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by DelaneyM 10y ago
How I guide my development teams: 1. Write code that does something correctly. Let it do that thing for a while, keep an eye on it. 2. Then come back to it with fresh eyes a few weeks/months later and refactor it. Maybe just a critic
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tl;dr: so you haven't actually implemented a scale ops system, eh? A) Shipping pre-packed boxes is not substantially easier. Order assembly/fulfillment is not the hard part of ops. Sort of like HTML is not the hard part of we
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tl;dr: Know what you're going to do with every dollar before you raise it (early). Also, VC investment isn't the only investment; if you won't have breakneck growth consider private equity. I dislike having investors, as a
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
The problem is the sales order flow and fulfillment / operations at scale (which is an engineering challenge). When you're in a growth period that's easy to discount, your challenge is (and should be!) top-line revenue. But
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I'm not sure if that's a plus (because I think it's hilarious) or minus (as a top-heavy female developer.) Have an upvote and a ಠ_ಠ.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
What guidance would you give to a Canadian applying to YC who doesn't plan to stay in SF after demo day? Is it possible to work in SF for the duration of the program employed by the startup, or is it best framed as a holiday? Can one
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
We got it down to an average ~400ms under load with aggressive full page caching (including our own hand-rolled component caching) and edge caching of all static assets (freeing up the servers to be optimized for dynamic content). This shou
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
True that we left before 2.0. I was excited to hear that 2.0 wasn't backwards-compatible, but apparently (from the community feeds I'm still connected with) things haven't improved much. The problem seems to be that they just
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
It does! (Or it used to.) The global configs defined the cache-specific configs. edit : Which defined the page-specific caching configs. It's XML all the way down.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I spent two years trying to innovate on Magento, because it was the platform before I got there and rebasing seemed like overkill, and it almost broke me as an engineer. My experience (and I'm not even going to complain about the XML!)
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Best bet is to start at a big name, then when you have a little experience go to a specialty firm.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
You become a recruiter. Identifying dev talent is one (very important!) part of the job for dev managers, but not enough on its own to be successful. The only pure application of that skill would be as a recruiter. That said, you're al
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
20-somethings start companies which serve 20-something customers (Facebook, Snapchat, etc). 30-somethings start companies which serve 30-something customers, or enterprise customers of the type they've worked at (where purchasing decis
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I get the impression that a lot of people satisfy the requirements by buying publicity, either placement in trade journals or sponsoring conferences. Both of those options were suggested by my lawyers, and once you realize it's possibl
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I'm not sure it's always possible to tell into which group your venture falls. Once it might have been safe to assume that Uber was only going to destroy the taxi industry and transfer those jobs to uninsured/underpaid freela
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Though this ship has sailed (and I'm actually pretty happy to have been pushed into launching globally), I'm definitely curious. My linkedin id is on my HN page.
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The biggest issue is publicity. You need to be able to demonstrate public/peer recognition of your achievements, and I don't have anything which qualifies. I haven't heard of OS contributions being sufficient, but I can cer
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To get an EB-5 for 500K$ (which is more plausible) the jobs created and place of business must be in a “targeted employment area.” (high unemployment or rural). An L-1A is an option a year from now (I've only recently incorporated), b
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
That is an awesome question! I think in an immigration context it's not so much about "creating jobs", but "transferring labour to new jobs in this country (and not another)". Another perspective is that the econom
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
This girl is not lying, and has quite a good lawyer. Being a founding engineer doesn't mean as much as you'd think to a non-technical audience, I have zero chance at an O1. EB-5 requires me to be putting in 1MM$ of my own money.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
EB-1: You must have been employed outside the United States in the 3 years preceding the petition for at least 1 year by a firm or corporation and you must be seeking to enter the United States to continue service to that firm or organizati
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
tl;dr: If you're a foreign-born entrepreneur, US immigration may be the kick in the pants you need to go global. If you're an American voter, you should stop kicking foreign-born entrepreneurs in the pants. Personal anecdata: I&
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
> Is there any possible token-based authentication scheme that is both stateless (ie. no round trip to the database on every call) AND invalidate-able? I suspect this is provably impossible. There are all sorts of things you can do at th
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
You include the time created in the object before signing, and invalidate based on that as a timeout.
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If you restrict it to product VPs, it was true as recently as 2014. The set of Google VPs has a representative sample on LinkedIn. Prove me wrong.
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Thanks! But the world (particularly our corner of it) is full of smarter people saying more interesting things. I feel like the best way I can contribute is not distracting readers from doing .
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Again, mostly founders. Tim Cook though is my personal hero, and probably the truest counterexample. IMHO he's the most influential intersectional tech/business innovator of the past decade, and that includes Jobs. Only Hiroshi
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I'd love to meet one, or see a job description for such a role.
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But he hadn't been a practicing engineer, and never worked in an engineering or technical capacity at Microsoft.
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All of those people are founders. My thesis is that there's no place in the world to be hired as an engineer w/ an MBA (which is comparably compensated to and inaccessible to "just" engineers or "just" MBAs),

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