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by claudiusd 12y ago
>> most companies don't want experienced people who will do a very good job and expect appropriate compensation for that work Most companies can't afford experienced people who will do a very good job and expect appropri
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by claudiusd 12y ago
I'm allowed to judge someone based on her work experience. This is not a stereotype, this is a fact on a resume put there by the candidate herself. >> Of course, there are extremes to the "too experienced" situation. I
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by claudiusd 12y ago
This is not ageism. I can judge a candidate based on her work experience. I would be just as quick to reject a 20-something with too much experience as a 50-something, and I would absolutely hire a 50-something with the right level of exper
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by claudiusd 12y ago
I think many people cry "ageism" when there is in fact a legitimate reason not to consider a vastly experienced person for a role: people with more experience typically demand more pay for it, not to mention that taking a signific
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by claudiusd 12y ago
> OCaml includes many features that are not available in the more mainstream programming languages ... and we believe this gives us a competitive advantage. ... The purpose of this post is to explain the benefits of OCaml and compare it
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by claudiusd 12y ago
FWIW defense spending during the WWII and the Cold War did wonders to spur technical innovation. Silicon Valley in fact was a product of WWII defense activities ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley ). While I do
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by claudiusd 12y ago
Your board (and VCs by extension) are not the only accountable 3rd-parties... I'd argue that they're not even the best accountable 3rd-parties because they're interests are not necessarily aligned with yours - VCs have limite
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Health Apps Are Headed Toward A HIPAA Showdown(venturebeat.com)
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by claudiusd 12y ago
Chrome plugins pose a HUGE security problem. This one, for example, gets access to your GMail account. Do you want that? What else could this plugin do since it can read your email? Do you trust the author not to steal your GMail cookie? Ar
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by claudiusd 12y ago
These 10 things are never going to change. Why? Because pedantic, well-paced software engineering isn't sexy. You know what's sexy and exciting to a startup exec (especially one with an ego)? Tight deadlines, going viral, going he
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by claudiusd 12y ago
YES, and the reason is the whole basis for the argument around Net Neutrality: traffic through Comcast's peering connections is a result of demand by its customers. Comcast's customers pay for bandwidth and expect to get it when t
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by claudiusd 12y ago
You're missing the point that Levison makes his last paragraph: "courts must not be allowed to consider matters of great importance under the shroud of secrecy, lest we find ourselves summarily deprived of meaningful due process&q
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by claudiusd 12y ago
TDD doesn't lead to better or worse design, your testing strategy does. TDD changes your approach to testing, but if you choose a poor test strategy then TDD or not, you're going to have a bad time. I hate to say it, but this is y
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by claudiusd 12y ago
TDD forces you to describe what your code is supposed to do rather than how it works (which is common when testing after the fact). When your tests describe what your code is supposed to do, they will forever guarantee that your program doe
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by claudiusd 12y ago
I do agree with him on that, but ask any founder if they feel like that's a real option. Any VC pre-closing will certainly give the impression that it is not.
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by claudiusd 12y ago
Stop taking advice about equity from VCs. If you've ever read a term sheet or a SPA, then you know that VCs have a huge incentive to encourage founders to increase the size of their option pools: your typical term sheet requires the ex
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by claudiusd 13y ago
I love your analogy, but I think you drew the wrong conclusion. Doctors don't have an incentive to prevent you from getting sicker any more than your mechanic has an incentive for keeping your car out of the shop. Why would your doctor
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by claudiusd 13y ago
The challenge with health care in the US is that nobody has incentives for reducing health care expenditures. Hospitals get paid when you get sick. Insurance companies see higher margin from reducing administrative costs. Patients are larg
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by claudiusd 13y ago
I don't think Spolsky's argument applies to startups... His argument basically boils down to "You think the code in front of you is a mess, but the reality is you're just having trouble reading somebody else's code which is probably good en
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by claudiusd 14y ago
I'm not an expert on this, but I think this article overstates the relationship between "deep learning methods" and "neural networks". Neural nets have been around forever and, in the feed-forward case, are actually fairly basic statistical
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by claudiusd 14y ago
I suggest checking out the 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss: http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Body-Incredible-Superhuman/... The book describes efficient, sustainable ways achieve changes in your body, the premise being to make changes with
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by claudiusd 14y ago
The author is trying to distinguish himself. This should really be titled "10 _more_ books every entrepreneur should read" since it's missing the basics like The Innovators Dilemma and The Four Steps To Epiphany, among others.
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by claudiusd 14y ago
When it comes to prototyping, anything goes - you should be optimizing for the speed with which you can deliver and market-test a product, and you should choose the tools that allow you to do so. The trick is having the discipline to pay ba
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by claudiusd 14y ago
There's no economic incentive to hire anyone below the top decile. Assuming you believe the "10x" rule (which says that there is a 10x productivity delta between the best and worse developers), I get the best bang-for-the-buck by hiring the
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by claudiusd 14y ago
A big reason companies need outside help is because they don't share data and results - if something works at company A and saves them a lot of money, that information isn't passed to company B and thus you have everyone trying to re-invent
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by claudiusd 14y ago
As the CTO hiring my first developers, I'm looking for people who will integrate with my company and my tech stack with the least amount of friction possible. This means that (a) you're a full-stack RoR/JS programmer, (b) you're smart as he
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by claudiusd 15y ago
I love these parodies. I feel like developers spend too much time "making money" and not enough time sticking it to the man. I hope this gets built into something tangible.