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by bkbleikamp 15y ago
There aren't really any deadlines. For the most part people are working on things they're excited about, so everyone wants to ship as quickly as possible. While we have fun, goof off, and can work whenever we want, we're all professional an
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by bkbleikamp 15y ago
GitHub has erred on the side of hiring people who don't need measurement—we all work hard regardless of who's watching. Also, everyone is smart. No one is assuming number of commits is a correlation to productivity. Some days sitting at hom
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The [Start-up CEO's] Steve Jobs Complex(bleikamp.com)
8 points by bkbleikamp 15y ago|0 comments
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Make Design Matter(bleikamp.com)
3 points by bkbleikamp 15y ago|0 comments
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Recruiting Good Designers(bleikamp.com)
1 points by bkbleikamp 15y ago|0 comments
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by bkbleikamp 15y ago
Coming up with extremes is a really valuable skill. So clever.
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by bkbleikamp 15y ago
"I've run a team of Solaris sysadmins and yes I could have hired Linux sysadmins…" Now you're comparing system administration to design - this doesn't really work. Technical skills like this don't translate well, and I never claimed they do
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Hire Good Designers(bleikamp.com)
63 points by bkbleikamp 15y ago|20 comments
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TechCrunch commented on design…and failed(bleikamp.com)
1 points by bkbleikamp 16y ago|0 comments
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MySQL Minutiae and InnoDB internals(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
4 points by bkbleikamp 16y ago|0 comments
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Yelp Open Source Projects(opensource.yelp.com)
2 points by bkbleikamp 16y ago|0 comments
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
It depends on the privacy setting for the status/post.
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How Yelp tests without a QA team(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
4 points by bkbleikamp 16y ago|0 comments
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
This thread on Quora provides a lot of great advice: http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-learn-to-be-a-good-product-de...
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Yelp's deployment process(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
30 points by bkbleikamp 16y ago|1 comments
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
Two of the people on the team were experienced hardware hackers, others were experienced iPhone developers. I believe they did some minor planning beforehand to get the write components to build things. (I work at Yelp)
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
It was only 48 hours ;)
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New $10M X Prize Announced for Solution to Gulf Oil Spill Crisis(politicsdaily.com)
6 points by bkbleikamp 16y ago|0 comments
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The Fallacy of Citizen Journalism(rhjr.tumblr.com)
3 points by bkbleikamp 16y ago|2 comments
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
YC isn't about money, it's about the relationships and the network of YC alumni and the prominent angels and VCs who show up at demo day.
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
I think another issue is their solution to the problem is flawed. Most users don't have a desire or the ability to run their own server. Running a basic application on a web server seems trivial to nerds, but to average users it seems impos
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
I'll echo everyone else here that has said a lot of websites and companies do have this. But the reason not every one of them does is that it is extremely time consuming, takes a lot of thought, and you have to spend time enforcing the guid
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
That graph has been on the page since before any class action lawsuits were filed.
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
Yelp's data would seem to indicate that users with a positive experience are more likely to write a review: http://www.yelp.com/press
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by bkbleikamp 16y ago
Not actually that impressive, as Page Rank is an exponential scale. http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/07/24/climbing-page-...
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by bkbleikamp 17y ago
Yelp is hiring, http://yelp.com/jobs/
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by bkbleikamp 17y ago
This isn't surprising - what percentage of Wikipedia users actually contribute to Wikipedia? Probably less than 10%. What percentage of users actually comment on Hacker News? Probably not very high (I don't know, though). You don't need
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by bkbleikamp 17y ago
The term "Product Designer" is one that suits the web well. In my opinion a product designer should be able to create visually appealing designs that are usable. They should have an understanding of user experience and HCI issues - but not
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by bkbleikamp 17y ago
Why not JavaScript? It requires no command line knowledge and runs in any modern browser. They can create games, easily install libraries or frameworks by including another JS file, etc.
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25 Odd Interview Questions(glassdoor.com)
2 points by bkbleikamp 17y ago|1 comments

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