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I usually don't argue with people who are this out of touch, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Let's do some math. In both cases we're buying the same home for keeps, so …

You can look on levels.fyi for current comp, but it's a bit harder to find what someone's comp is like if they started ten years ago. Perhaps you could look at H1B data and extrapo…

You missed the "personal" part of "personal finance." If you live in Seattle and started working in, say 2012, that "smart" decision would be costing you a ton of money today (cert…

I updated the wording to help you out.

> There is a component in contentment that I think is lacking in complacency...that of general happiness. I don't see it that way, complacency can be just contentment from one's ow…

> They are all multi millionaires. Sure, but so am I — and I know for a fact they make very little, because of the way they talk about our mutual friends' job offers — I cannot eve…

> What you call complacency, I call contentment. Contentment and complacency are ostensibly the same thing, though the primary reason I tend towards the latter term is because I th…

Microsoft employees are some of the most complacent I've ever seen. Some of my Microsoftie friends haven't had an interview (aside from maybe one or two recruiter calls) in over te…

Bingo. Getting it into production is a non-concern for non-entities with no reputation, but Google has a lot more to lose. The big guys watch and wait, and use their sizeable walle…

Not sure I would call this a "backdoor," but nice of them to do that.

> One would be eventual consistency. In the vein of the TFA, this would be a negative shibboleth (which just goes to show how being pedantic in certain contexts is just silly). The…

The genuinely qualified people in tech are probably not the ones finding this article organically. TFA is not even industry specific...just think of the target audience, and then c…

> When I type 'git add', it lists the two files I actually modified. Is not typing `-u` really worth installing a whole app that spies on you? Especially since shells like `fish` (…

Yep. The best time to get a promotion is as you interview. The second best time is now...at another company. Thankfully, at a large company with plenty of hard problems to solve (a…

What makes this list "well-crafted"? It doesn't seem to be any different than any other listicle on the internet. Is it?

> Reverse mortgages don't prevent death Except in this case: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-12-27-951228...

> to demand that I only consider the earliest smartphones The earliest smartphones did not even have touchscreens, I just used an example that would be easier to digest.

> when I tried the first iPhone What about when you tried the first touchscreen smartphone, which was probably resistive and came with a stylus? Seems unfair to compare an emerging…

Unreal vs. Unity is pretty much the 'spaces vs. tabs' or the 'emacs vs. vim' debate at this point. Nobody who makes a living from gamedev is dropping their engine of choice thanks …