sfaf

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by sfaf 10y ago
No it's definitely not easier to build a company that exits (even an acquire) than it is to get a job at a tech company that pays 100K.
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by sfaf 10y ago
This is on the onus of mid / experienced level engineers. The community should decide collectively that we don't interview at companies like this.
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by sfaf 10y ago
Yes, I do feel you have the terminology wrong. I consider myself full stack and I work with Rails, Django, etc. I have interviewed with many companies with the title "Full Stack Developer" and most of them have not expected the ty
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by sfaf 10y ago
As a former bootcamp grad, please prioritize interviewing skills over development skills. once you get a good job, you can spend your free time on side projects but until then you need to practice on interviews not coding. Sadly it's t
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by sfaf 10y ago
Why doesn't rails count as a backend engineer? Would you also not count someone who works with Django as a backend engineer?
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by sfaf 10y ago
Well the revenue of US based businesses is at a significantly higher scale than most European technology companies. Specifically companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Intel all make over $500K per employee (Apple is at $2m!). Wit
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by sfaf 10y ago
a) To build an ad business capable of handling $100m of ads. You need massive investments in sales, infrastructure, tools, etc. to build a business like that b) They have one of the fastest growing user bases in the social space, their user
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by sfaf 10y ago
As a coding bootcamp grad, I agree. I think bootcamps are better for mid to large companies actually where you will get mentorship and processes to help you graduate from being an apprentice to a contributing member of your team. Many of my
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by sfaf 10y ago
Which is why access to a competent education is a basic requirement for a functioning democracy. In my opinion, we aren't there yet since there are huge disparities between education quality across the public school system. One solutio
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by sfaf 10y ago
A pretty ridiculous statement given that a VC pays close to 20% income tax while these well paid engineers are taxed at almost double that %. The VCs carried interest tax loophole has gone too far, not market competition for engineering sal
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by sfaf 10y ago
This looks interesting. Are you a non-profit?
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by sfaf 10y ago
So you believe that by singling out women we may be adding to the problem because we are reinforcing the culture of treating people differently instead of judging them equally? That's a really fair point; it's exactly why I'm
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by sfaf 10y ago
I'm assuming people haven't read it because the comment (and a several others in the thread) starts complaining that the series "starts" by asking stereotypical questions to women. The first line in the article is talkin
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by sfaf 10y ago
Do you have an ethical objection to surveying under-represented groups on general questions? To me this is no different than "ask a black engineer, ask college dropout engineer, ask an engineer working in a developing country, ask a ho
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by sfaf 10y ago
I think it's hilarious that there are so many comments like this one that make it clear that people are criticizing this article without actually reading it. [As others have pointed out, it's the 4th article in a series so they ar
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by sfaf 10y ago
10% is not the normal discount rate for most people. I don't know what assets you are buying into but most assume a 5-7% discount rate because thats what most expect the long term growth of a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds.
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by sfaf 10y ago
Do you remember the super bowl janet jackson fiasco? There were millions of people outraged by an accident and it almost wrecked her career. It's issue like this that mean that Facebook has to build aggressive adult filters that will h
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by sfaf 10y ago
Did you hear about residents protesting that a 100% affordable housing projected blocked their view? Some San Franciscans have an entitled view that their basic rights include the right to have a nice view from their house (to the detriment
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by sfaf 10y ago
well on multi-lane roads like geary, you could just have a dedicated lane that normal traffic can't enter
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by sfaf 10y ago
Unfortunately this is a negative feedback loop. Essentially you are saying that because housing prices are expensive and people are over-leveraged, they will vote for any legislation that will protect and increase housing prices. This legis
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Ask HN: Is there any way to short the vc industry?
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by sfaf 10y ago
Technology is making things more efficient; things are produced cheaper and more efficiently and with less humans. The problem is that policy hasn't evolved with technology. Technology has caused two things: 1) increase income disparit
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by sfaf 10y ago
People always mention the big 5 but what are they? Are there any major companies outside these 5 that pay 300K+?
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by sfaf 10y ago
The main issue with Google Sites is there's a much higher level of friction for creating documents and then more importantly it's much more difficult to find things (search is way better on Confluence). I can't speak as much
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by sfaf 10y ago
My company uses Confluence as well. It's been really useful - we use the Q&A and also document features a LOT. It makes sense since we are mostly on the Atlassian stack (JIRA, & Confluence) Previously we used Google Docs. Howev
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by sfaf 10y ago
How many hours per week is the program and how long does it take? how far are you into it?
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by sfaf 10y ago
That's not how ROI works. You can show that in San Francisco, IF you live in a rent controlled apartment, it's very possible that you get a better economic ROI from renting than owning. The factor you are forgetting is that owning
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by sfaf 10y ago
I count these as the more respected tech new sources: Recode Verge Wall Street Journal (paywall) and surprisingly enough BuzzFeed's long form content is actually quite strong. They had some excellent investigative journalism on Zenefit