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by Xyik 10y ago
Clearly jet.com's primary user base isn't from the tech crowd. Looking at the comments, seems like a lot of people don't understand that Jet's user base is probably value-conscious consumer's that shop for household
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by Xyik 10y ago
It's rare for an engineer to have 1 point they would probably have to be engineer #1 or #2
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by Xyik 10y ago
It's easy to complain and identify problems, I don't really understand why these posts are so popular, but one seems to crop up on HN every month or so. It's kind of tiring to see all this negativity towards something that&#x
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by Xyik 10y ago
Most full stack developers have breadth but not depth. It's incredibly time-consuming to have a complete understanding of the entire stack and no matter what you do, even if you live and drink code and do it all the time you will not b
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by Xyik 10y ago
How is pay handled if there is no hierarchy? Who decides how to spend the company's money? This type of recruiting-marketing is almost as bad as Google's.
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by Xyik 10y ago
Not surprised. There are so many more signals you can mine online vs. offline and so ads are actually way more relevant, not to mention becoming more interactive. See Facebook Dynamic Carousel Ads and Google shopping ads. Not to mention the
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by Xyik 10y ago
Understand that the success rate is probably something like 5% for high tier companies, being 1 of the other 19 that failed isn't anything to be ashamed of. What's important is that you reflect on things you could have done better
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by Xyik 10y ago
programming isn't just about solving problems. One of the reasons I'm drawn to programming and software engineering in general is because it grants me the power to create things and impact others. Of course, sometimes to create th
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by Xyik 10y ago
The pitch for user adoption seems to be that it will be cheaper and eco-friendly. But I question that, for example if your solar panels break or malfunction. You will always be paying for energy outside of solar as a back up.
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by Xyik 10y ago
Valuations have been questionable but that alone does not mean we are in a bubble. I'd rather we looked at the amount of funding that has been raised and the amount loss to gauge whether we're in a bubble.
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by Xyik 10y ago
Likes should never be the measure of success when advertising on Facebook.
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by Xyik 10y ago
the issue in the start-up / tech world is that things move very fast. What's to stop Google drive from crushing dropbox? Companies need to balance growth and profitability at some point, but it makes sense to focus on growth first
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by Xyik 10y ago
That's debatable since many companies like Amazon are able to turn a profit by sacrificing growth. Good point though and this information is also available in quarterly earnings reports. The main argument I was making really is that pe
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by Xyik 10y ago
I wish people would read company's quarterly performance reports before making claims about whether we're in a bubble and whether company x is worth y. LinkedIn generates a ton of revenue and is very arguably worth its valuation.
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by Xyik 10y ago
Thank you! i'm so glad someone did a post like this, maybe finally we can stop having people say things like 'oh i can build an MVP of Twitter / Instagram in a weekend, its just a photo sharing app'. No. There are a LOT
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by Xyik 10y ago
Betting on valuations of private companies is a bit silly.
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by Xyik 10y ago
I'm also curious about the bank integration issue, but I'm tired of people saying things like why app x or website y "couldn't be functional in the first week". have you launched an app that you expect to build a co
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by Xyik 10y ago
I'm not too familiar with how Television ads work, but online advertising has a clear-cut billing model based on very dubious measurements. When an advertiser decides they want to bid CPM or CPC they want impressions and clicks from re
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by Xyik 10y ago
Facebook Ads are much more targeted than Adwords. When it comes to targeting, Adwords is actually really bad bad. Outside of Search they can't compete, and even for Search ads you can't do proper gender and age targeting with your
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by Xyik 10y ago
I wonder if there is a better way of doing code reviews. For example, a way to for reviewers to just mark a review as 'acknowledged' and submit a list of potential concerns (which may freely be ignored by the author). This makes t
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by Xyik 10y ago
Where do you draw the line then? You can google and stack-overflow answers to pretty much any technical interview question that has a non-subjective answer. BFS is not much more than a loop, a queue and a set to keep track of state (which n
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by Xyik 10y ago
They all got through the interview process so I'm pretty confident about 80% of them would be able to do it and 100% of them would be able to implement BFS. Also yes it's a basic graph algorithm everyone learns, but its inherently
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by Xyik 10y ago
I've interviewed at companies like this (Amazon / Google / Microsoft) and they do indeed tell you ahead of time there will give algorithms / data structures / coding.
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by Xyik 10y ago
No offense, but not knowing BFS is kind of a red flag, even if its for a front-end position. It's the most basic graph / tree traversal algorithm there is. And you when you work with the DOM on a daily basis and use libraries that
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by Xyik 11y ago
Seems just like click-bait, author makes a point but doesn't really go in depth or explain his thoughts. And it only works because the author tries to mislead you : 'This code smells' Why does it smell exactly? Why should he
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by Xyik 11y ago
Sigh, more marketing. Sorry, but at the end of the day any company that does technical interviews evaluates candidates the same ways and asks the same type of questions, having an interview guide that says things like "Instead, let’s o
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by Xyik 11y ago
don't think it actually talks much about how it does it at ' scale'. how expensive is it to perform these operations? are images cropped dynamically as they are requested or do they pre-process the images and cache it somewhe
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by Xyik 11y ago
Guessing it was a nightmare to change it in their codebase so they axed it. Also, increasing the limit would probably add no additional value to their business.
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by Xyik 11y ago
One of the biggest challenges in databases is handling concurrency and sharding, wish this would have talked a bit more about how that changes between a graph database and a relational database.
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by Xyik 11y ago
You should definitely negotiate and consider your strike price as well. For Engineer #2 you should probably be getting at least 0.5%, especially if you have proven yourself. Make the argument that if the company were to exit for 10M in a co

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