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by thatsenough 6y ago
If my company announces WFH for the rest of the year, I'll be moving out of San Francisco in a heart beat. The office has been the only thing keeping me here for a long time now. I imagine SF natives might say, "Good riddance, don
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by thatsenough 6y ago
Or, don’t get lured in by a company offering you huge compensation that you can’t actually touch (without realizing it’s a gamble). To be fair, even the cash compensation at Airbnb was supposedly pretty high. But I’m not sure whether that’s
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by thatsenough 6y ago
IMO, this is a matter of public health and should be treated as such (as much as some politicians want to cast this as a partisan issue for political gain).
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by thatsenough 6y ago
Not really. You're choosing a definition those words that involves a value judgement.
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by thatsenough 6y ago
Because people with the worst symptoms go to the hospital.
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by thatsenough 6y ago
How do you differentiate this from laziness/apathy?
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by thatsenough 7y ago
Love this, but on the phone the podcast art takes up a lot of real estate and leaves little room for the podcast title. I’d rather see an even more stripped down UI that leaves more room for the informational content. Then again, I guess no
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by thatsenough 7y ago
Because that doesn't feed into the outrage machine and drive clicks.
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by thatsenough 7y ago
So your accusation is that Epstein blackmailed Seth Lloyd or converted him into an Israeli spy/consultant on quantum computing? Many engineering professors consult with private companies for a fee. So it seems odd that a country would
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by thatsenough 7y ago
You need to meet some more "average people."
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by thatsenough 7y ago
What would Epstein get from Lloyd? If Epstein was in fact blackmailing the rich and famous, or running a sex trafficking operation for profit, how does he benefit from supplying donations (and whatever else he allegedly supplied) to a quant
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by thatsenough 7y ago
> I know I would be able to do it. Freudian slip?
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by thatsenough 7y ago
This brought back memories of doing data entry for an insurance company as a teenager. I spent eight hours a day transcribing people's names, addresses, SSNs, and medical ailments, including all sorts of sexually transmitted diseases.
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by thatsenough 7y ago
After decades of disparaging their Southern California brethren, the Bay Area has become home to America's most superficial people.
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by thatsenough 7y ago
Yes, labor market competition is the primary factor. But is there a place in Australia where engineers can work for higher salaries and the same or a lower cost of living? In the US, the discrepancy between Bay Area and non-Bay Area salarie
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by thatsenough 7y ago
> House prices are a function of wages (or, more accurately, have a floor set by wages if land is constrained) not the other way around. I guess if you state it as a fact, that makes it true? But if that’s the case, why would the compa
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by thatsenough 7y ago
There was a peak in the mid-80s, and another around 2005. CS enrollments reached a max around 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble. But when the bubble burst in 2000-2001, enrollments plummeted in 2002, 2003 and 2004, leading to the lo
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by thatsenough 7y ago
Telecommunications engineers produce the worst naming schemes and acronyms of anyone, anywhere. Any cellular document is a mishmash of alphabet soup: UTRAN, UMTS, PS-CN, SGSN, RNC, RNS, eNodeB, EPC, MME, S-GW, X2-AP, S1, GTP-U, HSDPA, HSUPA
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by thatsenough 7y ago
> this whole article can be summed up as "providing a better experience for customers can increase sales" That, plus "be part of a community you can rely on for capital and labor." Despite the many struggles that im
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by thatsenough 7y ago
> The top firms have gotten themselves into an insane bidding war. That may be true, but there's more to it than that. The first wave of successful IPOs (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, etc.) caused a spike in housing prices as
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by thatsenough 7y ago
I think these numbers are accurate. Some of the numbers are skewed by the unicorn startups: since employees at Airbnb and Stripe (and Lyft and Pinterest, at the time these numbers were reported) can't sell their equity, and since the e
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by thatsenough 7y ago
If it's any consolation, most engineers here are not senior/staff engineers and they make less. Rent here is very steep (~$3500/month is the median price for an old 1-bedroom in San Francisco), but the home prices are really
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by thatsenough 7y ago
I started working at FANG recently, after spending 15 years in a different field. The very first thing I noticed was how young the average employee is. It was a little startling. I've heard different theories: * Today's big tech c
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by thatsenough 7y ago
I think it's by design, but I believe the main intent was just to make it a desirable place to work. For most people, that meant not being worked at 100% until they burn out. It also meant giving people latitude to transfer teams, ta
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by thatsenough 7y ago
> head hunter compensation report You should ask for a refund. Senior engineers at FANG in the Bay Area will typically make over $100k/year in stock. Total compensation of $300k-$400k is pretty normal, and includes salary, stock,
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by thatsenough 7y ago
"Almost 50" means you're in your 40s. And you probably started interviewing in your mid-40s, at the latest, if you've already interviewed 4 times. The gist of your comment might be correct, but I think we shouldn't
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by thatsenough 7y ago
The Fabulous Article.
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by thatsenough 7y ago
First posted in 2017, continually edited since then.
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by thatsenough 7y ago
> A bit dated It does seem dated, but the author has continued to edit it since it was originally written. He's got stuff from 2018 and 2019 in there. > massive loss-leaders like YouTube Citation needed.
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by thatsenough 7y ago
In the dribbble screenshot highlighted in the article, everything looks interactive. The UI looks like it's composed entirely of buttons, sliders, and spin wheels. If a design goal is to make interactive elements seem interactive, an

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