) http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/ext
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by sdflkd 9y ago
It all depends on the interviewer. Anyone claiming different is selling you bullshit. The purpose of the interview and how they are actually used in practice is all on the interviewer.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> anyway, if governments only followed everyone's desires no-one would pay taxes Maybe in America? Not so in other countries.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Where you choose to help out is up to you?
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Are you saying poor people do not raise their children to hunger for success?
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by sdflkd 9y ago
"Tech people" usually don't think outside of the context of producing code.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
My fear is it also makes you the first to go.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> Nobody born with average intelligence is doomed to a life of poverty. Have you ever interacted with the under-privileged? Plenty of smart people feel their lives are doomed because of the way society is structured against them.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> As far as the government's concerned I'm a programmer. I don't think so. It's been a bit since I read up on Visa stuff (and I imagine it doesn't matter to you as an American citizen) but there are distinctions
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> I can't remember a time in a Canadian public school where I was asked to do something useful for somebody. I think more of that would have helped a lot in terms of motivation. I mean we had mandatory volunteer hours? But in genera
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by sdflkd 9y ago
HN is full of the relatively privileged/wealthy. They don't need to care in their eyes.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Sounds like business plans I can get behind. I find it hard to believe the large-scale goals that are common in SV.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Thanks for the info!
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by sdflkd 9y ago
I just saw this today: https://zeit.co/now#frequently-asked-questions I haven't had enough time to read into it (nor do I have enough experience to evaluate), but it seems like what you're talking about?
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Can you speak more on the ATL tech scene? I've always been interested.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
I also stopped using Uber and try to get my friends not to do the same.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
It sucks when official subtitles for even movies like Your Name can sound off to someone who has only picked up a few words / phrases from watching anime. Same with popular games like Persona 5. :(
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by sdflkd 9y ago
It's the only interpretation after the initial clarification.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Same with me, but Trump supporters are in low volume in areas where you want to live anyway. :)

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