throwaway98121

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by throwaway98121 7y ago
Any country that’s moved off the USD has been labeled an axis of evil, sanctioned, or bombed.
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by throwaway98121 7y ago
What company are you at? I’m at a company who people consider 2nd tier among the FANGs in a senior developer role and my salary + stocks are > $300K this year in Seattle. Also be careful what you wish for. I’m not sure if the stress and
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Not a fan of googles hiring process. I interviewed in 2015 and never got past the phone screen. I was given a contrived programming problem, which I solved and explained runtime complexity. The interviewer called me for the screen about 15
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
There’s no hypocrisy here. If you have a personal issue with Bezos or his success, that’s fine. Expecting Bezos to tell newspapers or media what to report sounds like something Donald Trump would do. Good on Bezos for not doing that.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Do X or I will do Y to hurt you and your company is blackmail and extortion, regardless of what Y is. Digging up some past quote to somehow justify extortion is not very genuine.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I try to ignore politics, but how do republicans justify this kind of abuse? Isn’t this simply regulatory capture by the telecoms?
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
How does this justify extortion? Serious question.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
What makes her a moron? Do you have something of more substance than a personal attack?
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Ocasio-Cortez is almost always being mentioned on Fox and some of the conservative forums I visit. They’re genuinely terrified of her. Imo, we need fresh people with new ideas. I’m tired of the Pelosi's of the world running the show. I
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
My spouse and I were wanting to visit NYC last spring. A hotel + flight package for three nights was listed as $800 per person because of a last minute sale. Okay so $1600 plus maybe another 10% in tax? Nope. By the time you’re really settl
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Burnout is real. I was promoted from an entry level to senior level engineer in three years at one of the top tech companies. My compensation is great, and I’m saving heavily. Also, I’m exhausted. As in... I’m wondering what to do next with
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
The wage gap is real, although I feel like I see an anti ${insert_tech_company_here} article on NYT just about everyday attacking Facebook, Amazon, Apple, etc. None of these tech companies are on a moral pedestal but also, none of these med
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
A lot of ideas at home are stolen in one fashion or another. We just happen to have a legal system that allows you to reap the benefits of your innovation alone or license out and get royalties or some combination of the two, assuming you’r
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Ha! I work with some talented engineers at a big tech company. This topic sort of came up at a happy hour event. Their culture is different. In the west, we think you’re really something if you invent or innovate something on your own. Thei
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
A glass screen on a laptop is worlds different than on a pocket sized device, where the tiny keys were arguably something to improve. If I can already type 90 words a minute, what problem does the glass solve? I have a glass screen on my iP
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I don’t see how a glass screen, no matter how amazing it feels, would be better than a keyboard. Of course, any judgement I pass is far too premature and a tad unfair since it’s just a patent and I haven’t tried out the product that uses th
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
The 2015 MacBook Pro was the last piece of great hardware from Apple, in terms of their laptops. The newer MacBooks with their gimmicky touchbar and useless keyboards, for the sake of being thin, just show Tim Cook and his advisors have no
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Not knowing anything about this other than what’s in the article, I’m a bit skeptical of how big of an issue there really is inside google and how much of this is just the media blowing something they heard out of proportion. Would love to
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Did they really plan it? I feel like no one expected Amazon to grow as much as they did. And the domino effect was everyone else started coming into the area because tech talent was here already (or across the lake in Bellevue and Redmond).
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
What was the stronger or weaker one? Op posted his opinions as being objective truths, which I pointed are subjective. Enlighten me.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
IMO the Bay Area is far more diverse than many parts of the country with people from different Asian countries. It’s subjective. You don’t see it as diverse but having grew up in the Midwest, the culture and people of various ethnicities an
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
If everything interesting had moved out, people wouldn’t be moving in and rents would fizzle out. I think you meant to say things you f8nd interesting have moved out.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
What I understood from your post is you don’t want an area full of product managers, data scientists, and software people, but you’re very content in an area that replaces them with Jewish people? I think everything you said is entirely sub
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Oh imagine the struggle of a poor billionaire such as Sheryl. But seriously, I’m surprised at the mental gymnastics. If she had a problem with any of it, she could just quit.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I don’t think it’s a worse euphemism. The people who I see angry about “illegals” are the same ones who think blacks are all criminals and it would be great if we could to to the good old days when blacks were segregated, women didn’t have
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
This is a political talking point to scare poor and uneducated white people. It’s why we are willing to penalize folks who were brought to this country as children and use this future for political gains.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I wouldn’t. That line doesn’t exist, at least in the laws of the legal system. It might cross your own moral boundary, but that’s intrinsic to you and subjective at best. I’m not defending them as a company. I do think the rest of the media
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Labeling people as illegals is merely meant to dehumanize them. I wasn’t trivializing the border and so your response is no more than a straw man.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I disagree. What is “line” you referred to and who gets to define it? No one forced you to use Facebook. Look, I don’t use FB, and I don’t particular respect Mark or Sheryl, but the daily barrage of anti tech posts crapping on FB, Apple, or
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Not sure what these articles are trying to get at. Honestly we have some article against Facebook, Apple, and Amazon just about every day from some news outlet claiming the company is so horrible or terrible. I’m inclined to think this fake

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