AlexeyMK

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Don't take your highest-paying internship offer(alexeymk.com)
39 points by AlexeyMK 14y ago|34 comments
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Hey, that hurts! :D. Agreed, a lot of the material has been covered before. A lot of the value in the piece is structure rather than particularly original insight (though I'd love it if the Peanuts/Monkeys meme caught on). I did my best t
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Sure, but look at the way Venmo/Square are approaching this problem. Venmo: You have a venmo balance. Initially, money is brought in from a CC, but they just moved to Bank Accounts. Payments are fast because it's just venmo balance -->
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
I agree that credit cards are going to be displaced, but what is the rationale that the solution requires its own currency? Most transactions are very much within national (or European) boundaries. I think companies like Venmo, Dwolla and
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
I used to agree with you, and then I realized that when it comes to offense, there's no such thing as a misinterpretation. If somebody's offended by something, that's not your call to make. Certainly this can be reduced to absurdity (I'm o
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on genetics; FWIW, I know that (1) the % of women programmers has gone down since the 50s and (2) in Israel, where I grew up, the % of women programmers is substantially higher. As an exercise, thou
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Very cool! I'd very much like to be able to sort by popularity, so when I'm trying to find an off-the-shelf library for something I have a general sense of what has support in the community. I've put together a pull request which aims to ac
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
The cleanest comparison I can think of is, nobody wants to work out. They want to look good, feel good about themselves and be admired and have their pick of their opposite sex. This makes sense, as does the fact that working out can get yo
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Plato's work has had a lot of support/maintenance over the years, as it has been ported from the spoken word to parchment to book to e-book, and finally translated to English, which is how I assume Dan read it. Programming languages and env
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
I'd love a "click on this to add it to your vimrc" feature. There are a couple of thing you'd have to be careful about getting right for a script like that (IE, all the from-vimbits parts should be grouped together and documented), and the
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
One thing I've been playing around with is the idea of coupling ORM-style models with rules about how those models should be presented as a JSON-API. https://gist.github.com/1823921 The approach breaks a lot of 'separation of concerns' ru
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
https://twitter.com/#!/startuplife_in are a great resource for Finland, at least -- and I imagine the rules are about the same. Linda & co are great.
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Very interesting - which companies/school, if I may ask? I think if you've done extraordinary things outside classes (great internships, awesome research, major open source contributions or own projects), you don't need a great GPA to stand
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
First - it's impressive that you're already thinking about this. I definitely wasn't looking at internships back in high school When I was at FB, several of the interns had just finished high school, so it's certainly doable to get a top co
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Philip - unpaid internships are not inherently evil, but the market for tech interns is strong enough that most everybody should be able to find a paying internship. It's a different standard in tech - the only interns not being paid are th
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A brief guide to Tech Internships for CS students(alexeymk.com)
118 points by AlexeyMK 15y ago|68 comments
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
For the curious, the demo of this service (grassroutes.us) at PennApps this past weekend, where tessr, kandalf and drewinglis built this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF_NT6f-8bc&context=C39f6...
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
check out gethuman.com for a service that offers menu-avoidance for other public numbers (though not necessarily the government).
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
There's one every September and January. Hope to see you there next time!
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Interesting - would this make sense to be included into Requests [ http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html ] in some way?
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Glad you found them helpful! I really need to write the actual article version of this talk.
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Honestly, the odds are so skewed in your favor that the only thing you need to do (if you're happy being the tech guy) is meet quality business co-founders. Let it be known that you're available. Go to meet-ups like Hackers and Founders.
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Glad you found it useful! Credit to David Tisch for making a room full of Penn entrepreneurs raise their hands. Made the point better than I ever could.
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
As a Computer Science TA (and author of this post), I'm just not sure learning to code is a one-size-fits-all approach. Some of my favorite founders (Evan Reas at LAL, Joe Cohen at Coursekit) are not technical, and it's just not their thin
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
I'd love to have this 'during playback, show me things that survived the editing process' feature to be able to better reflect on my own writing. The feature may convince me to switch from to Stypi from Google Docs.
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The Mentorship Test(alexeymk.com)
5 points by AlexeyMK 15y ago|0 comments
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
I'm partial to Companion Devices, or Companions, if you're looking for a better word than smartphone.
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Agreed. One of the biggest intangibles of being an early employee is the amount learned, which (I imagine) is better than the learning for an investor. The path of early employee => founder is pretty well trodden. Aaron Patzer of Mint a
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Higher order functions: f :: ((Num) -> Bool, Num) -> Bool The type of f is not particularly obvious to me; instinctively, it could either be: 1. A function that takes (a function from Num to [Bool, Num]) and returns Bool, o
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by AlexeyMK 15y ago
Thanks for PadMapper!

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