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by crdb 12y ago
Thank you! I was thinking exactly the same thing! Want a cheap database? A Postgres RDS micro instance costs $51 a year upfront or $0.018 per hour. Medium is $200 or $0.073, and that medium instance will probably be more than enough for a d
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by crdb 12y ago
It's funny because this conversation happens again, and again, and again, and again, with every new business as they grow big enough to start caring. And somehow, multiple attribution (let's not even discuss cross-device attributi
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by crdb 12y ago
I think this is a very Western-POV argument to make. Like the minimum wage argument, it stems from a belief in a fixed pool of resources being abused by robber barons, or a diluted version of the argument, which may be true in some cases. I
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by crdb 12y ago
150 people did... and most had pretty good jobs already. 40 on the first day! Think about it another way. How much time do you spend/waste when applying to a standard corporate job? I graduated at the height of the Lehman fallout. I re
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by crdb 12y ago
Depends on your definition of credible evidence, and your personal theoretical bias, as with most things in economics (see: China bull vs bear case). My position on the matter is "I don't know, and I'm unwilling to invest the
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by crdb 12y ago
I've seen two kinds of motivations: that for career climbing, and that of an engineer who enjoys making things. I personally prefer my engineers to have the second. I tried hiring the normal way (CV, white board) and had one candidate
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by crdb 12y ago
Some argue that Japan fudged its numbers to hide the drop in GDP following the crisis, and was waiting for reality to catch up whilst reporting stagnation for a few years.
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by crdb 12y ago
I used to think that, but experience has taught me otherwise. The buyer of services is what makes or breaks the deliverable, it is they who have the power. Sure, a competent engineer is a pre-requisite but there are situations where you sim
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by crdb 12y ago
That's because the world is vast and there are many companies and engineers in it. I see two types of engineers: the build-it-quick lot and the build-it-right lot. The first is ideal for companies where getting an idea to market as fas
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by crdb 12y ago
I disagree with the assertion that the main advantage of relational databases is to save disk space. The main advantage of the relational model, as with any solid method of abstraction, is to save developer time and enable stronger use case
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by crdb 12y ago
Or indicative of the crappy job market in the US for those specialist skills. The thing is, there's no such thing as an "average" developer. Every company and its tech stack has a unique set of conditions that will match bett
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by crdb 12y ago
I disagree with you based on my personal anecdotal evidence. Our Ukrainian was paid the same (gross) as the Americans. The Viets too. There was no noticeable discount based on location. You get a discount for age (younger = cheaper; flatten
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by crdb 12y ago
From the point of view of someone hiring/interviewing/having spent some time around PhDs, I'd say the main benefit is that it pushes you to be intellectually more capable. In a good university, doing original research, you&#x
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by crdb 12y ago
It's also signalling. Higher salary both means the company can afford it (i.e. is stronger, healthier, a safer long term bet) and that the position is valued (as the company is willing to invest more in it).
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by crdb 12y ago
hn.crdb at the Mountain View company.
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by crdb 12y ago
Well, depends what you define as tech. I might get some flak for this but in my experience, the AVERAGE quality of developers in Europe and especially in the US is much higher than in Asia. For example, a majority of the data science candid
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by crdb 12y ago
Unfortunately most companies/managers don't want to try it. I'm structuring my own company never to have a physical presence beyond the Hong Kong legal offices, but we are a big exception. Judging by your other comments you&#
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by crdb 12y ago
Not just pilots. The wages in Hong Kong that you can get (source: headhunters approaching me) are literally multiples of US or EU rates. Amongst others I was offered USD 350k + bonus to head a data science team - and all I have is an unrela
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by crdb 12y ago
I see a lot of comments about security, but would be happy to bet this was simple social engineering and "human hacking". It's sobering to see large-ish companies that give full read access (and sometimes write) of customer a
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by crdb 12y ago
These articles always exaggerate the disruptive potential of technology, the pace of change and the consequences, particularly ignoring the concept of wealth creation (the reference to Piketty was telling). For example: I've been to Ch
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by crdb 12y ago
Yes and no. Exporting visit trends over 5 landing pages and a month? Sure. Exporting page views for 100,000 products each of whom got 5-100 views? Then that 5% sample is going to exclude most products. The latter approach is however necessa
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by crdb 12y ago
Australia's competitive advantage is the rule of law. This is the main reason it and places like Canada are valued by foreigners buying real estate. Australia is particularly valued as the only non-city-state country with close to perf
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by crdb 12y ago
That. Learning is a high-p, low n problem even if YC attempts to do the opposite (extract a set of learnings that apply to every company, via observing first hand more than any other fund or entity in history). The richness of a story is a
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by crdb 12y ago
Although the other comments covered the gist of it, you might be wondering why Britain's best private schools are called "public": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Schools_Act_1868 FWIW all the school
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by crdb 12y ago
I've used both Bootcamp and Fusion for running Windows 8 and 7 (client insisted on using some Excel files, and some of the plugins only worked on Windows Excel...) and found both really quite pain free. In fact, whenever I can't g
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by crdb 12y ago
I used the XPS 13 as my main machine from 2013 to late 2014 (when I switched to a MBPr). It was a nice machine initially but I found that it ended up looking pretty tattered (particularly the plastic edge, which looks and feels cheap and a
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by crdb 12y ago
I disagree with the assertion that "isolated" Americans can't learn the culture. During the Phoenix Program in Vietnam, plenty of Americans with no local experience picked it up fast enough when deployed for results that were
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by crdb 12y ago
This reminds me of a family anecdote. My great-uncle was a French officer in Indochina and, through fuzzy circumstances to do with his previous service, learnt to speak a few of the local dialects, although this was not widely known. At the
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by crdb 12y ago
(Bearing in mind this is not from the Valley POV, but I recognize a lot of the same dynamics here in Singapore) Psychologically: The founder is stuck between a rock and a hard place. With limited cash to work with (seed rounds are tiny here
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by crdb 12y ago
1% * (+500,000,000) + 5% * (+5,000,000) + 94% * (-100,000) >> 50% * (+100,000) + 50% * (-100,000)

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