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by ksikka 7y ago
1. What are you basing this answer on? 2. If you don't want to meet their expectations, what can they actually do?
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National School Bus Chrome (School Bus Yellow)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ksikka 8y ago|0 comments
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by ksikka 8y ago
In practice, the main difference is the pay / relative "rank" within a company. Employer's perspective: Want to hire a software engineer but don't have the budget? Create a new role, call it something else, now the
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The LM383 Story(idea2ic.com)
201 points by ksikka 8y ago|62 comments
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Apple News allows all publishers to use Google's DoubleClick to serve ads(digiday.com)
1 points by ksikka 8y ago|0 comments
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by ksikka 9y ago
This bolsters the point that the future of online dating is not a computer estimating compatibility with creepy accuracy, it's someone engineering an app to be addicting to get the largest userbase.
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by ksikka 9y ago
Understood. But they have so far avoided asking the user for structured data that they could use to vastly improve their matches. Clearly it took a back-seat to usability. Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "dumb" - I do
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by ksikka 9y ago
Dating apps/sites that employ the strategy of "get as much data as possible and match intelligently" have failed to compete for users against Tinder, the dumbest, simplest dating app that hardly does any intelligent matching
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by ksikka 9y ago
What is the HN type?
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by ksikka 9y ago
Do FB/GOOG distribute facts? They have some pretty good returns.
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by ksikka 9y ago
Javascript is not easy to learn. Many language quirks, and doing anything fancy with asynchronous code will require an understanding of closures, functional programming, and perhaps promises.
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by ksikka 9y ago
I was so on-board at the beginning - yes, html and css skills are undervalued. And then the essay tried to generalize the lack of respect for HTML/CSS specialists as an example of lack of respect for specialists compared to full-stack
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by ksikka 9y ago
For 1 and 3, it's the process that matters more than the tool. One process I found effective is maintaining a spreadsheet of tasks and a spreadsheet of larger milestones, updated in periodic meetings. For the task spreadsheet, you can
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by ksikka 9y ago
Thank you.
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by ksikka 9y ago
What is Ethereum _useful_ for? When would I need it? Why is AWS (et al) not sufficient?
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by ksikka 9y ago
Oh you're right. That's what I get for badly skimming the article. Thanks, I take back my comment.
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by ksikka 9y ago
Not bad, at least they're being proactive about fixing the dubious decisions that were made at some point.
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by ksikka 9y ago
As of June 2016 the average age was around 29. https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/
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by ksikka 9y ago
IIRC Google is very open to internal transfers and theyou also have a 6 month grace period for you to return if you decide to leave.
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by ksikka 9y ago
It sounds like you're bored, and you don't have a very good reason to start a company. Starting a company is hard. A less drastic move is to find a job you'll actually like. They exist.
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by ksikka 9y ago
Disappointed - not much on why these life forms are "weird".
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by ksikka 9y ago
Oh, oops. Missed that.
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by ksikka 9y ago
How is this legal? It's just one step away from prostitution. The payment here is not $ but a penny saved is a penny earned. Maybe this is technically legal but it seems against the spirit of the law.
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by ksikka 9y ago
Strong rec for stratechery. It doesn't cost much, the writing is excellent, it's insightful and enjoyable.
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by ksikka 9y ago
The Deis team was extremely helpful over IRC when I was building on top of their PaaS. Great team and culture, Microsoft is lucky to have them.
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by ksikka 10y ago
There's no endgame - such a thing would cap Tesla's valuation.
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by ksikka 10y ago
I tried this a few years ago actually. Search for Appcubator. The issue is the market is bimodal and there's not really any room for a middle ground. Developers prefer to have full control over their architecture and they have varied a
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by ksikka 10y ago
> I'd argue that laws and the links between them are not being published in ways that the average person can easily process or understand. So true. A premise of this blog post is that laws need to be easier for computers to understa
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by ksikka 10y ago
Thanks for sharing that blog post! I really liked this aspect of it: "You finish a thing by starting it until it’s done." I read another blog post whose thesis was "To avoid procrastinating, think about starting instead of fi
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by ksikka 10y ago
Constrain the time you have to do something. Work often fills the time you give it. If you try to achieve something in a short amount of time, you'll be forced to work at 100% with full focus to get it done ASAP. I'm always amazed

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