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Munkeymon posted:Am I missing the part where they give you more comprehensive data than top ~10 of a few categories they felt like talking about? No I just linked it for the averages. Munkeymon posted:Just keep that up for another decade and you'll have a nice downpayment for real estate in your market! Hahahaha I'm lucky enough that my family "invested" in local real estate (see: bought a home for their family) many moons ago and their wish is that I live there when they pass but I'm not sure I a.) want to pay tri-state taxes b.) even want to own a home! Properly implementing compareTo makes CoL a fine metric.
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FamDav posted:but how much stock do you get tho The company is technically nonprofit/private, so no stock unfortunately. I do get a pension plan, free health insurance, 5 weeks PTO, and work remotely, so they make up for it. But yeah, I'm aware that a big portion of tech comp is in stock, but Mniot specifically said he gets $180k base in Boston. I'm just curious what type of companies pay that high of base salary in this field. The $120k Redhat offer he mentioned aligns more with what I've seen.
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Pollyanna posted:Rent for me is $1725 a month so I need to take home more than $4225 each month in order to do the same as you Good lord, my mortgage is < 750 USD / month for a 4 bedroom house. You live in stupid land.
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Skandranon posted:Good lord, my mortgage is < 750 USD / month for a 4 bedroom house. You live in stupid land. I live in the middle of Boston. I want to leave, but I like having a not-stupid commute and Boston's got tech jobs...
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Skandranon posted:Good lord, my mortgage is < 750 USD / month for a 4 bedroom house. You live in stupid land. My 2br/1.5 bath rent is $1850 and it's only that cheap because I live about 5 (to 10) subway stops from work and got remarkably luck and found it through the management company who had just knocked the rent down. For an apartment of this size closer to Midtown/Flatiron/Fidi or to live without roommates, it would probably be $2300-2400 at the very minimum from the looking that I did.
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Skandranon posted:Good lord, my mortgage is < 750 USD / month for a 4 bedroom house. You live in stupid land. Same for me, but I do understand the appeal of living in the middle of Boston or wherever. If only life wasn't a bunch of tradeoffs...
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Feb 9, 2018 19:00
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Good Will Hrunting posted:My 2br/1.5 bath rent is $1850 and it's only that cheap because I live about 5 (to 10) subway stops from work and got remarkably luck and found it through the management company who had just knocked the rent down. For an apartment of this size closer to Midtown/Flatiron/Fidi or to live without roommates, it would probably be $2300-2400 at the very minimum from the looking that I did. You bring home at least $4350 a month? drat, I'm jelly.
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Feb 9, 2018 19:02
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Pollyanna posted:You bring home at least $4350 a month? drat, I'm jelly. My paychecks are about $2800 each after all deductions, yes. It doesn't feel hard to get a salary this high in NYC. Almost all of my developer friends have reached this point with 4-5 years of experience.
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Ah, I'm at 3.5 and based on my experience yesterday ( ) I'm apparently not worth quite that much.
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Munkeymon posted:Interesting - we'd probably end up with just one topic, but wouldn't we sacrifice storage efficiency by interleaving time spans on top of each other? We'd expect each new version of the schedule to mostly have changes in attribute values (think XML because that's what we get!) rather than big structural changes like elements disappearing. Part of the reason I wanted to suggest Kafka is that I'd read it was space efficient because it stored document diffs and we're Very Concerned about that since this would be part of moving the infrastructure to AWS so storage costs cut into margin there. I suspect that was at least partially an excuse to use something the current lead is more familiar with, though Unless they’ve changed something then you have a misunderstanding here. Kafka is completely agnostic to the contents of messages, they’re just a binary key/value pair as far as it’s concerned. It does no special processing between messages. Avro is the most common encoding scheme used and that also doesn’t do document diffs. Compression is gzip or zippy (or whatever that’s called). You might be thinking about log compaction which is based on retaining the most recent version of each message based on the key. Again though that doesn’t inspect the contents of the message. If you manage your schemes via a schema registry then avro messages are really small. Less than 100 bytes each in our use case.
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The March Hare posted:For the sake of argument, those of you who seem to be in the know, where would you start with fp if you might someday want to work using the paradigm? Depends on your background. If you're a Microsoft kinda guy, F# is pretty cool (even though C# eventually gets the coolness).
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Feb 9, 2018 20:02
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Skandranon posted:Good lord, my mortgage is < 750 USD / month for a 4 bedroom house. You live in stupid land. Hmm... I'm $2400 all up (interest, principal, taxes, insurance). 4 bedroom... acre of land. 10 minutes from main work campus.
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Feb 9, 2018 20:04
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Pixelboy posted:Hmm... I'm $2400 all up (interest, principal, taxes, insurance). 4 bedroom... acre of land. 10 minutes from main work campus. I’m at $2400, not including renters insurance/utilities/etc, in the middle of Cambridge MA for a 1BR.
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I don't know what I'd do with that space. I went to college in NYC and growing up, my family always had a tiny house in the burbs. Even though my dad is pretty loaded at this point, they still live there. 65" TV, 2 couches in the living room + my nice desk with modest displays in my room is all I need. Until I have kids which isn't even super likely.
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Good Will Hrunting posted:I don't know what I'd do with that space. I went to college in NYC and growing up, my family always had a tiny house in the burbs. Even though my dad is pretty loaded at this point, they still live there.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Unless they’ve changed something then you have a misunderstanding here. Kafka is completely agnostic to the contents of messages, they’re just a binary key/value pair as far as it’s concerned. It does no special processing between messages. Shoot, I thought I saw in a talk that it did some kind of differential storage magic, but maybe that was something else from the same talk. Still, just the queue depth feature and being able to just pluck the newest would probably save us work, but it's a sunk cost now 
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Pixelboy posted:Depends on your background. If you're a Microsoft kinda guy, F# is pretty cool (even though C# eventually gets the coolness). I don't see C# ending up with all the coolness. For example, I think computation expressions and units of measure aren't going anywhere near C#, which is a pity.
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redleader posted:I don't see C# ending up with all the coolness. For example, I think computation expressions and units of measure aren't going anywhere near C#, which is a pity. C# kind of has partial computation expressions if you’re willing to abuse custom awaitables  The real problem with F# vs C# these days is that all the new dotnet tooling hotness seemingly isn’t tested for F# at all before release, so everything is three point releases behind and buggy as hell.
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ForrestPUMP69 posted:The company is technically nonprofit/private, so no stock unfortunately. I do get a pension plan, free health insurance, 5 weeks PTO, and work remotely, so they make up for it. But yeah, I'm aware that a big portion of tech comp is in stock, but Mniot specifically said he gets $180k base in Boston. I'm just curious what type of companies pay that high of base salary in this field. The $120k Redhat offer he mentioned aligns more with what I've seen. I don't want to doxx myself, but let's see: it's a California-based company, and we use Elixir. So, CA + unusual tech-stack probably increases the price a little. Other than that, my non-base-salary benefits aren't anything to brag about, so it might be comparable to a Google base salary of $160k? I have no idea how much stock Google hands out. And if I wasn't done having kids then Google's parental leave would be worth another $20k to me, at least.
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Mniot posted:I don't want to doxx myself, but let's see: it's a California-based company, and we use Elixir. So, CA + unusual tech-stack probably increases the price a little. Other than that, my non-base-salary benefits aren't anything to brag about, so it might be comparable to a Google base salary of $160k? I have no idea how much stock Google hands out. And if I wasn't done having kids then Google's parental leave would be worth another $20k to me, at least. Personally my stock is about half my total yearly comp at Goog and has been at least 1/3 since I joined.
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Good Will Hrunting posted:My 2br/1.5 bath rent is $1850 That's what I pay in Pittsburgh  I have 1900 sq ft and off-street parking for that price. But I don't live downtown, I'm about 2 miles outside of it and have a 10 minute commute (places downtown are small so small).
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1100-sqft, 4-bedroom houses on 5000-sqft lots are going for north of $900k in my area right now. Hooray for living in the Bay Area.
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I pay half towards a mortgage in a wealthy Brooklyn neighborhood and it's $1k. We did a full gut on a tight budget and the place is beautiful. Basically, y'all should work on being way luckier.
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The March Hare posted:I pay half towards a mortgage in a wealthy Brooklyn neighborhood and it's $1k. We did a full gut on a tight budget and the place is beautiful. Basically, y'all should work on being way luckier. I hope you eat at 5ive spice regularly you yuppie scum  geeves posted:That's what I pay in Pittsburgh I have no idea what my square footage is because that's not a thing most places list here in God's Town
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I'm apartment hunting uptown and gag at the prices when I already pay $1.4k in Jersey. don't live in Jersey
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:I'm apartment hunting uptown and gag at the prices when I already pay $1.4k in Jersey. Look north of 90th off the Q, can probably get something for not much more than $1400!
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raminasi posted:C# kind of has partial computation expressions if you’re willing to abuse custom awaitables Jesus Christ, you aren't joking. And yeah, for an officially-supported language, the state of F# tooling is shocking.
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That general problem is the same problem with almost all cool and good non-mainstream languages...the scaffolding all around the language is lacking.
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Thermopyle posted:That general problem is the same problem with almost all cool and good non-mainstream languages...the scaffolding all around the language is lacking. What’s worrisome in this case is that it’s been getting worse. All the efforts to make the .NET ecosystem not suck a butt are leaving F# behind.
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What exactly are the numbers behind the current supply/demand balance re: engineers? I know there’s a lot of jobs for engineers (junior? senior? any level?), but how many of them are “good” jobs, worth taking, etc? Has this been broken down anywhere?
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Pollyanna posted:What exactly are the numbers behind the current supply/demand balance re: engineers? I know there’s a lot of jobs for engineers (junior? senior? any level?), but how many of them are “good” jobs, worth taking, etc? Has this been broken down anywhere? How do you think that data will help guide your decisions?
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Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:How do you think that data will help guide your decisions? ...it won't...
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Pollyanna posted:Has this been broken down anywhere? But, there will always be good jobs and bad jobs. All over the place. There will even be jobs that are better than your current one where you would be hired with better pay and benefits, if you were to physically move to that market. "Are there good jobs?" isn't the correct question to ask, though. The correct question is, "if I were one of 100 applicants for an awesome available job right now, why would they pick me over everyone else?" That's what you should be spending your time and energy pondering. Is it the breadth of your skills? Your attitude? Level of expertise in some topic? Work experience at some particular company in the past? Figure that out and you'll find that there are good jobs all over the place! Some may even come straight to you. Speaking of hiring, it's entry-level hiring time! I've been doing the university career fair circuit for the past few weeks. I've actually asked students this question as some polite variation of "so, what makes you better than the rest of the resumes I have in my pile, here?" Having a reasonable answer to that question moves you up in the pile very quickly. Also, when students are inquiring about H1-B visa sponsorship, I always ask "what extra-ordinary skills do you have that would merit H1-B sponsorship?" and I have always gotten a dumb look back in response.
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I've just finished crunching the numbers and the answer is 100% of jobs at NASA and 0% of jobs at anywhere else, hope this helps you in your search!
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hendersa posted:Also, when students are inquiring about H1-B visa sponsorship, I always ask "what extra-ordinary skills do you have that would merit H1-B sponsorship?" and I have always gotten a dumb look back in response. Are you just being a dick, or is there an answer you'd accept? Anyone who's done something specifically special shouldn't be hanging around a career fair, because the companies/people who they'd interned with would be calling them with job offers. The best you could get at the fair would be someone who's got all the same skills as everyone else there but is better at them.
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Mniot posted:Are you just being a dick, or is there an answer you'd accept? Anyone who's done something specifically special shouldn't be hanging around a career fair, because the companies/people who they'd interned with would be calling them with job offers. The best you could get at the fair would be someone who's got all the same skills as everyone else there but is better at them. I think he was looking for literally any answer? It’s just priming people to tell you what they’re good at/sell themselves. “I’m not good at anything” is a pretty bad look. And if you can’t or won’t answer the question: “what are you good at?” that’s the assumption.
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leper khan posted:I think he was looking for literally any answer? It’s just priming people to tell you what they’re good at/sell themselves.
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