PakG1

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1981.
by PakG1 16y ago
If the guy is really top 1% in the world, why not? How much do the top 1% athletes, musicians, etc, make? An argument can probably be made for a top 1% coder.
1982.
by PakG1 16y ago
Why not? Especially HP, they're going heavy into the cloud infrastructure space. A lot of Google's scale expertise would probably come in handy. And Adobe being a software company... well, good software companies always want good program
1983.
by PakG1 16y ago
There's only so much that a company can provide until it takes over an employee's entire life 100%. That's a limit they can't break, no matter how creative the company is. Monetary compensation, however, has no limits. It can just keep g
1984.
by PakG1 16y ago
It's true. Unhappy people can poison a culture and be a drag on everyone. The big question is whether they're unhappy because they're just unhappy people in general, or if they're unhappy because the company truly sucks.
1985.
by PakG1 16y ago
I don't disagree with you at all, but that's what makes it even more strange that VB has become so much more popular than I expected for enterprise usage. Did Microsoft's marketing muscle pave the way, or were other tools really just too c
1986.
by PakG1 16y ago
I think that's an unfair and inconsistent application of logic. I like reading HN and recently contributing tiny bits to HN because I think the community here is top-notch, friendly, and knows its stuff. HN never struck me as elitist; rath
1987.
by PakG1 16y ago
Hypothetical musings about the future aside, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it's probably a duck? :)
1988.
by PakG1 16y ago
Wasn't there a HN post a while back about how this is actually becoming a really big business? Reverse SEO or something like that.
1989.
by PakG1 16y ago
Easy to say, hard to do, no? If he could, wouldn't he already be doing it. Assuming that it would actually work better, of course, otherwise there wouldn't be any point.
1990.
by PakG1 16y ago
Bingo.
1991.
by PakG1 16y ago
That would simply be an indication that he was not suited for applying to the Navy. I find that many people who suck and fail at something may truly suck at whatever it is, but they're actually quite awesome at something else. The sad thi
1992.
by PakG1 16y ago
Absolutely true. I used to play Razor-cracked games all the time. Now I just use Steam. Similar stories for Windows, Office, etc. And millions of people who used to pirate music don't anymore. Once again, me included. Mark Cuban recent
1993.
by PakG1 16y ago
When did I call executives middle class? He made two points, one about an alleged lack of a Chinese middle class, and the other about the breadth of Indian executives. They are not the same, and I did not respond as if they were the same.
1994.
by PakG1 16y ago
Just a copy and paste of a comment I wrote on his blog.... ---start comment--- This is funny, I just wrote about the Chinese middle class a couple of days ago: http://www.pakg1.net/2010/10/changing-chinese-mindset-toward... I think your p
1995.
by PakG1 16y ago
I tried it back during my first trip to Sichuan in 2005. Luofeiyu, everyone seems to eat it there, at least in the rural part of Sichuan where I was. It was especially awesome barbecued with Sichuan spices. I think I liked it so much bec
1996.
by PakG1 16y ago
That's true enough. But fact is, if someone's ignorant of modulus, I'd say that's scary. Knowing modulus doesn't necessarily demonstrate you have a great grasp of programming. But I think not knowing modulus demonstrates that there's a h
1997.
by PakG1 16y ago
Hehe, that's the exact definition of the Dilbert Principle. The problem though is that leadership is responsible for building and setting the culture. It's a recipe for poor organizations and poor morale, no?
1998.
by PakG1 16y ago
Hehe, I agree, that's the problem we're trying to solve anyway. The "any candidate off the street" set. :)
1999.
by PakG1 16y ago
Humility is huge and almost nonexistent! I remember when I first did something hugely visible and couldn't handle it, felt like a total failure. But learned from it. It's funny how the best leaders I've ever seen or experienced also happ
2000.
by PakG1 16y ago
I think it depends on their financial stability. I don't think a consulting company should ever do work for a startup based on equity, the risk is too great. But if they're not financially stable, then equity is all they have to give. Yo
2001.
Ask HN: How do you validate new hire candidates (especially senior leaders)?
10 points by PakG1 16y ago|10 comments
2002.
Clayton M Christensen's speech to Harvard Business School's 2010 grad class(hbr.org)
2 points by PakG1 16y ago|0 comments