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I've paid off my mortgage and am now more open to working on something more altruistic than selling ads for slightly less pay. The problem is I can't find any interesting without a large paycut.

This isn't some collection of rags to rich story. I know some authors get dozens of rejections over years before being published. This isn't close.

Trump demonizes both China and Islam. So I'm not sure what the best play for the Republican party is here. If you praise the Chinese government then that's going too far. But if you criticize them then you have to soften your own Islamophobia.

I feel like non consensual anything adds stress. One of my least favorite things is being hugged by people I work with and I always feel awkward turning down a co worker.

What are the technical challenges of handling an influx of dozens of new users?

That 75% number is not from the EEOC study. It is something the EEOC study cited. The original is from:

Lilia M. Cortina & Vicki J. Magley, Raising Voice, Risking Retaliation: Events Following Interpersonal Mistreatment in the Workplace, 8:4 J. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOL. 247, 255 (2003).

"speaking up" means "not staying silent about harassment."

I just did an interview in Go. I think people have done javascript too.

Sounds like a miscommunication happened somewhere. You should provide feedback to your recruiter.

It's a big company. Big company things happen at big companies.

I got better when two things happened.

1) Write a lot of code. Like a ton, more than anyone else on the team. 2) Get feedback from people on that code.

It's a company with 10s of thousands of people. What did you expect?

What the heck is a gun cyclist?

I can't wait for Ballmer to become the lovable, goofy NBA owner instead of be remembered as the guy who dragged down Microsoft.

I just paid off my 720k mortgage in four years.

Thanks for pointing that out. I should mention I'm in Seattle.

With the exception of Amazon, I haven't received an offer with base pay lower than 150k in a long time. I'm a mid tier SWE at best.

I think people are downvoting out of jealously.

lol, reminds me of a twitter thread. A guy said "As a hiring manager, job hopping is a red flag" . Then someone else posted that guy's LinkedIn page, which was a succession of short stings.

Well, tech is hiring from HBCUs now because 1) it's PR and 2) Stanford grads are a finite resource.

Let me clarify. The bank accepted a 7 figure wire transfer but I wasn't allowed to pay the full amount. I had to pay the leftover in person, even after I got the payoff statement.

Many big tech companies made their hiring processes more transparent. Partly because of the call for more diversity in tech. I hope colleges follow suit. Even if the formula is "Rich daddy" + "lacross".

I wish this applied to banks too.

I tried to pay off my mortgage this week and I had to go to a physical bank and handle them a check for seven hundred dollars. So stupid.

I have a job offer with HBO about three years ago. They told me they wanted to become Netflix faster than Netflix became HBO.

That's not the consensus from game devs at the moment. Perhaps they are wrong.

> When I ask friends that have they tell me "oh the stories I could tell" but they don't actually tell.

Well, the first thing I can tell you about us Americans is we make up a lot of stuff to impress people. Look at our president and his tweet about being a best selling author. Happy Fourth!

lol, the Republicans coined that term. Pretty sure they wouldn't describe visiting prostitutes with your customers as not "politically correct."

Makes me sad that Valve keeps on trying to kill Steam Spy.

In an episode of Billions, they go to a strip club for some full contact lap dances. I met a Wall Street I-banker who went on and on about hooking up with strippers. I wonder how common this is still in the US.

Microsoft had a blog post bragging about their work with ICE. But only 300 employees have signed a petition to denounce it.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/21/17488328/microsoft-ice-em...

Thank you for calling out the no true scot's man fallacy.

On most days, I think people should allow to worship however they want. And then there are days when my government quote the Bible to support laws that are otherwise indefensible.