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by ctvo 4y ago
A baker, landscaper, or small business owner doesn't need to do 10 years of additional education at specialize schools, not that they're less beneficial. The charitable reading of the OP's comments would be that it's an
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> He's saying that Twitter isn't providing valid information and is blocking him from having access to information he has a right to have access to. He should have asked for this prior to agreeing to buy the company. This has v
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A link preview adds value to those reading the posts. Because it can sometimes fail to process a link and prevent users from posting links is not a sign of sure malice, it's possibly incompetence (in the way the system was designed or
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points at head can't lose your desk to someone else if you never leave it.
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by ctvo 4y ago
From experience it's not that big of a deal that you walk back accepting an offer. These things happen all the time: - Immigration / relocation issues - Partner / significant other (can't find a job, doesn't like th
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by ctvo 4y ago
(I edited my post before your reply -- apologies, thought I was quick enough to make another point) > Sure. But it's not like he wants it for personal consumption. You gotta ask what is "reason why" is. What is he after? A
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Right. All that guy cares about is money, so he can sleaze off at his yacht, surround himself with supermodels and be photographed with world leaders. Elon dated Amber Heard. It was revealed in a trial that he donated 1 million USD on
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by ctvo 4y ago
That's a lot of assumptions there about me, and what I do without answering the question.
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> There was a reason for the office. As an employer I can tell you most workers are not able to focus or properly contribute remotely. Can you share what method you used to determine this? Has productivity dropped in a measurable way or
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My comment about too much vs. too little information includes the bullet points outlining what the presenter said. For example, here's the entire slide on Adaptability: "Adaptability" > 1. Must be adaptable. “It is not the
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by ctvo 4y ago
A lot of these are strangely specific. For example: > Doesn't riddicule entire professions within engineering, especially not when in a position of leadership. > Can have colorful desktop backgrounds. What? Most of these come dow
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This presentation is a great example of why slides are a horrible format. It's either too much or too little information per slide, context is lost if you're not in the room, and it allows escape hatches for handwaving at the char
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> Jassy's executive compensation package, which is tied to Amazon stock price and mostly delivered as stock awards over a multi-year period, was $212 million in 2021. They used "multi-year" here over the actual timeline: 1
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by ctvo 4y ago
No, I don't work for YC. I do get value from this site and would prefer it not be a cesspool of ignorant conspiracy theories when possible.
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> Lot of the companies featured in the marketplace is what I'm referring... This isn't actually what you said in your original post, but sure, let's breakdown this too. Under "Featured apps" there's Mailchim
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by ctvo 4y ago
A lot to unpack here. 1. Stripe is a private company, it hasn't IPO'd. 2. YC was an early investor in Stripe, but as a late stage company, Stripe has many, many stakeholders that are investors: https://www.crunchbase.co
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by ctvo 4y ago
Agreed. It takes effort to establish a culture where people work openly through Slack. The path of least resistance is to message someone privately with a question. Two obvious reasons: - It reduces embarrassment from looking ignorant, unin
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> So this might add up to 300K. Which is a number that is unprecedented in history. Throughout most of history and to this day in pretty much every place in the world, such a salary would be reserved for the executive branch. I'd sl
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by ctvo 4y ago
Software engineering as a profession is relatively young. I'd be very happy if we eventually end up with a license that can be revoked. Cause a large data breach? The board investigates and revokes your license, much like if you were a
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by ctvo 4y ago
I'm not disputing that what we do as an industry can't be improved. I'm primarily against the idea that our profession is unique, and people should take us at face value when we claim expertise. Validation by employers is loo
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How do you feel about assessments in other professions? For example, the bar exam for lawyers? X Engineering Certification for the specific fields? Even networking and security folks take certification and exams as a means of attesting prof
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by ctvo 4y ago
That's an excellent guideline. I want to throw another example into the ring if folks are researching this space: Planetscale does a good job at https://planetscale.com/blog In particular "Generics can make your G
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by ctvo 4y ago
I think you're an above average developer working at a below average company. This could be the root of all your problems. Nothing is more frustrating than working with peers you know aren't carrying their weight. Do you want to b
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> I think it's a mix of curiosity, lack of deadline pressure - and something else I can't put my finger on. I'm not sure I agree on lack of deadline pressure. There's a virtuous cycle somewhere if I squint that'
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> Fearlessness is undervalued Being technically fearless is also a trait I've identified in engineers I enjoy working with. It's hard to quantify how you gain this. I think it's a combination of strong fundamentals and dee
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Give credit where it's due: fly.io spends a tremendous amount of time on creating interesting technical content that attracts this type of attention. The company is intentional about this as a customer acquisition strategy. They have a
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by ctvo 4y ago
Street view on maps / Google Earth. The end to end execution of capturing the images, making them available, keeping it updated. You can walk down the street in New York City without leaving your home —- it’s something out of sci-fi.
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by ctvo 4y ago
I would wager Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, et al. all are more than happy to take in the supply slack. They compete for the same engineering pool. Would love to see data to the contrary vs. us guessing at this putting a lot of anything
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Meta very publicly announced a hiring slowdown, Netflix is introducing levels and slowing down hiring, Coinbase is slowing down hiring, etc.. Even with the above names slowing down hiring, I would guess big tech uses this opportunity to sto
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It's pretty rude to walk around blasting a presentation at folks. You have no idea what their other requirements are. What if they need arbitrary user submitted code to be sandboxed and don't want to deal with cgo utilizing other

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