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Sorry, I’m a bit thrown off. What degree are you referring to? Masters is usually about 2 years, though it could be longer in some cases or if worked on part-time. PhD is often 4-6…

Probably thinking of Jimi Heselden who bought the Segway company and died driving a Segway Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden

The Realm consumed a lot of my life as a child.

No, for taxes, married filing separately is a different category than single. Married filing separately results in a higher tax bill than married filing jointly for most couples.

Same

I’m pretty sure my sell-to-cover RSUs take a day or few to settle, resulting in a small but nonzero gain or loss. The details may depend on the employer + brokerage.

My previous employer had a tender offer as part of a new funding round. I was an ex-employee already and had exercised my options within the 90 day window of resigning. If I rememb…

It also provides a natural place to hide loading screens between levels! ;-)

Interesting! I’ve never heard of that system. Is there somewhere we can read about it, or maybe you can explain a bit more? Is the offer of the form “we accept you, so long as your…

The flying or the tracking?

True! I use Budget Fastbreak usually. Same experience.

Last time I interviewed for Amazon, I couldn’t understand one of the interviewers spoken English. Combination of bad audio (their side, I have a good headset) and accent. I kept as…

If a company offers a very low lower bound like $10k, job seekers won’t apply there and will go to competitors with a more reasonable lower bound. Similarly, when a highly qualifie…

Same! In case others feel bad reading this, I’m in the same boat. Every place I’ve worked has a multi step interview process and as far as I know referrals don’t get to skip it. Ma…

It doesn’t sound too far off from what I’ve seen. The details of the sprints may not be worked out, but a dev team might have several months of high priority project queued up and …

I’ve often heard this (YAML is a superset of JSON) but never looked into the details. According to https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/ , YAML 1.2 (from 2009) is a strict superset of JSON.…

I had the same issue in an Amazon interview in 2020. Couldn’t understand the interviewer’s extremely strong accent so I had to keep asking him to repeat himself. I never really und…

Agree! At least in the US, this kind of total comp is possible at my employer (Datadog) and many other public companies, not just FAANG mega-corps. Typically you’d have to be “seni…

That’s partly why I’ve enjoyed working on “b2b” products in my career and have avoided working on “b2c”. When your customers are using your product as part of their job, your incen…

Good point. Some expensive competitors are: live in-person spin classes (can be $20-30 per class), or programs like CrossFit which can be $200/month. Compared to them Peloton is a …

I’m a big fan of Peloton and pay for the expensive option. You’re right that if you’re on a budget, you can get a very similar experience for a lot less. But for many folks like so…

A lot of firefighters are volunteers

Docker on Mac spins up a Linux VM behind the scenes so it’s both virtualization and containerization. :-)

We have a 2011 Toyota without Bluetooth, for what it’s worth. Base trim models can skip features which are otherwise common.