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seansmcculloughon The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More

I also went to ROTC field training at Maxwell, and had a similar experience. Once on the way to the dinning hall with another cadet, we were saluted by two new medical officers who were very confused.

seansmcculloughon Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

A lot of times you have to set a “deadline” when interacting with other teams/orgs, or they will just never get back to you.

seansmcculloughon You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

> deploying a fix all by myself, no review, for a legacy product that really didn't have a good testing environment.

This sounds like a great way to cause a live-site incident.

seansmcculloughon Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)

Azure Storage has also had this for years - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/s...

seansmcculloughon Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity

> while your peers are all making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG

Unless you are a manager, in which case you are working more like 12 hour a day.

seansmcculloughon Salesforce is hiring over 3k people, despite axing 10% of staff

By historical standards, we just got back to normal interest rates, the last 15 years was not normal - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds

seansmcculloughon Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office

Yep, it's just a backdoor layoff.

seansmcculloughon Google search was giving errors when searching “how many emojis on iOS”

Ya somebody is getting paged right now.

seansmcculloughon Unlaunching the 12GB 4080

It seems like the Nvidia marketing team should have thought of this before launching the product.

seansmcculloughon U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%

Your principal and interest payment can never go up, but your property tax (which is included as escrow on your mortgage) definitely can. I live in Texas, and my mortgage will be $400 a month more next year because of rising property tax.

seansmcculloughon How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives

A reasonable US-specific problem. EV limitations like this are are why millions of people aren't currently interested in buying EVs. Compared to ICE, and EV car is more expensive, and essentially has the "road trip" feature removed.

seansmcculloughon Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

Iowa State is a good school, I went there and ended up at Amazon and then Microsoft. The engineering programs are pretty decent and have good student outcomes, I don’t see how going to Iowa State would be disastrous for your son’s future.

seansmcculloughon Interview questions to ask your interviewer

I think the most telling questions are about attrition - "How many people have quit your team in the last year?" If it is more than 1-2, this is a huge red flag.

seansmcculloughon Where Is the World’s Best Weather? (2020)

WeatherSpark is great, probably my favorite weather website.

seansmcculloughon Facebook Down?

And broke everything?

seansmcculloughon Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders

> My guess is Xi felt compelled to act aggressively now to head off upcoming crisises.

China is going to be facing a demographic crisis soon - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/17/world/asia/ch...

seansmcculloughon Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year

Executive Vice President and corporate Vice President.

seansmcculloughon YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

This is why I just cancelled. The original package and price was perfect.

seansmcculloughon YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

Just cancelled. The value proposition of YouTube TV was great a few years ago, for $40 a month. They've added a bunch of channels I won't watch several times, and raised the price multiple times now. I wish they had a cheaper option, with the original channels.

seansmcculloughon Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017)

“How many people have quit your team in the last 6 month? Last year?” Turnover is a major red flag. Every hiring manager thinks their team is great, so asking subjective questions like “how’s the on-call?” Probably won’t yield useful answers.

seansmcculloughon Let People Move to Jobs

150k in Des Moines doesn’t go as far as you’d think, the top income tax in Iowa is 8.9%.

seansmcculloughon Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds

100% agree. Also, carry-ons are a major safety hazard in the event you have to evacuate the aircraft - a bunch of people will try to get their bags.

seansmcculloughon Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring

Sorry, I was on mobile.

seansmcculloughon Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/a...

It’s one of Matt Levine’s satirical rules of insider trading not to do that.

seansmcculloughon Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

It's really nice to listen to music while running without your phone with an Apple Watch, it would be a really compelling feature for Fitbit to also support this functionality.

seansmcculloughon Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

Generally consensus is a recession is going to happen in the next year or two, and the next good time to IPO won’t be for several years after it that.

seansmcculloughon Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

It's a legal term. There are lots of legal terms that have different meanings in the law than in ordinary speech.

seansmcculloughon Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation

Big fan of your site, the level comparison between companies is really useful. Keep up the good work!

seansmcculloughon How we will know when a recession is coming?

I'd go even further and say the 25-54 year old workforce participation rate is a better metric, since the regular workforce participation rate is influenced by demographic changes (i.e. the baby boomers retiring).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060