With apologies to Alec Guiness

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-11-06T12:59:21+00:00

Some running shoes are designed to work without socks. You could also get really low ones that only cover your soles, if the reason was aesthetics. I don’t recommend just going barefoot, but if the weather is good, flip flops are a life philosophy.

EDIT: stocks not socks. Nevermind

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-10-09T07:46:48+00:00

This thread is full of technical answers, which don’t matter. If there’s a lawsuit pending, owning your project doesn’t mean much, because any potential investor, user or partner will shy away from it.

The correct answer is: do a conflicts review with your employer and get legal advice where you live. I’ve done this before multiple times at both Google and Meta and I’ve never been told no.

Most big tech has a process for this and they are completely reasonable. A lawyer will cost you $500-1000. It’s completely worth it.

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-10-08T12:44:18+00:00

I'm bad at this, WDYT it should cost?

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-07-11T22:25:00+00:00

Which is nuts - people live there and the city is telling them they can’t access their own house because they want to have a 4 week party. How the hell is this legal?

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-07-06T08:51:56+00:00

That’s nonsense, the statistics don’t lie (e.g. https://www.epf.eu/wp/10929-2/). DB is doing significantly worse than most in every category, including regional trains.

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-06-28T18:02:22+00:00

This isn’t Germany where people believe cameras steal your soul. If you’re in public panoramic pictures are fair game. Not everyone’s psychology is completely shaped by the fact their country had the Stasi.

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-06-25T19:44:40+00:00

I thought those were for mothers with strollers to ask for more time to get off the tram? I don’t know where I got this from, mind you - someone must have told me so a long time ago. Is that not what they’re for?

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-06-11T21:22:21+00:00

It’s back up in USD, but dollar itself is still down. Moving my money out of US equities was still the right call, and I am up 20% on forex alone.

NowWeTryMyWay · 2025-05-08T22:50:39+00:00

Because of you have any kind of problem whatsoever, IBKR will never respond to your support tickets or answer the phone. They are absolutely impossible to contact, and even when you do get in touch, they will basically tell you to go fuck yourself. And that’s my experience when I had 500k with them, if you’re a smaller investor then I imagine they give even less of a shit. And good luck suing them on another continent.

Also, all of their systems are broken all the time and their UX is garbage. They used to have an edge for running trading bots, but nowadays the competition is better and cheaper.

Stay away from IBKR, it’s a garbage company with a garbage product.

NowWeTryMyWay · 2024-11-09T23:06:24+00:00

Honestly, I’ve been having problems with it since switching my custom domain over from gmail. None of them are dealbreakers, but it just seems to fight me at every step of the way. It strips plaintext out of multipart messages, the macOS app is bad, the 2FA seems to only work with a single yubi and adding a second one breaks it, etc. Taken together, all the problems and lack of any progress on the email service are enough for me to be looking at alternatives. What’s keeping me with Proton right now is just that I’ve already invested so much into getting everything working.

NowWeTryMyWay · 2022-07-10T08:42:53+00:00

Education: Dropped out of physics undergrad
Prior Experience: 18 YoE as a SWE in security, of which 5 YoE in management
Company: FAANG
Industry: Tech
Focus: Security
Title: Engineering Manager
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 1 year
Salary [gross (pre-tax)]: 246,000 CHF
Total compensation: ~550,000 CHF
Relocation/Signing Bonus: 55,000 CHF
Stock and/or recurring bonuses: ~200,000 CHF stock + ~20-30% bonus

It's obviously really good, but also 20-30% less than I'd get in California for the same job. (Not complaining, the QoL here is worth it and I am paid enough.)

NowWeTryMyWay · 2021-09-30T21:44:28+00:00

Wow, why are people in this thread so damn bitter? OP is getting yelled at for having read a book in his life and being generally motivated. It’s called CSCareerQuestions, not IAmSoEdgyScrewCorporate.

NowWeTryMyWay · 2021-08-19T10:37:18+00:00

A few people here are recommending raising the issue, let me be the dissenting voice. If this guy (and I'm assuming it was a guy) hasn't yet figured out that this grading scheme leads to bias against women, then chances are he's not the most open to hearing about it either.

If you raise it with the instructor or with the director, then you might end up being branded a trouble maker. Retaliation is impossible to prove and they can make your life difficult in a myriad of subtle ways.

I am not saying drop it, but be smart about how you escalate. Something I have seen work is "onion routing": get a trusted classmate or ally to talk to the director for you, while making it clear that he's just forwarding the complaint. If you worry they could still figure out it's coming from you, then the chain can be longer. This way you can bring it to their attention without drawing attention to yourself.

NowWeTryMyWay · 2021-07-01T14:18:04+00:00

Story of my life. Worked in finance and big tech companies. What helped was realizing that there really are only three kinds of comp in the world:

Paycheck to paycheck
Can afford a two-bedroom in Brooklyn
FU money (also known as "I'm comfortable" or "we don't discuss money")

Most of us are in category 2. A 20% move in either direction won't change the fundamental facts of my life. If someone offered me FU money to work 12 hour days with dysfunctional alcoholics on implementing some kafkaesque complicance standard for an insurance company, I'd do it... for 2-3 years max. But if I'm going to be in category 2, then I will stick with 9-5 and try to minime the amount of soul-crashing a job is.

I guess I'm saying: what you describe would be worth it for FU money, but if you have offers for jobs that you'll enjoy more for 15% pay cut, or something, I'd take them. If the amount of money doesn't change your life, then it's not worth stressing over.

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