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You’re not a user experience designer if…(whitneyhess.com)
1 points by dabent 13y ago|0 comments
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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World(abovethecrowd.com)
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by dabent 13y ago
The idea of landing a job in some bucolic university town actually has an appeal for some folks. I have relatives that are professors in a relatively small US city and they seem to love it.
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by dabent 13y ago
There are so many ways to do this. Go to Startup School* (where I met pg, Ron Conway and more), Startup Riot (where I met Andrew Warner) or a conference like PyCon, where I met other startup people, including some YC founders. For all the
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by dabent 13y ago
Was this a new addition? IIRC, I stated age when I applied three years back and I got in as a 40-something.
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by dabent 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. In fact, I've already done that, and am aware of what talent can charge for my line of work.
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by dabent 13y ago
No. This is simply supply and demand. The more workers available for positions, especially ones who are willing to work for less impacts the supply and prices I can charge for my work go down. Management isn't going to give me a rai
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by dabent 13y ago
There are many factors at play, but wages I've seen in the US have remained flat, or even dipped once one factors in inflation. I make less than I did in 1999, in spite of the fact that I've been promoted. Part of this is the us
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Twitter ‘Joke Bots’ Shame Human Sense of Humor(wired.com)
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by dabent 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger#Second_generati... Such an accident prompted changes in the time between large and small planes landing.
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by dabent 13y ago
As someone who's worked through the dot-com boom and crash of the 1990's, I can offer some perspective. - Everything is relative: My salary is just now what it was at the top of the dot-com bubble about 14 years ago, and I've been promoted
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How Long Would It Take an AT-AT to Fall?(wired.com)
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by dabent 13y ago
How did you decide on the pricing? Looked like $23 for 6 months.
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by dabent 13y ago
And from 1996, there is Richard Jewell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell
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by dabent 14y ago
Salaried positions do include benefits packages, and in the US, the health insurance can be expensive or impossible for certain people to get. That said, if you know of one of those $124 freelance jobs in LA...
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by dabent 14y ago
Were there any acquisition offers during that hockey-stick phase?
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How Scott Painter's Honor Helped Him Raise 1.7 Billion in Start Up Capital(forbes.com)
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Table Stakes Are Dangerous(blog.capwatkins.com)
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by dabent 14y ago
"This buzz is an annoyance for sound engineers trying to make the highest quality recordings." It hit me a while back when I was writing the software for a test stand for a hearing aid as a summer intern. Mysterious 60/120/180 Hz frequenci
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Django Secure(github.com)
2 points by dabent 14y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 14y ago
If you meet the criteria, apply! I was on Startup Row in 2011 and it changed my life. Even if you're not part of Startup Row, do visit the startups there. I met many interesting companies while everyone was in talks and the exhibit hall
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by dabent 14y ago
Unlike Microsoft, it seem that Google changed the interviewing process for many companies and I am grateful for it. My interviews pre-Google were primarily trivia contests about the language used for the position I was interviewing for. I
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by dabent 14y ago
A few other links for those wishing to get familiar with the process: From Google: http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/hiringprocess/ From MIT: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/materials.php Steve Yegge's well-known
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Round II of the Facebook Recruiting Competition - Mapping the Internet (kaggle.com)
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Python vs. Node vs. Pypy(blog.kgriffs.com)
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by dabent 14y ago
It's likely server issues. I don't believe the Ancestry.com acquisition will change anything with FamilySearch.
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by dabent 14y ago
Mormons may have done some of the work to help build out Ancestry.com's database, but they also have built a free competitor: FamilySearch.org From a startup perspective, the base of records is important, but the 1.6 billion dollar purchase
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Meet The New Foursquare, The One That You’ve Helped Build And Continue To Power(techcrunch.com)
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Building websites in Python with Flask(maximebf.com)
276 points by dabent 14y ago|56 comments
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by dabent 14y ago
"Almost every company listed there is hiring there, both on the site and at the on site jobs fair" It's true. That's how I got my job at (2013 Gold sponsor) TrueCar, back in 2011. It's a great event to attend, just to be around that many

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