School is free in the US. For university, why not send them to the EU? So you can have both tons of bay area cash and a (nearly) free university for your kids.
Strangely though, this kind of education arbitrage doesn't seem popular among americans, i wonder why... it makes perfect economic sense in light of current US college prices.
Working for tech in the Bay Area you have a pretty reasonable and predictable path to financial independence in maybe a decade or so of work (so, early 30s if you start right after school). After which you can have any wlb you want for the rest of your life. You don't even have to work at absolute top companies like FAANG to achieve that, although it helps (FAANG & hitting L6+ you have a decent shot even at FatFIRE)
This is nearly impossible in Europe except by extreme luck. Enjoy your 40+ years of sub 40h/w work ahead of you with slightly longer vacations. While I can have a life long vacation after my 30s. Perhaps even spending it in Europe.
Yes, that's exactly the point. I don't want those people around my codebase. Nobody on a Crusade to get you to adopt ProtoBuffers or Thrift. No codes of conduct. No risk of getting abandoned when priorities shift (like HHVM dropping support for PHP code). Heaven! I love software again :D
I'd actually consider browser pdf viewers safer than a standalone native app. Firefox uses pdfjs, a pure javascript pdf implementation running inside a battle-tested browser javascript sandbox. No unsafe native pdf code with countless holes.
No it does not, Firefox still uses PDF.js. This is extremely easy to verify by just right clicking and hitting "Inspect Element" on any PDF opened in Firefox (and also you can then just load PDF.js into Chrome on a page, load a pdf into that, and verify the same behavior.)
It is actually plausible that there could be billions of pages with apple on the internet.
The 447 results you paged through are just the most relevant docs for your particular query ("apple" + country) and Google doesn't bother retrieving any further. Your use case of finding all the pages with the term "apple" is simply too rare and too expensive to support and they don't optimize for it.
If you try different query variants apple + something with different locales (&hl=) you'd get very different top NNN results.
Google like all other web search engines never scan their whole index when searching, it's way too expensive. All sorts of tricks are used to aggressively prune matching results at every opportunity during retrieval until maybe a few hundred best scoring docs are left and that's what you're paging through.
But yeah, estimated result count is still a big lie either way
> Bonus is not guaranteed so why take that into account?
Bonus is not guaranteed only if you're about to get fired. Even lowest ok performance grade at google (CME) will get you 15+% bonus. But it's not a whole lot of money anyway. Stock is where you make bank.
> Stock maybe but you can't pay the bills with that
Only at private companies. FAANGs are all public and their stock is as good as cash. You can trade it for raw cash any moment the stock market is open (except during trading blackout windows before earnings) and pay your bills with it
Sorry for stating the obvious, but money is a pretty big reason to continue doing leetcode style interviews. Most high paying employers ask them. Out of curiosity, how much does your no-leetcode job pay? Is it at least $200k?
> If it comes down to it, maybe I’ll move into hardware design.
Hardware jobs generally pay less than SWE, you'll lose even further on the monetary aspect.
Strangely though, this kind of education arbitrage doesn't seem popular among americans, i wonder why... it makes perfect economic sense in light of current US college prices.