GolfyMcG

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by GolfyMcG 11y ago
I can recall several people from my own college experience who sound just like the brother in the article. They seemed happy on the surface but when in an intimate setting, reality came out. The intimate setting for us was our fraternity me
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
I find myself truly struggling to get past this point all the time. I think people too often think that having children is somehow granted as given for anyone who wishes to. I am a man but I expect then whenever I decide to start a family I
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Healthify - FULL TIME - New York, NY Healthify is looking to fill multiple roles on our team: http://healthify.workable.com/ In particular to HackerNews though we're looking for a full-stack web developer with expertis
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Yes - A LOT of pushback. I didn't purchase it, and I don't complain about the ads because I understand they have to make money. I do read the comments on them and they are exclusively sarcastic comments/complaints about the a
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
I'm curious why they didn't include the United States (or some other Western countries) as a reference point/baseline since FiveThirtyEight's audience, much like HackerNews, is probably mostly in Western countries...
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Also, if you don't use Alien Blue (the mobile app for Reddit) then you might not know they have been testing "Sponsored" posts. It didn't take a genius to know people would complain, but the ads are getting A LOT of push
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
This is an overly extreme opinion. We are not simply born in isolation - totally separate beings from one another. It's in our nature to perpetuate society as we see fit and that is not only through actions as we live but also through
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Sorry for the lack of reply. We started by assuming most of what we saw on paper lack credibility. We questioned their abilities, in a friendly way, and made sure they proved to us what they claimed. We also cast a wide net - we didn't
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
I get this reference! Just finished 1984 a few weeks ago!
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
We hired a dev that's very much like you described. We "knew" he was smart because he did well in some Hackathons. Had built some cool projects on his flashy portfolio. Went to the same university we want to, which is a top u
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Healthify New York, NY Mid-Level Front-End Focused Developer Healthify is looking for a full-stack web developer with an emphasis on front-end development. You will help define how the healthcare market delivers on the promise of reform and
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
It depends on your perspective of a b2b product. If by b2b you mean business to fortune 500 business, then there is probably not a way around it. If you're talking about business to mom and pop shop, Kickstarter is perfectly suitable -
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Maybe it's the optimist in me, but I would change this to be "Work with people you have a good feeling about." Though, the underlying difference is that the original phrase implies that everyone is fine to work with until you
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Would you agree that it's simultaneously simple and horribly challenging to start a company? It's more about consistency and determination, than it is strokes of brilliance. In that way, I think this advice is obvious but it'
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
We sell to large healthcare companies for anywhere from $1,000's to $100,000's and it's almost exclusively checks in the mail.
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
I completely agree with what you're saying about their needing to be context around those individuals. And I also agree that the 10x people are a myth. What I do know is that, in software, I have interviewed software engineers with VER
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Are you suggesting these should be open to the marketplace? That alternative puts all publicly traded companies at a disadvantage to privately held businesses.
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
I would agree with this with one caveat. The way I read your comment was, "Large software firms want to hire you for as little as possible" but I think it's more "Large software firms want to hire the best talent for as
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Facebook and Stripe are stepping up: https://twitter.com/stripe/status/563449352635432960
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
The real appeal to a startup has little to do with compensation. It's about "benefits" and intangibles. Obviously these will vary depending on the degree to how "start-upy" your company is but I think you can measur
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
This is something that our team has relegated to a product development problem not a software development problem. As a product manager/technical lead you have to realize it's your job to make it as easy as possible for developers
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Yeah - we run both the pull request and the master + branch merge every time.
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
I agree - I have no idea what this guy is doing. I didn't bother finishing it as he's so all over the place...
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
My team (a small healthcare startup) spent a lot of time looking at this for our first hire so I feel like I could provide some insights. First off, I think it varies quite widely on the school. We talked to people from General Assembly and
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
Don't be so incredulous. No where does he say "fuck being a well-rounded person." He thinks her time is being wasted in school which I think is certainly capable of being argued. Schools are designed to fit most people. By
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
I believe one of the benefits to this is that she won't learn to "phone it in." Why is it considered a skill to accept the status quo? If she is raised in and develops a life that is magnitudes more productive, perhaps she wi
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
From what I've heard, North Korea would be less than happy with the end.
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
I already liked some of the UI updates I was seeing on Travis yesterday - this sounds like it could solve some of my (few) issues with Travis' consistency and speed! Excited to dig in further. E1: Removed incorrect possessive form of T
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Global University Rankings Herald the Dawn of a New Elite(forbes.com)
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by GolfyMcG 12y ago
> working demo Working is an extremely relative term. When it comes to web apps, you can usually get a workable product out there though in a pretty short period of time. If you have two developers and they actually intend to make this i

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