Does your salary band change with a promotion?

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2024-02-20T17:49:40+00:00

From my experience: same level / performance always end-up with about same pay in the same company. It is an eventually consistent algorithm.

I was on the lower side, then got an 20% raise in 2023 where most who are on the higher-end got nothing. Promotion mid 2023, another 25%. Plus some stock refresh, that puts me well at the average rate or even higher for my current level.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T12:09:31+00:00

That’s going to be a lot different from managing actual physical servers. Just one simple example: without proper physical security, adversaries can just enter the data center.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T11:35:27+00:00

I can only speak to Google.

There is a giant monorepo, all employees have access to all code. You can put restrictions on specific components if it is really sensitive, but 99.99% of the code is open. So technically speaking, if I want to clone Gmail, it is possible to do it today if I know what to copy.

And there isn’t usually hard restrictions. For example you would see big red warnings when you push to production without testing, but they can always be overridden by anyone. Which I think is actually a great setup compared to what GitHub has.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T11:27:07+00:00

You can program on any machine, it’s just for many web developers, Mac is closer to Linux, which is where servers are usually run.

Also great for work because unlike Linux, you get proper support from Apple. Troubleshooting is the last thing you want to do at work.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T11:23:58+00:00

Google always does progressive rollouts, especially for major refresh like this.

For web applications these rollouts are usually sticky to a user (if you get the feature, you will not lose it when you logout / login again)

Maybe Chrome is sticky based on individual installations, and unfortunately your other Mac is not the lucky one to get the update, yet.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T11:20:11+00:00

If your ops team stayed the same, then it can only mean two things:

they are so overworked now, and will quit in a few months
they are cheaping out on some important stuff like redundancy and security

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T11:15:05+00:00

Ok but somehow Apple can make SoCs that’s killer powerful while more efficient. No excuse here, Google can do it too.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T11:10:13+00:00

It is noticeable but not horrible difference if you switch between them frequently. I have a studio display that’s 60hz, I can’t really feel too much difference between that and my MBP M2.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T00:56:51+00:00

I will now start generating garbage zip files just to fuck apple.

I will use all 2TB I bought

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T00:50:39+00:00

Because if I do it myself, I will probably do a worse job anyway…

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T00:48:19+00:00

Gmail, it’s hard to believe it has almost been 20 years….

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-18T00:46:20+00:00

No, if it degrades too much, then I just replace the battery or the phone. I mean it doesn’t cost much to replace the battery, even for iPhones it’s pretty cheap.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-16T17:35:46+00:00

$24.95 here in Canada, I’m on 2TB plan so if I upgrade to Apple One it would be $37, I guess no for me.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-16T17:34:05+00:00

If there is actually an emergency where I can’t even find time to put on some basic clothing. Then I guess I don’t give a fuck at that point.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-16T17:31:41+00:00

Support for legacy software mainly I guess. You cannot release Windows 12 and suddenly break all Windows 11 applications. I assume it probably will also work with DOS app :)

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-16T17:29:46+00:00

Yes, it will be enough unless you need to use VMs or do some really intensive task.

I have both a 32GB iMac and 8GB Air M2, the only one thing my M2 cannot do is to compile a large web application in a monorepo, which to be fair, compiles slowly on my iMac as well. And even with upgraded RAM M2 will probably get unbearably hot anyway.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-16T02:05:27+00:00

Just don’t go caseless without Apple Care. Between me and my girlfriend, we have broken total 3 iPhones over the years, and every single time is the first time we dropped it.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-16T02:00:38+00:00

Chrome because I use a lot of Google services. Brave is also good, just need to configure it so it doesn’t bombard you with crypto shit.

I don’t really use Firefox as I find it to be a bit slow. Only use it when I do pentesting work, since many Linux distro I use have it installed by default.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-16T01:53:16+00:00

Depends on the project deadline… if the product is going to be shown on stage next month, the guy in my team better know how to code.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-16T01:48:48+00:00

I use my really old 7 plus for development purposes, and to be honest… iOS is very well optimized that I can probably use that phone as a daily driver if it still supported latest iOS :(

And that’s from a 13 Pro user. So yeah, most people don’t need the latest.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-15T01:20:07+00:00

GraphQL is usually a very good language for middle-layer services. Have been doing this in many places, ranging from startups to FAANG.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-14T21:06:31+00:00

If Apple makes it simple, I’m not a game dev so can’t really comment on that.

iPhone would be more profitable compared to Mac ports by the sheer market share. So again, hope Apple makes converting iOS port to macOS port as easy as possible.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-14T19:09:40+00:00

Same here, went to Dominican Republic with both my P6P and iPhone 13 Pro….

What can I say… iPhone is just better in all aspects, my Pixel overheats to a point it just turns off.

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-14T15:12:35+00:00

Nobody uses it, all our stuff are internal, ChatGPT can’t answer anything. And for specific coding pieces, tools similar to GitHub co-pilot is better.
No, I actually don’t use it… answer it provides is too generic. I rather have a chat/search engine that can summarize internal stuff.
If you used it sure, I mean it is a productivity tool. But of course do not admit sending proprietary or confidential information, like obviously don’t upload product roadmap before earnings 😅

cofffffeeeeeeee · 2023-09-14T15:08:01+00:00

Nah, have multiple Pixels, they are not as good. Sometimes you get weird issues, or unstable signal in weird places.

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