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by bsvalley 9y ago
Wanting to become an entrepreneur is a weak goal in itself. It’s like wanting to own a business or to create a startup. A rental property solves a real problem in life. Guess what, you found some success doing it. Try to solve a real proble
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Call you manager, tell him directly. Give a reasonable notice (2 weeks minimum, 1 month if you feel like it). That's it. During your team meeting, announce your departure so everyone is aware. There's nothing special to be done si
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by bsvalley 9y ago
2 things: 1/ Dev: Stop hiring whiteboard coders. 2/ Product: Stop hiring MBA's who can tell you a lot about strategies and nothing about building solutions. Long story short, fix the hiring process in tech and you'll see
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by bsvalley 9y ago
"Please give your friends or family a hug for me. We never know how much time we have with someone, and sometimes it’s all too short." This is a wake up call for all of us. Thanks for your positive impact. That is the real value y
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by bsvalley 9y ago
GPA? Zero impact. Building things aside played a huge role though. It's the main reason why I'm where I'm at today. I'd say aim for average score, spend your extra hours building things aside. Your real GPA is the positi
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by bsvalley 9y ago
You need to define “successful”. To me success goes like this: physically healthy, emotionally connected to your close family, a place to stay, enough money to eat and take care of you and your loved ones if you’re not single (spouse, child
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by bsvalley 9y ago
The 2 apps I use the most on my mobile phone are the Camera app and Google Map. In today’s and age I would not spend money on a Startac Motorola or a Nokia phone.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
35 years old is the sweet spot for a PM coming from the technical side. Let's be honest, are you going to code for the rest of your life? Probably not the most sustainable future... From experience, there's only one thing that is
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by bsvalley 9y ago
When someone tells me "I'm a software engineer at XYZ", the first thing I ask is - in what team are you in? If your role is to maintain internal web pages or to build random tools for the marketing team then yeah... it doesn&
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Ask HN: Why am I not excited about big companies anymore?
3 points by bsvalley 9y ago|2 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
How would blockchain help in this case? Not sure I get the idea... Blockchain within an organization doesn't make any sense. I've had different managers and they were horrible or useless for the most part. Usually in big corporate
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Finally someone who understand the purpose of blockchain. Plus, they would have to get rid of all edit/delete features. Sounds like a nightmare to me. Can they create an FB coin? Sure but the use of a centralized payment system goes ag
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I think in 2016 it was one of the biggest themes for YC startups. They've founded a lot of startups in the recruiting field trying to innovate. Problem I see so far is that they don't tackle the actual problem. Automation and onli
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Project management at a low level (small/agile team) is pure micro management. Why? Because devs end up reporting to a PM everyday. It depends on the company and the setup, but I’d say most of the time a project within an organization
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by bsvalley 9y ago
From a product perspective it sounds awesome. As a user I won’t have to deal with new user interfaces every month. Tiny increments while maintening a very high quality. From a developer perspective though, it sounds pretty boring. I’d not w
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Average at what? Tests? Scores? GPA? Coding? How do we know the difference? You can be successful without being #1 at school. In fact, there are more successful people in life than top students. Plus, most of the top students aren’t that su
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by bsvalley 9y ago
You have until April 1st this year to land an offer. At least 2-3 weeks prior to April 1st (deadline for H1B applications). The whole world wants to work in California, not only you need to be the best at what you do, you need to get rid of
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by bsvalley 9y ago
People want to hire great "engineers" by asking them to write stupid functions on a whiteboard 4 hours in a row. That's after 2 phone interviews of 45 minutes each asking the exact same stupid questions. Are you guys looking
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by bsvalley 9y ago
What amount will make you satisfied? 1 billion dollars net, in my bank account.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Previous Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16264329 My answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265512
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Javascript? storing BTC on a mobile phone? Sounds like a receipe for disaster.
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I agree with you only for places like Silicon Valley. It can totally be automated. You'd hear the exact same speech if you were to apply at 5 different companies at the same time. You would go through the exact same process, you would
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by bsvalley 9y ago
I think we're on the same page. I was simply highlighting things I witnessed from my past experience. Bugs (in Mac OS) get really nasty sometimes and frustrating for the most part. It is brain consuming and the reward isn't always
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Don’t focus on the noise, %99 of the ICO’s are scams. Same goes for a bunch of alt-coins. There is a difference between changing the world and improving the world. Bitcoin is already changing the world, anything else is just about enabling
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Been there done that. A real solution would be to stop hiring new developers, to reduce the size of the current dev team, to reduce the size and responsibility of the QA team in order to force developers to test their own code. To eliminate
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by bsvalley 9y ago
You mean busy going to meetings? Yeah it takes most of my time. Leading the team is an on-demand thing... Though I don’t code anymore, I simply keep up with the latest technologies without coding. Simply read tech forums, news, etc. I think
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by bsvalley 9y ago
The Bitcoin community has been working on regulations, wall street adoption and security. How about alt coins? Well, they only talk about 2 things: "cheaper" and "faster" transactions. Technology is cool, but if you want
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by bsvalley 9y ago
How about Demo day at the end of the YC program? When startups pitch their ideas on stage to a selected crowd of wealthy investors. I think it’s one of the main benefits of joining such a program. If I were to apply I’d mention the network
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Ask HN: How will ICO’s affect YC and other tech investors?
11 points by bsvalley 9y ago|5 comments
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by bsvalley 9y ago
Everyone wants to work in California and everyone wants to work remotely. So, I think the combination of the 2 makes competition harder for you. I believe that's pretty much it... 7 billion people on earth, there's always a handfu

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