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by calcsam 13y ago
Where are you living? You could easily make $120k in the Bay Area.
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by calcsam 13y ago
1. Note that an effective salary cut of 50% means you can double your salary with a new job. 2. The single most effective way to get a salary raise is to show how much you're worth on the market, ie, get an outside offer. Use this ta
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by calcsam 13y ago
0 ^ any positive power = 0 0 ^ any negative power = 1/0 = undefined = +- inf So strictly only the right limit as n --> 0 of 0^n = 0. Not the limit .
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by calcsam 13y ago
Depends on the position. Is it more like sales? Or more like engineering? This is what the difference looks like: http://www.bhorowitz.com/through_the_looking_glass_hiring_sa...
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by calcsam 13y ago
If you're thinking of suicide (killing yourself), don't do it. There are lot of good things in front of you. You're 18. One year -- as you said -- and you'll have the rest of your life to be on your own, make your own de
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by calcsam 13y ago
Leave. You're a bad fit for the company culture. The company culture is a bad fit for you.
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by calcsam 13y ago
http://vator.tv/news/2011-04-01-super-angels-create-incubato...
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by calcsam 13y ago
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die" -- Cersei Lannister
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by calcsam 13y ago
YC will need a change in their funding model if they want to fund these type of technologies. $14k to $20k is irrelevant if you need 3 years R&D and/or $5M capital to prototype; we need new metrics for funding businesses with high
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by calcsam 13y ago
Emailing your interviewers to ask for more deep feedback is probably more helpful than asking HN...
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by calcsam 13y ago
Yes, that is totally appropriate; in fact, not asking would make you seem naive. (But check Crunchbase and other sources to get publicly available info first) Introduce the questions with something like "I'd like to get a sense of
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by calcsam 13y ago
Ideally he would have posted this with Dorian on live TV...
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by calcsam 13y ago
This deal isn't so that Facebook can sell ads. This deal is so that Facebook can protect its flank and simultaneously assault Google.
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by calcsam 13y ago
High school all over again...
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by calcsam 13y ago
The best way to figure out what is relevant in "real world" jobs is to apply to the jobs you want and figure out what your weak points are. (Same thing with products -- try to sell a product and see why people reject you. Your pro
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by calcsam 13y ago
Michael Wolfe gives some ideas here: http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-non-technical-job-opportu...
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by calcsam 13y ago
Well, those are broad strokes...
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by calcsam 13y ago
Something I learned at my consulting firm. If you are asked a question and the answer has three parts, A, B, and C, and you know A and B but you don't know C, lead with what you know, before asking about details of which you are unsure
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by calcsam 13y ago
Good, when I posted it wasn't.
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by calcsam 13y ago
Why is this on HN but not Zynga laying off 300 people?
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by calcsam 13y ago
Nice. Sent this to my gf's little sister (she's 17 and there aren't a ton of teen jobs floating around where she lives)
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by calcsam 13y ago
1400 for a 2br in Glen Park? Good luck getting that for 2000 today...
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by calcsam 13y ago
Any reasonable measure of transaction volume should be measured in a stable currency like dollars...and BTC is the leader, far and away here...
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by calcsam 13y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-... Casually mentioning that your day is full of interviews should help you appear more desirable..
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by calcsam 13y ago
...plus cost of living for students...
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by calcsam 13y ago
For people to be inspired, they need a vision. You want to give them a vision of a better: 1. Product 2. Process ('design-driven') 3. Mindset ('disrupting, build-for-the-future') You need to start with #1 as it is the ea
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Ask HN: Chrome listicle blocker extension?
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by calcsam 13y ago
Okay, cool. I'd go to events, meet people in organizations using php/JS stack (or other tech stacks you know), ask them to grab lunch. Your story could go something like this: "I'm a self-taught programmer looking for my
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by calcsam 13y ago
Seven months and you haven't gotten more specific feedback than 'you'll find something' on where you're lacking? You need to figure out specifically what's wrong and pose a more specific question. Otherwise no
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by calcsam 13y ago
Calling this a 'billion-dollar' network is misleading. Heritage and AEI are conservative policy think tanks with a variety of topics they write on, and counting their whole budgets is rather odd math.

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