Techonomicon

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by Techonomicon 2y ago
Because we still don't know how the brain really does all it does in very specific terms, so why assume to know exactly how we think?
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by Techonomicon 2y ago
I've always taken to the perspective that money alleviates stress and anxiety, but alleviating stress and anxiety is not the definition of happiness (even if it helps).
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by Techonomicon 4y ago
This is entirely false. My s.o is relatively well known in comic art communities and they (and many others) are using this right now. I don't think HN quite grasps how much artists are trying to ensure ownership and governance over the
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by Techonomicon 4y ago
Or, you simply ensure you get salary bands relayed up front before continuing.
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by Techonomicon 4y ago
This is an extremely interesting subject. I understand the "hate" for leet code, or simply live coding exercises in general, though so far the majority of "hate" I've heard for this comes from the candidates who hav
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by Techonomicon 4y ago
Assuming they sign up for an account. Email them, and ask. There are tons of products out there to allegedly help with this within your site: i.e feedback popups, chat popups, etc. But the easy way is simply to email them!
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by Techonomicon 5y ago
As an engineering leader who has done a reasonable amount of hiring in the heart of silicon valley, every single negotiation tactic provided by a candidate who received an offer (when we hired for on premises) was along the lines of "I
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by Techonomicon 5y ago
And the standard startup contract says business hours are "9-5" The poster's point is that what they say doesn't match reality, contract or otherwise
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by Techonomicon 6y ago
If you're collecting data, you generally want a) as much as you can get and b) be able to make use of it any way you want. Yes users of a privacy centric analytics tool are opting into less information, though the inability to do more
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by Techonomicon 6y ago
Can't speak for the OC, but I'd say decision paralysis for these sorts of utilities is more about "will I regret having used this after a year vs something else" and less about "can I dump this after trying it for a
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by Techonomicon 6y ago
Using a better algorithm makes sense, though a single color seems to be the point of the "product" in this case.
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by Techonomicon 6y ago
You should recognize your privilege along with your strengths, and not overtly hide your privilege to appear on equal footing. I have intimate knowledge with writers, specifically offspring of well known writers who do their best to hide th
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by Techonomicon 6y ago
Definitely not meant as a deterrent for anyone. Just stating information I've viewed. That's all. If anything those coming from backgrounds I didn't list should try to be as involved as possible with startups. Thanks for the
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by Techonomicon 6y ago
Don't think there was any weighing in on fairness going on as much as it not being acknowledged enough. I believe, from experience seeing it, many founders who succeed will quote literally everything but their background, upbringing, a
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by Techonomicon 6y ago
I love this comment. I don't think this notion gets highlighted enough. This is definitively anecdotal, though I've been at / through approximately 5 startups across 12 years, and looking back, I believe each end everyone one
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
Yea don't lie. That won't go well if you get hired and now you have to remember to keep some lie consistent.
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
Just be honest. Seems fine. As someone who speaks with many candidates a week, I'm more worried about people who average 1 year at various jobs across 5 years (such as someone working 4-6 jobs in a 5 year span) than someone who has a y
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
Sure, for now. We would all be naiive to believe that insurance companies wouldn't lobby to be able to use other such information continually if they had it until they can use it to charge you more.
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
The least interesting part of intercom at this point is the chatbox itself. Intercom at this point is / is moving towards a tool to reach your customers / specific audiences sitting atop your eventing system to Target specific use
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
> "work somewhere or on something you enjoy" Definitely not true, and a generalization. I've worked at the shittiest of shitty culture game startups in the early 2010s to places that really strive to build a great culture
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
I'm tired of the whole "if you're doing x at a startup you're foolish" You only live once, it's amazing to be an engineer now and have all the choices of being able to actually work somewhere that you ENJOY wor
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
Doesn't have to have been made with any malice to still be creepy. Because yea, it's creepy.
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
This. A million times over. I lead the engineering and run the hiring and I too just turn down senior engineers left and right at times. We run about as practical a process as I can imagine. A short take home exercise where you use your own
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
People are hinting that it is not strictly required to get what was initially desired done. And that seems 100% true. You do not have to do everything at one time. You can easily to one thing, and then right after that, literally right afte
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
Plenty of people, and I mean plenty, like many (I can back up with citations if that is really helpful) a) own their content 100% that they make on their own sites b) definitely rely on social networking / media applications for drivin
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
Meritocratic in the most boring uninteresting sense of the term where you literally only work on things in a way which Google tells you will help advance you up their ladders while not actually working on anything in a way you would find i
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
I posted somewhere else on this thread, but putting a main one as well. What gets lost in the whole "get rid of like counts" argument is that doing so generally speaking just helps those who are well-known and really makes it more
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
The problem is people make honest livings off of doing things that at this day and age require these sorts of mechanisms within social networks to allow them to thrive and work for themselves vs a company. Many individual / independent
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by Techonomicon 7y ago
Political leaning is not a protected class.
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by Techonomicon 8y ago
nor in 2019!

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