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   by calcsam 11y ago

   If a good team did this in the Bay Area with sufficiently strong internal agreements to ensure they all got hired together they could probably get ~$100K signing bonuses each, comparable to an acquihire.
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   by calcsam 11y ago

   This is bad, if not entirely unexpected, news. What is out of the ordinary is the public markets' reaction: the stock is down 3% in after-hours trading. Typically when a company announces layoffs its stock goes up. More mature compan
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   by calcsam 11y ago

   There was a joke in the Stanford economics department a few years ago: "There are two American professors in the department, and one of them is named Bhattacharya"
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   by calcsam 11y ago

   Yes. Start by reaching out to recruiters. Let them know your situation. They will be happy to work with you as the chance of you taking some job is very high. Also, I would do what's below. I would reach out specially to the company an
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   by calcsam 11y ago

   2007: Microsoft is dead because no one is afraid of them. 2015: Is anyone afraid of Google?
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   by calcsam 11y ago

   Given sufficient commerce, any virtual market will replicate every flaw of real-life markets.
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   by calcsam 11y ago

   That chapter, and the two immediately preceding and following, were excellent. The rest was all right.
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   by calcsam 11y ago

   In its early stages, every technology is vertically integrated, aka tightly coupled. If you were to buy a minicomputer or mainframe in the 1970s, or a personal computer in the early-1980s, the same provider would make the hardware, peripher
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   by calcsam 11y ago

   >> super charger stations won't be very common on the way to Yosemite With the current demographic of Tesla buyers? Give this three months.
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    Axel Springer Buys Business Insider for $442M(recode.net)

    1 points by calcsam 11y ago|0 comments
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10204721
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Ad-sponsored services make you the product. These paid ad blockers make you and the advertisers the product.
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Something else that wastes more time than you think: other people not being able to ping you when they have questions about the code you wrote, or how to do something you've done before.
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    (1) How much runway do you have (in months?) (2) If I read an article in TechCrunch in (answer to #1) months that you went out of business, why would that be? (3) How many members of the company (the engineering team) have left over the las
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    Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department(nytimes.com)

    141 points by calcsam 11y ago|90 comments
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    https://medium.com/@calcsam/outsource-your-job-search-3e9909...
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Friend of the author. The posted date was his first day at Google.
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    The average Uber driver is on the platform for 6 months. I don't think any of their drivers are too concerned with what the company is going to do 5 years from now.
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    Kahuna Catches $45M to Make Marketing Smarter and More Automated(blogs.wsj.com)

    3 points by calcsam 11y ago|0 comments
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    http://hunterwalk.com/2014/03/08/new-grads-midstage-startups... is a good pointer.
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Octopart's founders in Newsweek in 2007, under the title "Meet the Next Billionaires": http://docs.octopart.com/newsweek_octopart_small.jpg
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Would I be paying tax as if I'd made capital gains in the amount of the delta between the strike price and the stock's value today? >> Yes, assuming you have not early exercised. This sucks. Would the stock's value toda
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Jason Lemkin does a pretty good job here: http://www.saastr.com/on-paying-your-mentors-and-advisors-th... You're probably thinking, as you're accustomed, about your time in units of billable hours. You may want to
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    What do you want to achieve? (1) Learn more about the startup world (2) Help out some startups (3) Business development for new clients when they raise $ and can afford you. The answer will depend on which one you're aiming for. My gue
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Both this piece, and most commenters, seem to miss the point about where Github's value comes from. It's not for being a social identity for programmers, or hosting open-source libraries. Those are worthy pursuits, but from a busi
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Most people do :) Take a look at Scott Adams' post on dual areas of expertise. It's one of the best primers on how to think about a career: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Having an outside area of expertise -- in your case, electrical engineering -- is great for your development career. You can target companies in the overlap & pitch them that your experience makes you a unique candidate. Examples that
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    1. Use a throwaway handle...
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    Follow him on Twitter, you know his handle.
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    by calcsam 11y ago

    http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-non-technical-job-opportu...