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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Fair point !
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
I work in health tech and I genuinely believe that this is an endemic problem that can’t be solved by a startup. It is a social issue approaching a health crisis and we need to have our policy, educator, and parents addressing this. While p
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Why can’t it be low willpower along with availability of instant cheap calorically rich unsatiating food? In the past even if you had low will power you didn’t have access to cheap 2000+ simple carb / sugar meals. Now we do.
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Many cfo actually have the biz dev unit under them. Google and my current company both have the biz dev unit under the CFO. I also worked for CFO at a mobile telecom and he was actually a key executive in charge of the 3g expansion. The rol
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Did it seem to anyone else that sticking to Python would have been way easier? It didn’t seem like any of the performance gains were through Golang.
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Ok maybe I should clarify that I’m originally from Texas and work in sf so I have some pretty direct experience and know that there is a big economic difference and the salary differential is not that small. I completely agree that there is
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
I went to a bootcamp and myself along with all of my closest friends at the bootcamp hit that 130K number in SF on total REAL comp.
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Ok, your salary estimates for SF are completely off. Let me level set by saying I went to a bootcamp and have two years experience. I make 165K (25% higher than 130) and my 3 close bootcamp colleagues all make around the same. I don’t work
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
No where in the article do they mention how they factor in cost of living into the comparison. As other commenters have pointed out, most studies naively make a linear adjustment; i.e. if cost of living is 2x you need 2x the salary. This ma
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
The fine is for the stats that were on places like their website. They didn't define the stats clearly on their site.
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
You should wait till they cross the intersection instead of timing your cross with the pedestrian. You need to yield to the pedestrian as soon as they enter the cross walk - that's the law and what all road traffic is required to follo
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
I think people forget that vc backed startups are profit and greed driven (like all free enterprises). We all like to drink the cool aid and think that a startup's purpose is societal impact but really they are engineered to make $$$.
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
This is not how most large companies I've worked with operate. Large IT decisions are driven top down, not organically through the engineering front line. The CTO, CIO, etc. work with vendors that market to them. It's the way orga
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
My partner is a doctor who works at one the top medical systems in America. The EHR system she works is atrocious. Last time she asked me to look at it to help figure out how to print an image and I stared at this 90s era windows app that l
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
It might "feel" sketchier but Oakland's crime rate in some of its nicest areas is on par without SFs rougher areas. Oakland is awesome but the per capita crime (even in areas like Lake Merritt) is not nice.
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
They probably use delivery services for groceries or don't cook. The point of blue apron was it was an easy way for people intimidated by cooking to start doing it.
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
I'm really surprised about the physician comment. My gf works in the largest medical system in the Bay Area and her "perks" (discounted cafeteria food) are drastically below what I've had at any company in the tech indus
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
I finished AppAcademy about 2.5 years ago. It took me about 4 months to find a job and I've been working as a full stack engineer since. I mostly work in Java & Typescript (Angular) now. My trajectory has been pretty solid - we had
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
My anecodatal experience is they don't because I had friends in South Africa, DRC, and Nigeria who came from more privileged middle class backgrounds and still struggled due to a lack of education. They were never recruited by tech fir
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Can you talk about engineering benefits for working on this team besides "you will get to network with hot startups and stuff"? Maybe a bit more color on the technical challenges / culture ?
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
As a Bengali, I was hoping for more detail and context here.
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
If you are on a developer salary this makes no sense
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
The Bay Area is the most expensive place in the US for no real reason except for regulation. It's kinda like everyone cheering for Uber and Lyft because medallion rules in SF prevented ever having enough cabs. There's no real reas
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Where did you go?
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
Are you a minority race and if so would you say that Utah is friendly to non-whites ?
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by throwthisawayt 9y ago
I assume this is a senior only position ?
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
On a slight tangent, anyone else really annoyed by the articles which seem to be "company profiles" but really are PR puff pieces. They masquered as real journalism but they feel like content spoon fed by the company's PR man
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
How much product management experience do you have ? What type of companies have you had PM experience at? What were you doing before product ? It's very hard to get people to diagnose the problem online but maybe if you give more deta
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
This sounds like a really interesting problem to work on. Are you hiring anyone for this team (esp those new to search)?
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
What's the regulation that allows you to do that ? From what I understood, you aren't legally allowed to reduce the number of units that a property is zoned for.

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