1/16    Fred Wilson says you should focus on the cash value of your
        options, not the percentages:
        http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much.html
        \_ Or at least, so says a VC trying increase his profit margin...
        \_ A VC wants to keep as much of the stock for themselves (and give
           as little to employees as possible).  That maximizes their return.
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12/21   http://techcompanypay.com
        Yahooers in Sunnyvale don't seem to average 170K/year.
        \_ Googlers average $104k/yr? Uh huh.
           \_ what is it suppose to be?
              \_ link:preview.tinyurl.com/a36ejr4
                 Google Sr. Software Engineer in Sunnyvale averages $193k in total pay,
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12/8    http://s3.amazonaws.com/engine-advocacy/TechReport_LoRes.pdf
        According to this report, 28.8% of the jobs in the
        Sunnyvale-San Jose-Santa Clara area are considered IT. Is this
        bullshit or what? What about all the restaurants, cleaning,
        retail, and a shitload of other non-IT jobs in the area?
        Just walk around Santa Clara, a bunch of people there are
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11/20   http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2436
        Very true. Compared to the high school jocks who used
        to be popular, my salary gets better and better
        and my wife is younger/prettier.          -nerd
        \_ Same for me on the salary front, but as a nerd how did you manage to
           get a younger/prettier wife than the jocks?  -- nerd #2
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4/29    I just quit my $150k/yr a job, wish me luck! -PAM
        \_ plans?
           \_ Probably going to go live a nice chill life.
              \_ 150k/year in the Bay Area isn't very little.
                 \_ yawn bay area yawn, Horatio.
           \_ Get another job at some point, hopefully one less hellish.
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4/13    "Best-Paying College Major: Engineering"
        http://www.csua.org/u/t07 (finance.yahoo.com)
        Avg. starting salary for Computer Science grads: $63017
        Avg. starting salary for Computer Engineering grads: $60112
        Why is there a difference?
        \_ It's Y!.  WTF do you think they're gonna say?
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5/20    "Lifeguards' high pay riles Calif. beach city"
        http://www.csua.org/u/tds (news.yahoo.com)
        $200K/yr for sitting above the beach and staring at chicks most of the
        time?  They aren't risking their lives as much as cops and firefighters
        do, and the don't serve a deterring purpose like cops do.
        \_ First, it's $100k in pay _and_ benefits, some of which may include
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8/23    Job opportunity at the US District Court, Northern District of CA:
        Courtroom Technology Specialist
        http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/tch/1914895472.html
        --erikred
        \_ $54k/yr! Damn those overpaid civil servants!
           \_ it's really about 70k-80k yr if you factor in things like
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8/6     Slide acquired by Google:
        http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-and-slide-building-more-social.html
        -dans
        \_ Are you going to retire now? -ausman
           \_ No.  I'm not quite there yet.  But home ownership looks tempting.
              -dans
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2/18    When you need to parse something simple do you usually use (f)lex/yacc
        or just write a recursive-descent parser? I've done both in the past,
        but I can't seem to justify using one approach over the other.
        \_ the point of yacc is so that you can write a grammar for it so that
           when things change you don't have to spend a lot of time
           rewriting your hand-written C/Java recursive-descent parser. For
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5/6     I've been out of school for too long.  If I want to write a simple
        compiler, what tools do I need besides yacc and what do they do?
        Thanks a bunch!
        \_ well there's also lex (flex) for the lexical analyzer (tokenizing).
        \_ java or c? if c, lex/flex=good tokenizer. yacc/bison are great
           for grammar. both are LALR so they're pretty powerful.
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3/31    Will a mini-ATX board fit in an ATX case?
        \_ I want to say yes, but I'm not sure.  If your google-foo is strong
           the specs for both standards are available online.  You can just
           open them side-by-side and compare.
                \_ Yes, my computer is set up this way. Not all the mounting
                   screws always line up perfectly though, so when installing
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9/19    I have filtered my mailbox with
        formail -s spamassassin < mailbox > mailbox.filtered
        Next how do I process the mailbox.filtered file with my procmail
        ruleset to get it to sort the messages based on the SpamAssassin
        score?
        \_ Something with formail and procmail itself, I'd imagine.
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8/5     I'm contemplating on getting a set of Cleveland or Ping Irons. What
        are the pros and cons of using graphite vs. steel? And should I get
        flex/regular/stiff? Thanks motd god.
        \_ get steel shafts, and the flex depends on your swing speed which
           is typically measured with your driver and 5-iron.  you can get
           this done at any shop.  and i've used ping irons and cleveland
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