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by calcsam 11y ago
I've been having success using Django / React together with this: http://owaislone.org/blog/webpack-plus-reactjs-and-django/
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by calcsam 11y ago
All mid-to-late-stage startups have data engineers, typically they feed the analytics / dashboards that drive company finances.
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For evaluating their worth, you can use optionvalue.io (built this, in beta) You're highly unlikely to get asked to buy them. Feel free to ping me (email in profile) w/ more questions.
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by calcsam 11y ago
No one expects their link to go viral. If the link is down there should be a way to propose a mirror.
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by calcsam 11y ago
Possibly a timing issue? People often leave jobs after 2-3 months if it's not a good fit, otherwise they generally stay until they hit their year mark. Looks like you're at six months.
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by calcsam 11y ago
We'd also kill to hire you. (PlanGrid) I left Zenefits in December and had three job offers after about a month of looking, and they were all high-growth Series B/C startups. Happy to connect you to any of the places I talked to i
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by calcsam 11y ago
Wow, cool! Yeah, while I'd hire you in a heartbeat, I'd guess that discrimination due to your lack of traditional education is pretty real.
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by calcsam 11y ago
Yes. Get a new job. Go to Hired or Indeed Prime, list yourself, and watch the offers come in. This is your first full-time job, right? Some jobs are good. Some jobs are good for a while. Some jobs are never good. It seems like this one was
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by calcsam 11y ago
The existing puff piece aura of most startup articles has a more simple explanation: selection bias. Many people have an incentive to write "Startup X launched!" If Startup X never raised significant funding, no one has an incenti
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by calcsam 11y ago
(1) this is awesome (2) http://glassbowl.info/ is not leading for me (3) If you did scrape LinkedIn, you probably violated their ToS, so you may not want to admit this publicly in case this goes anywhere :)
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by calcsam 11y ago
This is an excellent article. Thank you. The thing that is missing from all of these articles is, unfortunately, a tool to actually do these calculations. I am building such a tool. Happy to share (privately!) an early version. If you'
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by calcsam 11y ago
The tech press affects primarily two things: (1) Your ability to raise early-stage funding (2) Your ability to hire engineering & product talent Getting these two things won't guarantee success, nor will not getting these things pr
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by calcsam 11y ago
Another idea if you feel like you have multiple selves warring with each other to read Self-Therapy by Jay Earley. It talks about modeling the self not as one person but as a bunch of different agents, and how to get them to cooperate with
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by calcsam 11y ago
A pretty good first pass to any problem that requires self-control is to start by exercising every other day and eat right for a week, and then try again then.
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Worth noting that the main source on this is Gwern ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern ). Gwern, care to comment?
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by calcsam 11y ago
Assuming you put early exercise clauses in your contract and exercise your shares immediately, yes. If you don't early exercise, you may have to pay ordinary income rates.
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by calcsam 11y ago
How are you planning on seeking financing for your company? No Silicon Valley VC will fund you unless you have a Delaware C-Corp.
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by calcsam 11y ago
PlanGrid is more evidence of the rise of vertical-specific SaaS. Their customers are basically like, "No one ever made software specifically for our industry -- can you give us more?" Result: a software designed to solve one pain
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by calcsam 11y ago
Probably not, or rather your development experience will be more valuable. It may be a barrier in 5-10 years, but you can worry about the problem then. The main thing is to be continually learning and maintaining a network. If you aren&#x27
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"The Shakespearean model holds true today. Consider the Square card reader. Square was the first company to do mobile handset credit card processing right. It did the software piece and the hardware piece, and built a brand with the ic
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This is the best of all possible worlds for the late-stage investors. They get double the shares from the ratchet and probably a big valuation pop tomorrow too.
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by calcsam 11y ago
Software development in banks is far different than in tech firms. In banks, you have a working legacy system that's existed for 15-30 years, written in whatever the languages and frameworks popular that were popular then (J2EE, etc)
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by calcsam 11y ago
If your shares are fully vested, yes, you will receive payment for them. They may be stock options and you would have to pay the strike price for them. You really want to read up on this though. It sounds like your shares could be worth a s
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by calcsam 11y ago
Scott makes a lot of good points, but frames them in a very Less Wrong kind of way, when the key to development or growth is always being able to think more clearly. You could pick any number of other developmental milestones in other categ
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by calcsam 11y ago
In Industry people generally don't care that much about the details of what your thesis was, as long as you can give an interesting elevator pitch overview and go into depth for ~5-10m if asked.
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by calcsam 11y ago
The main risk here he is that he issues a chargeback on the credit card he used. That would be a hassle. If you are not worried about them politely inform him you won't be doing what he wants, then block his emails unless he actually s
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ADP drops lawsuit against Zenefits(businessinsider.com)
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Everything he says about programmers is also applicable to lawyers. * Would I like to type text files for hours a day? Check. * Do I enjoy decomposing problems into detailed lists of instructions? Lines of reasoning, but check. * Am I g
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by calcsam 11y ago
Why doesn't he make this a Google Form and respond to all cold-emails with the form link?
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by calcsam 11y ago
Here it is: https://twitter.com/jf/status/524412388745818113?ref_src=tws...

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