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ctrlw commented on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work   mertbulan.com/2025/01/26/... · Posted by u/mertbio
delroth · 7 months ago
> It’s not the case for big tech employers, who tend to have very clear “levels” and (from what I can tell on levels.fyi) it’s often a 25%+ jump in total comp.

You're misinterpreting the data, because you can't see for data points on levels.fyi whether they obtained their reported salary by being promoted within the company or by doing the very common "side-promotion" of getting hired at a higher level at a competitor.

I was young and naive and unwilling to play the company hopping game, I got promoted from L3 to L6 at Google, after a year and a half at L6 I was paid in base salary less than some of my colleagues who got recently hired at L5 and negotiated well, plus they got significantly higher stock grants as part of their signing bonus (like, around 2x what I was getting through standard yearly grant refreshes).

ctrlw · 7 months ago
The signing bonus stock grants may also have compensated them for giving up the stock grants of their previous employer, so they probably still received less than you had accumulated.
ctrlw commented on Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine   cesium.com/platform/cesiu... · Posted by u/doodlesdev
protimewaster · 8 months ago
Do they have pricing information easily available? All I'm seeing is that it looks like it's free until you want to use their data, and there's no obvious indication of what that costs.
ctrlw · 8 months ago
The pricing page shows different commercial plans at $149 or $499 per month: https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-ion/pricing/
ctrlw commented on Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)   revolvermag.com/music/aut... · Posted by u/tuumi
ctrlw · 9 months ago
If you‘re looking for a no man, but literal heavy metal band, check out the robots of Comoressorhead: https://youtu.be/9gMX_hR-RoM
ctrlw commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)    · Posted by u/david927
kfarr · 10 months ago
+1 this is a super great implementation of OSM in VR!
ctrlw · 10 months ago
Thanks Kieran, I'm really happy about your feedback and that it's useful in your project! :-)
ctrlw commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)    · Posted by u/david927
ctrlw · 10 months ago
I've always dreamed of flying by just flapping my arms, and have been building osm4vr to do just that. It's a 3d / VR experience that runs in the browser and allows you to fly around buildings with the data taken from OpenStreetMap.

https://ctrlw.github.io/osm4vr/

ctrlw commented on Show HN: AI-generated images that look like real life   gounfaked.com/... · Posted by u/spaceman_2020
ctrlw · a year ago
Congrats, they do look good at first glance, without the usual overly shiny look, and the pure Nature images do look real to me. I'd really like to visit some of these places.

However, details are still off, e.g.

* the guy you linked to apparently sits in a car, but the ceiling looks like a house (at least I've never seen a vehicle like that). Reversed issue with this guy: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/EeJBCnNsZG1...

* the bicycle guy sits in the air, and the bike is mutated in several places: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/WrfWYZlthe2...

* The face in Yoga in the field is distorted: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/BUcURAtyzjb...

* Hands are ok-ish but not yet solved: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/SeO8u2HZ-V2...

* Any text is obviously fake, which also affects urban environments. Agree with this caption: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/oc6eI5w2kQQ...

Bonus points for this portrait where the tower seems to have a face as well: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/6ho0FIV-i2t...

ctrlw commented on How to validate a market with development boards and SD cards   flyingcarcomputer.com/pos... · Posted by u/zkirill
fxtentacle · a year ago
I wonder how much research this person did. At least in Germany, cheap DIY kits are everywhere !!!

https://www.pollin.de/p/bausatz-led-wechselblinker-810051

German company selling a German-made electronics kits in Germany without CE certification. And they have lots of them:

https://www.pollin.de/bauelemente/bausaetze-module/bausaetze...

As long as you don't connect to mains power and you don't ship a finished product, you're exempt from CE certification. So use an USB plug as your power supply and sell it as DIY kit to be assembled by the customer and you're good to go.

ctrlw · a year ago
DIY/parts are a fuzzy area and might not need the certification, but the board at your first link does have a huge CE print near the LEDs.

Edit: I found this Make article (paywalled and in German) a good overview for makers wanting to sell hardware in the EU: https://www.heise.de/select/make/2017/6/1513996282631753

ctrlw commented on Why Triplebyte Failed   otherbranch.com/blog/why-... · Posted by u/rachofsunshine
rachofsunshine · a year ago
Seriously, if you've never hired before, you have no idea how bad this can get.

Here's [1] our practice coding problem. It's quite similar to the one we use on our interview, and not too far from the one Triplebyte used in the past (ours is tuned to be slightly harder at the beginning and slightly easier at the end). The vast majority of candidates, even with some reasonable pre-filtering, do not get past the first step. A very non-trivial number would not even get that far.

[1] https://www.otherbranch.com/practice-coding-problem

ctrlw · a year ago
That was a fun coding task. Minor bug in the illustration of Step 4: the mine count in second row should be 8 not 4

u/ctrlw

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