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by bsvalley 10y ago
1. Find another job where there is no agreement 2. Work on your side project after work and on the weekends 3. If you see it's picking up, quit No excuses...
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by bsvalley 10y ago
It's much more complex... PG posted an updated version once. (= gravity* 1.8 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1 nourl-factor* .4 lightweight-factor* .17 gag-factor* .1) (def frontpage-rank (s (o scorefn realscore) (o gr
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by bsvalley 10y ago
I was working for a company that had access to a nice trail where I used to walk for 30 minutes every day after lunch. It helped digesting but didn't change much in terms of productivity.
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by bsvalley 10y ago
I understand that, though, coffee makes that "something" less painful. Which is why I decided to keep drinking coffee beside the anxious side effect that I get as well. The trade off was worth it.
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by bsvalley 10y ago
I actually did these 2 exact tests not a while ago. Thyroid was negative but they recorded that I have short apnea under 10s. Which put me in the mild apnea group, where you don't necessarily need further investigations.
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Same here. Any coffee after 3pm would impact my sleep.
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Ask HN: How many coffee do you need per day to get your work done?
11 points by bsvalley 10y ago|28 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
What is your definition of "respect"? - enough time to for them to see you physically in the office before you disappear? - enough time for them so that they can complete their goals on time before you leave?
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Your location is the answer. In the US, engineers make more in the tech hubs like SF, NYC, Seattle. It is not true everywhere, in Austin TX for example, PM's make more money. In europe, PM's rank higher so they make more money tha
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by bsvalley 10y ago
My only advise would be to find 1-2 sentences that would explain exactly what you've built. I would post it here on HN to get the feedback you want. I would also mention these sentences in your application. "This is why you should
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by bsvalley 10y ago
I dream a lot about what I could do with the money I'm making from coding. It's never enough...
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Ask HN: What company would you never work for? And why?
4 points by bsvalley 10y ago|5 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
You're fine with the time? Move on...
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Ask HN: Are YC unicorns dying?
1 points by bsvalley 10y ago|0 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Is Pandora still alive in 2017?
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Ask HN: Which company has bad interviewers?
1 points by bsvalley 10y ago|0 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Is it just a copy/paste of the Apple documentation? https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/iP...
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Ask HN: What are the most requested algorithms during technical interviews?
68 points by bsvalley 10y ago|66 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Stop working for free now.
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Welcome to the job market... It's been like that forever. Are you in the Bay Area? It's worse here companies really don't give a crap and right now, there are a zillion candidates on the market. If you apply via linkedin, you
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by bsvalley 10y ago
If I were to make USD 200K/year as a Software Engineer in Bangladesh, I'd probably be richer than the CEO of that company. I believe you're referring to the ration salary/cost_of_living rather than comparing difference c
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by bsvalley 10y ago
That's actually 2012 stuff... https://blueseed.com
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The End of Work – 2020?(medium.com)
1 points by bsvalley 10y ago|0 comments
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The Art of Corruption in Silicon Valley(medium.com)
2 points by bsvalley 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are the NEW hot topics for 2017?
2 points by bsvalley 10y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How would you disrupt the current dev. hiring process?
2 points by bsvalley 10y ago|1 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
The hiring process in 2017 is: 1. First CS exercise - phone screen (1h) 2. Second CS exercise - phone screen (1h, optional) 3. Onsite (full day of CS exercises on a white board or on a computer) 4. Sometimes you get an extra coding assignme
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Like I said - we need to stop lying to ourselves about software engineering. Reality is the complete opposite of what you're talking about. The hiring process in our field is perfectly designed for people fresh out of college. It is n
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Are you gonna tell your product manager that it will take you 5 days to write a linear solution for your feature? O(n). Are you gonna fix a critical bug in production by using a depth first search instead of a breadth first search? What doe
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Ask HN: What do we know about FB candidates profiling?
1 points by bsvalley 10y ago|1 comments

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