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by msort 15y ago
Software engineers surely can make more or less in Financial Industries. Please read my original comment, which was comparing Google with other software companies.
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by msort 15y ago
After last year's 10% rise and bonus-structure change, Google's salary is very high now. Counting salary and bonus, not counting equity-grant, Google perhaps pays the highest in the software industry now. If counting cash + equity, adjustin
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by msort 15y ago
A good read about the last internet bubble and Commerce One.
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by msort 15y ago
Coding questions are often not the toughest interview questions. Tough questions could be some "soft" non-coding questions like: design questions (how to design a class hierarchy for a blog), behaviour questions (if your boss is wrong, what
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by msort 15y ago
To continue coding in your spare time, you must have a real exciting project to work on: to learn a new technology, or to build something you really love. Without that passion, you won't have the extra energy to do that and it won't necessa
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by msort 15y ago
Great writing. One issue with "Forward exercise" tough: by forward-exercising and converting to "Restricted Stock Unit", you avoid the high tax risk, but you also need to pay a substantial amount of cash in advance and bet on the future val
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by msort 15y ago
A excellent idea executed beautifully matters. Perhaps startups should spend much time experimenting with, pivoting with, possible ideas before focusing on one single idea 100%. Searching for the beautiful idea using a breadth-first rather
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by msort 15y ago
The highest-paid programmers usually become rich via: 1) Founding a business or startup. 2) Becoming an early employee of an averagely successful startup, or a per-IPO employee of hugely successful startups (Facebook, Google). 3) Becoming a
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by msort 15y ago
Good example to show every area of Internet needs innovation. Bookmarking is as old as the first web browser. It's great that a great team is trying to save communities and innovate in this area.
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Wal-Mart Paid $300 Million-Plus for Kosmix(kara.allthingsd.com)
4 points by msort 15y ago|0 comments
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by msort 15y ago
www.glassdoor.com also has many salary data for many companies. For example: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Twitter-Salaries-E100569.htm
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by msort 15y ago
The stories of Google, Facebook, and Twitter show that VC has values. We want more investments to start-ups, rather than the opposite. Let the market decide itself: the money will flow where the value is, eventually. I think success is har
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by msort 15y ago
I really wish Larry read news.ycombinator.com.
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New macbook air: 2.3 pounds(engadget.com)
1 points by msort 16y ago|0 comments
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by msort 16y ago
This article argues for potential. But for Twitter to be as high-valued as Facebook, it has to prove it can be adopted by average internet users. Twitter has such a potential, yet Facebook has already been achieved that. When I recommend Tw
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by msort 16y ago
Here is an idea: an eBay like site to link buyers and sellers in real-time. One simple way to implement: Twitter hashtag #buyitnow
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by msort 16y ago
Leave a job when and only when you want to. Leave or stay a job, cherish your time and make everyday as interesting and satisfying as possible.
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Facebook is splitting shares 5-for-1(reuters.com)
2 points by msort 16y ago|1 comments
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by msort 16y ago
Two major difference of a trading firm from a software firm: 1) Large amount of trading capital is needed to make a sizable profit. 2) Math, finance and trading skills. A trading firm needs above 2 items in addition to technical skills to s
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by msort 16y ago
Just like a technical firm needs to iterate on the products and infrastructures. A trading firm needs to iterate on the algorithms and infrastructures to stay competitive. Market changes constantly. Many trading algorithms are essentially m
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by msort 16y ago
This is sad. Founded by a computer scientist, DE Shaw is perhaps the most tech-focused among hedge funds. I once had a very challenging technical job interview there. Several interviewers had PhD in Computer Science.
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Ask HN: What is the fair valuation (now and 5 years later) of Facebook?
2 points by msort 16y ago|2 comments
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by msort 16y ago
Maybe someone will start to make an open-source Twitter alternative.
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by msort 16y ago
My suggestion: if (there is a very promising good startup offer): take it else: work on your side project until it takes off as a real startup
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by msort 16y ago
Thanks! It works. The problem with this bot is that it shows the original URL submitted, but not the HN URL, which includes the interesting and valuable comments.
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Ask HN: what is the best way to read HN via Twitter?
3 points by msort 16y ago|6 comments
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by msort 16y ago
Google is hiring software engineers in engineering offices around the world: Mountain View, Seattle, New York City, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Waterloo, Zurich... See: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/swe/index.html
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by msort 16y ago
Possible solutions: 1) Join a good big company like Google where experience is not disrespected. It is natural for startups to prefer good and cheap young engineers. 2) Face the reality, develop and respect soft (management, talk, people, e
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by msort 16y ago
Those tips for joining startups seems to be interesting: "For your first startup: You want a place with >10 folks but less than 200. I say this under the theory that you are mostly working there to find challenging work and smart people
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by msort 16y ago
I know several people who have made FU money (several millions). From my observations, their lives are not much different from the rest of us. Who a person marries, how fulfilling the days (work or non-work) are seems to matter more than pu

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