Hacker News: bigcostooge

New comment by bigcostooge in "How to Retire in Your 30s with $1M in the Bank"

bigcostooge — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 23:44:33 +0000

I’ll be better off than you when that happens.

New comment by bigcostooge in "GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development"

bigcostooge — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:53:28 +0000

Improvements in efficiency may only be needed in build and runtime systems. You may still be able to write electron apps.

New comment by bigcostooge in "People start hating their jobs at 35"

bigcostooge — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:28:31 +0000

I’ve hit this realization at 30. But exactly this.

New comment by bigcostooge in "‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions"

bigcostooge — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:21:03 +0000

I think you can answer that by asking yourself another question: who at Harvard understands supply and demand?

New comment by bigcostooge in "Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian"

bigcostooge — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 03:49:27 +0000

It’s possible I’m a fish person, but not likely. And this adds nothing to the discussion.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Trump’s “Hire American” order makes it harder to get H-1B visas"

bigcostooge — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:18:09 +0000

I haven’t seen this specifically in our job postings. But we only hire H1bs to reduce cost.

New comment by bigcostooge in "New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas"

bigcostooge — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:56:53 +0000

I’m not the poster, but I’ve worked with literally hundreds of H1B workers directly, and while some were ~decent developers, the majority were not.

Even the decent developers had no special skills that would qualify them for an H1b visa, however.

With a 0% rate of qualified H1b recipients in my own experience, I can imagine that the “conference room” statement would be true.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Trump’s “Hire American” order makes it harder to get H-1B visas"

bigcostooge — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:19:43 +0000

Technical ability alone does not qualify one for an H1b visa. You need to be above and beyond what is able to be sourced in America. Specifically, the skills need to be so advanced that you cannot find any American workers to fill the job.

I imagine this test would discredit nearly every H1b software hire.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

bigcostooge — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:43:12 +0000

Well. There’s always bitbucket.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder"

bigcostooge — Wed, 02 May 2018 22:03:07 +0000

You can encode about 1 video per EC2 medium instance without losing >1:1 encoding speed. It’s horrendously expensive.

New comment by bigcostooge in "[dead]"

bigcostooge — Wed, 02 May 2018 12:51:10 +0000

I find that all “best practices” are a lazy way to avoid justifying a position. Often the advice is almost always incorrect or situational, but the claim maker hasn’t done the work to understand why.

New comment by bigcostooge in "California Supreme Court Transforms the Test for Who Is an Employee"

bigcostooge — Tue, 01 May 2018 09:12:45 +0000

The rest of the country needs this.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering"

bigcostooge — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:07:37 +0000

When I was selling hundreds of items per month, I would hold any Spanish name for 48 hours. The majority of Spanish named buyers were committing fraud.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Why a house is a terrible investment (2013)"

bigcostooge — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:12:08 +0000

Houses do pay dividends. You have to live somewhere, and you get to live in your house for free (in the analogy where it’s discussed as an investment.)

The alternative is much worse in many markets.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Ask HN: Strategies for database reliability when I have no control over the DB?"

bigcostooge — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 22:51:10 +0000

But it won’t.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Developer Survey Results"

bigcostooge — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:14:09 +0000

International responses skew the salary data and make it useless.

New comment by bigcostooge in "Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of AWS"

bigcostooge — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 10:46:08 +0000

This is my current life. Testing an idea costs $25M. It’s absurd, and most of my time is spent filling out forms or explaining the basics of the web to idiots.