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by cncrnd 8y ago
I thought the expectation was for VC funded CEOs to take low salaries. How often do they sell equity in fundraising rounds and/or take decent salaries (500k+)?
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Why is everyone disliking this statement about 8-10 hours a day? Excluding weekends, this is 40-50 hours a week, nothing outrageous. You're not that special folks, you have to work to get paid like everyone else.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I'm a recent grad of a good CS program. I know that I prefer written material to lectures, and my favorite professors were those who had written material (course reader format, not slides) covering lecture content.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
The think about being 'rational' is that you can rationalize just about anything. It's like the balance of exploration and exploitation in CS...the exploitation is the 'rational' and the exploration is taking a chan
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by cncrnd 8y ago
It's difficult to get an accurate perception of a team without working with them for a bit.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Eh. He probably just didn't like the team/felt that they didn't know what they were doing/they wasted more time on meetings and discussion in general rather than him just not wanting to justify his approach.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
It's still a negative indicator of reliability. I'm sure the breakage rate for other devices also includes software related issues, and I would expect less windows update issues on a Microsoft device than a third party manufacture
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Good for you. However, consumer reports gave a two-year breakage rate of 25% for Surface products. Given a 75% everything-is-ok rate, that gives you around a reasonable 25% chance (.75^5) that everything is ok with 5 devices, illustrating w
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I have never seen an active work forum that was not about FREE FOOD alerts. This is likely flowery writing, and all you can conclude is that these forums do exist. That isn't surprising to me, in a company of tens of thousands of emplo
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by cncrnd 8y ago
People don't consider reliability as much as they should when they buy a device. The Surface line has been known for poor reliability, with nearly a quarter of customers being affected for some products. The time spent investigating an
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by cncrnd 8y ago
That would be a mistake because it also incentivizes hackers, making the problem bigger on that side. What I would like is something that punishes companies that get hacked as well, like set fines for leaking personal information instead of
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by cncrnd 8y ago
So companies are doing active in house training (like talks, lessons) rather than just learn as you go?
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I find it hilarious that they made this into a talk! There must be something more to it?
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Do you mean $400-$1000 per month or per year? And what is the quality of programmers in Cambodia compared to the US, if you have some opinion on the matter.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
When you're brought in to add something at a critical time but instead push for bigger changes because of inability to work with an existing codebase that means they need to find a better programmer for the time being to do the role yo
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Very true as well, and if that were plainly stated the problem could be addressed. The issue is that some of these people are smooth talkers able to convince managers that these big shifts are necessary right away...and inevitably end up ab
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Agreed. I have a theory that the reason contractors want to change everything when they arrive is so that they have infinite work. I also always see contractors wanting to start self-initiated projects from scratch rather than working in th
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Mainframe? Sounds like back in the 80s or 90s :)
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Great idea, posting to remember it (for use on younger sibling who spends too much time on the web)!
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I would say that even if she has a 180 degree change of mind and wants to go to the Bay Area, you should still opt for divorce. You have uncovered that your partner is childish and irrational. I will also say this since no one else is: now
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by cncrnd 8y ago
>Pointing out facts (which you go on to agree with) is the stupidest comment you've seen on HN? My apologies for the misunderstanding, I was referring to the original comment in which the US was the savior of the Iraqi people. >A
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Sure, but in this case it would have been infinitely better if we did nothing at all. We invaded because of supposed weapons of mass destruction which were not there, it was a mistake pure and simple. I'm still surprised by the way the
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Yes, the sanctions are a result of the invasion. But in their goal of ousting Saddam, they destroyed an entire nation. There are better ways. They were UN sanctions pushed for by the US but many involved spoke out against them during the pe
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Don't fool yourself. The US made life in Iraq miserable through a program of sanctions it refused to remove until Saddam Hussein was no longer in power, these sanctions started in the mid 90s. Estimates of the effect of these crippling
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Do you feel that your views are cultural and not unique to yourself? Maybe I should look into moving because I am tired of smiling dummies. That being said, I feel that if I were in a managerial position here in the Bay Area I would probabl
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Interesting idea to use google forms and do analysis on correlation of text to rating. I'm going to try this including things like food eaten, time woken up, and time went to bed. Thanks for the tip.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I've been doing some web davalopment and can say that React and Node have worked for me, a web davaloper.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I agree with this statement, but in this case the author lists concrete things he has difficulty with, like => and promises. I am responding based on my experience doing some react/redux work coming from a non-JS background, but the
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by cncrnd 8y ago
If the author sat down for an afternoon he could fix most of these struggles, in probably less time than was invested writing about them. The thing about ES6, braces, promises, and anything else in programming is that you need a few core ex
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Based on the direct reports despising him and wanting to leave, wouldn't you say it's time for him to go? If he's been like this for two years a weekend retreat won't fix things. Explain to the board your position and go

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