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by birken 12y ago
Sorry for this buzzkill comment, but this is one reason hanging out with startup founders can be intolerable in some cases. Now I don't think focusing on recruiting or only going to events in which you are actively recruiting people is
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by birken 12y ago
And if you are a prospective employee joining a company that is planning to have "oh shit" moments, just make sure you are being compensated with a lot of equity. There basically is no worse deal than joining a risky company at t
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Quick tip: Enhance your workspace to prevent production miscues(danbirken.com)
7 points by birken 12y ago|1 comments
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by birken 13y ago
Let's think about this logically. Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000/month, Google is making $2,352/month from that account. So by banning the account, they are making $5,000 on
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by birken 13y ago
A couple notes that aren't related to the content of the post: 1) The graphs are not presented in a way that makes them easy to consume. The font is too small, the bars are too densely combined, the axis labels are not descriptive eno
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by birken 13y ago
The problem with the 10%/20%/30%/40% thing is that if the company shoots way up in value, an employee could theoretically be fired after two years and not capture much of the value they helped to create. It also doesn't
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by birken 13y ago
You don't have to spend the money or even have a plan to spend it right away for it to be useful. It has value as: 1. Rainy day fund. When the market is hot, you might as well stow some money away in case bad things happen. 2. Liquid
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Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries(danbirken.com)
156 points by birken 13y ago|69 comments
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by birken 13y ago
> “We’re now at a stage where we can power music delivery through our growing number of servers and ensure our users continue to receive a best-in-class service,” Bonny says. Makes sense to me. The bigger you get, the cheaper bandwidth
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The Pitfalls of Bias in A/B Testing(danbirken.com)
1 points by birken 13y ago|1 comments
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by birken 13y ago
Another usability tip on credit card forms: Don't use drop-downs for the expiration date. People are just typing them directly off the card, let them type them. Don't force them to deal with large and annoying select boxes. Stri
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by birken 13y ago
Successful founders certainly have an incentive to make it seem like founding their startup was extremely hard so it seems like their success was more due to skill and less due to luck. This isn't to say the ratio of skill/luck i
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by birken 13y ago
No, not at all. I quit Google to work at a startup not because I didn't like Google, but because I felt a startup was a way for my compensation to more directly align with the value I could help create. And obviously my belief at tha
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by birken 13y ago
While I don't agree with the wage-fixing thing, I can tell you that the "average engineer salary slightly higher than $100K" at Google is not even close to true. When I worked at Google 7 years ago, in the heart of this cont
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by birken 13y ago
I hate articles that start out with lies. The average tech CEO does not work 11.5 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. There might be a few tech CEOs who work that long, but I am guessing for most of them it isn't a sustainab
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by birken 13y ago
Just to put some numbers behind this: 35 CPU years = 35 * 365 = 12,775 CPU days Let's assume that your standard Google machine has 2 8-core processors, that is 16 cores per machine 12,775 / 16 = 798 machines 800 machines is a lot
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by birken 13y ago
From the About page: Why "startup" sports club? -------------------------- Startup people generally enjoy trying new things, networking with one another and live in dense clusters. If you aren't in the startup community that
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by birken 13y ago
Sounds great, "Video Games" added to the suggestion list.
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by birken 13y ago
Sorry about that, it is a very early product and sadly this bug slipped through. This was a particularly classic one where I test on sqlite and the production environment is postgres, and they unfortunately handle some inputs differently.
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by birken 13y ago
OP here. Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback. That is the goal of the site, as a way to meet new people doing stuff that you enjoy doing. And especially thanks for putting your information on the interest list: http://star
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Show HN: Startup Sports Club(startupsportsclub.com)
51 points by birken 13y ago|24 comments
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by birken 13y ago
FYI, the exact definition of the class here is people who "worked as a salaried Technical Employee": (a) for Apple from March 2005 through December 2009; (b) for Adobe from May 2005 through December 2009; (c) for Google from March
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by birken 13y ago
I think this is generally decent advice about the mechanics of fundraising if you aren't an "in-demand" startup. However, this does gloss over the major fact that this is a bad situation to find yourself in, and you are much
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by birken 13y ago
I think you are mixing up a correlation vs causation effect. The first thing is there is an extremely important causation effect, the more investors you have, the easier it is to get more people to invest (social proof). So, inbound vs outb
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by birken 13y ago
Look, startups suck. Failed startups suck. Successful startups suck. Silicon Valley sucks. But so does working regular jobs, and so do a lot of things. The problem here is probably that you had the wrong expectations, and then when rea
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by birken 13y ago
As noted in the post, I believe Amazon has some extra anti-fraud stuff going on. I actually went through the purchase flow sans password as I was writing the post, so it certainly is possible. However, other times I have gone through the
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Password prompts are annoying(danbirken.com)
76 points by birken 13y ago|44 comments
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by birken 13y ago
40 engineers is a "skeleton crew"? 40 engineers? There are tons of websites/products out there doing a lot more with a lot less. And I love pandora, but this product management technique isn't exactly revolutionary. I
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by birken 13y ago
Just to put this in context, any game in which you checkmate your opponent in under 20 moves is considered to be an incredibly quick game, where your opponent must have helped you by playing a really horrible move. The game is over before
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by birken 13y ago
There is no way Google (or I assume any good employer) would fire an employee would for such a mistake. Mistakes happen, they are a part of life in the technical world. You work really hard to make sure the mistakes are minor (which this

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