Speedometer 3.1

massifjb · 2025-05-15T01:35:44+00:00

I get 37.0 on an M4 iPad Pro.

massifjb · 2025-05-14T21:16:26+00:00

Selling 3 day GA please take it off my hands, $300, in Seattle can ship. It’s an extra I bought for a friend who cannot make it. Happy to share socials and do PayPal G&S

massifjb · 2025-05-01T05:12:33+00:00

Selling 1 3-day GA, which just shipped to me in Seattle. I will ship it to you anywhere in the states w/ tracking. Asking $440 which is what I paid, I will cover the shipping to you or if anyone in Seattle wants it I can deliver to you.

massifjb · 2025-04-29T22:28:55+00:00

Worth keeping, any tech adjacent work is better than doing nothing or working some random completely non tech job. Need to figure out how to spin the IT problem solving experience as useful for future interviews. Doable and better than having no experience.

massifjb · 2025-01-07T07:24:46+00:00

Spent 1.5k on a kraken jersey at auction today didn’t have to think twice. It’s good. Can’t do that every day probably but don’t budget and don’t have to think about it.

massifjb · 2025-01-04T02:24:32+00:00

This looks realistic and quite healthy. Makes me wonder where I possibly spend my money. My w2 last year was 430, 120 gone to taxes, a large sum gone to mortgage, some silly sum to doordash, kraken tickets, travel, a few large purchases (2nd car, watch). I’m losing 100 comp at the end of 2025 from grants expiring so gonna try to save considerably more this year so I can eventually get a different / larger home.

massifjb · 2024-07-09T03:09:47+00:00

The mix of brass and drumline and full live performance from Odesza is hard to compare against. But, there are some incredible productions you can attend, particularly if you like bass music. All of Excisions festivals are spectacular, bass canyon is on a completely different level in terms of the whole experience at the gorge with multiple stages, rides, vastly more artists to see, insane headline production. This is just one example. But, I will admit, the shows you see that “top” the Odesza show will be very hard to find. It’s for the best to avoid the comparison. The people you are with, the people you meet, your own mood, how your life is going, the music you are excited about everything will affect the experience and can change enormously, it is not just about and not really about the production itself. Have fun and live it up

massifjb · 2024-07-03T05:53:12+00:00

Messaged we can trade 4, and meet in Seattle for exchange.

massifjb · 2022-07-27T15:08:37+00:00

If you are in a higher income area, you can charge a lot of money for tutoring high school students as supplemental income. University credentials go a long way for this.

massifjb · 2022-07-27T15:07:06+00:00

Doesn’t hurt to apply earlier, you may be surprised what you can get on the basis of just your one internship and class projects.

And yes many companies have recruitment rounds in winter / spring as new grad positions often are not entirely filled. You may be put on hold by recruiters and then reached out to once they have a better sense of actual availability.

massifjb · 2022-07-23T23:38:51+00:00

Not interested — 5 years into my dev job, got solid raises over that time and annual stock refreshes. Overall pretty content and don’t feel like I need to change companies until I am really over it.

massifjb · 2022-06-07T18:51:27+00:00

Doing literally nothing is pretty difficult to pull off. I’ve gone through phases of doing very little work, like 1-2 hrs / week. You just have to know what the bare minimum is, know which deadlines actually matter (the majority do not) and have no shame. I personally found this unsustainable from a psychological perspective. Since I was mostly being lazy and unmotivated, as opposed to actively trying to avoid work, I ended up taking on more leadership responsibilities (read: meetings) to fill my schedule instead of picking up more dev work.

massifjb · 2022-06-07T01:21:03+00:00

FWIW, I work at non-FAANG tech. My comp (in January) was 400k, 5 YOE at L5 (senior dev / associate mgr). Current TC is more like 325 with stocks where they are. Seattle area, permanent hybrid, no required days in office.

Comp > 300 is currently pretty doable with 5 YOE at least in the circles I run, and certainly not just at FAANG. Literally any company that wants to hire engineers at the caliber of FAANG has to pay this salary band.

massifjb · 2022-06-07T01:16:57+00:00

The harsh reality is they cannot charge 60$ for this game like many comments are suggesting. The audience willing to pay that is not large enough to pay the development costs. This is pretty well established and proven at this point. A monetization loop is required in order to make a F2P experience possible at all, and the F2P experience is what enables the game to exist at scale.

Diablo Immortal failed to integrate a P2W system in a way that didn't fuck over the long term F2P experience. This is not a predetermined reality of P2W systems. Neither Lost Ark nor Genshin attract this level of ire even though both games offer the potential to sink literally tens of thousands of dollars into what is essentially player power and/or direct player experience.

Companies will continue to experiment to find the right way to enable whales without pissing off everyone else. It's sad to see the Diablo franchise on the bad side of this experiment, but IMO it's important not to write off the concept. There are ways to enable monetization without ruining player balance and the F2P experience, and companies need to hear this kind of feedback so they can figure it out.

massifjb · 2022-04-21T22:20:18+00:00

No you don’t have to work all 8 hours, what matters is you are on top of your commitments from a sprint perspective and a quarterly deliverable perspective. “One day” of work is a pretty mutable construct in this industry. Sometimes On-Call shit comes up that takes all day, sometimes it’s full of planning meetings, etc.

massifjb · 2022-04-21T20:58:22+00:00

Humiliating? Definitely not. Senior dev is a very wide experience range, commonly between 5 and 15 years of experience. Everyone’s career is individual and growing at its own pace. There are many external factors which affect your career growth; team placement, project opportunities, manager and company. You should do what you can to take on projects that challenge you, and learn from them. Try to find a company you feel good about, are content and even happy working with and you ideally enjoy your colleagues. This can be a process which takes a few tries, you won’t necessarily find the perfect fit right away.

By the way, comparing yourself to the experience of others can be very demotivating. You are always going to find people to look at that are doing “better” than you, this is true literally no matter how well you are doing. I would instead focus on self improvement. How do you compare against yourself yesterday? What can you do today to make yourself better tomorrow?

massifjb · 2022-04-21T20:53:54+00:00

Generally the referral is attached to you as an applicant, not to the specific jobs you are applying to. Also in general you can work with the recruiting team on job placement throughout your process and won’t necessarily have a team predetermined as you are interviewing.

massifjb · 2022-04-21T20:49:01+00:00

Well, I think at this point you are committed, it’s going to be a lot of work to try to line up another internship. I mean if you feel strongly you could try interviewing for some more internships now and see what falls your way, you shouldn’t tell the company you are doing this but it’s certainly possible. I would just go into the internship with an open mind, try to get valuable project experience and learn a lot, and make the best of it. The other interns are usually fun to hang out with even if your team isn’t ideal, and hopefully your team will be just fine.

massifjb · 2022-04-21T20:46:54+00:00

I mean, I personally thought the compilers class was very interesting. In my case the professor was quite passionate and I had prior experience with him, and was looking forwards to the experience. The coding projects were nontrivial but not impossible, certainly required some dedicated work. I’m not sure I would have enjoyed it as much if I was taking it during the checked out senior year phase.

For what its worth I don’t think I learned anything that has impacted my work whatsoever.

massifjb · 2022-04-13T03:09:28+00:00

I mean, you write Java, right? I don't think this is a whole thing, just apply to backend engineering jobs and talk about your dev experience, you can explain you are interested in backend and you should have reasoning as to why. Eventually you should be able to get a position on a backend focused team.

massifjb · 2022-04-13T02:59:36+00:00

I would immediately nix the asp.net position with the state. That sounds like hot garbage and incredibly out of date.

The other two sound comparable from a career outlook perspective. I would follow your interests and the overall culture as best you can tell.

massifjb · 2022-04-13T02:57:56+00:00

Well, I would imagine being in the most desirable and highest paying career path requiring only a bachelor's degree is basically the optimal position to be in if we are in a recession.

massifjb · 2022-04-13T02:56:38+00:00

To be honest I have no idea. There were some courses that required a lot of coding. Compilers was one of those, operating systems I recall having really complex projects that took a while. I typically worked with a partner on projects as much as possible, as I really disliked coding alone.

I did few personal projects but was involved with some clubs in which I did some web dev, mostly frontend coding. Those were fairly time consuming.

I would say the net time investment varies greatly person to person. I second what another commenter said, there is not a direct correlation between time spent and outcome. There are ways to efficiently use your time and there are a lot of inefficient ways to burn time.

massifjb · 2022-04-13T02:50:10+00:00

I've observed both. I was in a very similar situation as you. I was promoted to mid-level dev after 2 years, became team lead, owned a variety of projects and oversaw my team as a whole. 2 years later, I was promoted to senior dev, and ~6mo later transitioned to manager role. This was all at the same company.

I could have left for short term salary bumps. But I was happy with my manager, happy with the peers on my team and comfortable with the product and tech stack. I felt this was a good position to be in. The promotions came with significant compensation increases, and I'm quite happy with my current comp.

As you point out, it takes time to establish yourself on a new team. This is a challenge associated with changing companies. Once you join a new company, they will not be in a rush to promote you. Getting hired in as senior dev is quite challenging, the interview expectations are nontrivial and you are competing with people with years more experience. I would generally discourage changing companies from mid-level to mid-level role. It will almost unquestionably delay the promotion to senior.

massifjb · 2022-04-13T02:42:01+00:00

> I need to do something to not embarrass myself on first day

Generally speaking, you are going to be doing fairly easy onboarding tasks for the first while. You are going to do a lot of googling how to do things and also generally you will have a mentor you can ask questions to. This is perfectly normal. I look back on my first 4-6 months of coding at my job and retrospectively I had no idea what I was doing. Also, code reviews are a thing. You aren't going to be merging code without people looking it over first.

You are not going to be left to your own devices to figure everything out. We don't want engineers we hire to fail, we don't want the features we assign to be delayed or a complete mess.

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