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45 pointsausjke5y ago12 comments

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On a sidenote, apparently everyone leaving FAANG becomes an investor. In comparison, ten years in a similarly-sized company in europe might buy you a slightly-larger-than-average house.

randompwd5y ago

> In comparison, ten years in a similarly-sized company in europe might buy you a slightly-larger-than-average house.

Lol. That's wishful thinking. You'd be lucky to get a 2 bed apartment in a not-terrible area with pretty bad sound proofing for that.

Unless you move out the areas where the tech companies are at(which is generally in dense cities).

luxurytent5y ago

I don’t live with regret but sometimes I do wonder why I spent so much of my career not chasing those sweet stock options or doing the (relatively small) studying to get into a FAANG

It feels like a cheat code to retirement.

Anyways, no regrets ;)

offtop55y ago

Very interesting.

I prefer flutter to react any day of the week, but react literally change the game for front end programming. Angular was hard to use, and while I've never been a great react programmer it's relatively easy to get started with

brundolf5y ago

OT, but that's a pretty cool desk arrangement

gofreddygo5y ago

I had no idea thinkpad keyboards exist. Hmmh interesting.

messo5y ago

I bought one of these a couple of years ago after becoming hooked on using 'the nipple' on my ThinkPad x220. Perfect when using an external monitor. I also bought a ThinkPad E495 last year. The newer nipples are not as nice as the one on the x220. I'm not sure if it's a driver problem or a hw problem, but I'm tempted to go back to my x220.

brundolf5y ago

I assumed it was a custom mod extracted from an actual laptop

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qihqi5y ago

Checkout TEX Yoda, the mechanical variant.

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ricardobeat5y ago

On a sidenote, apparently everyone leaving FAANG becomes an investor. In comparison, ten years in a similarly-sized company in europe might buy you a slightly-larger-than-average house.

randompwd5y ago

> In comparison, ten years in a similarly-sized company in europe might buy you a slightly-larger-than-average house.

Lol. That's wishful thinking. You'd be lucky to get a 2 bed apartment in a not-terrible area with pretty bad sound proofing for that.

Unless you move out the areas where the tech companies are at(which is generally in dense cities).

luxurytent5y ago

I don’t live with regret but sometimes I do wonder why I spent so much of my career not chasing those sweet stock options or doing the (relatively small) studying to get into a FAANG

It feels like a cheat code to retirement.

Anyways, no regrets ;)

offtop55y ago

Very interesting.

brundolf5y ago

OT, but that's a pretty cool desk arrangement

gofreddygo5y ago

I had no idea thinkpad keyboards exist. Hmmh interesting.

messo5y ago

brundolf5y ago

I assumed it was a custom mod extracted from an actual laptop

1 more reply

qihqi5y ago

Checkout TEX Yoda, the mechanical variant.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse