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by idoh 3mo ago
Schools are nominally about learning but actually about a whole of other stuff -- it's a non-goal to get better or revolutionize it, so that's the main blocker for actually getting better at teaching students. Parents want their k
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by idoh 2y ago
What's the story around getting into YC in 2019 and then launching in '24? I'm guessing there were some interesting pivots along the way ...
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by idoh 2y ago
Interviewing is a skill and via the right practice you can get better at it. I went down that path and got much better at it. Some things to think about: - you can do practice interviews with peers, some people will be good and some will be
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by idoh 3y ago
Every company I’ve worked at in tech in the SF bay area has at a minimum been completely tolerant of LGBTQIAP+, to having dedicated employee resource groups, so these companies exist. My rec would be: not to bring it up in the interview, no
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by idoh 3y ago
How is it justified to not include investment income channeled into savings as not part of overall savings rate? Money is fungible after all.
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by idoh 3y ago
Obviously giving life advice based on a couple paragraphs is a little suspect, but it sounds like you have some technical skills and are interested in security, so why not just go in for that? Some thoughts: - security is really hot right n
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by idoh 3y ago
This is impossible to answer without more information. How much money do you need? What’s your personality like? Were there any programming adjacent roles you thought were interesting?
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by idoh 3y ago
Is your question about saas or white label saas? There are many saas moats, but I can’t think of any for white label saas.
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by idoh 3y ago
I feel very fortunate to have landed a non technical faang role early in the year. Simply applying never worked but when I was recruited I always made it to the final round if I wanted to. The whole process took a lot longer than before. I
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by idoh 3y ago
In a business there are profit centers and cost centers. Life is better when you work in a profit center. Having worked in security this general rule applies.
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by idoh 3y ago
As someone non-technical grinding interview prep has been a game changer for me. So I would say yes, probably. Figure out what questions could be asked, then practice via study, mock interviews, and Anki. There’s only so many questions they
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by idoh 3y ago
Look them up on linked in or google the jd for reposts
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by idoh 3y ago
Thank you for writing this comment so I didn’t have to. As an additional piece, customize the resume to the job description as much as possible.
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by idoh 3y ago
I worked on Birthday Cards, one of the apps listed out. Warms my cold pm heart to know that something I worked on was vaguely known about by high level Apple execs. At the time it was hugely advantageous to have a native app linked to fb, I
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by idoh 3y ago
What’s the issue with GDPR? If it is similar to other Apple products where data is collected / processed at the edge, then no more issues than anything else they do.
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by idoh 3y ago
I had a tortured academic path - collected all the letters in high school and university. Despite this I was able to get into a good law school, where the format was a much better fit (which I could elaborate on if you want) and I did excel
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by idoh 3y ago
If you buy an option (the right but not obligation to either buy or sell at a certain price), then your liability is limited to what you pay for it.
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by idoh 3y ago
What were the hedge funds, what happened? I’m a fan of NNT, but I want to get a more complete picture of whether his “stuff” works or not, and good info is hard to come by.
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by idoh 3y ago
I work in data privacy and grc. First, a random middle manager cannot simply peek at customer prod data, that’s seriously locked down. Second, attempting to do this would get you immediately terminated.
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by idoh 3y ago
I started a job at Meta after the November layoffs. The process felt pretty long for me (four months) but talking to other people it was not atypical. I’ve never worked at a FAANG before so I can’t comment on how things are different or any
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by idoh 3y ago
Maybe we are kindred spirits? There are no perfect places to put the desk, just tradeoffs. I solved it by putting my desk on casters, so I can esily roll it (and lock it) as needed or to try things.
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by idoh 3y ago
I’m surprised to see it that low. Downtown SF is pretty dead. As an introvert looking for some quiet time I head into the office with an open floor plan to not see people while I work.
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by idoh 4y ago
As someone who has done this don’t do this. I get so much crap e-mail.
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by idoh 4y ago
Time to demote Antarctica to an archipelago? (And join Pluto on the geographic name B-team)
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by idoh 4y ago
Doesn't that justify a "yikes" response for the reasons you listed? It is abnormal for rent over a decade+ to be flat given inflation, so something bad has to have happened.
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by idoh 4y ago
If you are in the CircleCI CI/CD space then adding it to a config to power some workflow step.
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by idoh 4y ago
To all the people saying end of year financials, most places I've worked at have had their Q4 not end in December (for revenue smoothing).
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by idoh 4y ago
As a US citizen with access to US banks, I guess I don't care if the money is crisp or not. Maybe there is an arbitrage opportunity there ...
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by idoh 4y ago
Yeah, paper currency. It was important for the bills to be crisp, otherwise they'd trade at a ~10% discount. I don't know how crypto has changed things, I don't do anything related to Ukraine anymore.
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by idoh 4y ago
Other people covered it, but I happen to have a Fischer Space Pen on my desk right now so I'll take a shot. You don't want a pencil because bits can break off and make a mess, so you want a pen. The story with the Space Pen is tha

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