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by mallyvai 8y ago
Curious about this part: without cash in a checking account, people often have to resort to predatory financial products like payday loans or high-interest credit cards in order to make ends meet. In the testing for this product, wa
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What I Learned by Teaching Fourth Grade Girls to Code(medium.com)
4 points by mallyvai 8y ago|0 comments
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Can I have a big impact without becoming an engineering manager?(medium.com)
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Scopes, Universes, and Lunch Boxes in Ruby(medium.com)
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by mallyvai 8y ago
As a long-time Pythonista who's been using Ruby for work for a year now, I've really grown to appreciate anonymous multiline blocks, and wish they were a Python feature. I am not a fan of all the syntactic variants in Ruby, and th
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Code Blocks, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures in Ruby(medium.com)
6 points by mallyvai 8y ago|1 comments
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by mallyvai 9y ago
This is a great list of questions! Is there a list out there on how what sorts of questions to ask for engineers or other non-PM roles?
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Why Apple hasn't really closed its gender wage gap(quora.com)
2 points by mallyvai 10y ago|0 comments
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by mallyvai 10y ago
This is really cool! It has a bunch of rover data, altitude tracking, etc. See: https://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs-m-accel-5-altitude-v1.1/mg... Which has some headers like this: INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "MARS GLO
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by mallyvai 11y ago
Hey - founder of http://offerletter.io here - some thoughts, in no particular order. My first thought is, get a lawyer and accountant, immediately. My second thought is, yes, you kind of screwed up. Generally if you have the opp
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Notes on Database Backup and Restoration for Exhausted Engineers(medium.com)
1 points by mallyvai 11y ago|0 comments
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The Optimal Boyfriend-Shopping Theorem(medium.com)
18 points by mallyvai 11y ago|3 comments
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Git from the inside-out(maryrosecook.com)
4 points by mallyvai 11y ago|0 comments
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by mallyvai 11y ago
Founder of http://OfferLetter.io here - Harj, love what you're doing with a common YC app, and the spirit of the hiring manifesto. I'm curious about your approach to making sure the candidate experience is really top-n
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by mallyvai 11y ago
Patrick's got a ton of great insight into salary negotiations, and this post is no exception. Everybody (especially engineers) - needs to get comfortable talking about compensation and wages in safe spaces. This shouldn't come fro
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by mallyvai 11y ago
I have incredibly mixed feelings about this. Zero-negotiation policies are great tools for eliminating unfairness if executed well , the problem is that you still force the employee to end "trusting someone at their word", and e
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by mallyvai 12y ago
What's the most exciting non-traditional segment (bio, energy, manufacturing, etc) you're looking forward to funding startups in?
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by mallyvai 12y ago
This is an absolutely silly mentality: 1) A lot of people do make money off of employee stock, you just have to be reasonably intelligent about it. This blog post is a good way to model risk/reward. 2) Thinking of your employer as your
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by mallyvai 12y ago
San Francisco | VISA | REMOTE I'd like to put in a word for the Career Agency team at http://OfferLetter.io - we are building the first true talent agency for tech. We align incentives with individual engineers (and do not
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by mallyvai 12y ago
Why did you guys pivot away from employee referral amplification? The original idea seemed incredibly powerful - we all know hiring is broken, and amplifying the referral graph seemed like a great way to add a lot of value to growing orgs.
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by mallyvai 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately TypeForm (which we're using right now) is a little difficult on the internationalization front, but you're welcome to input the specific unit of currency alongside the value.
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by mallyvai 12y ago
This is exactly the right answer - if multiple rounds of deflection fail to work then you should state, "I expect a competitive offer to be $X".
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by mallyvai 12y ago
Market rates are complicated, and it's not unusual for employers to do this. For high-value people, the big guys (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) can and will match crazy high counteroffer numbers a lot of the time. It sucks, and this leads
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by mallyvai 12y ago
This is exactly why we are launching the Offer Drive: http://offerletter.io/drive.html . In short - submit your offer and equity information, get back access to a statistical pool showing where you stand. A few notes on thi
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by mallyvai 12y ago
It's fun to see this being built, and definitely hope it gets released! I chuckled at this bit: "As you know one of our key concerns is privacy, so to give users a safe browsing experience while on the web we included password pr
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15 Years of Durability – A Chat with Twitter's First DBA(offerletter.io)
2 points by mallyvai 12y ago|0 comments
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How not to lose a million dollars -Understanding and negotiating startup equity(offerletter.io)
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To our friends at Twitter – On flying the coop(offerletter.io)
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Valgrind is much more than a leak checking tool(maintainablecode.logdown.com)
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by mallyvai 12y ago
I think you'd be surprised - we are informed by certain awesome recruiters, but we've found that people generally feel most comfortable when talking to their peers about this stuff. There's a broad mistrust around recruiters.

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