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by akavi 11y ago
Don't give your current comp, and make it clear you're happy to walk away if they don't hit the number you have in mind (Ideally, you would actually be happy to walk away). NB: It helps enormously to have competing offers.
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by akavi 11y ago
To think the two are comparable requires a complete lack of perspective. The scale and degree of poverty in China now, let alone 20 years ago, are just a tad bit worse than trouble finding jobs and long commute.
453.
by akavi 11y ago
Huh. I guess I just hope the founders took some money out in this round.
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by akavi 11y ago
Yeah, the author is being cute with the word "inheritance", which ends up obscuring the actual point.
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by akavi 11y ago
As someone who's written a lot of scheduling code (seriously, a lot), I'm sooooo on board. Time zones? Not really all that big of a deal and pretty much a solved problem. Daylight saving time, on the other hand, is the spawn of sa
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by akavi 11y ago
While I understand (and agree with) the sentiment, I'm not sure it's 100% true. $50 million might be in the range where complicated tax minimization maneuvers start to become tenable, and you won't get help doing that from a
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by akavi 11y ago
Can we please stop using early 2000s "txtspeak" to signal text conversations? Does anyone still write "ppl" or "to" => "2" in the era of autocorrect?
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by akavi 11y ago
Using Facebook friendships as the connection metric like the link does, I think the vast majority of the tech industry in SF is within two or three degrees. (I've got mutual "friends" with the guy.)
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by akavi 11y ago
Yay! I have an irrational love of this sort of thing; I enjoy the reinforcement of the idea that functions are just another kind of value. It seems like there really aren't that many languages with this symmetry (most lisps, JS/CS
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by akavi 11y ago
The more constrained a medium is, the easier it is for an amateur to make something that's "good enough" to be shared publicly without shame. It's the creative equivalent of a blur filter on glamor shots. And wonderfully
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by akavi 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand why "comfortable middle age" is a negative. Unless the argument is that Rails has either a) accumulated damaging cruft or b) missing out on important new features/paradigms, "comfortable mi
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by akavi 11y ago
Really only works if you willfully ignore the notion of "non-cash assets".
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by akavi 11y ago
This feels ungrammatical to me. I think "I find it perfectly cromulent." feels more correct. (I only comment because I'm amused to find I've heard "cromulent" used as a "real word" enough that my bra
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by akavi 11y ago
If I understand correctly, it's a nice literal syntax for a vector/set hybrid data structure? If you wanted, you could get pretty close in ruby with only a sprinkle of ill-advised metaprogramming. > junc{5|4} + 1 any(
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by akavi 11y ago
Have you spent any time teaching unmotivated students? Yes, ideally, every student would be motivated to learn for its own sake, but for an individual say, 8th grade, teacher to get a class of kids to that point is an enormous task. And yes
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by akavi 11y ago
The key is that which X chromosome is deactivated is not the same in all cells. It does occurs fairly early in the development process (a stage called gastrulation), and the deactivation does persist for all cells that descend from a give
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by akavi 11y ago
Are you sure? At my previous company (a relatively small startup, admittedly), one of the indisputably best engineers (a 10xer if I've ever worked with one) was hired after such a "second shot". A few weeks is probably too ra
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by akavi 11y ago
No, I'm saying that what we perceive as "being good at pattern recognition" is defined by the sort of pattern recognition BNNs are good at.
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by akavi 11y ago
My gut response was, I think, a less rigorous version of this: Humans care about tasks our own brains are good at. If NNs are in fact decent approximations of the way our brains work, then it makes sense they will be anomalously effective o
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by akavi 11y ago
I'd do the ruby version as: splits.flat_map do |(a, b)| alphabet.map{|c| a + b + c} end Which feels pretty close to the list comprehension to my eyes.
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Ask HN: How to value RSU grants for a public company in a compensation package?
1 points by akavi 11y ago|0 comments
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by akavi 12y ago
I think it's mostly the former. Unlike some IPOs, there's just nothing controversial about it. Twilio's a great product and they've got solid financials.
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by akavi 12y ago
> One thing that I’ve found puzzling over the last ten or so years is the anger directed towards people who choose to work hard That feels somewhat disingenuous. If 'sama is referring to the sentiments expressed on this board, from
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by akavi 12y ago
> "Gen Y" doesn't want new cars, rather [...] they simply can't afford the luxury of a new car. The bay area certainly is filled with plenty of 20-somethings who can afford the luxury, and yet people still don't
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by akavi 12y ago
People on planes "flew out". Baseballs, however "flied out".
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by akavi 12y ago
Google crawlers have been able to execute javascript since at least May of this year[0]. [0] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2014/05/understand...
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by akavi 12y ago
> 5) Elementary begins at 9:00 a.m. Middle begins at 8:00am. Wait, what? What places have older kids start school earlier ? Why would you do that? Almost every 7 year old I've ever known naturally woke up at the crack of dawn. Almo
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by akavi 12y ago
Most of your favorite languages have sql composition libraries that'll get you 90% of this (Arel for Ruby, SqlAlchemy for Python, etc, etc). The remainder, the "piping" syntax, is pretty easy to implement (Takes about 30-40 l
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by akavi 12y ago
'若' is closer to 'as' or 'equivalent to'
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by akavi 12y ago
Doesn't the protection come from the government of whatever country the ship's crew is citizens of? Ie, they're benefitting from their government's duty to protect their safety (which I think is pretty hard to dispute).

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