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   How to Hire Actually Good Engineers(siliconvict.com)

   1 points by buf 4y ago|0 comments
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   by buf 4y ago

   Everyone in this thread seems to be hung up on sharing code from an employer or 'good code'. You could clone an open source repo and use that if you're worried. The value isn't the code; it's the conversation. &quot
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   by buf 4y ago

   This is as good a time as any to ask about Render. I've been eyeing it recently and I'm thinking about launching my next project with it. Does anyone have any takeaways from using Render vs Heroku?
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   by buf 4y ago

   I've never been put in the situation where an engineer shared something alarming from a proprietary code base, but hypothetically if someone brought with them the code for how to hack superuser privs for an old company, that would be a
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   by buf 4y ago

   I've interviewed maybe 500 engineers in my career. I'm an early engineer of Instacart, 3rd engineer of Eventbrite, founding engineer of Reforge. Started 3 companies myself. My interview is always the same: 1. Bring code you'v
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   by buf 4y ago

   Can't argue with that.
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   by buf 4y ago

   I blog to increase my personal brand which I use to make money.
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   by buf 4y ago

   https://www.siliconvict.com These days I just tinker with projects which are listed in that site. Taking a couple years off while I look for the next big thing.
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   by buf 4y ago

   And end up like Fast?!
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    by buf 4y ago

    Wow, I make the same revenue as Fast as a one-man entrepreneur. It really amazes me sometimes the strategies of these heavily funded companies. Why pile on so much burn so quickly?
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    by buf 4y ago

    https://siliconvict.com I was a homeless, convicted felon turned financially independent retired early via Silicon Valley. I mostly write about goofy business lessons and my failures.
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    Lessons starting a $500M and a $5M company in 5 years(siliconvict.com)

    3 points by buf 5y ago|0 comments
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    by buf 5y ago

    Reddit thread mentioned: https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/tq7b93/is_it_... His refund rate: https://nomadlist.com/open He makes about $700k a year on nomadlist, $70k in ref
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    Ask HN: How does Levels handle so much negative PR for NomadList?

    10 points by buf 5y ago|8 comments
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    by buf 5y ago

    You raise an interesting point. Who's data is it? If you walk into a grocery store, and cameras record which aisle you walk down, which items you stop to look at and which things you buy. Is that legal? What if the cameras block out yo
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    by buf 5y ago

    Thanks! Yes, it was definitely exhausting, but I think life is lived in phases, so I always take periods of rest when I need it. Out of curiosity, what would you have submitted this post as? Tell HN?
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    by buf 5y ago

    Can't argue with that logic. But presenting failures is better than not having any information at all, I'd argue. By showing any work at all, people can give feedback.
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    Show HN: People should show off failures as much as wins

    6 points by buf 5y ago|6 comments
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    by buf 5y ago

    Assault w/Deadly Weapon - took 15 years to get it pardoned and expunged. The hardest battle I've fought in my life. It makes startups look easy. I'll write more about it one day, but I don't want to screw it up.
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    by buf 5y ago

    +1 That's a great point to make for people who are building side projects. Make sure you list your side projects in an exception in the IP clauses of your employment contract, like I did.
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    by buf 5y ago

    Thank you. :)
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    by buf 5y ago

    https://www.siliconvict.com
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    by buf 5y ago

    I already had a different side project with 300k users so it was incredibly easy to find PMF fast because I just emailed them. Tech choices: I never reinvent the wheel. I just take working pieces from other work that I've done and glue
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    by buf 5y ago

    Technically I don't work currently, so I'm not sure if this is a side project. I was the founding engineer and Head of Eng at Reforge the past 4+ years while I was building Closing Credits. I left in August 2021. So, it was a side
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    by buf 5y ago

    Thank you! In person I'm a bag of laughs, but on text I really come off as aloof, so it feels good to read that someone was impacted by something I wrote. I've got so much more that I'm afraid to publish. Might have to recons
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    by buf 5y ago

    Just me, but I do revshare with the instructors and I have a support staff on contract to handle tickets.
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    by buf 5y ago

    I make about $50k/mo on https://www.closingcredits.com I found that most teaching platforms for voice actors out there are run by a bunch of celebrities who are pushing edutainment, not education. So I wanted to make someth
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    by buf 5y ago

    I just got off a zoom call with the cofounder of simpleanalytics.com. Humble, worked with my startup on pricing options, and cares a lot about privacy which was the reason why I set up the call. Shame on PostHog for this. You can do better
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    by buf 5y ago

    Uniqlo anything
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    by buf 5y ago

    I use lazygit a dozen times or more per day. As a tmux+vim user w/lazygit, I don't think I've touched my trackpad in years, and it still feels like a modern interface and faster than all the IDEs out there.