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by bsvalley 9y ago
How to make money, not how to lose money :)
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Ask HN: How to make money while commuting to work?
35 points by bsvalley 9y ago|67 comments
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Ask HN: Software Engineers – What is your base-salary in 2017?
6 points by bsvalley 9y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What is your base-salary in San Francisco Bay Area in 2017?
1 points by bsvalley 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Whiteboard interview questions are about to disapear?
1 points by bsvalley 9y ago|0 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Buying stocks with your savings is not good at all :)
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I'd go back to college and get another CS degree. Beyond college I'd try to learn new things.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Skills are useless without a bit of creativity. You should look into that. I know creativity and corporations don't get along very well but it'll provide you answers to your questions above.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
For iPhone owners for example, use 3rd party apps for contacts, emails, web browser, etc. Typically google apps like chrome, gmail, etc. Delete them right before the border check. Clear your caches just in case. Then re-download them when y
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by bsvalley 9y ago
The question is, what's better than that today? Nothing but way more risky stuff.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
If you live in a place like the Bay Area, the best retirement plan involves these 4 steps: 1. Owning a home in the Bay Area by the time you retire. No mortgage, no rent. Just bills. 2. Sell that place when you retire in order to move to a c
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Lifecycle of a software engineer: 10-20 years old = if Zuckerberg then stop here, else: 20-30 years old = Best perk, best company, best project 30-40 years old = Work from home, short commute, less work 40-60 years old = QA or maintain lega
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Yep. That's why when you reach this milestone, you ain't care about the name of a company, if the product is hot or not. All you care about are - ability to work from home - not too competitive environment (otherwise you'd ge
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Ask HN: How is the work/life/balance at Facebook?
3 points by bsvalley 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Joining Google/Facebook in your mid 30's – engineer
1 points by bsvalley 9y ago|0 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
This is just the tip of the iceberg my friend :) the small conversion rate is mostly due to a broken interview process, not a wrong matching mechanism. Nowadays you'll often end up with this kind of emails after spending weeks intervie
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I agree the original list (microsoft, facebook, google, amazon) is outdated. Hard to ignore a company like Apple. I would put FB in it because every single CS student wants to work at FB. Microsoft shouldn't be in the list anymore sinc
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Ask HN: Which company is the 4th of the Big-4?
5 points by bsvalley 9y ago|5 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Why are we seeing all these questions involving "Google" on "Ask HN" lately? In most of the big companies is as you've described.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Tech program managers and product managers for example get one round of whiteboard coding questions. The rest is pretty standard, still high expectation though because of the number of applicants.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
An iOS engineer would look at things like CoreData or Sqlite :) certainly not a binary search tree.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
BS. It's like anywhere else, you code on your machine and devops takes care of the rest.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I partially disagree with what has been said here. Fundamental engineering skills are things you learn at school. Theory over reality, by default, we're all good engineers with a CS degree right? In my opinion you have to implement tha
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Ask HN: What are your main criteria when picking up your next employer?
2 points by bsvalley 9y ago|1 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
No it's stupid. Like asking an iOS engineer a question involving a tree data structure. It is stupid and irrelevant because at the end of the day our job is to build products/features. If you think at a student level you will neve
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Sure... Being a software engineer is not the same as doing whiteboaring all day. But guess what, %80 of the final decision is based on your whiteboarding performance. The interview process is so unfair and broken, anything not standard will
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by bsvalley 9y ago
In today's world you won't pass the interview process as an introvert. You have to come up strong and confident otherwise interviewers (other dev folks) will eat you alive during technical interviews. Long story short, it has beco
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Ask HN: Do recruiters communicate between companies?
1 points by bsvalley 9y ago|1 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I thought all the TED taks would end up on youtube anyway? 10k? Sheesh....
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Why do you want to start a startup? What will a startup do for you? Are you working on something besides starting a startup? Without these answers I'm affraid we can't really provide any valuable insights for you.

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