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Dijkstracula posted:Started a job last year with a 2h commute each way so I've been getting up at 5:45 every morning, pretty envious of all you who've managed to retain night owl status how can you do this for a year without blowing your brains out. 4 hours in traffic every single day
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Jan 5, 2019 23:26
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You've got to be pretty careful you don't burn out if you're putting yourself through that every day
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Jan 5, 2019 23:28
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Symbolic Butt posted:you shouldn't be comparing yourself to your wife like that though, it's kind of weird imo What I'm saying is it wasn't until my second year at BigCo that my total lifetime earnings finally exceeded my implied value as spare parts.
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Jan 6, 2019 00:20
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Chalks posted:You've got to be pretty careful you don't burn out if you're putting yourself through that every day Yep this is what I've discovered. I'm renting a spare bedroom for a few nights a week down there, which has helped, but it's still, like, holy christ what am I doing with myself
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Jan 6, 2019 01:03
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ShadowHawk posted:Did you know when you donate blood components the blood center sells those to a local hospital? The Red Cross can get a thousand dollars for a unit of platelets, and you can give two units every week or two. 
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Jan 6, 2019 04:16
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Wait wait wait, so you’re telling me I can get a thousand bucks for a bag of blood?
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Jan 6, 2019 06:09
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ShadowHawk posted:Did you know when you donate blood components the blood center sells those to a local hospital? The Red Cross can get a thousand dollars for a unit of platelets, and you can give two units every week or two. how often do you watch porn
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Jan 6, 2019 06:18
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Dijkstracula posted:Yep this is what I've discovered. I'm renting a spare bedroom for a few nights a week down there, which has helped, but it's still, like, holy christ what am I doing with myself lifehack: move to the spare bedroom and ditch your other place
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Jan 6, 2019 06:19
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PokeJoe posted:lifehack: move to the spare bedroom and ditch your other place
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lancemantis posted:Wait wait wait, so you’re telling me I can get a thousand bucks for a bag of blood? If you're an end donor, then no. Also that's the price of separated components, whole blood is a little cheaper.
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Jan 6, 2019 11:13
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ShadowHawk posted:If you're a blood bank and selling it to a hospital, yes. 
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ShadowHawk posted:you can give two units every week or two. uh
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Jan 6, 2019 23:57
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Of components, namely platelets. Red cells is one unit every 8 weeks. Plasma one unit every 2-4 weeks.
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Jan 7, 2019 01:18
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I get the sentiment here but I can't really get mad at the Red Cross raising money this way. And paying donors substantial amounts damages the supply in weird ways (you start getting a lot more contaminated product)
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Jan 7, 2019 01:19
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updates on the non-compete front: 1) apparently, every other engineer signed it in the past (so i should too?) 2) somehow even under a 3 year NDA i am still legally able to start a company and get investors because i know the secret sauce (which, i repeatedly stressed, is under NDA) - boy the lack of information flow is one of the main reasons i am leaving this company, i wish i was informed enough to even do my basic work everyday 3) when asked "what happens if i dont sign", they said that they would really like me to sign because it would help cover their asses when some investor comes in to audit. it remains a mystery why i should care about this so in closing they sort of agreed that we can change some of the wording, so now i think i am going to ask for two things: 1) payment and royalties for the IP i developed for them as a test assignment back when i had signed nothing yet - a weeks pay should be enough, because i know that the guys used the results in their presentations 2) a nice severance - going to go with shadowhawk's suggestion of 2 weeks pay 3) non-compete period down to 1 year, and wording specific to the industry and sub-field i think now it's important to not ask for too much because at some point they're going to realise that it's not worth it
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Jan 7, 2019 09:34
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I'm looking at moving jobs and the first feeler I get is from a vc blockchain bullshit startup promising an "exceptional package" that means 90% stock options otherwise they'd have called it "salary" right?
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Jan 7, 2019 10:11
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gonadic io posted:I'm looking at moving jobs and the first feeler I get is from a vc blockchain bullshit startup promising an "exceptional package" that means 90% stock options otherwise they'd have called it "salary" right? it means the ceo has/is a huge dick
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Jan 7, 2019 10:20
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gonadic io posted:I'm looking at moving jobs and the first feeler I get is from a vc blockchain bullshit startup promising an "exceptional package" that means 90% stock options otherwise they'd have called it "salary" right? everyone says their package is amazing. their package could be ‘you work for free for the exposure’ and they’ll call it amazing. gotta find out the details
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Jan 7, 2019 10:50
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Penisface posted:it means the ceo has/is a huge dick it's a vc blockchain startup I think that goes without saying
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Jan 7, 2019 13:21
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gonadic io posted:it's a vc blockchain startup I think that goes without saying Big block energy
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Rex-Goliath posted:everyone says their package is amazing. their package could be ‘you work for free for the exposure’ and they’ll call it amazing. gotta find out the details
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Jan 7, 2019 17:50
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If you don't think your own package is amazing then who else ever will? You've got to have confidence
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Jan 7, 2019 19:21
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I applied for a gig at the local tech college where I’d more-or-less be MSPing for a bunch of community orgs they contract with. I had hoped I would at least put 6 months in out here but I had forgotten just how loving weird the people out here really are. Buncha goddamn rich Waukesha jerkoffs who built their father’s one-horse business into two-horse businesses and think the world owes them a thorough tongue-bath because of it.
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Jan 7, 2019 19:35
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Schadenboner posted:Buncha goddamn rich Waukesha jerkoffs who built their father’s one-horse business into two-horse businesses and think the world owes them a thorough tongue-bath because of it. i have worked for at least one hundred of these dudes
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Jan 7, 2019 19:43
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in at least one case the horses were literal, because a dude used profits from his dad's equipment rental to attempt to operate a for-profite stable
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a for-profite stable
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Jan 7, 2019 19:50
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two offers to decide between tomorrow - one offers a good rate but the domain is weird and I don't know where I would fit in. - the other is retail IT, something I've done, but the recruiter contacted me at my most desperate and I lowballed myself (yes, up front). as I've said before, I don't have the particular framework experience that bay area companies assume everyone automagically has. the second job offers a chance to get some of that. Probably gonna take it, but is there any way to squeeze them for a better rate?
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Jan 8, 2019 01:17
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Gazpacho posted:two offers to decide between tomorrow Well, walk in there swinging a big dick. Say “look, I like you guys but place X is offering me (whatever they’re offering plus, I dunno, 10-20%), let’s make this happen.” 
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Jan 8, 2019 01:20
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Schadenboner posted:Well, walk in there swinging a big dick. Say “look, I like you guys but place X is offering me (whatever they’re offering plus, I dunno, 10-20%), let’s make this happen.” Do this
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Jan 8, 2019 01:36
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interviewing status: blocking on my application flowing through teams at BayAreaBigCo; meanwhile NYC startup is gonna fly me out after MLK weekend so I guess this means I have to remember how to reverse a linked list again 
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Jan 8, 2019 06:12
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"we have no QA, developers are the QA team also" what bullshit answer is this corporate code for?
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Jan 8, 2019 08:38
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qhat posted:"we have no QA, developers are the QA team also" “we’ll never hire someone quit asking” “qa is just a cost center” or a combination of the two. I worked at a place who had outsourced qa to Russia and it worked well if slowish, however because it worked it also cost the same as just hiring people
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Jan 8, 2019 08:51
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it's not code, its badGazpacho posted:regardless, the questions i ask to detect hell companies are
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Jan 8, 2019 08:59
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qhat posted:"we have no QA, developers are the QA team also" it depends how small the company is tbh
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Jan 8, 2019 09:10
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Chalks posted:it depends how small the company is tbh SAP, so like 10k people
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Jan 8, 2019 09:25
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qhat posted:SAP, so like 10k people I’m doubling down on my cost center explanation
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Jan 8, 2019 09:27
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So this was a big networking event organized by them, which seemed weird since they only have 2 dev jobs open in Vancouver. I got super turned off after I heard that though, so I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's terrible.
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i dont mind taking on different responsibilities but in a huuge company i expect that there is at least an aspiration of a industry standard process in place, maybe that expectation is overly naive of me though edit: in my interview status today i read from my next company's HR email something that went like "oh our HR process is divided between different teams, please contact one of the 5 different e-mails or the chatbot" additionally they want me to pick an internal nickname to put on the badge looking a little bit red flaggy here but let's roll on to see where this leads 4lokos basilisk fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Penisface posted:updates on the non-compete front: still not clear on why you think you're obligated to sign this thing in the first place but you do you i guess make sure that any explanations they give are in writing
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