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It’s standard. Career ladder [1] sets expectation for each level. Performance is measured against those expectations. Outages don’t negatively impact a single engineer.

The key difference is the perspective. If reliability is bad that’s an organizational problem and blaming or punishing one engineer won’t fix that.

[1] An example ladder from Patreon: https://levels.patreon.com/

If an engineer causes an outage by mistake and then ensures that would never happen again, he has made a positive impact.

What made you trust Elysium?

Isn’t the title misleading? They cannot unlock through phone app but they can still unlock using the card.

> She had this weird plan to "take all the money and leave me with all the debt" which she proudly told my brother.

This sounds like a nightmare.

> I see weird people in the subway most days, I see all the time people that look like they spend all their day being outside - doing nothing, there are people making noise at 2 am on a week night, there are people going at crazy speeds on the street, at night or during the day.

Is it New York?

I’m not sure at this point if you’re trolling or you actually have a very rosy view of immigrants being successful. Many of them have two jobs or working as delivering person and barely making minimum wage.

I agree with Aloha. You still need a certain level of intelligence to work in tech. I have friends who struggle with concepts that are almost too easy for an average tech worker.

You should publish it as a blog. It’s not very readable from a phone.

This is only true if your income rises with time. Wage growth has been stagnant for decades for most Americans.

> Car dealers sent coffins containing the keys of unsold vehicles

This sounded so strange that I had to look it up and found this article https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/anti-inflation-...

2-3 years is enough to master a certain niche of technology fairly well if you want to.

If you still didn’t get it, you just used a method that Chris Voss recommended in his book.

It depends on the market. If someone wants to pay you between 1.5x to 2x for the same work you’re doing right now with same work/life balance, will you take it? People generally don’t whine about pay or promotions, they interview and get better offers.

They can’t downlevel someone from Facebook that easily. They have to match the compensation at least and Facebook pays pretty well at L5 level.

You’re right. 63 billion dollars of net profit per year is a better metric.

> employees would leave due to poor compensation

With a gross profit of 100 billion dollars a year [1] they can easily outbid the market compensation if they want to and stay with current revenue. But again how many Jeff Deans can one company need before it calls itself The Man?

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/gros...

> I have also had American banks and brokerages unilaterally terminate my prior accounts for moving abroad

Was it Vanguard or Charles Schwab? Did they give a notice before terminating the accounts?

This is a little sad. That was 1.5 million dollars of vested share for the price of $4050 + taxes.

Often I’m copy pasting commands from documentation to terminal one by one as I’m trying new things. Whether I remember them or not doesn’t matter.

The difference between a large enough single monitor with tiling window manager vs. multiple monitors is just a question of layout. There is no real difference between those two.

Also, I can “switch” just by moving my eyeballs which takes fraction of time comparing to using a button or pressing alt-tab.

My whole point is you can work on a single task no matter how many monitors you have. And having more real estate makes it easier.

> And when it comes to personal growth as a programmer, I find it's just too easy to stack ready made libraries on top of libraries, without ever coding things from scratch.

This is working as intended. This is how everything should be.

Well, you can use multiple monitors and still focus on a single task. You have more real estate and stop spending time switching between your browser, IDE and terminal.

> And "caring about your employer's" goals in this day and age while you're working at FB/Google/Amazon actually makes you look like a sociopath in my eyes

Google and Amazon are very large corporations. Someone who works in GCP or AWS is benefiting rest of us.

Another way of seeing this is acknowledging that anyone who owns S&P 500 technically owns these companies. So if you’re making money in stock market, it’s happening due to the very same people you’re condemning. In this day and age it’s very hard to draw a line for “us vs. them”.

Your math is wrong. It’s 2.6% of total properties, not 2.6% of total population.

Maybe you were talking about other companies. Google is still wildly profitable.

> the company just set an all-time record revenue of $61.9 billion this quarter, and record profits for the fourth quarter in a row at $18.5 billion.

From https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596592/google-q2-2021-r...

Which Chromebook was it?

> I did it, just before the world changed, forever. I saw the world, the coral reefs, the rivers, the rainforests, before climate change, people destroyed them.

This made me melancholic. I never thought the changes that we saw last two years would be so drastic. I hope we didn’t run out of time as a species yet.

> Learn how to cook new dishes instead of finding exciting new restaurants

Even restaurants don’t cost a fortune comparing to buying a fancy car if you don’t do fine dining everyday.

Is that true though? Roughly 200 people gets infection from flesh eating bacterias in USA every year but I never heard anyone dying after getting it from manicure station.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/do-you-need-to-worry-...