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rak00n··on Seeing the Smoke
There are few that are sold by amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HSAG8BE
rak00n··on Maximizing Income as a Software Engineer
Generally that high rent is an opportunity cost. Saving 3k/month by living in rural Wyoming instead of NYC when you’re in your 20s is not desirable unless you want to be a really sad person with no friends.
rak00n··on Maximizing Income as a Software Engineer
I’m still happy people are writing about these things and that’s making conversations happening. What he described could happen to anyone at any level.
rak00n··on The comfortable life is killing us
I hear you but in this situation what else can be done other than marching forward with self reliance and accepting the circumstances?
rak00n··on Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
I just searched in moma with variations of “git5 productivity” and no such study showed up. Neither LoC nor commit count is a good metric to represent a developer’s productivity.

In my personal opinion, using a git/hg like interface makes it lot easier to work on a complicated CL because you can maintain internal local branches and you can easily revert your incremental changes. That’s not at all possible in perforce. I just can’t see how git/hg interface can make anyone less productive.

rak00n··on Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
I wasn’t doubting on existence of a research team like that. I was doubting on the research mentioned. You cannot just say people who use a particular tool (like git or git5) are less productive. That’s just absurd.
rak00n··on Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
You have to be bluffing. I never heard of such internal research. How is even productivity measured in a context like this?
rak00n··on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Why PM?
rak00n··on “Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski
How's Bukowski related to online dating?
rak00n··on Vim 8.2
If you had used a plugin manager like Vundle, you could have simply uninstalled the plugin that's giving you trouble.
rak00n··on Older IT Workers Left Out Despite Tech Talent Shortage
It doesn't work that way. Silicon Valley is flooded with wanna-bes. So even if you're cash strapped you can still hire. Madison WI isn't.

For the same reason it's easier to hire an actor in LA.

rak00n··on Older IT Workers Left Out Despite Tech Talent Shortage
If you're supposed to be a professional software engineer and can't do fizzbuzz under pressure that's same as saying you're a professional soccer player but you can't tie your shoe under pressure. That bar is so low that it doesn't matter whether there was any pressure or not.
rak00n··on Patreon CEO says the company’s generous business model is not sustainable
That sounds like a great start up idea. Cloudflare of payment fraud.
rak00n··on Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
You blew it out of proportion. It's more like you badge in a certain cafe. No one knows what you ate in that cafe.
rak00n··on Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
If two PHP developer and a community person launches a social network, can we actually call it a Facebook rival? It's lightyears away from feature parity.
rak00n··on I chose Facebook over Uber on 1/18/2019, which grossed me $92k.
I stand corrected. Thanks for explaining.
rak00n··on I chose Facebook over Uber on 1/18/2019, which grossed me $92k.
He actually didn't gross $92k. That's not only unrealized stock options, it also assumes he'd stay in Facebook for next 3 years. He actually grossed 1/4th of that, given he stays in Facebook till end of first year.
rak00n··on 2020 Internship Guide and Salaries by Levels.fyi
I'm surprised to see Google and Facebook so low in that list.
rak00n··on Cross the world four times
Did you have to get a new car insurance as you entered a new country or is there another way to do it?
rak00n··on Ask HN: What’s Your ROI in Browsing Hacker News?
Which article was it?
rak00n··on Cloudflare stock pops 22% in first day of trading
Robinhood reported 19.53 as the opening price. I noticed Google also reported it as 18.
rak00n··on Cloudflare stock pops 22% in first day of trading
The article is slightly wrong. They opened with $19.53. It's currently hovering around $18.
rak00n··on A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
I think that video was made by a comedian, not actual engineers.
rak00n··on Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups
Who's paying 400-500K for normal engineers? Even FAANGs don't pay that much for for Senior Software Engineers.
rak00n··on Apple killed the 12-inch MacBook
Does that mean MacBooks will stop getting updates in 5 years and won't be supported?
rak00n··on Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle
The plan with ads comes for free if you have Spotify premium account.
rak00n··on Google, Smart to Establish Free WiFi Stations in Philippines
> PLDT-Smart Enterprise Business head Ernesto Alberto said the Google Stations would replace the existing free public WiFi provided by the telecommunications company in different locations nationwide.

So they already had free WiFi stations and now they're gonna be rebranded as Google Stations?

rak00n··on Blue Moon
2016 estimation for the project was $20B [1]. Your number is over 50 times larger.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-15/world-s-b...

rak00n··on We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
> "They don't care, because it's a numbers game to them."

This sounds so similar to all other large tech companies, specially Google. Somewhere along the line all these tech companies lost user focus.

rak00n··on Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote
In that case what if I use the zip code for getting a better salary and then just move a cheaper location?
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