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by Maro 11y ago
I did my startup for almost 4 years. It was this: https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb After the startup, I was "unemployed" for about 1-2 month. Then I took a chance and went to work for Prezi as an engineer
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by Maro 11y ago
Other ways to get information: 1. Ask the developers per email. 2. Fly out to SF, visit the campus, have lunch. Will work for FB (I do it all the time), Google people won't tell you anything.
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Farnam Street blog(farnamstreetblog.com)
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Leslie Lamport: Programming Should Be More Than Coding [2014 video](infoq.com)
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by Maro 11y ago
I work at Prezi. We have a lot of expats from the US who come and work here in Budapest. Prezi is like a patch of SF in beautiful Budapest. If you're interested, drop me a line :)
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by Maro 11y ago
Here in Hungary we have Prezi, Ustream, Logmein, and some smaller startups.
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by Maro 11y ago
Yes. I buy books with formulas, code (like physics, engineering, programming) in physical form, because the Kindle edition tends to look awful. I only buy the Kindle edition of books that are purely text and/or throwaway (= I won'
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by Maro 12y ago
Do you mean Keyspace, the tech we had before ScalienDB? Anyway, the reason it was unstable was because we were early in the lifecycle, and as I described in the post, we couldn't get traction, so we also couldn't get investment, s
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by Maro 12y ago
From 2009 to 2012 I had a distributed database startup that competed with MongoDB. We used Paxos for replication and built the database with on-disk consistency guarantees --- like the ones this article looks for and rightly obsesses over -
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by Maro 12y ago
Based on what you write it's over because you're burnt out and no longer believe it will work out. It will be a tough conversation with your co-founder, because he's in a different situation. My advice: don't make it a d
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by Maro 12y ago
No offense, but "30 minutes... with a click" is pretty standard in the age of AWS. It's not a good headline anymore :)
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Why Android took Prezi so long(medium.com)
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by Maro 12y ago
I started working as a fulltime programmer (in Hungary) when I was 23 at market rate. Today I'm 34 (still in Hungary), and my net salary has gone up 5.3x. Another 2-3x is doable by handpicking a high-paying job here in Hungary (eg. an
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by Maro 12y ago
"Designer, Developer, Copywriter, Project Manager, Strategist, Accountant, Client Relations" Maybe it'd be better to concentrate on one usa-case. Say Accountant. That way you have more focus. Once you talked to 10-100 account
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by Maro 12y ago
There's also Simplenote. I can recommend it. It's pretty cool, it's just plaintext, and it just works. I migrated to it after I got sick of the formatting in Evernote getting screwed up and sync issues causing data loss.
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by Maro 12y ago
I work at Prezi. We have about a petabyte of data. It's usage data coming from the product and the website. Clicks in the editor and such. Then we have a data warehouse with cleaned and accurate datasets, that's much less. We are
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by Maro 12y ago
Disclaimer: maybe I'm not the target audience of this letter. What a terrible letter. Hemingway grade is "20, bad". 451 words, but the only hint what the authors wants is "We recommend expanded research aimed at ensuring
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by Maro 12y ago
My software didn't take off as either an opensource project or a business, so when we folded, the former customers would have been left high and dry anyway. "Fortunately", the reason for the final fold was that the last custo
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by Maro 12y ago
What I write below is based on my real-life experiences. I had a NoSQL database startup called Scalien for ~4 years. There was a lot of competition (eg. MongoDB), most of it was opensource, so we were opensource. This was also in line with
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by Maro 12y ago
Maybe this: "‪The job's not over until the paperwork's done." I've worked a few jobs in the last 10 years (non-gov't), and I didn't experience paperwork around programming work.
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by Maro 12y ago
Would you consider moving? If you could move to San Francisco, you most certainly would get a job, junior or not. Then improve.
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by Maro 12y ago
1. She went to school to get a not very competitive degree (journalism?) and unfortunately took out loans to pay for it. It seems she couldn't pay it back, because later she says "my credit is wrecked". 2. It turns out she an
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by Maro 12y ago
I was in a similar situation when I was doing my startup several years ago. My advice: 1. Be very careful when dealing with sales people. They will be good at selling themselves, and you do not know how to evaluate them. Do not make any pro
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by Maro 12y ago
What does CnC mean here? (Google doesn't tell me.)
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by Maro 12y ago
I learnt to code (although it was very amateurish) when I was a teenager in the 90s, living in California. A friend of mine hooked me up with a job where I was essentially writing Javascript code and also helping with sysadmin stuff. Back t
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by Maro 13y ago
World3 is a famous simulation done in the 70s of our world/civilization that broadly predicts how our interaction with the environment will lead to a breakdown (decrease) of population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by Maro 13y ago
Read Daniel Quinn's Ishmael: http://www.amazon.com/Ishmael-An-Adventure-Mind-Spirit/dp/05...
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by Maro 13y ago
Facebook wasn't painkiller.
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by Maro 13y ago
I was at the talk. It was great. Good job!
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Logbox - efficiently filtering large log files on Hadoop(engineering.prezi.com)
3 points by Maro 13y ago|0 comments

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