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by bsvalley 10y ago
That's exactly what I do everytime I buy a new iPhone! I pause for an hour and read the documentation before jumping right into it! Wait a minute... does it come with a docunentation? Hell no - like any other piece of code you come acr
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Have you ever been through a re-org? I've seen people get escorted at the door by security on the exact same day of the public annoucement. People who worked 15 years for the company. Also, do you know that some companies rank and keep
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by bsvalley 10y ago
+1. I've seen a mix of both... though, if you fill very confident about your skills, just ask for it. It will put the pressure on them even if the culture is about waiting for someone to name you king. They know you can get it somewher
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by bsvalley 10y ago
That's a good one. In life %99 of the people are looking for 1.security 2.comfort 3.rich I will go to school and get a degree, get a nice and stable job. Buy a house (mortgage) a car (loan) then in my spare time, i'll try to launc
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Comparing California to Kansas is indeed a smart thing to do...
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by bsvalley 10y ago
As people said... you learn from you failures :) These are all the valuable lessons I've learned
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Corporate World - Micromanagement 1. You work for your direct report not for the company's mission. 2. You leave your manager, not your job. 3. People got to management at some point based on the amount of words that came out of their
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Problem is, if we teach kids how to code today, they might end up jobless when they graduate from college. Machines will code for us. I think we should push the vision further. We always try to apply the present for the future. The real fut
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Trump + Paypal = trademark infringement It's a cool idea but I'd be carful with the monetization aspect of it.
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Ask HN: Where do you get your news from?
5 points by bsvalley 10y ago|2 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
By environment you mean location? network?
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Do you know Jack Ma? His current net worth is 28.8 billion USD. Before he became successful he applied at 30 jobs when he was looking for work and was rejected from all of them, including a job at KFC where 24 people applied and they hired
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Ask HN: What is your drink of choice while coding?
1 points by bsvalley 10y ago|4 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
I think you have to wait for demo day. YC W17 batch is still on at the moment until March. Correct me if i'm wrong...
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by bsvalley 10y ago
It's from Techcrunch not FB. They use retargeting/remarketing ads and sell this info back to Facebook. A lot of websites do that... It's actually easy to find out what people browse on the web only by looking at their FB news
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by bsvalley 10y ago
There is no good or bad answer. Here is how I'd pick a language: Swift - Do I want to attract young developers in a near future? Do I value awesome user interface over app stability? Objective-c - Am I looking to collaborate with Sr. d
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Ask HN: How would you quantify the level of stress at work?
31 points by bsvalley 10y ago|66 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
From experience, chances are you will never work with any of these people in the future. It is possible but the odds are low. So it's not worth it. Even if you stay until production, leaving for another company will always put you in a
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by bsvalley 10y ago
I forgot to mention I'm not looking for a job. I just want to compare and have another perspective. We're so stuck in this bubble... just curious how companies hire outside of the valley.
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Glad and sad to hear that someone is facing the exact same problems I've had in the past. There are several underlying problems in your situation. It took me a while to find out about all of this. Though now I have a clear vision of th
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by bsvalley 10y ago
What does it mean?? "Smarter or dumber than me". Are the ultimate reference? Sheesh! Glad to see those google filters are still working pretty well...
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Ask HN: How hard is it to land a Software Eng job outside of Silicon Valley?
8 points by bsvalley 10y ago|7 comments
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by bsvalley 10y ago
When you listen to people it sounds so easy... i'm just gonna launch an mvp and iterrate on my users feedback. %99 of the time you won't even get one single user. So in order find out what people want - you need to build an MVP a
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Your question is too broad. Which industry? Which type of products? which technologies are you referring too?
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Funny comment :) Looks like someone got rejected a few times. The point here is to land an interview first. I can't name one single engineer who wrote "algorithm and data structure" on his/her Resume. Do you? If you do h
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by bsvalley 10y ago
Like any other companies they have a list of values, company culture etc. I said tough because you could have easily passed all their interviews and failed at the very end, by talking to one of the founders.
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by bsvalley 10y ago
From what I remember so far at Airbnb it used to be tough when they were small. I don't know today if they still attract a lot of rock stars. But still, all I had to do was to write up a mini-web app and connect to their API in order t
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by bsvalley 10y ago
This is how recruiters and companies classify engineers in Silicon Valley (and beyond I believe). I'm not a fan of that classification personally, but it makes it easy to trim a pile of 5000 Resumes. What happens is that Google, FB, et
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by bsvalley 10y ago
I think you missed the fact that before landing a job, you need to land an interview. I've been on both sides as well for different kinds of companies. Some value side projects a lot at the first screening. If you study a lot it will g
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by bsvalley 10y ago
From my own experience dealing with all kinds of companies. If you aim for C-level companies (IBM, Banks, Oracle, Walmart, etc.) then you don't need to spend time building side projects. They simply don't care. For B-level compani

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