Jormundir

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by Jormundir 12y ago
This looks awesome. Finally a piece of tech I actually want, and by Intel of all companies. The bigger consumer companies have been shuffling their feet, releasing arbitrary, very closed off pieces of tech that I don't really need. I r
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Maximized user experience would be no ads.
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by Jormundir 12y ago
You have some good points, but a lot of your argument is hinged on the idea that higher salaries would not bring more talent into the field. It's a statement that isn't backed up, and one I feel very skeptically about. I think bot
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by Jormundir 12y ago
The concept goes beyond the current shareholders too. In order to drive the stock price up, the company has to align itself towards the group of outside investors with the largest amount of capital.
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by Jormundir 12y ago
At this point in time I would not work at a company where the cto is coding, unless the entire company is less than 10 people. The managerial job of a cto is huge, so seeing them code is a big indication that management is not fulfilling th
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by Jormundir 12y ago
I've never been on a team larger than 12 people, and they still needed someone solely doing managerial work. I think it's easy to say "my team doesn't need a full time manager". Though the problems I've seen ar
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Based on my current experience, I would avoid joining a team that had a manager partaking in programming / devops. All different types of managers can be good or bad, my personal experience has just been that managers who dive into tec
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by Jormundir 12y ago
These types of handwaving "this is broken", "that is broken" statements are really starting to bug me. I'd expect better from a site called "hacker news". As someone who hated school growing up, I don&#x27
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Based on my experience, it's more about the corporate structure of assigning promotions and raises. Depending on the job, 2 years is plenty of time to get well acquainted with the work flow of a position. The jumping ship happens when
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by Jormundir 12y ago
After brewing on this for longer, I think I have a better perspective than my initial posting. Monitoring student behavior, engagement, studying techniques, etc., is going to be very important for improving our education system. We need mor
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by Jormundir 12y ago
I'm not claiming this monitoring is effective, I'm saying: "Don't get outraged, let them run a test of the program and see if it's effective". I just don't think it makes sense to get mad at a school for t
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Yes, I see this side of it. It's certainly important to question the uses and effectiveness of techniques - monitoring or otherwise. My problem with the narrative of the comments in this thread is that they seem to be paranoid, and the
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by Jormundir 12y ago
So now we're going to call grading "policing"? I'm not sure what line I crossed to get so many downvotes, but I really don't understand why this is outrageous. Can someone please explain for me why we're fighti
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by Jormundir 12y ago
I think outrage at this is a little unjustified. Monitoring user interaction is how you get data to effectively improve your platform. In the case of schools, they should be monitoring student interaction in order to gain insights in how to
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by Jormundir 12y ago
I wish there was some lip-service to the actual interviewing process. The interviewing process seems to be the pain point in recruiting with the vast majority of startups I've been to. Nothing telegraph's a company's poor man
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by Jormundir 12y ago
I'm actually very optimistic for education in the near future. After taking some Coursera classes, I'm confident a more personalized education is completely attainable. There are a lot of weaknesses to point at with the online edu
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by Jormundir 12y ago
They charge this business owner, usually 13.5%. It's up to the owner to forward that cost to the consumer.
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Square has been criticized a lot in the recent months for putting out too many different products. What I like best about this announcement is that it's not just a new product, but an evolution of one they already had. This is giving m
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Yeah, though this is napkin calculations, 10% chance of $100M exit is wayyyy too high. I would love for someone to cite a real figure, but I would guess it's less than 0.5%. Having been through a $50M acquisition with some options, it&
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by Jormundir 12y ago
I greatly second this. I'm doing a job search now and have already had to turn down three offers from early stage startups, because the compensation is delusionally low. I'm talking 40-60k below market rate, with pitiful stock opt
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Well the way I see it (speculatively from the outside), the "moonshot" ( throws up in mouth ) is just the thing you write at the top of the whiteboard. But what you're really up to is solving the 50 relatively smaller, domain
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Who's actually using Atom as their main editor? edit: Not meant as a hostile remark, seriously wondering how it's going for people who have stuck with atom. I tried it for 5 minutes, but didn't give it a real commitment.
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Have you heard of marketing?
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by Jormundir 12y ago
This is a spot where the market Square is in contrasts with the market Box is in. Online storage has had big price drops recently. Payment processing is much more stable, and I don't think it's even possible for another company to
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by Jormundir 12y ago
> A second iron law of startups might be Iron law "might be"? I don't think I'd ever invest in Box, but I see Square much differently. I think the author arbitrarily pooled them into the same category, and then stumbl
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by Jormundir 12y ago
Lets see you do it.
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by Jormundir 12y ago
This isn't exactly what the statement means. I highly recommend you read Thinking Fast and Slow, it gives an excellent analysis on this topic. The statement "human beings aren't rational" doesn't mean "human be
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I don't see it simply as disagreement. I draw the line at oppression. He's spending money earned, in part from any given employee's contribution to the company, to support the oppression of a group of people. It actually does
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by Jormundir 13y ago
They are doing quite a good job as VCs, but lets not start painting a picture of skill based on one of their companies. Investing in startups is gambling, and A16Z is basically rolling up to the roulette wheel and placing a bet on every squ
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I wouldn't call it a witch hunt. Now every Mozilla employee's work is contributing to Eich's paycheck. The paycheck with which he will (has) donate(d) to oppose gay marriage. If I was a Mozilla employee, this is not something

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