smokinn

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by smokinn 4y ago
Based on your comments about salary and working at a startup, I think you're probably being taken advantage of. I think you may at least subconsciously know it too given that you wrote this post. Step one is to start dialing it back. A
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by smokinn 5y ago
First off, excellent article. I've read a huge number of these and almost didn't click on this one. I'm happy I did. All your points are excellent and absolutely true. That said, I think you may have missed an important one f
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by smokinn 7y ago
I suspect it's this scam: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8ho3a Spoiler Alert: Don't read below if you don't want the podcast episode ruined. You're not the one being scammed it&#x2
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by smokinn 8y ago
Seattle also has a growing affordability problem and is in the same zoning situation as SF or Vancouver. Here's the official zoning map showing the absolute domination of single-family zones: http://www.seattle.gov/dpd&
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by smokinn 8y ago
Is the very competitive salary over 300k USD? That's what's competitive in the Bay Area or Seattle for senior talent. While there are benefits to Canada as you mentioned, for a lot of people they don't make up a 50% pay cut.
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by smokinn 8y ago
You removed the word "related" in this reply. I think our contention centers mainly around this word. When I see the word related I envision most standard job offers that have a laundry list of 10+ technologies, not all of them pa
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by smokinn 8y ago
When you say you require 5 years of related experience as a minimum bar, most applicants read we don't train or invest in our employees. It's not surprising you don't get the best candidates applying.
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Employees at Vegan Food Startup Hampton Creek Staged Coup, Company Claims(sf.eater.com)
2 points by smokinn 9y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 9y ago
The Nexus Q was Google dropping the ball: https://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/the-google-nexus-... I have a couple of friends who still have one in a drawer somewhere and it was just poor execution all
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Labor Board to Hear Employee Complaint Against Google(theinformation.com)
1 points by smokinn 9y ago|0 comments
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Your Wine Was Probably Bottled in a Truck(vinepair.com)
4 points by smokinn 9y ago|0 comments
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Yahoo hack warning: What happened and should you be worried?(telegraph.co.uk)
115 points by smokinn 10y ago|40 comments
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by smokinn 10y ago
Also interested. My email is in my profile. Thank you!
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by smokinn 10y ago
Adrian Colyer does something similar with his blog which I highly recommend: https://blog.acolyer.org/ Every weekday he posts a digestible summary of an influential paper, typically with a link to the paper itself.
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by smokinn 11y ago
It was much worse than just a do-not-call. The evidence states that the defendants agreed not to poach employees from each other or give them offers if they voluntarily applied, and to notify the current employers of any employees trying to
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A Yahoo Employee-Ranking System Is Challenged in Court(nytimes.com)
27 points by smokinn 11y ago|2 comments
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Anheuser-Busch InBev agrees to buy SABMiller in biggest beer deal ever(money.cnn.com)
1 points by smokinn 11y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 11y ago
Tons of interesting scenarios. You're sitting on your couch next to your best friend who recently moved to Singapore and he/she's doing the same. You're sitting on your couch with the MST3K avatars and you can see them l
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Report Reveals Restrictive and Hostile Working Conditions for Konami Employees(giantbomb.com)
6 points by smokinn 11y ago|0 comments
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Toshiba CEO quits in $1.2B accounting scandal(theverge.com)
9 points by smokinn 11y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 11y ago
There's no way everyday people can compete with corporations anymore. There are approximately 244,673,000 adults aged 18+ in the US: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html 318,857,056 * (1 - 0.233
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by smokinn 11y ago
"Bolt is working with manufacturing partners such as the Michigan Biotechnology Institute in Lansing, which will do larger-scale fermentation in 4,000-liter tanks using Bolt’s process, and Unifi, a yarn manufacturer based in Greensboro
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by smokinn 11y ago
Glympse does this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glympse.an...
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by smokinn 11y ago
IAC Interactive which is the parent company of most large online US dating sites (among other online properties). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_%28company%29
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by smokinn 11y ago
I have the product you linked in the trunk of my car. So far I've had to use it twice and, just like you, it worked beautifully each time. I wouldn't recommend it for your cell phone but it's way more convenient an emergency
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by smokinn 11y ago
The non-js version has "As of [page load time]" and static numbers. The JS version first removes the "As of" and updates the numbers dynamically.
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by smokinn 12y ago
Entrepreneurship isn't limited to VC-funded moonshots. Lots of people just want to be their own boss and run a viable business.
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by smokinn 12y ago
Why not? If someone has a degree in something technical I could imagine following a curriculum consisting partly of corporate finance management, fundraising, HR and other corporate issues for a year could be valuable, especially if they of
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by smokinn 12y ago
Prop 13 limits property tax to the value of the house when you bought it unlike most places where you pay property tax on the current value. So what happens in other locations is that demand for locations starts going up, housing prices go
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by smokinn 12y ago
fleitz makes a very good point. You'll be getting hit with treble damages which you definitely don't want.

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