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Yeah that one always cracks me up. Every startup says "everyone here is really smart." Everyone says that. So everyone is really smart. So it doesn't matter.
by ddw 11y ago
Yeah that one always cracks me up. Every startup says "everyone here is really smart."
Everyone says that. So everyone is really smart. So it doesn't matter.
- spinlock 11y agoAll the programmers in silicon valley are above average.
- _hyn3 11y agoAll the actors in Hollywood are above average.
- cushychicken 11y agoAll values greater than the mean are above average.
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- norswap 11y agoWell, that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
- ddw 11y agoHa, I don't live on the West Coast.
- cushychicken 11y ago"We lost another one to Apple!" More accurately: "We lost another one to Apple... because they pay tip top of the market salaries."
- skuhn 11y agoThe sad thing is that (in terms of base salary), they don't remotely pay tip top of the market in SV. So consider how bad it is to lose out to a giant mega-corp that only pays 80% of top of market salary.