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by xxcode 12y ago
The average engineer who joined square about 3 years ago has made more than 2M
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by xxcode 12y ago
yes - I was part of a recent acquisition and made a little over 4M (pretax). I had 0.1% of the company. I was 24th employee (engineer). The company had 55 people at the time of acquisition. I joined about 14 months before the acquisition.
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by xxcode 12y ago
I took Gilbert Strang's Mathematical Methods for Engineers course at MIT. Can't seem to find the link for it, but I would recommend the online version for anyone who wants to learn linear algebra.
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by xxcode 12y ago
I was surprised when I found out that there were faculty candidates from University of Washington at both Berkeley and Stanford. This is amazing, and shows that Tier 2 schools can send students to become profs at the 'top 4'
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by xxcode 12y ago
How do I contact you?
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by xxcode 12y ago
I am not sure if your response is relevant to the article, but I felt that there is some level of superiority complex that you and many fellow humans posses (in this case, about your superior knowledge and intellect). Perhaps the biggest di
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by xxcode 12y ago
Wow! I always suspected this. Thank you for the detailed analysis. This makes me question Instacard.
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What happened to coin?
1 points by xxcode 12y ago|1 comments
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by xxcode 12y ago
The article advises learning to play music because a lot of good programmers play music. A lot of programmers are also white. Please become white if you can.
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by xxcode 12y ago
SLIPPAGE SLIPPAGE SLIPPAGE!!!
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by xxcode 12y ago
Does this mean that Spark is the new God. If this is the case, then Databricks will be the next Cloudera. Cloudera is probably a 10B+ company. Good job
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by xxcode 12y ago
I have experience in getting high-end plastic boxes manufactured (some in US, and increasingly in China because of price dynamics). Believe me, it is not a big deal. The variations are all commodity - you may have to get different molds ma
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by xxcode 12y ago
Hacker News is the epitome of short term thinking, with projects like 'weekend projects' etc.
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by xxcode 12y ago
If you are not sure about MIT, don't go to MIT. Thats one thought I heard around campus at MIT. It will be a good journey. Try to get laid.
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by xxcode 13y ago
I was a 14 year old who attended the initial launch at MIT. I remember at the time thinking: why have a random synthetic time, perhaps we can just accept GMT as internet time. I still don't understand why you'd have Beil Mean Time
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by xxcode 13y ago
Basically, you seem to be going the LifeStyle Business route. Good for you!!!
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by xxcode 14y ago
To be accurate, google didn't go down today -- your pathway from your computer to google got 'poisoned'. It wasn't Google's fault.
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by xxcode 14y ago
Apple will never be able to match Google in Maps. Here's why: Apple does not have any technical depth. I am a former Apple employee. Apple can't do technically hard problems that require a multi-person effort. Yes, Apple can and has done go
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by xxcode 14y ago
This discussion has been highlacked by morons talking about the cases. The main point is - Apple's marketing is so good that people suspend judgement.
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by xxcode 14y ago
btw, not that it matters, but Seattle Best Coffee is owned by Starbucks.
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Google - Old Storage Account to be Deprecated unless autorenew on
1 points by xxcode 14y ago|0 comments
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by xxcode 14y ago
Its pretty awesome that a product manager wrote code and made shit happen.
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by xxcode 14y ago
Yammer says we are their 'top ten' users. We are a 8K employee software company. Most common comment about yammer - "Oh I've used it....once".
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by xxcode 14y ago
I think Google Drive is less likely to ever go down like this. Its google, they know their shit.
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by xxcode 14y ago
Never till I went to MIT did I not feel that I was weird. At MIT, it felt ok to be me. I was like that, and others were kinda like that, and we were good together.
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by xxcode 14y ago
I am happy that they did. More competition, cheaper eBooks are good for everyone in the long run.
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by xxcode 14y ago
The article was a bit difficult to follow, perhaps due to liberal use of 'Indian' English and missing prepositions. Sorry, I know this is meta - I would like to hear what you have to say and would likely find it interesting. I would apprec
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by xxcode 15y ago
Kickstarter - such a good way to corner all the dumb money.
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by xxcode 15y ago
You have to be honest because you want to be. Because you dont want to project what you're not, and because you dont want to remember for the rest of the life the lie you said in order to be consistent. Honesty is for yourself, and not for
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by xxcode 15y ago
Why is this important? Why are you telling this to people? Why is this news that a Hacker should know. I might not get it, but IMHO if its not something of general interest, it shouldn't be on HN (even though the company might be PG's portf

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