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New comment by throwaway_45 in "Microsoft and CMU Team Up to Train Early Career Software Engineers"

throwaway_45 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:45:23 +0000

The issue is the higher ups don't even seem to care. You just turn into the guy that's yelling at the clouds. I don't know what the future of this industry is.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

throwaway_45 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:33:21 +0000

China is playing the long game. They can go spend a trillion bucks and hire/steal the tech and they could destroy Taiwan's competitive advantage, and they could just economically crush them.

Ask HNs: Junior Engineers Using ChatGPT?

throwaway_45 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:51:53 +0000

I have a few junior engineers that work for me. I notice they are all just using chat gpt. Chat gpt makes some hard to notice bugs that unless you program a bunch you won't notice, or writes code that is inefficient. If they don't actually write code they aren't going to learn this stuff. We are paying these guys well over 6 figures. Is this the future were all people are going to do is use ChatGPT?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642887

Points: 5

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New comment by throwaway_45 in "Croatia could be Europe's hidden tech haven in 2024"

throwaway_45 — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:22:46 +0000

On aggregate people go were the money is. There are exceptions, but greed motivates a lot of smart ambitious people.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "Croatia could be Europe's hidden tech haven in 2024"

throwaway_45 — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:03:32 +0000

People go where the money is. It is capitalism. SV is where the money is so people are going to go there. Same as wall street before it. You want the best talent you pay the most money. With Europe paying so little compared to the US I don't know if Crotia or anywhere in europe will be a real tech hotbed.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

throwaway_45 — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:33:06 +0000

NN/ai concepts have been around for a while. It is just computers had not been fast enough to make it practical. It was also harder to get capital back then. Those guys put the silicon in silicon valley.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era"

throwaway_45 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:31:51 +0000

It really should be FG. Facebook and google pay way better than any of those other companies.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "OpenAI disbands its robotics research team"

throwaway_45 — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 19:29:50 +0000

If robots are doing all the work how will people make money to buy the stuff the robots make? Is Jeff Bezos going to own the whole world or are we going to have another French revolution?

New comment by throwaway_45 in "Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B"

throwaway_45 — Sun, 16 May 2021 16:49:35 +0000

In general its a dirty process. There are a lot of toxic chemicals involved. People might get sick. Margins aren't as good as software and its very capital intensive so investors would rather invest in software. Lots of booms and bust in the semiconductor industry.

Ask HN: How to Ask for a Raise?

throwaway_45 — Sat, 15 May 2021 15:44:17 +0000

I got a better offer from another company, However I have a lot of unvested stock. I Don't know what stock market will be in a few years, and my current employer has been good to me. However I would like to get more guaranteed money. What is the best way to do this without burning bridges as I likely won't quit because financially it might not make sense.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27166227

Points: 4

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New comment by throwaway_45 in "MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube"

throwaway_45 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 01:04:14 +0000

I guess you are right, but to me even streaming videos are downloaded to your computer. I also have seen the 30% number of other sites so I thought it looked reasonable.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube"

throwaway_45 — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:32:38 +0000

35% of internet traffic is porn

https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resources/tips-articles/intern...

New comment by throwaway_45 in "Ask HN: I have $1M cash in my bank. How can I stretch it so I can retire?"

throwaway_45 — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:49:00 +0000

This is terrible advice.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-way-fewer-actively-man...

A vast majority of advisors (90%) aren't going to beat an index fund. You are just giving money away money by hiring an advisors.

Unless you want to pull offshore tax shelters or Real estate depreciation schemes its not super complicated to do taxes. Invest long-term and you are getting capital gains tax.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "The new minimum salaries in finance and tech for H1B visas"

throwaway_45 — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:24:23 +0000

They should just make the requirement 2x of US salary. If a company really needs a foreign talent then that should be no issue.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison"

throwaway_45 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:20:08 +0000

Are you white? I think Race has a big part of if you make it or not especially if you have committed a felony.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "Ask HN: Do you feel the quality of SWE has gone down?"

throwaway_45 — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 22:52:23 +0000

A bootcamp person can learn most of these things. It just seems with some of our recent hires they don't seem to want to learn this stuff or maybe it doesn't really matter for react devs.

And these things do make a difference. L1 cache is faster than L2 cache which is faster than L3 which is faster than memory which is faster than hard disk etc. You want your code to keep things within those limits to make things faster.

Or for example if you start using virtual memory and paging to disk you might want to switch algorithms. For example you might want to use merge sort instead of quick sort if you don't have a lot of ram and you have to go to disk. However if you have 128GB of memory and mostly randomized data you want to use quicksort.

This is kind of trivial example, but I think this stuff is somewhat important.

Ask HN: Do you feel the quality of SWE has gone down?

throwaway_45 — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 17:51:49 +0000

It feels like a lot engineers now days don't seem to have a good cs background. They don't seem to understand things like cache, paging, virtual memory,cpu pipelines, algorithms or other things pretty important to CS.

I know we have a lot of bootcamps and people are joining because it pays decently, but is this necessarily a good thing for the industry?

When we have the next industry crash (.com crash) will these people stick around?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21615374

Points: 58

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New comment by throwaway_45 in "Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees"

throwaway_45 — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:34:25 +0000

Just tax the employer 1x on H1b workers salary. If employee gets 100k then government gets a 100k. That will probably solve the h1b problem quickly. If employer truly believes this person is that valuable they will have no problem paying the tax.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "Ask HN: How much do you make at a startup?"

throwaway_45 — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 05:06:13 +0000

According to your calc An intermediate level engineer in sf makes more than a director level in Europe.

New comment by throwaway_45 in "From a life prison sentence to a computer engineering job"

throwaway_45 — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 22:42:31 +0000

This guy stabbed his brother to death while sleeping. I mean that is a pretty bad crime. If he wasn't white would he have a job?

Also checkr basically helps put people out of jobs by background checking them.