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by abdabab 5y ago
How do you generate a pdf like this? It’s pretty.
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by abdabab 6y ago
It’s four years of growth that makes the initial grant look generous. For example $GOOG was like $800 in April’17. It’s over $2250 right now. $AMZN went from $900 to $3300 during the same time.
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by abdabab 6y ago
According to Forbes it’s 50B+: https://news.yahoo.com/google-doubles-down-commercial-real-1...
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by abdabab 6y ago
> Especially with high performance ratings, she should have been getting bonus over target and extra stock. In these companies each level has a compensation bracket. With high rating it’s easier to hit that upper limit and without timely
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by abdabab 6y ago
> I remember when I had a stellar year at a big corp. What made the year stellar?
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by abdabab 6y ago
I can understand the comparison with lawyers but why dentists?
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by abdabab 6y ago
Apple Watch is more of a mini-computer with apps than a heartbeat tracker. You can install separate fitness tracker apps for tracking fitness. A heartbeat tracker doesn’t provide the same amount of value.
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by abdabab 6y ago
I remember interviewing with a startup that was an hour of casually chatting about previous works and technologies we used. Sane companies with sane interviews do exist.
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by abdabab 6y ago
You don’t need a lot of money to claim freedom over your life. Bukowski didn’t have a lot. Diogenes the Cynic would be one extreme but valid example. People who you’re calling entitled are not all entitled. They’re just a bit more courageou
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by abdabab 6y ago
This interpretation is similar to an old Buddhist teaching. When you’re one with the world you’re sharing others’ joy and disowning your “personal” sufferings.
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by abdabab 6y ago
That I don’t disagree. I thought you were talking about one particular social network.
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by abdabab 6y ago
How’s that nonsense? They do have great UI/UX.
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by abdabab 6y ago
Did any of them survive? Nope. Just because Facebook survived a decade doesn’t mean it will survive another.
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by abdabab 6y ago
I’d say most people flocked there for prestige and compensation. Perks were just icing on the cake.
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by abdabab 6y ago
If you subscribe through Apple it’s just as easy to cancel it as canceling any other subscription.
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by abdabab 6y ago
You can also delete all apps that have personal information and clean cache. They cannot force you install a particular app.
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by abdabab 6y ago
> Internet technology comes and go, social networks are here to stay. Like Google+, Friendster and Myspace?
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by abdabab 6y ago
This is a very cool product. This should become a replacement for Jira.
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Ask HN: Checklist for Starting a Startup
2 points by abdabab 6y ago|1 comments
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by abdabab 6y ago
Plaid doesn’t seem very secure reading this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25753935
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by abdabab 6y ago
How secure is linking your bank account with YNAB?
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by abdabab 6y ago
It’s this one: https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin... . The code he referred is here: https://github.com/mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste
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by abdabab 6y ago
This reminds me of a talk of Linus Torvalds. From this perspective, mastery can be seen as an acquired taste that came after doing a large volume of work.
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Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
365 points by abdabab 6y ago|276 comments
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by abdabab 6y ago
Source?
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by abdabab 6y ago
You may not walk away if the BigCorp is subtle enough to hide how your actions are supporting an unethical intention. I don’t blame people for working in a BigCorp. You gotta pay rent or mortgage. I’m wary of the uncontrolled power they hol
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by abdabab 6y ago
> ... and they could make you hurt others This is the part you missed. You can’t easily walk away from that.
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by abdabab 6y ago
You can sense it when you walk into an Apple store. I met a few unnecessarily rude salesperson and wondered how or why they were still there.
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by abdabab 6y ago
You’d like https://ohmyz.sh/ . This feature comes with the git plugin.
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by abdabab 6y ago
He also needs to implement a search functionality across all products.

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