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by bsvalley 9y ago
To answer your questions, people are still on FB today because FB keeps buying its main compatitors buy offering up to 20 billion dollars per deal. WhatsApp, Instagram, etc. How can you compete with that? Well, just say "no" like
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I see this everyday in the Bay Area. In this case it seems to be a tech worker. Usually these are bought by some investors in China and the houses are never occupied.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
No, you're ignoring one case scenario - I categorize all my previous employers at the exact same level. Same experiences, same problems.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Less micro micromanagement, room for innovation over productivity, freedom to move from dev to product to design, etc. Ability to work from home whenever, communication skills over whiteboarding skills when hiring new folks.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
None. Haven't found a company that would meet my standard. And we're talking about class A companies. I should try to start my own company, I think it's the only way to get what I want.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I start in January right after the holidays when there's no vacation ahead, just a pile of work to be done: Vision - I should be at the beach chilling right now Strategy - Let me book a trip to the beach for Christmas today to get the
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by bsvalley 9y ago
More info on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753492
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by bsvalley 9y ago
In today's world, consuming interesting content on the Internet without ads or fancy UI's, just plain text... it's like taking a steam locomotive every day to go to work. Enjoy it before they take it away from us!
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by bsvalley 9y ago
1. Complete most your tasks on time. 2. Complete all your tasks on time. 3. Come up with new ideas related to your domain. 4. Implement at least one of your ideas. If you manage to do that within a year, you'll be a good asset to your
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by bsvalley 9y ago
You're a little late to the game :) It's been at least 2 years since people started throwing the word "AI" everywhere. Amazon was intensively using AI in 1999. As someone mentioned, it's been out since the 50s. Buzz
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Work life balance, lower expectations at work and no internal competition. As bad as it sounds like, that's what I need since I burnt out not a while ago. The pay cut was mostly made on stocks/bonus. I lost a lot of those by leavi
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Step 7 will be the toughest. If you appear on the list of founders with %49 ownership (= biggest shareholder without being involved in the company), then it'll be a No-Go for most of the VC's out there. The team is the main factor
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I think it's just common sense. Employers leave it up to you to share your income or not. Feel free to share your numbers with your colleagues... you'll quickly realize that nobody wants to share this kind of information. Which is
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by bsvalley 9y ago
We need a survey feature on HN. Otherwise we get Yes or No questions like that...
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Meanwhile people don't hesitate to upload photos of their homes, kids, trips, places they go everyday, to some random FB and google servers. I mean, we're talking basic product advertisement from the largest store in the world...
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Where is this? Which coutry/city? Where I live it's the opposite, you receive 200 emails per year from recruiters for jobs.
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Ask HN: How could a tech company function without management?
12 points by bsvalley 9y ago|12 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I honestly think that being a manager 1st layer is the least enjoyable job in a tech company. So I wouldn't blame them too much since they're already dealing with a bunch of problems: * Managers are easily replaceable because they
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Nope. It's like VC's... They always bet on a team rather than an idea. With great people, you usually do great things.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
As you can see, everyone is telling you not to move here under these circumstances. I'm a long timer here and I can confirm, $150K is great for a single person who's looking to rent and eventually share a place with a roommate. Yo
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Ask HN: How to stop competitiveness within the Dev world?
15 points by bsvalley 9y ago|12 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
It's the same story as "rich dad poor dad" from Robert Kiyosaki. My dad is very detail oriented, not a risk taker and all about security and education. My in law is the complete opposite. Guess who made a lot of money in life
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by bsvalley 9y ago
My dad. Then, surprisingly, my father in law. 2 different styles, 2 different perspectives about life. The combination of both is gold.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Don't they have a few summer interns?
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by bsvalley 9y ago
We already know the answer. The only way to make AI vulnerable is to be as powerful as AI. We, human beings, need to become cyborgs.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
The point of this book like many other books "get rich quick and work less", is to make the author richer. If you're successful, people will most likely listen to you. So, you need to be successful in some way in real life an
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by bsvalley 9y ago
They actually all do. Linkedin (you need a premium account), glassdoor, stackoverflow, hired.com, etc.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
So the question is - how good are you? It could be an easy task, or, a bit tricky. Get evaluated by a trusted entity so that you can define what "better than me" really means. That's how I would go about it. Example, apply at
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Saying "hate is everywhere, it's life" isn't the right approach. If I were you and if this story happens to be true, I'd simply pick up the phone and call their office. I'd ask to talk to Mr. R directly. Then I
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by bsvalley 9y ago
when you're facing a whiteboard with an interviewer looking over your shoulder, looking at the clock waiting for you to write a basic function that cracks a complex problem, you can have 20 years of experience in Go, it ain't gonn

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