MangoDiesel

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by MangoDiesel 11y ago
"Sales" is a very broad topic. What aspect of sales are you looking to get better at? The initial prospecting and sourcing of qualified leads? Turning leads into opportunities and proposals? Closing opportunities? Or something els
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by MangoDiesel 11y ago
I may be overly cynical of US government policies and procedures, but I read this as someone tried to use AWS or similar without permission.
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by MangoDiesel 11y ago
They don't want to do this, because they don't want to become a "stamp of approval" for companies coming out of YC. Specifically, if a company comes out of YC and is looking to raise further funding down the road, it bec
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by MangoDiesel 11y ago
> Why would an HR person or a CFO EVER give up 1) expert benefits consulting 2) protection against the ACA 3) access to long-standing carrier relationships that allow for renewal negotiations 4) ability to support complex benefits s
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by MangoDiesel 11y ago
This seems like a pretty clear signal that the ability of the state to conduct mass surveillance may be slipping.
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by MangoDiesel 11y ago
This is generally very sound advice. There is one part that I take issue with though. >We also looked for proactive junior staff out of companies like LinkedIn who were ready for the next step, but not afforded the opportunity >A cand
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
Without knowing much, this does come across as very hypocritical of them to do this to you. It seems like the type of attitude that would be frowned upon by the YC community.
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
Unfortunately, I think the best way (safest) to handle this as someone new out of school without a network is to ignore it and move on to other potential opportunities. Most likely, this is an issue isolated to this one employee, who should
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
Yes exactly. This is a really badly designed implementation of a pricing tier strategy. It also seems likely that by incentivizing users to lie about their age, Tinder will create an entire zone of fake ages between something like 25-27, wh
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
I agree. This all seems fairly basic, and from clicking through the site for 15 secs I was able to find a lot of bugs. For example, when reading the linked blog post, the social media bar scrolls and then re-anchors to its spot on the page
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
If they are trying to seem as immature and incompetent as possible, this is definitely a great way.
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
No, that issue seemed to get cleared up successfully. He used that to foreshadow issues with his manager and general escalation communication.
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how this works out, and how many resources are put behind it. If it does allow developers to choose to work on Linux/Mac for .NET development, it will put a lot of pressure on Windows to create a great pro
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
This really speaks to this line in the top comment "It's your job—as someone who knows the consequences—to convince people of this." Your company should really not be taking the "set it and forget it" approach to bu
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
In my opinion, it is negligence to an extent that OP should not have to pay for this, and he should find a new VPS provider.
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
After the first 7 predictions I made I ran into a series of many people where I was the first one making the prediction and didn't get to test my prediction against the crowd. It would have been a better experience to stagger the new p
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by MangoDiesel 12y ago
This contract is probably behind an NDA and releasing it may also break other confidentiality agreements already in existence. The summary is that these terms are very unfavorable according to the indie artists and the companies they are af