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by byoung2 7y ago
I have little 4"x6" signs around my house with guest WiFi info (NFC too). We have a lot of parties and it saves a lot of keystrokes and chances for error.
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by byoung2 7y ago
I worked at a company that helped small businesses improve their Yelp, Google, Foursquare, etc listings, reply to reviews, etc. In order to do that we had to constantly crawl their listings looking for changes to their info and new reviews.
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by byoung2 7y ago
At my current company, just part of the review process people will not approve your PR if there are no tests. My last company enforced it in CI and you could not merge if there was less than 90% coverage.
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by byoung2 7y ago
Former director of engineering here... When I interview a candidate what I'm looking for is creative thinking, ability to solve problems. I like to hear about programming challenges you have faced, and how you solved them, or creative
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by byoung2 7y ago
Clickable Link: https://nyti.ms/2q6uszb
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by byoung2 7y ago
We don't enforce a % but new functionality won't pass code review without tests added. A previous company I worked for required 90% coverage enforced in CI/CD. It got annoying sometimes to refactor code so you could test ever
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by byoung2 7y ago
You have found a category that Anazon serves, but does not serve well. I buy nearly everything on Amazon but I still have to buy her uniforms in person (each school has a specific color scheme, plaid pattern, collar style, etc.). My wife st
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by byoung2 7y ago
You can hit Amazon with niche categories. For example they have shoes and clothing, but there is no "Amazon for nurses scrubs or school uniforms" or other niche categories. They also do not serve many countries (e.g. Philippines).
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by byoung2 7y ago
The same weaknesses that come up when you make any David/Goliath comparison. They are big, and slow to react, so you can hit them with speed and agility. Think early 90's when MicroSoft was slow to move to the web while tiny start
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by byoung2 7y ago
I fared well during the recession overall. The company I worked for was affected more than the overall economy since we were an MBA prep company so I figured with the collapse there would be fewer jobs for MBAs in the coming years. I was pl
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by byoung2 7y ago
I know someone named James Smith and it is impossible to Google him
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by byoung2 7y ago
Yeah no activity in 6 months on any social media means they are possibly out of business. Maybe you can look up the individual people on LinkedIn and send them a message?
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by byoung2 7y ago
have you looked up your company and position on sites like Glassdoor, indeed, or salary.com? That would be a good place to start. Glassdoor will give you a range that can tell you if you are in the right ballpark. The fact that they gave yo
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by byoung2 7y ago
My wife and I have disability insurance and it is very reasonable (approx $120 a month for a benefit of about $11000 per month for me, and maybe $80 a month for about $7000 for my wife). It kicks in after 90 days and will continue to pay as
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by byoung2 7y ago
You tried all social media? They have facebook, instagram, pinterest, linkedin, and twitter on the website, though they all seem to be dormant as well (no activity in at least 6 months)
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by byoung2 7y ago
You should make this a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll But to answer your question, I would be tempted to take an extra day off but in the end I would not, and here's why. An extra day off disappears when yo
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by byoung2 7y ago
You are positioning yourself as a Slack competitor, so I would imagine the most obvious objection is that "we have so much data in slack already". We have a bunch of bots that are useful like SecurityBot and VacationTracker, and o
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by byoung2 7y ago
can you import from Slack? That is going to be a must if you want people to switch. Also do you support integrations/bots/plugins?
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by byoung2 7y ago
My team just launched a new feature end to end in 8 weeks + 2 weeks of A/B testing
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by byoung2 7y ago
Why can't you say "this is how we should not do things" during the code review window? You should have a policy in place that all comments need to be addressed before approval, and with your comment in there (e.g. "we sh
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by byoung2 7y ago
Amazon Route 53 has both a CLI and an API
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by byoung2 7y ago
You can do advanced Google searches: healthcare disparities among transgender patients "doi" after:2015:09-01 When you find an interesting article, use the doi number (e.g. 10.1371/journal.pone.0156210) here to get the full a
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by byoung2 7y ago
demand it proactively monitor the media for possible sources of stress on particular employees It's Google...a simple Google News alert would be easy to set up, and having a counselor would be no more unreasonable to have than the ma
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by byoung2 7y ago
They were not being PC: Over the last 5 years, I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color
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by byoung2 7y ago
Could it be that ending war closes the door on the subject (you dont intuitively ask "what can we end next?"), while ending mosquitoes opens a door to more troubling questions (e.g. "what species should we eliminate next?&quo
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by byoung2 7y ago
My job is remote and I choose to live in Los Angeles, CA. This is the same city as when I worked in an office, and with family, friends, my wife's job, and my daughter's school and friends it would be hard to leave. The weather, d
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by byoung2 7y ago
In California, software engineers are exempt from overtime protections if they are "highly compensated" which is around $90,000 a year or $45 an hour and 50% of the time is spent coding, designing, testing, or documenting.
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by byoung2 7y ago
The real issue is that capturing 1% is the "what" but it doesn't explain the "how". You build a better "X" but 1% won't magically flow to you, otherwise there would be 100 competitors in every market
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by byoung2 7y ago
How does working for free prove your value? It proves that you work for free, so you value your work at $0. If anything you could work on a contract basis at an hourly or daily rate on a short project and at the end of that period they coul
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by byoung2 7y ago
I’d been bumped up to a woman (Melissa, in their Puerto Rico call center) who grandly described herself as “the last point of contact on the leadership team”. There was no-one, anywhere in Amazon, more senior than her who would or could t

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