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Re: Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

vorpalhex wrote: post #17
robotnikman wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why didn't he just try find a job that pays $200k/year ? Probably was not able to get into MIT or another prestigious school that many of those companies look for on a resume.

None of my peers went to any school of note, nor did I. A fair bit of community college, some lower ranked state unis, and one guy did a bootcamp. All well above 200k.

Is it worth enrolling in a local public college for programming? I think its a 2-3 year course but would it have good bridges to actually getting experience and emplpyed in software?

Might have to do it part time but id still be into getting out of my current job which i cant see myself lasting long-term in. I need something with more latitude and definitely better pay, prospects. Im at a dead end and nughtmare i cant wake up from if i stand still any longer

Re: Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

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Post by zuzululu »

tancop wrote: post #39
zuzululu wrote: post #5

He was smart/determined enough to risk it all. Why didn't he just try find a job that pays $200k/year ? Why play into the stereotypes ?

job market is insane today. its hard to find a job in retail in some places, software is way more competitive. retraining to some in demand trade takes money you might not have and its still not guaranteed success. and even if you get hired for a stable job theres no guarantee your company will let you work your way up to 200k when they know you cant afford to quit. the uncertainty of crime is better than endless wai…

crime has short term certainty with long term uncertainty. a legitimate job has short term uncertainty with long term certainty. its stupid silly and dangerous way to view it as an escape from your current job situation.

I don't know why people keep whining about job markets. I'm currently working 3 different remote jobs each past 200k/yr point

my total salary is close to 800k. if one of them fires me i can easily hop to another job. I've been doing this for well over a year now and everybody is happy.

there's really no need to justify criminal behavior when legitimate options are in front of you and you are too lazy, weak willed to see the upside.

Re: Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

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Post by zuzululu »

r_lee wrote: post #9
zuzululu wrote: post #5

He was smart/determined enough to risk it all. Why didn't he just try find a job that pays $200k/year ? Why play into the stereotypes ?

> didn't he just try find a job that pays $200k/year ? you really think it's that easy?

If you expect it to be easy like a handout then thats the wrong attitude because then everybody would be doing it so already this points to lack of context and self awareness. If you are getting paid $200k/year, you have to be willing to see it from the other side of the table, what are you offering really?

It's also not as hard or dire as you think it is but without knowing more about your situation or what you tried, its pointless because I suspect that its going to just turn into a moping session.

I am working on 3 remote jobs that pay over 200k/year, it takes time and effort, and yes it was relatively easy for me but not in the way that you think it should be.

Re: Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

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Post by zuzululu »

vorpalhex wrote: post #38
darksim905 wrote: post #26

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What do they do, _exactly_? Because in the real world out of YC, the rest of us can barely top $200,000 a year unless we move into management or Executive level roles.

Software engineers. None of us work for YC, we are based in Texas. No oil/gas, nor defense, nothing like that. Years ago I had a recruiter that wanted to hawk me and I asked for 180k comp and he told me it was "impossible". Hung up, was hired at 185k a few weeks later. Wasn't even much of a negotiation when I asked for it. 1. Be willing to accept non-cash comp. Stock of various forms, etc. This works with later stage…

This is the right mindset although I'd have to caution on those comps, very low probability of it turning beyond 4 figure best case or 5 figures in fantastic case, might as well buy a lotto for 6 figure expectation. It's as good as monopoly money and I always ask for cash or time. Time is good for me since I work 3 remote jobs so whatever one is willing to give up I can do better balancing acts.

#2 and #3 are excellent. I also might add : "Be willing to walk". Desperation signals compromises that they will exploit. Know exactly what you are offering to the business and walk when they say "thats too much , impossible, bad engineers ask for money like you". 100% those roles have high turn over, stress, and managerial issues.

Bad managers penny pinch because they can't use resources efficiently. Good managers pay more for talent because they are competent at managing resources.

Re: Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

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Post by Ferret7446 »

drnick1 wrote: post #25
charcircuit wrote: post #23

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Android solves this problem by making it impossible for an app to access the storage of another app. No matter how much the Steam app wants to see your crypto wallet's key it is not possible (assuming no Linux exploit).

That's nice, but a cell phone isn't a viable gaming platform for anything but very basic games. And Android, at least in its typical Googled form, has its own set of problems; it's a privacy nightmare.

The vast majority of "gamers" play on a phone. Would you consider something like Neverness to Everness to be "very basic"? Times have changed

Re: Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

vorpalhex wrote: post #38
darksim905 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do they do, _exactly_? Because in the real world out of YC, the rest of us can barely top $200,000 a year unless we move into management or Executive level roles.

Software engineers. None of us work for YC, we are based in Texas. No oil/gas, nor defense, nothing like that. Years ago I had a recruiter that wanted to hawk me and I asked for 180k comp and he told me it was "impossible". Hung up, was hired at 185k a few weeks later. Wasn't even much of a negotiation when I asked for it. 1. Be willing to accept non-cash comp. Stock of various forms, etc. This works with later stage…

How often did you mop floors, or did anything that's generally not considered a job of a software engineer, while being a software engineer?

Re: Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

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Post by vorpalhex »

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #46
vorpalhex wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Software engineers. None of us work for YC, we are based in Texas. No oil/gas, nor defense, nothing like that. Years ago I had a recruiter that wanted to hawk me and I asked for 180k comp and he told me it was "impossible". Hung up, was hired at 185k a few weeks later. Wasn't even much of a negotiation when I asked for it. 1. Be willing to accept non-cash comp. Stock of various forms, etc. This works with later stage…

How often did you mop floors, or did anything that's generally not considered a job of a software engineer, while being a software engineer?

Vacuumed my secure lockup about once a month. At one point someone just brought in a vacuum so we didn't have to keep bothering to walk down the hall and borrow one from cleaning folks.

Have arranged travel, run big group meals, and setup parties. At one point setup a golf event.

Have flown across the US many times, most of the time was there to just whiteboard and mediate in practice.

Have worked with lawyers on vendor contracts (was how I learned to negotiate partially).

Have had a bunch of side adventures in managing locks, safes, etc as part of my day job. Plenty of random physical builds.

A large part of what I actually do is mediation between parties so that I can get permission to do whatever business function actually needs to happen.

Oh and spent a few years wiping down a breakroom as a habit and making coffee. Incidentally became good friends with a major CTO due to that.

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