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by calcsam 10y ago
don't ask us, hire a comp consultant
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by calcsam 10y ago
Client-side or server-side? My Angelfire website circa 1999 is still up and running :)
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by calcsam 10y ago
When a reputable investor and a good engineer are in a dispute about whether a startup is financially viable, believe the investor. When a reputable investor and a good engineer are in a dispute about whether a startup is technically viable
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by calcsam 10y ago
The reason is pretty simple: California doesn't have many power plants. I spent a day or two once sifting through California Public Utility Commission archives. California has not approved a coal plant since at least 1978, mainly due t
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by calcsam 10y ago
There's a startup, Medisas, that's aiming to solve this exact problem: https://www.medisas.com/transitions-of-care
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by calcsam 10y ago
AngelList
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by calcsam 10y ago
I suspect no one will post any jobs targeting high school students. If you want to get something, I suggest finding a list of startups in the area and email them individually, listing the things you've built.
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by calcsam 10y ago
Holy shit. This is genius. You're basically describing a Permissions API / set of libraries. You can describe a set of actions and The danger I would see is that (like Stripe) you would literally have to have 100% uptime because y
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by calcsam 10y ago
It also isn't true. Parker didn't approve every single vacation request. He also wasn't the only admin -- his personal assistant, his co-founder, and a couple others had access. And starting in about Jan 2015, line managers h
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by calcsam 10y ago
Being "yesterday's software" is a necessary step. It's the final part of the Gartner hype cycle: maturity. https://speakerdeck.com/tehviking/surviving-the-framework-hy...
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by calcsam 10y ago
Constantly fighting fires is not normal. It's causing you to burn out. When you burn out, you stop thinking clearly about alternatives and ways to exit the situation. Here's what I suggest. (1) If you can financially afford to qui
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by calcsam 10y ago
The space we live it -- whether it be San Francisco and the Bay Area, or life as a 20-something male -- is pretty techified. Go hang out in Louisiana if you're looking for ideas :)
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by calcsam 10y ago
Dude, I'm not sure if you're trolling or serious. If you're serious...it's not worth it. Life is long. Find other ways of motivating yourself. Commit publicly to shipping something awesome. Find a community of badasses t
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by calcsam 10y ago
I disagree. If you're a technical co-founder, go sell customers on your vision and get them to buy. Then you have a lot more leverage when going to "business guys" and saying: "Hey, look, I've sold 30k of ARR in the
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by calcsam 10y ago
The difference between Silicon Valley and other locales trying to reproduce it has generally not been money. The difference has been smart money. The people who hold the purse strings (founder/CEOs, angels, early-stage investors) hav
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by calcsam 10y ago
Really like the idea! Wish it was a website as well as an app.
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by calcsam 10y ago
Well done. It is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all. If you want to have better odds next time, I'd advise you to read Zero to One. Think about what your secret is. What are you trying to do, what do you kn
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by calcsam 10y ago
> Oh, you mean like Salesforce? No, wait, they had an IPO and they still only rarely show a profit. This is a very common argument. It's also wrong. Salesforce earned $6.7B of revenue in 2015^. It spent $3.2B of that revenue on sale
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by calcsam 11y ago
In ReactConf, Ben Alpert noted that there would be a ~10% performance improvement from v15.0. Is that still true?
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by calcsam 11y ago
Metropolitan Seattle has 3.5m people. This project will cost ~$15k per resident, roughly equivalent to the per-person national debt.
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by calcsam 11y ago
"Livingston disclosed that she hadn’t spent any real time away from her work, including after her children were born — she placed the blame on herself for that." This always seems to be framed as a women's obligation. The chi
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by calcsam 11y ago
It's pretty clear that Hacker Dojo isn't the strictest about accounting. Just look at their membership fee -- $100 / month, pay if you want. That said, Hacker Dojo doesn't work because recurring revenue > expenses. Th
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by calcsam 11y ago
Curious what you found funny?
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by calcsam 11y ago
Even better, don't give an answer right away, but say that you need 2-4 hours to investigate to be able to give an estimate, because that part of the codebase is really knotty. That prepares a manager for bad news.
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by calcsam 11y ago
https://www.vidangel.com/ does this as a service
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by calcsam 11y ago
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:61DmBRy...
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by calcsam 11y ago
* Email people, not companies * Email 3rd party technical recruiters * Hire someone on ODesk to fill out job apps for you * Reply to people on HN Who's Hiring thread
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by calcsam 11y ago
No.
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by calcsam 11y ago
If you realize it immediately after, you can cancel the OAuth authorization you granted, before they grab your data: https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/security#connectedapps
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by calcsam 11y ago
The solution here is to turn the recruiter's around and say, "I'm not comfortable sharing that information, but I'm sure you put together a salary range when you put a rec out for the position. Could you share what that

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