If I don't move it by 07:00, I'll get a $45 ticket. But parking the car there is great because I never have to spend time looking for parking (in Brooklyn, NYC).

I'm much more of a morning person now. :)

Not quite. Hiring for high management positions is usually much more selective and fickle, and the risk for people in those positions to succeed is much MUCH higher than what most engineers need to deal with (hence the significantly larger compensation delta). I've never been to B-School, but if I had to posit a guess, they do do a better job of teaching people how to run existing companies in various scenarios than what most engineers learn over their career.

(Also, keep in mind that the biggest value of going to an expensive B-School is the high value networking opportunities. This means that the school you choose matters A LOT.

A lot of people get useless MBAs. :/ )

That's not a Lego block; that's an excuse.

An iPad Pro is very good at filling in the gaps for MANY MANY people. The only problem with it is that its much more expensive than a second-hand computer (a relatively new Dell refurb with low end, but "good enough" parts, costs ~$400 with a monitor. Same deal with a cheap laptop).

You've done good, kid.

If I had known that, I probably would've considered getting a slightly older 335i instead. That said, I don't regret my decision. I love our car (except for the driver's seat...boy is it bad), and owning a nice car here in NYC is a fool's errand unless you don't mind paying tons on body/wheel work.

I'm just saying that having a full understanding the context at hand helps more. The OP of these tweets didn't provide any hard evidence either, FYI.

I'm Latino and also happen to be very black (or very, very black depending on how long I've been outside.) I've done AP classes in high school, spent years on the national debate circuit, went to a fairly well-known engineering school (that was mostly white/asian) and worked at some of the best tech companies in the country right now. So I'm no stranger to being the "token black guy" in a room/dept/company full of white/asian dudes (women are also a rarity in tech, though that seems to be changing, and that's great).

As for this situation: if Demo Day is anything similar to the Startup Weekend that I did recently (and the startup meetups that I participated in during that time), I'll theorize that the problem isn't so much that black founders don't get funded; it's that:

a) There aren't that many black or latino founders in tech,

b) There aren't that many minorities in tech in general (compared to our white/asian partners), and

c) White and Asian people tend to come from wealthier families than we do and, honestly, doing a startup (or getting funding for a startup) is kind-of a rich man's game (or knowing lots of wealthy people).

I also sometimes feel like the authors of these articles WANT race to be a problem, so they look for anything that might spark that fire and then promptly pour more gas into it until it turns into a trending topic on Hacker News or Reddit.

I mean, I don't doubt that there are some cliques that one can have an easier time of participating in by being white (this is actually one of my biggest fears --- that I'll actually start to feel racism if/when I actually come into wealth because wealthy people can "afford" to be dicks), and I certainly don't doubt that there are racist folks out there. I just don't think that it is as common of an occurrence as it's made out to be.

It is such an expressive and clear language to write code in. That is until you start needing to use imperative .NET types :)

Teachers come to mind here. Many of them encounter a LOT of difficulty when they try to find jobs outside of education. Many, many companies completely discount their experience regardless of the length of time they've spent in the profession. This essentially means that teachers who've been in the system for a while and are becoming disillusioned with it are almost forced to restart their career; this is very painful for those that have many, many years in the game.

A bootcamp is a great way of getting the experience needed to restart their career into a well-paying industry (for now). Yeah, they don't learn Big O or discrete math, but they do learn how to write an app that will make their founders a LOT of money if it sells, and that's worth a lot.

BTW: A lot of high-falutin places (like Jane Street, which I worked at a few years ago) care much more about your experience and what you've done than where you came from (at least on the development side of the house, which pays handsomely compared to market; the trading side still heavily recruits from the Ivies). I remember them hiring a few Hacker School type devs, and if they survived our interview process, that means they HAD to be good.

Comfort. Immense comfort.

I spend a lot of time in my car. I enjoy the car that I have now (a 2012 Honda Accord EX-L), but the only reason why I didn't take out a lease on something more expensive (like a 535i or an E-class) is because we're planning to move very soon and driving a luxury car in NYC makes no damn sense unless you are flush with money and can afford the inevitable body work.

When I went to Austin a few months ago, I decided to rent a BMW Z4. It was amazing. An absolute pleasure to drive. It wasn't the speed that did it in for me, though. It was the sheer comfort of everything.

Volume knobs? They're RIGHT THERE. You don't even need to move your forearm.

The seats? Plushy and comfortable (unlike my Accord; everything is great, but those seats are terrible).

Cruise control that actually works on downhills and actually slows down? Not a problem.

Me paying a few hundred dollars per month to not drive something much cheaper (and, likely, not as nice/comfortable) doesn't bother me at all. It's a debt, and debt sucks, but driving a low-grade econobox for a few years while I save up for something that will be worth 30% less than what I bought it for the minute I drive it out is much worse (for me).

(Same goes for my future house or apartment.)

That being said, building up my emergency spend and clearing up some debt that I've amassed is next on my priority list after moving.

For sure. There's no better way of learning the protocols than writing your own network sniffer. Even writing a crappy one like the one that a few folks and I put together in college will teach you a lot about how each protocol behaves and what to look for: https://github.com/carlosonunez/nbfm-sniffer

windump is the windows version of tcpdump: https://www.winpcap.org/windump/

I haven't used it yet but it's libpcap based so I can't imagine it being too different. It has to be at least 2000x better than the piece of shit Microsoft Network Monitor (it's like Wireshark, except so much worse...oh, and it doesn't do promiscuous mode)