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by b20000 3y ago
no, beginning programmers need to learn negotiation, marketing and sales skills
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by b20000 3y ago
as a CS undergrad i interviewed at PwC or a similar firm one day. The lady hands me one of their 2 page publications on IT and asks me to write a summary. She gets back and I explain that the publication makes no sense and is full of inaccu
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by b20000 3y ago
because parts of code these days is written in languages like java, python, etc which means at least some software runs slower. add to that that people think that because machines are faster they don’t need to optimize anything.
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by b20000 3y ago
coding interviews
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by b20000 3y ago
i know of two so called millions of dollars success stories first hand both shared the same elements: - theft of IP or sales leads - unlikely events that lined up (luck) which made the business a success
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Ask HN: Best toolkit to build custom pdf viewer?
1 points by b20000 3y ago|1 comments
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by b20000 3y ago
what kind of contracting work were you doing?
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Ask HN: Creating mental space for startup while contracting
7 points by b20000 3y ago|7 comments
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by b20000 3y ago
i agree, if it was that easy…
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by b20000 3y ago
this will never change unless those affected work actively to change society to benefit them for example work towards replacing sports programming on TV by science and engineering programming
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by b20000 3y ago
get a profiler, pick an algorithm, and parallellize it using simd then compare before / after using the profiler learn about the intrinsics as you work on it
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by b20000 3y ago
thanks for mentioning connections something that is often conveniently omitted
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by b20000 3y ago
how did you manage to raise 50k in 15 minutes of meeting someone? i never managed to do that despite having a real business with customers and revenue
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by b20000 3y ago
crickets
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by b20000 3y ago
because the calculator is sponsored by big co’s
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by b20000 3y ago
so as a single adult with a kid you can have a normal life in santa clara county with 100k income according to this calculator that seems several multiples off
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by b20000 3y ago
a living wake calculator sponsored by large companies and institutions okay
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Ask HN: Typical Acquihire Process with FAANGs?
1 points by b20000 3y ago|1 comments
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by b20000 3y ago
thx
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Ask HN: Invoicing Tool for Consulting on Retainer
2 points by b20000 3y ago|2 comments
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by b20000 3y ago
that is why you have to first verify whether they have a master's in CS, if your requirement asks for that. you call the university and find out. if they don't, you can discard the candidate. then, you can filter on the visa requi
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by b20000 3y ago
a future contract is for the delivery of a commodity, which has some kind of non zero value the market agrees on startups can have zero value and until there is substantial IP there or customer base it remains zero so i don’t see how SAFEs
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Ask HN: Stories of founders going back to self hosting from Shopify, Squarespace
43 points by b20000 3y ago|12 comments
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by b20000 3y ago
security and memory safety are non issues in most embedded devices
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Ask HN: Best Sales Training?
1 points by b20000 3y ago|0 comments
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by b20000 3y ago
the problem with leetcode interviews is that it favors people who have the time to memorize optimal solutions to a large set of problems which they can reproduce in under 5 minutes. but those people have zero creativity and are not necessar
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by b20000 3y ago
how do you become a vc as a typical tech person?
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by b20000 3y ago
they are not just like cargo bikes are not
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by b20000 3y ago
functional programmers are kind of like cargo bike riders. they know they can solve their problem otherwise and in a much simpler fashion but insist on riding the cargo bike.
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by b20000 3y ago
i wonder how this stuff is dealt with during hiring conversations like when you have a project already …. or how acquihires happen

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