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by _ah 5y ago
Usually somewhere between 1.75 and 1.9, depending on the content. There's something weird that happens moving from 1.9 to 2.0 where I feel the audio quality degrades dramatically.
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by _ah 5y ago
This assumes that you can hire the two extra engineers. In all likelihood, their business is constrained by the speed that new people can be recruited, vetted, and onboarded. This means that even with infinite budget every engineer is a pre
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by _ah 5y ago
I've been happy with Uplift. Everything from the packaging to the assembly instructions was on point. Expensive though.
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by _ah 5y ago
High quality standing desk.
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by _ah 5y ago
Ask for the comp range they're offering. If the money is fantastic then consider jumping through the silly hoops. If it's just average then tell them that your open source project is proof of your technical abilities, you'r
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by _ah 5y ago
I actually think this one is way better than the first. It's a little too wordy and breezy for me, but it does speak to your identity as an organization and provides insight into the environment a candidate would be entering. 1. Agree
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by _ah 5y ago
Here's my quick first read: "self organizing teams" + "every stage of the project" + "split work" + "leadership" --> "We have no idea how to run a software company. We don't have PMs
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by _ah 5y ago
Carnival (owns Princess, and some other brands) has done some pretty innovative work here. Nothing super surprising for the HN crowd, but way beyond what most hospitality providers might have considered a few years back. IIRC they have a te
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by _ah 5y ago
As always, Matt Levine is shockingly informative: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-07/matt-l... Key quote: 1. You get a bunch of Bitcoins. 2. You slice them into junior and senior claims. 3
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by _ah 5y ago
This is a management failure. If not corrected, this person will eventually destroy the team and no progress will be made anyway. You should continue to bring your concerns to your manager. Hopefully your manager will listen, or you will le
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by _ah 5y ago
I believe you have misunderstood the purpose of patriotism. Belief in a country is self-identification with a shared narrative. Just like with a startup, some things are impossible to achieve unless everyone (perhaps irrationally) believes
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by _ah 5y ago
Check out SpotInst (spot.io). It runs your workload on cheaper Spot machines but converts to On-Demand automagically when necessary.
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by _ah 5y ago
It's not the making of money that's addictive, it's the spending of money. It's easy to forget, but remembering this fact results in a wider range of life options.
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by _ah 5y ago
Concentrate on customer value and stickiness first. This is not the same as "more features"! Rather, what are the key things that customers love about your service which will cause them to stick around? How can you improve those
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by _ah 5y ago
Seems weird to shame users for liking your service...
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by _ah 5y ago
https://archive.is/W3I2l
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by _ah 5y ago
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ― Mark Twain
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by _ah 5y ago
It's theoretically possible to structure a debt offering where the investor is paid out over time by the donations of other future donors. This is morally suspect though: since a non-profit doesn't generate positive financial retu
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by _ah 5y ago
Cars with manual transmission.
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by _ah 5y ago
:) I see what you did there.
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by _ah 5y ago
Fair point. So maybe we should say that our sun would occasionally be a part of the galactic arm as the pattern morphs and re-forms. A fun concept.
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by _ah 5y ago
To be slightly pedantic: our sun is a star in the galaxy, so as the entire galaxy rotates we would not pass in and out of a galactic arm. We would rotate with it.
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by _ah 5y ago
Especially at senior levels, there's ramp up time AND a larger scope of impact if the person makes bad technical decisions or negatively impacts the team. A bad hire is super expensive on both those dimensions. It's even worse whe
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by _ah 5y ago
Technical people are expensive (and hard to fire if they don't work out), which really raises the bar for minimum qualifications and skills. There's no room to "take a chance" on anyone anymore. As a HM, most candidates
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by _ah 5y ago
I disagree, and think this could actually be a good overall optimization technique. If the product you are selling is overpriced (not a bad value per se, but maybe ~35% above where it could be) then the sales person should absolutely optimi
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by _ah 5y ago
Short answer: I loved visits to the library and the local science museum. Long answer: Provide lots of opportunities for unstructured play and exploration. I've intentionally filled my adult house with "tools" of all varietie
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by _ah 5y ago
Ok cool. With this write-up, you de-risked one area and added risk in a second area. GOOD: High GPA, got funded, ambitious, quit school for valid and rational reasons. I'm excited to hire you. BAD: Startup didn't work, I worked on
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by _ah 5y ago
It's tough to read too much into this single paragraph. I think the key is why you dropped out of school. You need to have a narrative. 1. "I had some promising personal projects, so I quit during my 3rd year of school to launch
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by _ah 5y ago
Not everyone has a single career. Sometimes, it's great to work on something for 10-15 years and then try something else. You have room in your life for 3-5 careers. You've just finished your first iteration. It went ok! Not as gr
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by _ah 5y ago
Asian grocery stores are great. They often have foods from all over the world.

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