yangez

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by yangez 4y ago
Let's say at your software company a sales rep brings in $2M in 2022 and demands a $1.8M commission. What do you say?
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by yangez 5y ago
> We want to be the job search platform that puts engineers in control. I love this, but I'm curious about the incentives here. Triplebyte only makes money from companies, not engineers. In the long run, can engineer-centric intenti
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by yangez 6y ago
Topaz Labs | Director of Growth | Onsite: Dallas, TX (but remote for now) | Full-Time | https://topazlabs.com Hi HN - we’re Topaz Labs. We create AI-powered software that solves photographers’ biggest problems: think one-click n
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by yangez 6y ago
Topaz Labs | Product, Engineering, Marketing | Onsite Dallas, TX | Full-time + onsite We build AI-powered photography software; we're growing active users by 10-20% monthly. Hiring for many technical roles: https://jobs.leve
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by yangez 7y ago
> We’re arbitrarily defining “great” candidates as those scoring between 95th and 98th percentile on our technical interview, and “the best” candidates as those scoring at 98th percentile or above. This is an important qualifier. I'
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by yangez 8y ago
> The bottom line is that the difficulty of the decision is the most important factor in determining whether a player makes a mistake. In other words, examining the complexity of the board position is a much better predictor of whether
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by yangez 11y ago
How is this "strong-arming"? If we keep devaluing the meaning of words, we won't have any left when something serious actually happens. The rep ran through a couple of retention scripts, and then got mixed up because OP calle
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by yangez 12y ago
The BBB is basically a protection racket with excellent PR. Get a customer complaint? BBB contacts you to pay for membership. Don't want to pay for membership? You must not care about your customers, so you get an F-. Pay for membershi
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Is WhatsApp's 'No Ads' Policy Already Starting to Loosen?(adweek.com)
2 points by yangez 12y ago|0 comments
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by yangez 13y ago
> Programming, like writing, painting, and music, is chiefly a creative endeavor not a technical one. Practice... will not make you a substantially better programmer. It will just make you more efficient with your tools. Show me a world-
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by yangez 13y ago
> Rails isn’t just a brick wall, it’s a brick mountain... By the end of the first month, I had literally no idea what was going on. This is not a brick wall. It's giving up as soon as something gets hard. Rails is a great example. I
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by yangez 13y ago
Here's an important piece of demographic information for the survey: > 45% of those surveyed don’t own a device that can read ebooks – this includes both e-readers and smartphones. So almost half of those polled don't actually
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by yangez 13y ago
> When the Internet bubble burst, the company underwent rocky times. By 2000, [the founder] was gone from the company, as were four other members of his founding team. > For the next decade, Bloodhound recovered and slowly grew, raisi
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New Craigslist homepage(craigslist.org)
1 points by yangez 13y ago|0 comments
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by yangez 13y ago
Employee compensation is absolutely not associated with the value of the work the employee does. Instead, it's associated with the best replacement that the company could find. If Joe makes $2M a year for a company and gets paid $150k
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by yangez 13y ago
I'm not saying everyone has to work long hours. I'm just saying that the few people who do will have an obvious advantage. It's up to each person to figure out if that's what they want.
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by yangez 13y ago
> I have a friend who brags that he busts his * 60 hours a week driving a Coca-Cola delivery truck. Congratulations, I work 35 and make twice as much as he does. This is a straw man. The point is that if you worked 50 vs 35 hours at th
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by yangez 13y ago
What's with all these startups taking so much design inspiration from Stripe? https://www.shirts.io/ https://zinc.io/
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by yangez 13y ago
> One possible opportunity is to get the legal system and governments involved in this so as to require an adequate level of merchant support. I wince every time someone proclaims the government should step in to regulate something that
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LinkedIn Contacts(contacts.linkedin.com)
1 points by yangez 13y ago|0 comments
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WP Engine: Update on the Friday Linode Event(wpengine.com)
1 points by yangez 13y ago|0 comments
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Google drops Nik Software software bundle to $149(thenextweb.com)
2 points by yangez 13y ago|0 comments
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by yangez 14y ago
It would be helpful if there was a way to show the reasoning behind deleted submissions. Like a quick note on [dead] pages that explains why it was killed, just like you did here. That way, people won't keep resubmitting the same story over
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by yangez 14y ago
Austin, TX - full-time - Web UI/UX designer for photography software company We're Topaz Labs, a bootstrapped and highly profitable photography software company with an operations office in Austin. You're a web UX designer obsessed with cre
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Asana Hearts: Share Gratitude with Your Team(blog.asana.com)
1 points by yangez 14y ago|0 comments
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by yangez 14y ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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How to innovate like a shark(blog.startwithwhy.com)
2 points by yangez 14y ago|0 comments
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by yangez 14y ago
This is very disturbing. How did the FBI gain access to all this information? It should be locked up in Apple. From what I see, the NCFTA in "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" looks like it stands for the National Cyber-Forensics & Training
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by yangez 14y ago
That should be Facebook's tagline.
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Enter "Obama" in the Facebook search bar and press enter
5 points by yangez 14y ago|4 comments

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