byoung2

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by byoung2 8y ago
Salary range, remote work possibility, tech stack, job responsibilities
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by byoung2 8y ago
Is this a free account? They may be more cooperative if you tell them you are trying to log in to become a paid member. Also, it's a long shot but you know the phone numbers maybe contact the new owners of those numbers and see if they
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by byoung2 9y ago
It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People leave and then other people start leaving because they see people leaving. The question to ask is why did the first round of people leave?
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Ask HN: Node.js library for extracting times from text
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by byoung2 9y ago
I lost touch but in the first 2 years he said he loved it, and it was the best job he ever had. A current check of LinkedIn shows he left but I don't know the reason.
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by byoung2 9y ago
My coworker left to go work at LogicMonitor in Santa Barbara, CA ( https://www.logicmonitor.com/careers/ ). Back in 2013 (not sure of the current policy) they offered unlimited vacations, and a $1000 bonus if you took a
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by byoung2 9y ago
The company I work for is 100% distributed across the US and they pay the same salary regardless of where you live. I'm in Los Angeles, CA so it doesn't go nearly as far as it does for my colleagues in Texas or Louisiana.
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by byoung2 9y ago
Remember the Matrix, where all of humanity is trapped in a giant simulation so they can be drained of their energy? And only a few people were able to wake up and see the real world? The business world is like that, where most people believ
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by byoung2 9y ago
Great minds think alike! I just found that same link
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by byoung2 9y ago
Why is Quebec specifically excluded and not Canada as a whole? EDIT: https://www.thebalance.com/why-are-so-many-competitions-void...
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by byoung2 9y ago
That same account posts a monthly "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?" Post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16492996
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by byoung2 9y ago
Somebody bought them from me online through a credit card and they cancelled the credit card payment. It was that easy! And it was from a stolen credit card number so you can never get it back This is more a flaw in the traditional bankin
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by byoung2 9y ago
Definitely do the home warranty. We've had one major issue each year that was completely covered by the warranty that would have been thousands to repair. Home automation is still early stage so be prepared for lots of bugs and tweaks.
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by byoung2 9y ago
I found my current job (since 2015) working 100% remote in the whoishiring thread, and I'm super grateful for that. Besides that, it's been my go-to source for tech and startup news and great (sometimes frustrating) discussions.
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by byoung2 9y ago
I think we're within 20 years of computers being able to hold a freeform conversation in text or speech to do what I described. To chat someone up on Facebook or the equivalent, talk on the phone and convincingly imitate a real person.
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More realistic than SkyNet was the only qualification given, but point taken.
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What about a (theoretical) general AI that could socially engineer passwords and banking info from victims online? Or pretend to be a person to call in a bomb threat?
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by byoung2 9y ago
I suppose the same laws that are in place for human intelligence would either apply or be adapted to apply to these situations. For example there are people who can currently use computers to do the things you describe, and there are conseq
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by byoung2 9y ago
The fantasy is that low income people without cars will be attracted to mixed use developments where all their needs are in one place. But middle and upper income people want that too, and that drives prices up. We own a condo in the Philip
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by byoung2 9y ago
I found my current position through the whoishiring post in November 2015. Payment is monthly, just invoice at the end of the month for hours worked in the month x hourly rate and payment is made via direct deposit 2 weeks later. During the
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by byoung2 9y ago
The doctor comparison is more apt than you may realize, as there are very many specialties and lots of different paths to get there. Especially with the residency match program no doctor can say for certain which program he or she will get
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by byoung2 9y ago
The same is true of nearly every "glamorous" profession. Actor, performing artist, doctor. In the abstract sense they look exciting, pay great money, but they take hard work to get there. There are far more people who say they wan
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by byoung2 9y ago
The infrastructure was already in place. Google already has a billion and a half Android devices hammering their infrastructure already, whats a hundred million more? Amazon has enough infrastructure to power themselves plus hundreds of tho
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by byoung2 9y ago
There was an old article reposted to HN recently http://mentalfloss.com/article/23210/toilet-paper-history-ho...
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by byoung2 9y ago
Does the verified purchase label remain even after the product is returned? I think it should, in the case that you bought it, honestly reviewed it and then returned it. But that could be a huge loophole for fake reviewers to exploit.
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by byoung2 9y ago
Just use a picture of a troll
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Make sure you have a strong team and an actual product or service to offer in the near future, and make sure that your token offers users the chance to prepay for that product or service and don't pitch your token as an investment vehi
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by byoung2 9y ago
I just wrote a crawler for a client who needs to check vendor licenses (plumber, electrician, etc). Given a license number, state, and trade, it looks up the appropriate licensing agency in that state and pulls the license info (issue/
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by byoung2 9y ago
I'm like you, in that I started in management (center manager at Kaplan Test Prep) and then became an engineer. After 7 years programming my opportunity to become a manager again came at a small startup when the CTO left. I was already
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by byoung2 9y ago
Bad leadership (more concerned with playing the blame game than getting things done), bad culture (focus on hours worked, not results delivered), no sales (even 2 years later sales have not come in, and investment is getting scarce).

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