Let’s say I believe you. Do you have any proof?

Isn't that a bit contradictoty? Either you believe him or you need a proof

That's not how that sentence works...

Levels.fyi helped me immensely in negotiating my Stripe offer, which I ultimately accepted.

I would have been massively lowballed otherwise. I can’t help but think it had something to do with the fact that I was female, which to be fair, I probably wouldn’t have negotiated at all originally if I hadn’t passed upon compensation numbers while browsing. Have any others faced similar experiences?

I'm not female but I was in a similar situation. I would never have negotiated if it weren't for the fact that I knew how much others were paid.

Anyone have thoughts on Webull here? Effectively identical to Robinhood.

This is why I love the Bay Area, specifically South Bay. A suburban hell and technology goldmine all wrapped up into a neat little package.

The suburban hell is a dealbreaker for me, ngl.

And every time I'm around a college kid talking about how awesome downtown San Jose is on the weekends, there are always people behind them doing the "no" head shake with their hand making the cut it out motion under the chin, validating my existing perception.

exhibit a: https://tenor.com/view/no-good-cut-it-out-stop-it-stop-jonah...

I used something similar to this as well as Khan Academy to learn CS, when I transitioned into software engineering, after being laid off at my previous position in a different industry.

It’s possible, but it takes work. I also benefited by contacting my peers from college on LinkedIn and getting referrals for interviews. Even though I didn’t major in STEM originally, I still ended up connecting/befriending many while in school. I would encourage you to try to utilize resources like that as much as you can.

Focus on finding niche keywords/areas when advertising. The best ROI is going to come from there.

Like you said, the average person isn’t going to care enough to understand how a service like this might benefit them.

The mistake or cognitive error people make is that the potential of an average human is actually extraordinarily high. Being “average” is in itself more than enough to achieve close to anything.

Compare the human brain to anything currently in existence, and it should begin to dawn on you that we basically carry around a low energy power efficient supercomputer inside our heads.

Have there been any statements / postmortems released from SolarWinds itself yet?

They posted https://www.solarwinds.com/securityadvisory yesterday. It’s linked to from a big banner at the top of their home page. This SEC filing says that they also emailed affected customers.