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Ask HN: What is the most impressive thing you've built on iOS?
2 points by bsvalley 8y ago|0 comments
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I think you miss-understood my statement. They calculated $150B based on is 16.4% stakes in Amazon, 100% financial assets (stocks). Yes, you can convert it into real assets at any time, after vesting period, but as the CEO and founder of Am
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by bsvalley 8y ago
If I were you I'd join a large corporate or startup in SF. You'll get all that + big salary in exchange for your lines of code.
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by bsvalley 8y ago
most of it is virtual money... He could be worth $50B tomorrow if his company crashes. Still a lot of money though, but $150B don't mean anything. It would be interesting to see when/if bitcoin reaches $1 million USD. That Forbes
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Have you tried to take a break? A 2-3 week break. By pausing your life you’ll free up more space in your brain to think about what is next for you. Quitting could be the solution, but there is a chance that it might aggravate things. Surrou
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by bsvalley 8y ago
My bad, I forgot to specify... Yes, Restricted Stock Units. A new grant usually vests over 4 years. It starts with your one year anniversary when 25% of your grant vest. Then after it's every 6 months you get 12.5%. Every year they may
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Where are you located? $250k in San Francisco for example with 10 years of experience is very doable. How? RSU's. Look for big and hot tech companies and that's it. If you're talking about $250k as a base salary, then I'
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Setup a meeting with the dev team (only). Go over all the main features required for this release, ideally, they should already be in a form of "user stories". Depends if you're in an Agile env or not... in 2018, I hope you g
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I'd tell these 100 Amazon employees to finally go on vacation... and for a 100 days :) Let's not burn these "resources" out.
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I guess you’re applying for jobs in the US? If so, they can’t sponsor you... it is that simple. Applications for a working visa in tech were sent on April 1st this year. Because of a limited number of visa allocated every year, candidates g
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Think of it this way: First, electric cars second, AI and self-driving cars third, high speed internet in your vehicle where you can surf the Web. Location will be a huge deal. Apple needs to master this space, Maps is just a client consumi
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by bsvalley 8y ago
This is what you see from a consumer perspective. But from a company perspective, going thinner as way more benefits. Apple invested a lot in R&D to make things thinner, but when it comes to manufacturing products in mass, Apple is actu
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Try to get a sense of transparency and communication from the candidate, which are generally good traits. There's nothing worse than a manager who things you're an idiot. How? How many promotions in your team lately? Have you ever
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I believe so, the number of vegetarians will certainly increase in the future due to the awareness. Though, might no be true that the whole world will turn vegeterian in thousands or millions of years from now. Unless meat disappears.
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I think businesses adapt to the demand and a lot of people get influenced by a bunch of various diets these days. Migration of people around the world (different cultures) and the fact that we have access to more data (Internet, etc.), prob
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Bill pay?
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by bsvalley 8y ago
From experience, most managers suck, period. There are amazing managers but it’s pretty rare. I won’t get into too much details here as the OP asked for a specific question. But it comes from the fact that a 1st line manager’s job is very c
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by bsvalley 8y ago
$400k/y not dropping tells me that you’re on to something pretty solid. Your business model has been more than validated. If I were you I would not sell at all unless it’s for 10x the money. Since it’s not possible :) I’d try to 10x my
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Long story short, your contract hasn’t been renewed due to a human mistake (someone forgot to do it). The program worked perfectly, as expected. If the program would have failed, it would have also came from a human being (developer). Machi
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Hey guess what. Are you healthy? Do you have a place to sleep? Do you have food on the table when needed? Life is good my friend. You are part of the super human beings. You're 100% alive and healthy. Go live tomorrow like it was your
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I worked for different companies including top companies. There's no such things as "meaningful" work when it comes to a project within a company (the size doesn't matter). A project is project and has a budget, as a dea
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I don’t fully disagree but I think it’s short term thinking. Some companies emerge out of the current demand, but a lot of other companies do work on future problems way ahead of time. SpaceX is a great example, openAI is an even better exa
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Ask HN: Software Engineer career switch
2 points by bsvalley 8y ago|3 comments
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Crypto currencies are a hell of a ride ;)
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Pick up a place that has no state income tax. You'll instantly get a %10 pay raise. Definitely move away from California because the public schools are just horrible. Florida, Washington or Texas. These 3 states have really good school
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by bsvalley 8y ago
This will sound a little boring to you but the following 5 habits made me stronger after only 2 weeks. I suffer from general fatigue (I did a million check up with specialist and nothing came out). I've tried so many different things t
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Why not linking to jack's tweet directly? Does it need a whole article?
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Not sure the HN community can answer this question. Or maybe some of us are billionaires? There are no-money-problems and to-much-money-problems. I think the later is often misunderstood. Lawsuits are usually a pain, not only for billionair
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by bsvalley 8y ago
When a software engineer burns out he or she always identifies the same set of problems: I don’t like my job anymore, I can’t code anymore, but there’s nothing else I can do. I will never be able to make the same amount of money doing somet
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It’s a space problem. If I don’t take that space now someone else would within the next second. Average human behavior. So why not act now? Oh... now i’m standing up in a line of people very close to each other. I can smell them even better

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